Carter School Affiliate Faculty

Shannon Fyfe

a2c8605a-8799-4c95-a603-7f6cea1bd9ff (Paul Snodgrass) — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:07:56 +0000

Shannon Fyfe a2c8605a-8799-… Thu, 09/29/2022 - 10:07

Affiliate Faculty, Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program, Carter School
Director of Graduate Programs, Philosophy
Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Contact Information

sfyfe2@gmu.edu
703.993.6267
Horizon Hall 6258

Personal Websites

Profile in the Philosophy Department

Biography

Shannon Fyfe is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. Her previous work includes a fellowship with the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (2014), where she advised the organization regarding best practices for collecting evidence of sexual and gender-based violence in Syria, the American Society of International Law’s Arthur C. Helton Fellowship (2010), where she provided legal assistance to Tanzanian officials, policymakers, and the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance to implement national laws that promote human rights for albino persons in accordance with international legal standards, and an internship with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s Office of the Prosecutor (2008). Dr. Fyfe has provided pro bono representation for wounded veterans applying for medical benefits, and she has also spent time volunteering on death row in Tennessee. She holds both a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Fyfe’s research interests are in political philosophy, ethics, and legal philosophy, with a focus on philosophy and international conflict, particularly international criminal law. Her work in this field seeks to provide a philosophical framework for defending and criticizing current practices of holding individuals legally and morally accountable for their participation in mass atrocities. She has published articles that engage with international criminal law, speech act theory, just war theory, and moral psychology, and she recently co-authored a book responding to criticisms of international criminal courts and tribunals.

Selected Publications

International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense, co-authored with Larry May. Cambridge University Press, March 2017.

“Tracking Hate Speech Acts as Incitement to Genocide in International Criminal Law,” Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 30, iss. 2, 2017.

“The Challenge to the Laws of War by Islamic Jihad,” in Cambridge Handbook of the Just War, edited by Larry May with assistant editors Shannon Fyfe and Eric Ritter. Cambridge University Press, February 2018.

“Prosecutorial Ethics and Preliminary Examinations at the ICC,” co-authored with Alexander Heinze, in Quality Control in Preliminary Examination: Reviewing Impact, Policies and Practices, co-edited by Morten Bergsmo and Carsten Stahn, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, September 2018.

“Objective and Subjective Blame After War,” co-authored with Amy McKiernan, Essays in Philosophy, vol. 18, iss. 2, art. 6, 2017.

Courses Taught

Philosophy of Law

Punishment and Mass Incarceration

International Criminal Law

Responsibility and Mass Atrocities

Local and Global Migrations

Introduction to Ethics

Joe Camplisson (1929-2021): An Appreciation

Nora Malatinsky — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:53:39 +0000

Joe Camplisson (1929-2021): An Appreciation Nora Malatinsky Fri, 07/23/2021 - 13:53

In This Story

Christopher Mitchell

Susan Allen

Joseph Scimecca

Students and faculty from the early days of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CCAR), the center that later became the Carter School, will undoubtedly recall Joe Camplisson, who passed away in his native Belfast on Friday, July 9, 2021, at the age of 92. Joe was the very first of CCAR’s planned series of annual “Practitioners in Residence,” followed subsequently by scholar activist Helena Cobban and then by Ambassador John W. McDonald. They all brought practical experience of peacemaking to CCAR and introduced the realities of practical peacebuilding in a wide variety of settings to the campus world.

Joe was able to bring home to the CCAR community what it was like to be raised in a large Catholic family in a small house in a highly divided city. Joe grew up in part of a volatile province that could explode again into major violence and did so in 1968, at the start of the 30 yearlong “Troubles.”

Joe had originally left Catholic school (education in Northern Ireland was divided along sectarian lines) at the age of 14 and one of his early jobs was working in a butcher’s shop. By the mid-1960s he was working as a television repairman, travelling all over the city - and crossing sectarian lines as part of his work. This made him a familiar figure in many parts of Belfast. He and his family were also living in a house in a small Catholic enclave bordering a larger, mainly Protestant and Unionist district, so that when the sectarian violence began in 1968-9 and many living in mixed areas began fleeing to safer areas within their own religious community, Joe found himself and his family on the frontline of this process of “flight.” In this way, he started his career as intermediary, go-between, and bridge builder by setting up an information and tracing service, focused on who had fled from where, and who could therefore be found by concerned relatives and friends, who themselves were often displaced by bombings, burnings, or threats.

Subsequently, Joe was active in organizing grassroots meetings across the sectarian divide, usually involving members of the local clergy and community leaders, often hosted in a local synagogue, but often involving members of rival, paramilitary organizations - the Official IRA, the UDA, the Provisionals, and the UVF. He became a field officer for the newly formed Community Relations Commission (CRC) and in that capacity met John Burton who was acting as a consultant to the head of CRC, Maurice Hayes.

That established the first partnership between Joe and John Burton, working together as local, grassroots bridge builders. Much later, when Joe was on a visit to the United States, he ran into Bob Reid, then taking the new Master’s degree at CCAR at George Mason University, and the contact between the former television repairman and the former head of the Australian Department of External Affairs was renewed. For Burton, Joe was an obvious choice for the first CCAR “Practitioner in Residence,” and this was duly arranged by CCAR’s Director, Joe Scimecca, in Academic Year 1988-89. The link was thus established between Joe Camplisson, eventually working from FARSET in Northern Ireland, and CCAR, which later became ICAR in Virginia - a link which later involved Joe in carrying across some of Burton’s problem-solving ideas into other situations, most notably the conflict between Moldova and Transniestria in the former Soviet Union.

That, as they say, is another story. During his semester at CCAR, Joe had a major impact on a cohort of M.S. students and our first PhD class, while the Center at Mason made a lasting impression on Joe in his later work. The partnerships involved joint conflict resolution work with Jim Laue, Chris Mitchell, Susan Allen (MS ’95, PhD ’00), Kevin Avruch, Landon Hancock (PhD ’03), Tim Plum (MS ’16), and a number of ICAR students who undertook fieldwork in Northern Ireland over the next 20 years, many taking advantage of Joe’s local knowledge and contacts.

Joe always remained a staunch friend - and fan - of CCAR, ICAR, and later of S-CAR and the Carter School. But we might, in turn, best remember him as an ordinary bloke who turned out to be extraordinary in his ability to build bridges across daunting divides, to get people to listen to the other side, to understand the other’s pain and what caused it, and to look at, and into themselves as players in an often destructive game. Above all, he knew the people who lived, worked, and clashed at the real grassroots, because he was one of them. And, as Susan Allen said, “He had a big heart.”

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From Jerusalem to DC, Mason alumna dedicates her life to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Mariam Aburdeineh — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

From Jerusalem to DC, Mason alumna dedicates her life to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Mariam Aburdeineh Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:00

After graduating from Mason, Fakhira Halloun returned to Jerusalem, where she works as a civil society and peacebuilding consultant at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. Photo provided.

Fakhira Halloun holds two contradictory identities: She is Palestinian and an Israeli citizen.

It wasn’t until she began facilitating peace dialogues between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem in 2000, that she realized Palestinian citizens of Israel could be the missing link in bridging ties between the two groups.

“Palestinian citizens of Israel have an important role to play in solving the conflict,” said Halloun, a 2019 PhD graduate of George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. “We know the mindset of the Palestinians in the West Bank and share the same national identity and culture; at the same time, we know the Jews in Israel because we live with them and a lot of relationships are built there.”

That realization inspired her studies at Mason and life goal of bringing about peace, she said.

After graduating from Mason, Halloun returned to Jerusalem, where she works as a civil society and peacebuilding consultant at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

“This was my dream work,” Halloun said. “I’m helping civil society organizations engaged in peacebuilding work on both sides to reexamine and redefine their work in order to make a difference.”

Though she is overseas, Halloun’s impact in the Washington, D.C., area remains.

Halloun was part of a team that established the D.C.-based Museum of the Palestinian People, which highlights the history, identity, culture and achievements of Palestinians.

Fakhira Halloun (left) shows a guest around the Museum of the Palestinian People, which she helped establish. Photo provided.

“Usually the story about the Palestinian people is very narrow, and it’s linked with the conflict,” Halloun said. “We wanted to expand their narrative and bring out the complexity of it so that Americans and others can see themselves through the stories of the Palestinian people.”

Halloun has also stayed connected to Mason.

Since 2019, she has been co-teaching a study-abroad course with professor Marc Gopin that takes students to Israel and Palestinian territories to understand the conflict from both sides.

It’s an enlightening course, Halloun said, and one she also took as a student.

“Fakhira is an extraordinary peacemaker who understands intellectually and personally the power of compassion and the heart to heal wounds of war and conflict,” Gopin said. “She combines that with reasoning and strategy to build bridges across lines of adversaries.”

“I brought my passion, commitment and persistence to impact my reality, but professors like Dr. [Kevin] Avruch and Dr. Gopin equipped me with a deep lens in conflict resolution through their knowledge, analysis and approaches to understand,” Halloun said. “I couldn’t be successful now where I work in the UN without their contribution to who I am.”

Creating a better future is Halloun’s top goal, she said. According to her professors, she has what it takes.

“If peace with justice is ever to have a chance, it will be people like Fakhira—on all sides—who will commit to seeing it through, and bring it about,” Avruch said.

Fakhira Halloun (far right) with her students in Jerusalem. Photo provided.

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Carter School Affiliate Faculty

peacemaking

peacebuilding and analysis

Charles Hauss

a2c8605a-8799-4c95-a603-7f6cea1bd9ff (Paul Snodgrass) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:11:44 +0000

Charles Hauss a2c8605a-8799-… Sun, 08/02/2020 - 21:11

Visiting Scholar, Carter School
Affiliate Faculty, Carter School
Senior Fellow for Innovation and emeritus member of the Board of Directors, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Carter School

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Biography

Charles “Chip” Hauss has been exploring ways of producing large scale social and political change through nonviolent and cooperative means for five decades. In all of this work, he has tried to be a political bridge builder who brings “strange political bedfellows” together to help solve problems that can only be effectively addressed if they work together.

He is currently Senior Fellow for Innovation and an emeritus member of the Board of Directors at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. In that role, his job is to identify ideas, tools, and techniques in other fields that could and should be adapted and adopted by peacebuilders. He is also a Visiting Scholar at George Mason’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Hauss is a veteran author. His most recent book in peace studies is From Conflict Resolution to Peacebuilding, a textbook designed to engage introductory students. He is currently working on Nailing It, a book on how Americans are responding to the multiple crises facing the country in 2020.

Neta Oren

a2c8605a-8799-4c95-a603-7f6cea1bd9ff (Paul Snodgrass) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:08:20 +0000

Neta Oren a2c8605a-8799-… Sun, 08/02/2020 - 21:08

Affiliate Faculty, Carter School

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Biography

Dr. Oren grew up and studied in Israel (at the Hebrew University and at Tel-Aviv University). Her research focus is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli public opinion. and political psychology. She is an author and co-author of 2 books, and she has published numerous articles in various journals such as Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, Social Issues and Policy Review, International Journal of Intercultural Relations and Peace and Conflict.

Selected Publications

Oren Neta (2019) Israel National Identity the changing ethos of conflict Lynne Rienner Publisher.

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Oren Neta (2016) The Jewish–Israeli Ethos of Conflict in Sharvit, Keren, Halperin, Eran (Eds.) A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Springer.

Oren, N., Nets‐Zehngut, R. and Bar‐Tal, D. (2015), Construction of the Israeli‐Jewish Conflict‐Supportive Narrative and the Struggle Over Its Dominance. Political Psychology, 36: 215-230. doi:10.1111/pops.12266

Daniel Bar-Tal, Neta Oren and Rafi Nets-Zehngut (2014) Sociopsychological analysis of conflict-supporting narratives: A general framework Journal of Peace Research 51 DOI: 10.1177/0022343314533984

Oren Neta and Daniel Bar-Tal (2014) Collective identity and intractable conflict in G. M. Breakwell & R. Jaspal (eds) Identity process theory: Identity, social action and social change: Cambridge University Press

Degrees

PhD, Political Science, Tel Aviv University
MA, Hebrew University

E. Franklin Dukes

a2c8605a-8799-4c95-a603-7f6cea1bd9ff (Paul Snodgrass) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:04:21 +0000

E. Franklin Dukes a2c8605a-8799-… Sun, 08/02/2020 - 21:04

Affiliate Faculty, Carter School
Mediator and Facilitator, Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, University of Virginia, Carter School

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Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia

Biography

E. Franklin Dukes, Ph.D. is a mediator and facilitator with the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia. He founded University & Community Action for Racial Equity (UCARE) to address UVA’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy, leads IEN’s “Transforming Community Spaces” project helping communities transform problematic spaces, led community engagement as a member of the design team for UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and was a member of Charlottesville’s Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces determining the fate of the City’s Confederate statues. He received his Ph.D. from GMU’s School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 1992.

Degrees

PhD, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Gregory Pirio

a2c8605a-8799-4c95-a603-7f6cea1bd9ff (Paul Snodgrass) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:00:13 +0000

Gregory Pirio a2c8605a-8799-… Sun, 08/02/2020 - 21:00

Affiliate Faculty, Carter School

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Empowering Communication

Biography

Gregory Pirio has been a global leader in the use of communications for constructive social change and has worked extensively in a variety of countries to design social and behavior change communication strategies. Dr. Pirio has been the architect of numerous radio, TV and media training initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America with a focus on peacebuilding, conflict resolution and public health, including youth media projects in conflict and post conflict societies. He has also devised social and behavior communication strategies for Ministries of Health in numerous African countries.

Dr. Pirio is a recognized authority on jihadism in Africa, most recently publishing and speaking on the emergence of a Violent Extremist Organization in northern Mozambique. Notably, he is author of The African Jihad: Bin Laden’s Quest for the Horn of Africa (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2008). Dr. Pirio is also the editor of Rebuilding Shattered Nations and Lives: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa (UNHCR), for which he wrote the introduction, “African Conflicts in Historical Perspective.”

Dr. Pirio has also led teams of open source analysts producing studies on threat finance in the Sahel, the political economy of southern Libya, the “Shiite Movement” in Nigeria, the Boko Haram phenomenon, the racial economy of Mauritania, and Islamists movements in the Sahel region including AQIM and its offshoots, among many other topics.

Degrees

PhD, African History, UCLA
MA, African Studies, UCLA

Linda M. Johnston

a2c8605a-8799-4c95-a603-7f6cea1bd9ff (Paul Snodgrass) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:53:49 +0000

Linda M. Johnston a2c8605a-8799-… Sun, 08/02/2020 - 20:53

Affiliate Faculty, Carter School
Professor Emerita of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University, Carter School

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IPRA Foundation

Biography

Dr. Linda M. Johnston is Professor Emerita from Kennesaw State University in Georgia. She was the Executive Director of the Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics, and Character and a Professor of Conflict Management. She previously taught at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (pre-cursor to the Carter School) and Antioch University McGregor (Antioch Midwest). Her research interests include sports-related violence, ethics, bullying, racial and ethnic conflict, health-related conflict, narrative and discourse theory, and world view theory. She is a trained mediator, negotiator, ombuds, and facilitator. She works both domestically and internationally. She has received grants from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. She had a Fellowship to begin a dialogue between Egyptians and Americans. She has also done work in Ukraine, Republic of Georgia, Barbados, Nigeria, Egypt, Mongolia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Zambia, Vietnam, and in the U.S. Dr. Johnston is the President of the International Peace Research Association Foundation, serves on the Peace Research Grants Committee, and administers the Senesh Fellowship Program. She served on the Nobel Peace Prize committee for the American Friends Service Committee, has taught at the UN School of Peace in Costa Rica as well as the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in Zambia. She served on the Board of Hands Along the Nile. Her book “Sports, Peacebuilding, and Ethics” was published in 2014.

Daniel Sklarew

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Daniel Sklarew admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:30

Affiliate Faculty, Carter School
Professor of Applied Ecology and Sustainability Science and the Coordinator of Sustainability Initiatives at George Mason University, Carter School

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Personal Website

Biography

Dann Sklarew is a Professor of Applied Ecology and Sustainability Science and the Coordinator of Sustainability Initiatives at George Mason University. His research and teaching focus upon realizing ecological stewardship and sustainability at local to global scales. A CCRC- and IAP2-trained facilitator, Dr. Sklarew was pivotal in creating and co-leading Mason’s original Environmental Conflict Working Group and an associated graduate seminar course, a graduate certificate in Environmental Conflict Resolution, and the nation’s first Environmental Dispute Resolution e-forum. He has served as a University Dispute Resolution Project trainer and board member, a Conflict Analysis and Resolution guest lecturer, Dialog and Difference moderator, and committee member for Conflict Analysis and Resolution PhDs. Prior to joining Mason’s faculty, Dr. Sklarew served as an environmental management consultant for SAIC (now Leidos) and the Marasco Newton Group (now GDIT), then eight years as director of the United Nations’ project, “Global Environmental Facility International Waters: Learning Exchange and Resource Network (GEF IW:LEARN).” Dr. Sklarew received his bachelor’s degree in behavioral ecology from the University of Pennsylvania, his master’s in cognitive science from Boston University, and his Environmental Biology and Public Policy Ph.D. from Mason.

Degrees

PhD, Environmental Biology and Public Policy, George Mason University
MS, Cognitive Science, Boston University
BS, Behavioral Ecology, University of Pennsylvania

Hugh Gusterson

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Hugh Gusterson admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:30

Affiliate Faculty, Carter School
Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Carter School

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Biography

Dr. Gusterson’s research focuses on the intersection of science and security studies with a particular interest in the ways knowledge claims are made to seem true. Author and co-editor of six books, he has written for academic and popular audiences on nuclear weapons, counterinsurgency, drone warfare, and the social life of algorithms. He also has a regular column for Sapiens and has written over 60 columns for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Tinkering with Armageddon: Nuclear Weapons Science After the Cold War. Based on many years of fieldwork, the book reconstructs the U.S. decision to give up nuclear testing after the cold war and analyzes the ways in which the community of nuclear weapons scientists has reinvented itself in the absence of its core practice for the production of nuclear knowledge. Dr. Gusterson is also concluding a stint of research on the polygraph, for which he interviewed polygraphers and their subjects and undertook training as a polygrapher.