Bryant Wedge

ICAR’s first director was the remarkable Bryant Wedge, a charismatic Yale psychiatrist and social scholar who pioneered the use of psychoanalytic concepts to interpret the behavior of political leaders, and who helped create the original Center for Conflict Resolution at George Mason in 1981. With his colleague and successor, former Foreign Service Officer Henry C. Barringer, and with the support of future ICAR director James H. Laue, Wedge led the fight for a National Peace Academy, which eventuated in the creation of the US Institute for Peace.