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S-CAR to become the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

March 10, 2020

Audrey Williams for The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

For nearly forty years, George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution has been a leading figure in the field of peace and conflict studies. On July 1, 2020, it will start the next chapter in its leadership with the adoption of a new name: the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

The new name will serve as a tribute to the Carters’ steadfast commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflict worldwide, a transition made timely as the world faces both entrenched and emerging global threats and human security challenges.

Survivors of religious persecution encourage solidarity and forgiveness

July 18, 2019

Audrey Williams for IranWire

On Tuesday, July 16, something remarkable resounded through the Dean Acheson auditorium at the US State Department: the words of the Holy Koran.

“‘Yaa ayyuhannas’— O mankind!” recited Dr. Farid Ahmed, a homeopathic consultant, during his remarks on the first full day of the US government’s second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. 

Ahmed, a survivor of the March 15 attack against the Muslim community in Christchurch, New Zealand, was invited to speak and share his story along with more than 20 other survivors of religious persecution.

At annual Lynch Lecture, Georgetown Law professor challenges a system of racial injustice

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Audrey Williams for The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

“My name is Paul Butler, and I represent the people.”

It is with these words that Professor Paul Butler, who began his career as a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., would begin his opening statements when representing the U.S. government in criminal court. 

Delivering the 29th Annual Lynch Lecture on September 26, Butler told the audience that as a Black man, he had once hoped to be able to use his role as a prosecutor to “create change from the inside.”

However, his experience taught him that “our system is too broke to fix.” 

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