Contact Us

School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution administrative hours:

9:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday 

Nearest Metro Stops: Virginia Square and Clarendon (about ten-minute walk from any of these metro stops to S-CAR). In order to plan your metro trip, please visit the metro website.

Parking Information:

Mason’s Arlington Campus Parking

S-CAR does not have free visitor parking. Please read below for other options. 

Pay parking:
A visitor pay parking garage is located beneath Founders Hall. Search Google Maps for "Founders Way North" to navigate to its entrance. The parking fee is $3/hr, with a maximum of $15 for the full day and $8 after 5pm and on weekend days.

NOTE: Vernon Smith Hall, where S-CAR is located, does not have any visitor or paid parking available. You may be ticketed if you park there.

There are 80 metered parking spaces in the N. Fairfax Drive cul-de-sac to the east of the intersection of N. Fairfax Drive and Kirkwood Road. These spaces allow parking for up to four hours next to St. Charles Church. They are often filled during peak class periods.

Free parking:
There is limited free two-hour parking on Kirkwood Road, north of Washington Boulevard.

Carpooling:
Mason Parking has carpool options with benefits which includes discounts and dedicated parking spots.
Mason Zimride is a carsharing program. Good especially for inter-campus carpooling.

Permit parking: 
Permits are usually obtained at the beginning of the semester for either the Founders Hall garage or the Vernon Smith Hall garage.  See here for more information and to purchase your permits.