Carter School News
- August 26, 2019There are multiple sides to every story. But when it comes to Eritrea, a country that’s been isolated due to 20 years of war and nine years of sanctions, much of their story hasn’t been told, said Carol Pineau, a former CNN journalist who reported live on the Eritrean-Ethiopian war and is a visiting scholar at George Mason University.
- July 24, 2019School suspensions can triple the probability that a student will drop out of school or have later involvement with the criminal justice system, according to studies linked to the school-to-prison pipeline. These statistics are concerning, but Sarah Parshall has hope.
- June 11, 2019For about 25 years, Khairi Shammo said it felt like he and his family from Sinjar, Iraq, were “running from a conflict to a conflict.” They moved back and forth from Iraq to Syria multiple times trying to avoid the Iraq-Iranian war, terrorism and religious discrimination for being Yazidis, members of a religious minority.
- May 14, 2019During the war in the South Caucasus, and particularly the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, closed borders and a shortage of resources became the norm for Armenians like Margarita Tadevosyan.
- March 27, 2019George Mason University has a large student body—more than 37,000 people—but that doesn’t mean it’s hard to find community. And that’s especially true for the S-CAR Ambassadors.
- March 6, 2019What would it take for one group in a conflict to be more compassionate toward their “enemy”? Researchers from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) and the Department of Psychology are heading to Rondine—a two-year “laboratory for peace”—to find out.
- February 25, 2019The Holocaust had ended by the time George Mason University professor Marc Gopin was a child, but the suffering it caused his family, neighbors and teachers had not.
- January 22, 2019Amadu Koroma was only three at the start of the Sierra Leone War, when his uncle carried him on his shoulders as their family fled to Guinea for safety. Though the war ended in 2002, the consequences still affect Koroma, and they motivated him to make the most of his education.
- January 22, 2019There’s a familiar rule at most family gatherings: Don’t talk about religion or politics. But for the past 10 years, the Dialogue & Difference class and project at George Mason University have been turning that rule on its head.
- October 11, 2018Harry Truman was Jimmy Carter’s political hero, according to Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s chief domestic policy adviser, and he sees parallels between the two leaders. “Both presidents left office highly unpopular,” said Eizenstat, author of “President Carter: The White House Years.” “Truman is now remembered much more for his achievements than for his failures, and I hope that my book will have a similar reassessment of Jimmy Carter as president.”
- October 1, 2018When George Mason University got a message in February from The New School that scholars abroad were being persecuted and needed a safe haven to continue their lives and academic work, the response was a definitive “yes” to welcome them.
- April 5, 2021Growing up in the slums of Cameroon, Joseph Sany said he witnessed urban violence and police oppression regularly. He heard about genocide in Rwanda, and he saw more violence firsthand when he worked with NGOs and visited countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone during civil war.