Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

  • March 5, 2024

    Mason's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School, the top-ranked national public institution for peace and conflict resolution, has partnered with Rotary International, one of the largest global membership service organizations, to provide education and develop modalities to assist Rotary clubs in promoting local, regional, and global peace

  • February 12, 2024

    Carter School Dean Alpaslan Özerdem recently returned from a peacebuilding initiative in South Sudan, where he was a guest of the Minister of Peacebuilding Stephen Par Kuol and NewGen Peacebuilders’ Executive Director Patricia Shafer.

  • February 13, 2024

    Two Mason faculty members received year-long grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), part of 260 grants worth $33.8 million from the NEH this year for humanities projects across the country.

  • November 27, 2023

    As the motorcade began three days of mourning Mrs. Carter November 27, Dr. Susan Allen spoke with Josh Breslow at LiveNowFox regarding the legacy of Rosalynn Carter, the ways she touched so many millions around the world as a professional and as a graceful person, and how the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School at George Mason University continues her legacy.

  • November 21, 2023

    The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution remembers Ingrid Sandole-Staroste, longtime supporter of peace and conflict resolution and partner to founding faculty member, Dennis Sandole.

  • November 21, 2023

    Mason’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution is ranked No. 1 nationally among public institutions for its overall performance, and No. 1 among all institutions for its online offerings, according to a new report by Authority.org.

  • November 21, 2023

    WJLA ABC 7News interviewed Dean Özerdem about the life and legacy of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter on Sunday, when she passed away.
    When asked to put into words the impact Rosalynn will continue in the DMV, Özerdem said, “Her impact will live with us.”

  • October 26, 2023

    The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution hosted a two-day symposium, “A Celebration of Legacy and Impact: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Peacemakers and Leaders for Change,” at Mason Square in Arlington on Oct. 16-17. The symposium commemorated the Carters’ contributions to making the world more peaceful.

  • September 11, 2023

    Karina Korostelina, a professor of conflict analysis and resolution in Mason’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, conducts remarkable research with global implications that not only applies to countries and groups in conflict but societies as well. Ukraine’s war with Russia, at its end, she says, will present enormous problems with the reconciliation of people and territories.

  • August 29, 2023

    George Mason University graduate student Yuhyun Sihn spent the summer studying political polarization through the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.