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Faculty Profiles

The study of International Peace and Conflict Resolution draws on a variety of academic disciplines. Our faculty members are trained in political science, cross-cultural communication, sociology, international relations, social psychology, anthropology, international law, and counseling. They are deeply engaged in some of the most pressing issues of our times, promoting dialogue in the Middle East and Africa, improving the participation of women in peacebuilding in the Balkans and Northern Ireland, transforming post-conflict societies in Latin America, and conducting hostage negotiations both in the United States and internationally.

In their research and teaching of conflict and violence, IPCR Faculty examine alternative paradigms and analyses of how domestic and international policies and systems work in relation to peace and conflict. Thus, IPCR can integrate the study of cultural and psychological factors contributing to violent conflicts; social, economic, and political factors; and systemic forces that drive social systems toward violence. A constructive approach is also offered in studying the processes that can lead to nonviolent conflict resolution and transformation.

Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher

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Dr. Ronald Fisher is a professor of International Relations in the division of International Peace and Conflict Resolution. He was the founding coordinator of the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, a... [More]

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Mohammed Abu-Nimer

Mohammed Abu-Nimer

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Mohammed Abu-Nimer, of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, serves as Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute. He has conducted interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in confl... [More]

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Mubarak Awad

Mubarak Awad

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Dr. Mubarak Awad is the Founder and national President of the Youth Advocate Program, which provides alternative foster care and counseling to "at risk" youth and their families.  He is also the Foun... [More]



Charles Call

Charles Call

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Dr. Charles “Chuck” Call, an assistant professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, focuses on post-conflict peacebuilding, democratization, human rights and policing and justice reform. He has conducted field research in all of Central ... [More]

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202-885-1693
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Rebecca Dewinter-Schmitt

Rebecca Dewinter-Schmitt

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After receiving her Ph.D. from the School of International Service, Dr. Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt returned as SIS’s post-doctoral scholar in residence for the 2008-9 academic year. Now an assistant professor, her academic research interest in civil so... [More]

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Scott Edwards

Scott Edwards

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Dr. Scott Edwards is Project Manager for the Science for Human Rights project at Amnesty International, USA (AIUSA). His dissertation, “A Composite Theory and Practical Model of Forced Displacement,” advances a computational model of flight for purpo... [More]



Joseph Groves

Joseph Groves

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Dr. Joseph Groves formerly served as a professor of religious studies and the director of peace and conflict studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, for 20 years and is a founding member of and continues to work with the Beloved Community Cent... [More]



Alma Jadallah

Alma Jadallah

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Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah advised and worked on the national and international levels on strategic projects related to: conflict prevention, mitigation, and recovery; leadership and program development and research; gender equality and women’s empowerm... [More]



S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana

S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana

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Christos Kyrou

Christos Kyrou

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Dr. Christos Kyrou is a co-leader of Talking One Generation Ahead a sustained dialogue project in Northern Ireland involving young, emerging leaders of five prominent political parties. He is originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, and he became an Ame... [More]

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Julie Mertus

Julie Mertus

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Professor Julie Mertus is an authority on the Balkans who has worked on gender and human rights issues for governmental, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, including UNHCR, USAID, the Norwegian government, the Open Society Institute... [More]

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Reina Neufeldt

Reina Neufeldt

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As a visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute, Dr. Neufeldt examined the relationship between religious and ethnic identity in inter-group conflict and peacebuilding.  She specifically investigated the effects... [More]

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Abdul Said

Abdul Said

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Dr. Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on and off ... [More]

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202-885-1632
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Susan Shepler

Susan Shepler

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Dr. Shepler's research interests include youth and conflict, migration crises and security, reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, post-conflict reconstruction, education and economic development, NGOs and globalization, and youth an... [More]

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202-885-2454
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Fereshteh Simone

Fereshteh Simone

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Dane Smith

Dane Smith

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Dane F. Smith, Jr. is adjunct professor in American University’s School of International Service and at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, and a senior fellow at the Joint Forces Staff College.  He is a Senior Associate in the Post-... [More]

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Margaret Smith

Margaret Smith

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Adjunct Faculty

Before becoming a scholar, Professor Margaret Smith worked for some years for the peacemaking NGO Initiatives of Change.  She did her doctoral research and the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and was for five years as an associate of the ... [More]

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Anthony Wanis-St. John

Anthony Wanis-St. John

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Dr. Anthony Wanis-St. John joined the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program in September 2006. He has created several advanced courses on negotiation for SIS, ranging from interpersonal skills and analysis to complex international chall... [More]

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