Dr. Özerdem is Dean of the Carter School and specializes in conflict resolution, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. With over 20 years of field research experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Indonesia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Turkey.
Dr. Chavis is a historian and museum educator whose work focuses on the history of racial violence and civil rights activism and Black and Jewish relations in the American South, and the ways in which the historical understandings of racial violence and civil rights activism can inform current and future approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution throughout the world.
Dr. de Janasz has been teaching and doing research in organizational leadership and negotiation for over 20 years, most recently as an endowed chair at Seattle U (where she also ran the Seattle division of a non-profit focusing on helping formerly trafficked women achieve financial independence), and before that, at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dr. Borislava Manojlovic is a professor of Carter School’s Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program at George Mason University Korea, and a Co-director at the Peace and Conflict Studies Center Asia (PACSC Asia). She is an expert in peacebuilding, transitional justice, dealing with the past, education in post-conflict settings, and atrocities prevention.
Dr. Simmons teaches classes on conflict theory, narrative, media, discourse and conflict, human rights, quantitative and qualitative methodology, global conflict, and critical theory. His current work on peace and conflict resolution combines Weberian institutional theory, with critical social philosophy, bringing in insights from semiotics and narrative analysis.
Dr. Irvin-Erickson has worked in the field of genocide studies and mass atrocity prevention in DR Congo, Burundi, Cambodia, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Argentina. He is the author of books, chapters, and articles on genocide, religion and violence, human security, international criminal law, and political theory.
Dr. Wilson’s is currently working to improve foreign policy, diplomacy, and conflict resolution efforts around the world. He is also working to create and enhance local community, governmental and international capacity to peacefully mediate, transform, and resolve culturally diverse and historically deep-rooted and protracted conflicts at all levels of society.
Professor Romano is a scholar-practitioner whose research and applied interests include global educational movements, the use of transformative and experiential education in communities affected by violence and nonviolence education.
Professor Rubenstein's books and articles include works on the history of religious conflict, structural conflict resolution, war and peace ideologies, and socio-political polarization. In addition to these topics, he teaches courses on theories of conflict and resolution, religion and conflict, and conflict and literature, and participates in public discussions of controversies involving various forms of political violence.
Agnieszka Paczynska’s research focuses on the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, development and conflict, security-development nexus, post-conflict reconstruction policies, the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts, and conflict resolution pedagogy.