Faculty

  • Photo of Borislava Manojlovic

    Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University Korea, Carter School

    Dr. Borislava Manojlovic is a professor of Carter School’s Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program at George Mason University Korea, and a Co-director at the Peace and Conflict Studies Center Asia (PACSC Asia). She is an expert in peacebuilding, transitional justice, dealing with the past, education in post-conflict settings, and atrocities prevention. 
  • Photo of Patricia Maulden

    Professor of Conflict Resolution, Carter School
    Student Engagement Coordinator, Carter School

    Dr. Maulden's research interests include generational and gendered dynamics of conflict and peace, social militarization/demilitarization processes, urbanization, post-conflict peace economies, and building peace practices.
  • Headshot photo of Alp Ozerdem

    Dean, Carter School
    Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Carter School

    Dr. Özerdem is Dean of the Carter School and specializes in conflict resolution, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. With over 20 years of field research experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Indonesia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Turkey.
  • Photo of Agnieszka Paczynska

    Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School

    Agnieszka Paczynska’s research focuses on the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, development and conflict, security-development nexus, post-conflict reconstruction policies, the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts, and conflict resolution pedagogy.
  • Arthur Romano smiling and seated with arms crossed over a chair arm

    Associate Professor, George Mason University, Carter School
    Director of the Program on Urban Peacebuilding

    Professor Romano is a scholar-practitioner whose research and applied interests include global educational movements, the use of transformative and experiential education in communities affected by violence and nonviolence education.
  • Headshot photo of Daniel Rothbart

    Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School
    Co-Director of the Program on Prevention of Mass Violence, Carter School

    Dr. Rothbart specializes in a wide range of topics: prevention of mass violence, ethnic conflicts, power and conflict, the ethics of conflict resolution, civilians in war and the psycho-politics of conflict.
  • Photo of Mara Schoeny

    Director of Undergraduate Programs, Carter School

    Dr. Schoeny teaches courses in research and evaluation methods, practice skills and the integration of inter-disciplinary approaches to conflict analysis and resolution.
  • Headshot Photo of Solon Simmons

    Associate Professor at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Carter School

    Dr. Simmons teaches classes on conflict theory, narrative, media, discourse and conflict, human rights, quantitative and qualitative methodology, global conflict, and critical theory. His current work on peace and conflict resolution combines Weberian institutional theory, with critical social philosophy, bringing in insights from semiotics and narrative analysis.
  • Photo of Roland Wilson

    Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for Carter School's conflict resolution program at George Mason University's Korea Campus.

    Dr. Wilson’s is currently working to improve foreign policy, diplomacy, and conflict resolution efforts around the world. He is also working to create and enhance local community, governmental and international capacity to peacefully mediate, transform, and resolve culturally diverse and historically deep-rooted and protracted conflicts at all levels of society.