Center for Global Peace - Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Douglas Karim Crow is currently the project coordinator for ‘Islam and Nonviolence’ sponsored by Nonviolence International. Crow earned his MA and Doctor of Philosophy (with Honors) from The Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, and his BA (with distinction) from The American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Crow has lectured at the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, New York University and Columbia University. Dr. Crow’s publications include "When God Created Wisdom - The ‘Aql Creation Narratives in Early Islam." Binghamton, New York, Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences in the series Nur. Other published articles include "Sacred Mind and Profane Mind: Two kinds of ‘Aql with al-Muhasibi and al Hakim al Tirmidhi" in the Journal of Islamic Studies published by Oxford University, "The Five Limbs of the Soul: A Manichaean Motif in Muslim Garb?" published in Festschrift for Professor Hermann Landolt SSIPS 1998 and "Islamic Ethics and ‘Changing Behavior’" in the International Journal of Nonviolence, Vol III. Crow is a member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the Middle East Medievalists at the World Music Institute and Minbar al-Hurr (‘Pulpit of Freedom’ - Beirut).

George Irani holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California. Irani held the position of Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, 1997-98, where he focused on "Peace-Building in Lebanon: A Manual for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation." His areas of specialization include the Middle East, Lebanon-Syria, conflict resolution, reconciliation and forgiveness, and religious and ethnic conflict. Irani is assistant professor of political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, where he teaches courses on conflict resolution and conducts training for non-governmental organizations on conflict resolution skills. Between 1990 and 1993, he was assistant professor of science at Franklin College in Indiana. Irani has received grants from the Greenville Foundation and the Middle East Council of Churches, as well as a Lilly Endowment Leadership grant from Franklin College. In 1994 he received an Institute grant to organize a conference on "Acknowledgment, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Lessons from Lebanon," from which he co-edited, with Laurie King-Irani, Lessons from Lebanon: The Relevance of Acknowledgment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation to the Resolution of Protracted Intercommunal Conflicts, a work on intercommunal reconciliation in Lebanon. He is also the author of The Papacy and the Middle East.

Alma Abdul Hadi Jadallah’s work focuses primarily on the intersection between conflict resolution research and practice in communities and organizations. Professionally Ms. Jadallah is an organizational development consultant and leader with expertise in conflict resolution, leadership development, executive coaching, and change management. Ms. Jadallah is a Doctoral Candidate at the Institute for Conflict Analysis Resolution, at George Mason University, where her research has concentrated on the perceived role of conflict practitioners post 9/11. Ms. Jadallah taught graduate level courses at Eastern Mennonite University and George Mason University on cross-cultural mediation and protracted conflicts. Active in her community, she sits on several boards dedicated to community work and peace-building efforts. Ms. Jadallah has participated, designed and implemented efforts related to peace building on the Arab Israeli conflict and is committed to the exploration and implementation of a non-violent solution to the conflict.

Scott Jones received his AB from George Washington University, his MA in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. in International Affairs from American University. He is co-founder and president of the Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth (P.E.A.C.E.), which conducts research into all conditions of humankind: physiological, psychological and spiritual. He is currently working to establish a prototype Peace Room, allowing for analysis and early warning of conflicts based on scores of databases which map the human condition. Prior to this, he was Special Assistant to Senator Claiborne Pell, and a retired Commander in the U.S. Navy for nearly 30 years. In post-navy careers he has taught at the university level and worked in the private sector research and development community.

Murhaf Jouejati conducts research, analysis and political commentary on issues pertaining to regional developments in the Middle East. He received has MA in Arab Area Studies from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Utah. Jouejati has served as National Program Officer of the United Nations Development Program in Damascus, Information Advisor to the Syrian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Talks, and Information and Arab Relations Officer at the US-Arab Chamber of Commerce. His language abilities include Arabic, English, French, and some Italian and German. He maintains affiliations with the American Political Science Association and the Middle East Institute.

Theodore Kariotis currently specializes in the identification of international delimitation law and examination of conflicts among states over maritime boundaries and economic resources. Kariotis served as an economic counselor at the Embassy of Greece in Washington D.C before going on to an Assistant Professor position at Towson State University and an Associate Professorship at the University of Maryland where he won the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1991 and the Teaching Recognition Award in 1995. Currently, Kariotis serves as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University. Kariotis holds a lifetime membership in the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honors Society in Economics. Outside of his academic experience, Kariotis has worked as a consultant in the privatization of the telecommunication sector of Greece and the privatization of the Banking and Mineral Sectors of Siberia. He also worked as a consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York, the Center for Planning and Economic Research in Athens, and the European Economic Community in Brussels. His publications include "Greece and the Law of the Sea," The Hague: Kluwer Law International 1997, "The Economic Aspects of the Law of the Sea," Rhode: The Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, "The Greek Socialist Experiment - Papandreou’s Greece 1989-1989" New York, PELLA Publishing, 1991 and "The Case for a Greek Exclusive Economic Zone in the Aegean Sea," Marine Policy, January 1990.

Erin McCandless is the founding co-editor and co-producer of Cantilevers - Building Bridges for Peace, and international publication distributed to 30 countries, exploring issues of conflict transformation and peace-building in regions of conflict, with a readership of 15,000. McCandless received her B.A. (High Honors) from the University of California-Berkley, a Post Graduate Certificate from the European University Centre for Peace Studies in Austria, her M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at American University’s School of International Service. Prior to this, she served as Program Consultant on Bangladesh and as Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator for the Minority Rights Group in England, Program Consultant for Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Institute in Spain, Program Officer for International Alert in England, and Mihai Eminescui Fellow for the Soros Foundation in Romania. Her published articles include "Land Tenure Reform in Zimbabwe: Cause for Conflict, Foundation for Sustainable Peace," "Into the Heart of Tibet: the Survival of a People," "Indigenous Peoples: the Definitional Debate Returns," and "Peacemaking in Latin America."