- March 4, 2022
The ongoing war in Ukraine is unique from other conflicts, and the international community can take five actions to control the situation, said Karina Korostelina, professor and director of the Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence at 亚洲AV鈥檚 Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Korostelina shared her perspective over Zoom:
- February 9, 2022
As a junior and senior at Annandale High School in Virginia, Emily Sample spent her summers as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She was a teenager who had just lost a friend to police violence, she said, and joining the museum鈥檚 Young Ambassadors Program resonated with her.
鈥淚 was fascinated and continue to be fascinated by this highly illogical idea of genocide,鈥 said Sample, a PhD candidate at 亚洲AV鈥檚 Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
- January 5, 2022
亚洲AV scholars have teamed up to create an online exhibit highlighting and acknowledging the hidden history of enslaved naturalists.
- December 14, 2021
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has not seen peace for more than three decades, but in November 2021, 亚洲AV鈥檚 Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution helped the country take a leap in a hopeful direction.
In the province of South Kivu, the school gathered representatives from 21 armed groups, the Congolese government, military, police, intelligence services, religious leaders, civil society groups, and peace advocates. Not only did everyone discuss a path toward peacebuilding, but they also signed a peace accord to solidify it.
- December 9, 2021
Arturo Barrera is receiving his bachelor鈥檚 in conflict analysis and resolution. He said Mason supported him before he was a freshman.
- November 4, 2021
Isidore Nsengiyumva, only four years old at the time, was in the fields with his father and older brother in Burundi, when suddenly they heard the sound of motors and guns. Troops involved in the country鈥檚 civil war attacked their village, and rapidly, their lives were changed.
鈥淲e hid in a bush, and when the noise of the guns and fighting subsided, we went back and found our home burned,鈥 Nsengiyumva said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 when my dad decided it was no longer safe.鈥
- October 14, 2021
A cultural immersion trip in 2008 brought Charles Davidson (PhD 鈥19) inside the walls of San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia. What he saw there not only changed his life, he said, but ignited a spark of inspiration that led to peacebuilding efforts around the world.
- August 25, 2021
The Taliban鈥檚 reign in Afghanistan is not feasible long-term, said Charles Davidson, executive director of the Political Leadership Academy at 亚洲AV鈥檚 Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
- June 10, 2021
Can enemy groups learn to develop compassion for one another? That was the question Carter School professor Daniel Rothbart set out to answer in his research at Rondine, a two-year 鈥渓aboratory for peace.鈥 Now, the results are in.
鈥淭his is the first in-depth case study of compassion among civilians who live in conflict zones,鈥 said Rothbart, who collaborated with 亚洲AV professors Thalia Goldstein, Marc Gopin and Karina Korostelina. 鈥淲e hope this is a model that can help create new practices for peacebuilders to cultivate compassion.鈥