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  • Cities After the 1960s-- Where Have All the Promises Gone? 
    Wilkins, Roger (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1994-03-01)
    The promise for the cities in the 1960s was that America had taken an honest look at its racial history. The country was rich then and growing and vital. Some people thought that America had experienced a profound change ...
  • A "Community of Values" in the CSCE/OSCE? 
    Sandole, Dennis J. D. (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2001-06)
    “Dr. Dennis Sandole has long been interested in questions of peace and security and has published a range of empirical and theoretically oriented studies on the subject. This current Working Paper represents a report on ...
  • Conceptions of the World Order: Building Peace in the Third Millennium 
    Rapoport, Anatol (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1997-04-23)
    "...It is a very great pleasure to welcome Dr. Anatol Rapoport to George Mason University to deliver the Tenth Annual Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Lecture, "Conceptions of World Order: Building Peace in the Third Millennium," ...
  • Conflict and Culture: A Literature Review and Bibliography, 1992-98 update 
    LeBaron, Michelle; Garon, Stephen (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1998-06)
    “The 1992 publication, Conflict and Culture: A Literature Review and Bibliography by Michelle LeBaron begins with the premise that the goals of conflict resolution are complementary to those of multiculturalism. It further ...
  • Conflict Resolution and Civil War: Reflections on the Sudanese Settlement of 1972 
    Mitchell, Christopher (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1989-03)
    “Christopher R. Mitchell's ‘Conflict Resolution and Civil War: The Sudanese Settlement of 1972’ is the third in a series of Working Papers reflecting the research interests and findings of the Center for Conflict Analysis ...
  • Conflict Resolution and Power Politics/ Global Conflict After the Cold War:Two Lectures 
    Rubenstein, Richard (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1996-01)
    “The two public lectures contained in this working paper were presented by Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution faculty member Richard E. Rubenstein at the University of Malta. ‘Conflict Resolution and Political ...
  • Conflict Resolution as a Political System 
    Burton, John W (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1988)
    “‘Conflict Resolution as a political System" was the first of the Institute's series of working Papers to be published, and when it came out in 1988 both the author and the then Director regarded the series as a vehicle ...
  • Conflict Resolution in the Post Cold War Era: Dealing with Ethnic Violence in the New Europe 
    Sandole, Dennis J. D. (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1992-10)
    “This timely paper by Dr. Sandole is part of a continuing project at the Institute intendedto analyse and recommend remedies for the resurgence of overt and violent conflict in Eastern Europe. It takes the form of a ...
  • Conflicts in the Second World: A View on Track 2 Diplomacy 
    Riegg, Natalya Tovmasyan (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2001-06)
    “Natalya Tovmasyan Riegg has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) and a Research Fellow at the National Peace Foundation since 1999. This Working Paper reflects her thinking ...
  • Cutting Losses: Reflections on Appropriate Timing 
    Mitchell, Christopher (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1995-12)
    “The field of conflict resolution has reached a point in its evolution where hunches and intuitive guesses are being transformed into testable theoretical propositions. Nowhere is this more important than in the debate ...
  • The Dialectics and Economics of Peace 
    Boulding, Elise; Boulding, Kenneth E. (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1990-03)
    If conflict is a basic fact of human existence, then the key to peace must be the management of conflict, not its abolition. An important concept for me is the conflict management continuum; one end represents destruction ...
  • Empathy and Forgiveness for Apartheid's Most Condemned Man: Confronting the Human Side of Evil 
    Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2002-02)
    “In this paper, Gobodo-Madikizela focuses on the very micro process of reconciliation and the issue of apology and forgiveness. She asks, ‘How can we understand forgiveness in the context of tragedy?’ She argues that ...
  • Engaging Provention: A Pressing Question of Need 
    Dunn, David J (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2013)
    “In three major sections, what follows is unified by the notion of need. The uses of this term are slightly different, but there is a unity throughout. That unity is the life and work of John W. Burton, whose contribution ...
  • Finding Meaning in a Complex Environment Policy Dispute: Research into Worldviews in the Northern Forest Lands Council Dialogue, 1990-94 
    Crocker, Jarle; Docherty, Jayne (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2000-05)
    “Among the different types of social conflict that have been studied by social scientists, disputes over the environment have been recognized as uniquely rich avenues for intellectual - inquiry. Often occurring at the ...
  • Frames, Framing, and Reframing In, and Through The Mass Media: Reflection of Four Protracted Environmental Disputes in the Israeli Press 
    Vraneski, Ariella; Richter, Ravit (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2002-05)
    “The mass media is part and parcel of modern life. In recent years environmental conflicts have increasingly become part of the public agenda, and they now gain vast media coverage. While all agree that fully functioning ...
  • Global Projections of Deep-Rooted US Pathologies 
    Galtung, Johan (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1996-10)
    Barbara W. Tuchman, in her fine book The March of Folly,' studies four cases of foreign policy actors-Troy in the Battle of Troy. the Renaissance Popes during the Protestant Reformation, England and the American Revolution. ...
  • Globalization and Pressure to Conform: Contesting Labor Law Reform in Egypt 
    Paczynska, Agnieszka (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2004-02)
    “The economic changes brought on by globalization imply a fundamental restructuring of the relationship between the state and society, a transformation that inherently generates conflicts. Everyone has been affected by ...
  • Group Violence in America 
    Rubenstein, Richard (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1989-03)
    “‘Group Violence in America: The Fire Next Time?’ is the second working paper of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Both writings will come as a surprise to those who think of ...
  • International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights: Scenarios, Objectives and Strategies 
    Mahoney, Liam; Eguren, Luis Enrique (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1996-03)
    “The processes of nonviolent conflict management, resolution, and transformation work best where state systems are democratic and/or have high levels of political, economic, and social legitimacy. Where regimes are controlled ...
  • An Intervenor's Role and Values: A Study of a Peace Committee Report in Grahamstown, South Africa 
    Midgley, J. R. (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2002-02)
    “The extraordinary transition in South Africa has received well-deserved attention. Midgley tells a less well-known part of the story relating to the work by members of a collection of Peace Committees acting to manage and ...

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