Spring 2026 Peace Week

Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Session title: Building Trust to Prevent Conflict 

Hosted by: Carter School in collaboration with Rotary Club of Washington Global, Rotary Districts 7620 and 7610, and PeacePlayers International

Moderator: Mercedes Allsop, Executive Assistant and Strategic Initiatives Lead, Carter School 

Students and young professionals play critical roles in shaping more peaceful, inclusive, and resilient communities. Rotary Districts 7620 and 7610, the Rotary Club of Washington Global, other local Rotary clubs, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and PeacePlayers International are partnering to build a network of emerging youth peacebuilders. This initiative begins with a half-day interactive leadership program designed to strengthen practical peacebuilding skills through experiential learning, dialogue, and collaborative reflection.

The morning session, A Peacebuilding Toolkit for Global Youth Leaders: Building Foundations for Peace — Identity, Listening, and Transformative Dialogue, introduces core peacebuilding skills focused on:

• Identity awareness and understanding how identity shapes perspectives and conflict

• Active listening and communication practices that foster empathy and trust

• Conflict transformation approaches that support constructive dialogue

• Reflection and case study analysis connecting theory to real-world peacebuilding

• A collaborative “Conflict Transformation Museum” activity that translates learning into shared creative expression

The afternoon session will be led by PeacePlayers International, highlighting the use of sport as a powerful medium for peacebuilding and social cohesion. Through interactive engagement, participants will experience how sports-based approaches promote teamwork, inclusion, leadership, and cross-cultural understanding, reinforcing the themes of trust, cooperation, and dialogue introduced earlier in the day.

Welcome:

• Alpaslan Özerdem, Dean, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Mandy Warfield Granger,District Governor Rotary District 7620
• Ravi Cooper, Governor Rotary District 7610 
• Rose Cardarelli, E.D, Rotary Representative to UNICEF,  District Governor Nominee Rotary District 7620 2027-28, Carter School Affiliate
• Mari Clark , Chair Rotary District 7620 Peace Committee Chair, Carter School Affiliate

Facilitators:

• PeacePlayers International https://peaceplayers.org/
• Carlos Guiza Rotary Club of Washington Global
• MAZ Tinmau Rotary Club or Washington Global
• Isabella Cuevas, Carter School, M.A. Graduate from the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, outreach coordinator Better Evidence Project  and facilitator
• Pushpi Weerakoon, Rotary Peace Fellow and recipient of the prestigious 2025 ‘Rotary Alumni Global Service Award’, the highest honor presented to a Rotary alumnus

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square)

After six years as chair of Burundi independent human rights commission, Dr Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, was able to lead Burundian Government to improve human rights situation, to release a high number of prisoners and to punish some of the people who were enjoying total impunity. In addition, the government was collaborating better with the human rights council and other united nations bodies by submitting reports on human rights allegations. On his side, the human rights commission had improved his finance management, governance and partners across the globe. Unfortunately, since 2022, serious false accusations of mismanagement of funds and attacks were directed to the chair of the commission. In 2025 he was able to flee the country and received asylum in Switzerland. In this discussion, he will present the major innovation, he brought at the commission and the attacks he received during the six years and how he was able to resist during all that time and why the government could not file any complaint against him even after he had left Burundi because the systems he put in place as well as regular external audit showed that there was transparency throughout those years and every activity could be traced and documented.

Speaker: Dr Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, (Former Chair of the Burundian Independent Human Rights Commission 2019-2025) 

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Format: Virtual 

The session advances a dialogue about the use of AI in promoting peace, justice and strong institutions. Faculty from the Carter School, Narxoz University in Kazakhstan, and University of Peace in Costa Rico will open the discussion on AI, followed by small group discussions by students from across the world.

Chair: Karina Korostelina, Professor, Director of Sustainable Peace Lab, Carter School

Panelists: 

• Marc Gopin,the James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution and the Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Carter School 
• Ardak Shalkarbayuly, Project manager on AI transformation, Narxoz University
• Dr. Mariateresa Garrido, Associate Professor in the Department of International Law at the University for Peace (UPEACE)

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Format: Virtual 

In peacebuilding, "listening" is much more than just hearing words; it's a methodical, deliberate, and frequently transformative process that helps identify the underlying reasons of conflict, develop empathy, and establish trust. It functions as a tool for transforming conflicts by enabling the participation of voices that are frequently excluded from official peace talks. This session will emphasize different ways to 'listen' in peacebuilding with activities that would involve the audience even if they are online, to understand/ learn. These include:  structured methodologies, active and deep listening, multiple 'entry points', digital and remote listening, and principles for effective listening.

Facilitators: 

• Pushpi Weerakoon, Peace Fellow and 2025 Rotary Alumni Global Service Award’ winner
• Carlos Guiza, Rotary Club of Washington Global
• Avril Aguero, Carter School Graduate Student

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Format: Virtual 

Presented by Carter School Alumni Department 

Learn about different career paths within the U.S. House of Representatives, including those in Member, district, committee, and support offices, and how to apply for positions.

Speaker: Elizabeth Mihalcea, Talent and Development Manager

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Those who work for peace often frame what they do in normative terms, as working to resolve conflict or to build peace. But what peace looks like has constantly evolved. As the field has expanded, understandings of the challenges to peace have changed, and so too have the paradigms, approaches, and practices deployed within the field. The challenges of the post-9/11 period called forward theories and practices that differed markedly from those of post-Cold War conflicts, for example. But more recently the pace of change and the interconnected complex challenges of the polycrisis have caught the field off guard. During 99 interviews over the last 8 years, leading academics and international practitioners have expressed a great amount of anxiety regarding the current state of the field and its preparedness to face these many challenges. This is paired with a worrying lack of clarity regarding what the field needs to do today to face these rapidly evolving 21st Century challenges to peace. In a time of escalating crises, we must therefore ask, how can the field best respond to the challenges we now face? This paper provides some suggestions for how we can reorient the field for the challenges ahead.

Speaker: Gearoid Millar, Professor of Peace and conflict Studies, University of Aberdeen

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Format: Virtual

Networks play a vital role in building links for peace and conflict resolution, This panel showcases several types of peace networks ranging from global to local.

The Rotary Action Group for Peace provides a global platform for people to become intentional in positive and sustainable peacebuilding within themselves, their communities, and our world.

The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Peace endeavors to create effective processes at all levels, founded on Indigenous values, in order to safeguard positive peace for Indigenous people.

The Carter School’s Global Peace Action Network, through a global network of mentors, peers, and peacebuilders, will enable connections where relationships grow and continue, practitioners can develop projects over time, and aspiring peacebuilders can access a digital platform with toolkits, funding pathways, and training resources.

Rotary International invests in peace education that builds capacity at local, national, and regional levels. Rotary Regional Peacebuilder networks offer one approach toward creating effective ecosystems to build lasting peace.   

The Rotary Club of Bogotá Centenario, Columbia is part of an emerging network of diverse actors, including the Carter School, supporting peacebuilding efforts led by social leaders and local organizations in Colombia, particularly through economic empowerment initiatives for women heads of household affected by the armed conflict, as well as support for women-led productive and entrepreneurial projects.

Building Bridges for Peace in Cities, Baltimore pilot, has strengthened the city’s peacebuilding ecosystem by connecting local violence prevention specialists, educators, and grassroots leaders across sectors to map current efforts, identify collaboration opportunities, and engage in peer learning and professional development—both locally and internationally.

 Moderator: 

• Mari Clarke, Chair, Rotary District 7620 Peace Committee, President elect Rotary Club of Washington Global, and Affiliate Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Presenters: 

• Tijana Ristic, Chair, Rotary Action Group for Peace Board
• Binalakshmi Nepram, Rotarian and Founder of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace, Peace Chair Rotary Satellite Club for International Peace
• Jeff Helsing, Executive Director of the Better Evidence Project at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Rebecca Crall, Rotary International Focus Area Manager for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
• Manuela Cordoba, President Rotary Club Bogota Centanario, Colombia
• Arthur Romano, Rotary Peace Fellow and Founder and Director of the Program on Urban Peace Building, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Concluding Remarks: Alpaslan Ozerdem, Dean of the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Presented By: Carter School Sustainable Peace Lab

Peace and conflict studies are often conceptualized and promoted as a highly interdisciplinary field. And yet, scholars still find themselves defending specific sets of methods or theories as morally or scientifically superior. This leads to the persistence of separate clusters within the field that sometimes go as far as rejecting each other’s legitimacy. Is this fragmentation inevitable and useful, or is it impeding the development of the field? To what extent are we willing to overcome our theoretical and methodological biases? This roundtable discussion, featuring graduate students of the Carter and Schar Schools, is a critical examination of the field and possible ways forward more integrated Peace and Conflict studies.

Speakers: 

• Margarita Tadevosyan: Research Assistant Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Executive Director of the Center of Peacemaking Practice (GMU)
• Ksenia Bakhtiarova: PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Manager of the Sustainable Peace Lab (GMU)
• Prerna Barua: PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)
• Laura Isabella Cuevas: Master's Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)
• Conner William Moses: Master's Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)
• Mossharaf Hossain: PhD Student, Schar School of Policy and Government (GMU)
• Rafiki Ubald: PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)

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Format: In-Person (Fairfax Campus) 

In this simulation event, students will be separated into groups and given a hypothetical scenario regarding an international conflict or community conflict. They will be tasked with creating a comprehensive solution under a 35-minute time limit. Each group will present its strategy to a panel of experts and receive feedback. The event will give students the chance to demonstrate their expertise and get hands-on experience through a simulation while engaging with practitioners. 

Facilitators: 

• Lisa Misaki Gray, (Community Co-Chair of Carter School Ambassadors) 
• Janna Tosson, (Community Co-Chair of Carter School Ambassadors) 

Panelists: TBA

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Format: Virtual 

Conflict is a natural part of everyday social life as people disagree based on differing perspectives, insecurities, incompatible positions, proposed actions, goals, and other factors.  Constructive conflict engagement can lead to creative problem-solving by taking different perspectives into account. It is important to ensure that disagreements do not spiral into destructive or violent conflicts. This session will present conflict resolution skills and tools for engaging constructively with people who hold different perspectives. These will include understanding causes of conflict, building trust, effective communication approaches, and developing different strategies for addressing conflicts.

Facilitators:

• Jeff Helsing, Research Associate Professor and Executive Director, Better Evidence Project, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution 
• Ahmed Etally, Rotary Club of Washington DC
• Tian Ford, PhD Graduate student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution 

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Format: Virtual 

This collaborative panel looks at how dialogue shapes learning in real classrooms. Instead of viewing dialogue as an abstract concept or one that belongs at strictly conflict contexts, the panel will focus on what it actually looks like in practice and how it supports the collaborative learning and shared inquiry process. Panelists will discuss their experience of using dialogue to navigate differences, address tensions and build more inclusive learning communities.

Panelists: 

• Mara L. Schoeny, Associate Professor, Carter School
• Margarita Tadevosyan, Research Assistant Professor, Executive Director, Center for Peacemaking Practice, Carter School
• Jeff Helsing, Research Associate Professor, Executive Director, Better Evidence Project, Carter School
• Brendan Duprey, Founding Director of Sustainable Kazakhstan Research Institute,  Associate professor, Narxoz University
• Aizhan Smailova, SDG 16 Vice-Chair Coordinator, Assistant-professor, International Relations, Narxoz University

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Format: Virtual 

This roundtable on Democratic Resilience brings together faculty from the Carter School and Oxford University to examine how democratic institutions and civic norms withstand polarization, violence, and democratic backsliding. Drawing on theory and empirical insights, the discussion focuses on moral responsibility, governance choices, and policy strategies that strengthen trust, accountability, and social cohesion in fragile democracies.

Chair: Karina Korostelina, Professor, Director, Sustainable Peace Lab, Carter School

Speakers: 

• Thomas E Flores, Associate Professor, Carter School 
• Tehama M Lopez Bunyasi, Associate Professor, Carter School
• Daniel Rothbart, Professor, Druscilla French Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School

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Format: Virtual  

A panel discussion with the principals of Mosaic Theater, producers of the play, "Young John Lewis", along with principals of the John Lewis High School of Fairfax County, VA near the George Mason University Fairfax Campus. 

Young John Lewis By Psalmayene 24 — Mosaic Theater

Moderator: Melvin Hardy

Facilitators: 

• Reginald Douglas, Artistic Director, Mosaic Theater, Washington, DC
• Psalmayene 24, Playwright, Young John Lewis
• Serge Seiden, Managing Director, Mosaic Theater
• Matthew Johnson, Principal, John Lewis High School

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Format: Virtual

For the first time in 20 years, autocracies now outnumber democracies worldwide. In 2025, that crisis deepened when the United States ended all overseas democracy funding, raising urgent questions about what democratic backsliding abroad means for Americans, global stability, and the international order.

This talk explores why democracy worldwide still matters deeply to Americans, and how Democracy Journeys advances democratic values and lessons through immersive, on-the-ground experiences that connect participants with the people and movements shaping political futures.

At the center of the discussion is Armenia, a country that captured global attention during its peaceful Velvet Revolution in 2018, when citizens demanded transparency, reform, and an end to entrenched corruption. Today, Armenia stands at a pivotal crossroads. As it works to broker peace with its neighbors and engages in regional initiatives such as the proposed “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity,” the country faces mounting internal and external pressures ahead of critical parliamentary elections in June 2026.

Using Armenia as a case study, the conversation examines what democratic resilience looks like after revolution, how fragile gains are defended, and what is at stake when democratic progress collides with regional security concerns and shifting global support. Participants are invited to consider democracy not as an abstract ideal, but as a living system shaped by choices, institutions, and moments of consequence.

Speaker: Penelope Norton, Program Officer at Democracy International and Found Member of Democracy Journeys

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Format: Virtual

An interfaith dialogue in a new book launch tells Gaza’s story and the humanity of people there through an unlikely friendship. Instead of focusing only on politics or headlines, it brings readers into the personal, everyday experiences of people trying to live, serve, and create meaning under extraordinary hardship. Through dialogue, poetry, and open questions about faith, the two authors bridge their different two identities, American and Palestinian, and four faiths of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith and show how connection and compassion can endure even in times of war.

Speakers: 

• A. J Alonzo Wind, Affiliate Faculty Carter School; Member Rotary Club Washington Global; Retired Senior Foreign Service; former Mission Director International Medical Corps occupied Palestinian territories
• Mohammed S. Arafat, Co-Author

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Format: Virtual 

This session explores empathy and emotions through the lens of visual arts and their connection to peacebuilding. Participants will engage with emotional intelligence tools, including practical emotion-regulation exercises that contribute to trust, understanding, and peace in everyday life. Together, we will reflect on how we respond to challenges—from the personal to the global—by centering our humanity and approaching conflict with awareness and intention.

Facilitators:

• Melvin Hardy, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution 
• Isabella Cuevas, MA Graduate, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution Outreach Coordinator Better Evidence Project, Facilitator

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Format: Virtual

Students enrolled in CONF 747: Reconciliation will present the results of their research examining reconciliation in the United States.

Speakers: Karina Korostelina and students in CONF747

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Format: Virtual

In this engaging and timely book, Professor R. Brian Ferguson brings us into a debate that runs hot in contemporary scholarship and online discussion: are men predisposed to war? Within this debate, chimpanzee behavior is often cited to explain humans' propensity for violence; the claim is that male chimpanzees kill outsiders because they are evolutionarily inclined, suggesting to some that people are too. In Chimpanzees, War, and History (Oxford UP, 2024), Ferguson challenges this consensus.

By historically contextualizing every reported chimpanzee killing, Ferguson provides detailed demonstration of the connection between human impact and intergroup killing of adult chimpanzees. Second, he argues that killings within social groups reflect status conflicts, display violence against defenseless individuals, and payback killings of fallen status bullies. Ferguson deconstructs efforts to illuminate human warfare via chimpanzee analogy, and provides an alternative anthropological theory grounded in Pan-human contrasts that is applicable to different types of warfare. Bringing readers on a journey through theoretical struggle and clashing ideas about chimpanzees, bonobos, and evolution, Ferguson opens new ground on the age-old question--are men born to kill?

R. Brian Ferguson is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark, and the founding director of the Rutgers-Newark Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies. He has studied war since the 1970s and has developed a general theoretical perspective that encompasses ethnology, archaeology, biological anthropology, historical anthropology, and militarism in the world today.

Moderated by: Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Associate Professor, Carter School Director of the Genocide Prevention Program

Speakers: 

• R. Brian Ferguson, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark
• Rick W. A. Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University, Affiliate Faculty of Women and Gender Studies Program
• Leslie Dwyer, Associate Professor, Carter School
• Anneke Deluycker, Associate Professor, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation

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Format: Virtual

As applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) grow exponentially, technology’s role in supporting Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions raises significant questions for practitioners and educators. This online session focuses on the options, strategies, pros, and cons of using AI to support restorative justice (RJ) initiatives. What practical and ethical concerns emerge and how might these be managed? Following a presentation on innovative applications of AI designed to support RJ, two discussants will consider issues such as how RJ core values (e.g., agency, equity, transparency, accessibility, and trauma awareness) resonate (or clash) with AI options and values. Audience members will then engage in facilitated small group discussions of whether and how AI and other technologies can constructively support efforts to build peaceful, just, and equitable societies.

Presenters: 

• Chris Twyman, Co-CEO-Restorative
• Gifford Sutherland, CEO UpskillU

Discussants: 

• Kathy Evans, Associate Professor of Education, Eastern Mennonite University
• Susan F. Hirsch, Carter School Emeritus Faculty and Restorative Arlington Founding Board Member

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Format: Virtual

This presentation builds on prior work proposing invisibilization as a distinct stage in genocidal processes, showing that violence can begin with the systematic erasure of personhood through legal, institutional, and epistemic means. Extending this framework, this presentation explores unchecked assumptions embedded in SDG16, that, while valuable in its normative goals, also rests on biased and short sighted premises about legal recognition, participation, and visibility. As SDG16 assumes all humans are equal before the law, in practice it can also unintentionally exclude marginalized groups, like LGBTQ+ people, whose identities are often criminalized or institutionally silenced. Based on comparative policy and discourse analysis, focused on national laws, human rights reports, court rulings, and civil society documentation, the study shows how invisibilization happens as a self-reinforcing cycle of exclusion, institutions that normalize denial, and perpetuate structural violence. The key question guiding this presentation is whether SDG 16’s logic, though well-intentioned, can in fact legitimize genocidal mechanisms (like denial or invisibilization), thus rendering formally inclusive institutions and legal systems into actually inaccessible to certain groups. Achieving SDG 16 “for all” requires explicitly recognizing and protecting those groups whom institutions and legal systems have systematically and historically failed to see.

Speaker: Fernando Palacio - PhD - Lecturer at Doshisha University and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

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Format: Virtual 

The panel session brings together experts from George Mason University, the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the University of Oxford, and Narxoz University to conduct a strategic analysis of conflicts in the "Bigger Asia" region - from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to South, Central, and East Asia.

The event's format includes:

• academic dialogue between representatives of various research schools;
• comparison of analytical approaches to the study of conflicts and the transformation of regional order;
• development of a joint research agenda and educational initiatives.

The panel is positioned as an intellectual platform for the development of expert recommendations and the strengthening of transnational cooperation in the fields of conflict studies, regional security, and global governance.

Panelists: 

• Gabit Zhumatay, Professor, International Relations, Narxoz University
• Fatima Kukeyeva, Professor, Visiting Scholar, International Relations, Narxoz University
• Emin Dzhabbarov, Executive Director of “HeartLand” Analytical Center, Narxoz University
• Karina Korostelina, Professor, Director, Sustainable Peace Lab, Carter School 

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Format: Virtual

Recent studies suggest that conducting research on subjects that involve extensive human rights violations leads to research-related stress (RRS).  Whether a researcher is interviewing survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, collecting data from genocidaires, or coding data on incidents of torture, exposure to RRS may lead to several effects. Beyond emotional consequences, RRS may also determine the willingness to study particular topics, and the choices of methods utilized. This panel thus seeks to understand the overall implications of studying political violence, mass killings, sexual violence, and other forms of grave human rights violations which take place during conflicts. We seek to research the researcher, and how their important work also affects the self. 

Facilitated by: Prerna Barua, PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Speakers: 

• Dr Leslie Dwyer, Associate Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Dr Jessica Smith, Director of Research, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
• Dr Philip Schulz, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Bremen (Author of Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda)
• Isabel Guimarães, Geopolitical Risk and Security, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

The communication strategy of the current US presidential administration has stood in stark contrast to the norms of the past. Official statements and casual remarks are often characterized by their combative and informal language. This interactive session will involve the use of narrative analysis to better understand the purpose, function, and potential outcomes of the Trump administration’s use of rhetorical styles and narrative techniques. Attendees will get to pick from a number of examples to examine and then take part in a facilitated discussion. Narrative analysis theory will be covered briefly to help inform and structure the discussion.

Speakers: 

• Conner Moses, Master's Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)
• Audrey Williams, PhD, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)

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Format: In-Person (Fairfax Campus) 

Presented by: Carter School Undergraduate Office 

What is going on outside? Environmental issues affect everyone—but they come with real tensions, trade-offs, and tough decisions - ultimately leading to conflict. Our expert panel will dig into the most common questions undergraduate students ask: Why is climate action so hard to agree on? How do policy, science, business, and community interests collide? And where do young people fit into the conversation? This next installment of our series offers clear, grounded insight into the conflicts shaping the planet’s future.

Facilitated by: Jordan Emely, Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Panelists: TBD panelists 

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

This expert panel examines the evolving role of non-state armed actors in shaping contemporary conflict, with particular attention to organized crime networks, the illicit trade, and escalating urban violence. Panelists analyze how these actors interact with state institutions, undermine governance and public security, and challenge traditional policy responses. The discussion highlights evidence-based strategies for regulation, violence reduction, and strengthening state and community resilience in high-risk urban contexts.

Chair: Karina Korostelina, Professor, Director of Sustainable Peace Lab, Carter School

Panelists: 

• Artur Romano, Associate Professor, Carter School
• Maurício Vieira (Head Chair on Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime) 
• Dr. Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo (Vice Rector)

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Format: Virtual 

A conversation with Ken Cloke to have an insight into peace, its basic elements and sustainability. Looking into the idea of power dynamics in the peace process. Learning from his mediation experience how to navigate conflict to problem solve.

Moderated by: Sarah Ahmed Atif, Ombudsperson George Mason University

Speaker: Ken Cloke, Director Center of Dispute Resolution

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

This expert panel on Environmental Peacebuilding, convened by the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the University for Peace, explores how environmental stressors—such as climate change, resource scarcity, and land degradation—intersect with conflict and cooperation. Panelists examine policy tools and peacebuilding practices that transform environmental risks into opportunities for dialogue, shared governance, and sustainable peace across fragile and divided contexts.

Panelists: 

• Silvia Danielak, Assistant professor, Carter School, Assistant Professor 
• Karina Korostelina, Professor, Director of Sustainable Peace Lab, Carter School
• Dr. Adriana Salcedo, Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, UPEACE

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square)

This panel analyzes contemporary conflicts in Latin America with a focus on political polarization, governance crises, territorial disputes, and structural inequality, examining how state responses and public policies shape conflict escalation or mitigation. Drawing on comparative cases, panelists assess the effectiveness of conflict management,, social, and institutional reforms in addressing violence, social unrest, and democratic erosion. The discussion highlights policy-relevant lessons for conflict prevention, governance reform, and sustainable peace in the region.

Panelists: 

• Dr. Adriana Salcedo (Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies)
• Dr. Maurício Vieira (Head Chair on Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime) and 
• Dr. Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo (Vice Rector)
• Karina Korostelina, Professor, Director of the Sustainable Peace Lab, Carter School 

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Format: Virtual

Drawing on my two decades of work as a Palestinian peacebuilder and a PhD alumna of the Carter School in Conflict Resolution (2019), my presentation reflects on a year of facilitating joint political imagination workshops for Palestinians and Israelis following the catastrophic events on, and war, since October 7th 2023. Conducted through the Land for All peace initiative, these workshops take place amid unprecedented violence, deepening dehumanization, and profound collective trauma on both sides.

The workshops engage participants in critically examining the besieged consciousness imposed by the conflict—a mindset that narrows political imagination, reinforces zero-sum narratives of “either us or them,” and sustains a sense of powerlessness by framing the conflict as inherently unsolvable. Through a carefully facilitated narrative process, participants are invited to move beyond victimhood and despair, reclaim agency, and imagine the future they seek for themselves and their families without predetermined limitations.

Central to this process is the collective exploration of how the “other” appears—or is absent—in these imagined futures, and what shared responsibilities, principles, and moral commitments are required to move toward a just and inclusive reality. The workshops trace the evolution of individual and collective narratives as participants grapple with past injuries, collective pain, and moral accountability, while gradually expanding the boundaries of imagination to include the other within a shared future.

This presentation examines the challenges and opportunities inherent in this delicate facilitation process and highlights the transformative potential of narrative work and political imagination in shifting from a besieged mindset of victimhood toward shared agency, responsibility, and commitment to an equal and just future for both peoples. The presentation engages deeply with peacebuilding work in Israel–Palestine in the aftermath of the catastrophic events and war since October 7, 2023, offering critical insights into peacebuilding within a context marked by large-scale civilian devastation, mass loss of life, profound collective trauma, and the consolidation of structure of domination.

Speakers:

• Fakhira Halloun PhD – Carter School Alumna; Director of Palestinian Partnerships, Land for All Initiative
• Adina Friedman, PhD. Carter School Alumna; Peacebuilder and Adjunct Professor

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Format: Virtual 

Presented by PiVOT Peace Lab, Polarization and Violence Transformed

Globally, we are experiencing increasing and record-breaking violent conflict and insecurity. However, a more peace and prosperous future is possible—if we make deliberate choices now. To meet the moment, we must commit to rethink and reenergize a new plan for how we collectively build support for peacebuilding and conflict prevention. At the Alliance for Peacebuilding The Future of Peace and Security Project and Coalition is working to advance a bold new peace and security plan that will rally support of champions from Congress to the private sector to ordinary citizens.

Facilitated by: Dr. Daniel Rothbart, Druscilla French Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution Director, Peace Lab, Polarization and Violence Transformed, The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

Speakers: 

Elizabeth (Liz) Hume, Executive Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding

She is an international lawyer and a conflict expert with more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions in bilateral, multilateral institutions and NGOs. She has extensive experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable and complex peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. From 1997-2001, Liz was seconded by the US Department of State to the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo as the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Election Commission Secretariats. In these positions, she was responsible for developing the legal framework and policies in support of the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and UN Resolution 1244. After 9/11, Liz worked for the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan and Afghanistan where she established and managed the Protection Department for Afghan refugees and returning IDPs. Starting in 2004, she served in leadership positions and helped establish the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation at USAID developing programs and policies to improve the USG’s ability to address the causes of violent deadly conflict. In 2007, Liz was the Chief of Party for Pact where she managed a USAID funded conflict resolution and governance program in Ethiopia. She also served as a Technical Director at FHI 360 where she managed a USAID funded peacebuilding and governance program in Senegal with a focus on the Casamance one of Africa’s longest-running civil wars.

Peter J. Quaranto currently serves as a senior fellow for the future of peace and security with the Alliance for Peacebuilding

Peter serves concurrently as a visiting professor of the practice and distinguished global policy fellow for 2025-2026 in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Peter has two decades of experience working across the U.S. Department of State, White House, Congress, and with civil society to elevate peacebuilding and conflict prevention in foreign policy efforts. Previously, Peter served as the acting principal deputy assistant secretary in the Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict & Stabilization Operations (CSO). In this and other leadership roles within CSO, he worked to enhance U.S. diplomacy to anticipate, prevent, and respond to violent conflict around the world. Peter was at the center of implementing the Global Fragility Act law, including authoring the related Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability.

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Format: Virtual 

The landscape of global climate governance has undergone significant shifts in recent years, with profound implications for climate, relief, and recovery efforts, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS). Traditional multilateral frameworks, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), increasingly coexist with more fragmented, multipolar, and action-oriented governance arrangements, including regional initiatives, sector-specific regimes, and coalitions of the willing.

At the same time, the intersection of climate change, peacebuilding, and human security has gained increased attention in policy and academic debates. However, dominant narratives—particularly the framing of climate change as a “threat multiplier”—are increasingly being questioned, especially in complex conflict environments where political economy dynamics, governance capacity, and institutional constraints shape outcomes as much as climatic stressors themselves. These debates are unfolding against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical alignments, competing global crises, and, in some settings, a relative loss of political momentum and attention for climate action.

This session brings together senior scholars and practitioners to examine how recent changes in the global climate governance architecture are influencing the operationalization of climate, relief, and recovery initiatives in fragile and conflict-affected states. Particular attention is given to risk-informed decision-making, water and food security as strategic entry points, and the role of risk as both a conceptual and financial bridge linking climate impacts, peace and security considerations, and climate finance. Drawing on academic research, policy experience, and field-based insights, the session explores how evolving governance arrangements translate into concrete programming and financing decisions in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

Session Objectives

Analyze the changing climate governance landscape:

How has climate governance evolved between COP27 and the lead-up to COP30, particularly with regard to adaptation, loss and damage, and the emergence of regional and sectoral initiatives? What are the implications of these shifts for climate-related relief and recovery efforts in fragile and conflict-affected states, especially in a context of shifting geopolitical priorities, competing crises, and a relative erosion of political impetus and attention for climate action?

Examine the climate–peace–risk nexus:

How are emerging peacebuilding frameworks, risk-based approaches, and evolving climate policy debates reshaping the integration of climate resilience, water security, and recovery in FCS? To what extent does climate change function as a threat multiplier in fragile environments, and where do alternative risk framings—incorporating governance, political economy, and systems-based perspectives—offer greater operational clarity? What complementary frameworks or analytical tools can strengthen this nexus, including through improved risk measurement, multidimensional indicators, or context-sensitive assessments?

Clarify the role of risk as a conceptual and financial bridge:

How does risk function as a key linkage and signaling mechanism between climate impacts, peace and security concerns, and financial decision-making? In what ways do risk assessments shape donor priorities, influence access to climate finance, and affect the allocation of adaptation, recovery, and loss and damage resources in fragile and conflict-affected contexts?

Identify institutional and financial gaps:

What institutional, coordination, and governance gaps persist in current climate governance frameworks for FCS? How can climate finance mechanisms—including adaptation finance, loss and damage instruments, and emerging risk-informed financing approaches—be made more accessible, flexible, and responsive to the specific constraints

Facilitated by: 

• Engy Said, PhD Candidate, Carter School; Former Harvard Fellow
• Diego Osorio, PhD Candidate, Utrecht University | Adjunct Professor, École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP), Québec, Canada | Fellow (2023–2024), Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Speakers: 

• Hans Ibbrek, Special Envoy, Climate and Security, Section for. Energy, Climate and Environment, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Tatiana Miškova, Slovenian Ambassador for Water Diplomacy 
• Dr. Jeff Helsing, Director of the Better Evidence Project
• Dr. Khaled El Taweel, Senior Coordinator at FAO
• Cedric de Coning, specialist in complexity theory and adaptive peace operations

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Format: Virtual

This session explores kindness and voluntary service and compassion as offering a practical pathway to peace by transforming empathy into action. When individuals serve one another, across differences of culture, belief, or background, they build trust, reduce fear, and strengthen the social fabric that holds communities together. Small acts of kindness, multiplied through organized service, create shared purpose and mutual respect, helping people see one another not as strangers or rivals, but as partners in a common future. In this way, community service becomes more than charity; it becomes a quiet but powerful force for social cohesion and lasting peace.

Facilitators:

• Mike McCabe, President of the Rotary Club of Washington Global
• Rose Cardarelli, Ed.D. Rotary Representative to UNICEF
• Sonja Borgmann, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution l graduate student and instructor

Learning Objectives:

• Explore different practical models of volunteer service, compassion and peace action
• Connect voluntary service, compassion/kindness → trust + social cohesion around shared purpose that can contribute to peace 
• Reflect on how small, local actions contribute to peace and build each person’s sense of agency in their network/community
• Identify one concrete action they can take individually or collectively over the coming semester to apply these skills 

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Peacebuilding efforts throughout the world are being weakened by the increase of elite deals and transactional conflict resolution. ‘Mediation’ seems to be a catch-all word for practices that are often very distant from a very inclusive, fair, consent-based and transformative process. In the context of development projects communities, companies, and governments often find themselves at odds over the social and environmental impacts of development. In this fraught climate—marked by polarization, misinformation, and conflict—mediation may seem aspirational. Yet practice shows that mediation can deliver pragmatic agreements that reduce harm, restore trust, and strengthen institutions. This session will explore how mediation processes bring conflict parties together across deep asymmetries, enabling them to co-create solutions on social and environmental issues.. Drawing on cases in fragile and conflict-affected settings, the hosts will engage the participants in a mediation role play so that they may experience the complexity of dialogue processes. The role play will then be followed by a discussion on the mediation process and its building blocks: inclusivity, confidentiality, local grounding, creativity and self-determination. Participants will gain concrete insights into how mediation can advance SDG 16—Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions— and experience in creating durable, locally-owned solutions that strengthen the rule of law and social cohesion. 

Speakers:  

• Silvia de Rosa, Dispute Resolution Specialist at CAO, World Bank Group
• Claudia Maffettone, Senior Dispute Resolution Specialist at CAO, World Bank Group
• Alma Jadallah, Senior Dispute Resolution Specialist at CAO, World Bank Group

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Presented by: Carter School Alumni Chapter, Kellye Richardson 

Join us for an Alumni Open House designed to reconnect, reminisce, and rediscover your community at FUSE cafe. This in-person gathering offers alumni the chance to mingle with former classmates, meet current staff and faculty while enjoying light refreshments and conversation. Whether you’re stopping by to catch up with old friends or making new connections, this open house is intentionally informal and welcoming. Register here and enjoy the good company. 

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Format: Virtual 

This will be a presentation on real-life issues and mitigating strategies Pushpi Weerakoon has encountered during her 15+ years as a frontline peacebuilder. She will focus on the conflict sensitive tools and lessons learned she has applied while working for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and serving for the United Nations as a rapid response emergency coordinator in Asia, the Middle East, North & Central America, the Caribbean and Oceania/Pacific. There she assisted populations to navigate safe and orderly migration, giving priority to prevention of sexual exploitation, assault & harrassment (PSEAH), Trafficking in Persons (TIP), Gender Based Violence (GBV) and suicide.

Introduction by: Mari Clarke, President Elect of Rotary Club of Washington Global, Chair of the Rotary District 7620 Peace Committee. This presentation is part of the District 7620 Peace Committee Monthly Peace Talks Series.

Moderated by: Jeff Helsing, Research Associate Professor and Executive Director, Better Evidence Project, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution 

Speaker: Pushpi Weerakoon is a specialist in Peacebuilding, Humanitarian and Disaster Relief, Transitional Justice, Restorative Justice, Migration Management, Development, and Diplomacy. She has worked for the past 15 years for the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations, often as a Sub Regional Program Manager or as Project Coordinator. Pushpi is a former Rotary Peace Fellow and she is the recipient of the prestigious 2025 ‘Rotary Alumni Global Service Award’ for 'Exceptional Humanitarian Services,' the highest honor presented to a Rotary alumnus internationally.

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

In our presentations, we will share our experiences regarding our positionality in the years leading up to the genocide, our lives during the genocide, and our work in post-genocide Rwanda. We will pay particular attention to the challenges the country has faced in rebuilding and the opportunities arising from these reconstruction efforts. While we will briefly revisit how we came to fall, struggle, and rise from the genocide, we will mostly focus on our everyday life experiences in the post-genocide era. We have learned that Rwandan ethical culture and empathy are the fundamental sources of our resilience, resistance, and remembrance. It is these lessons that shape our lives and the lives of our communities in the diaspora.

Speakers: 

Philbert Muzima is native of Rwanda and a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi. A former journalist and co-founder of the Rwanda News Agency (ARI/RNA), Philibert is a Tax Officer in the Canada Revenue Agency. He holds a Master's degree in Conflict Studies from Saint Paul University. Philibert is a fervent advocate for human rights, particularly the rights of genocide survivors. He is an author who writes prose and poetry. His book Imbibé de leur sang, gravé de leurs noms or "Soaked in Their Blood, Engraved with Their Names," published in April 2016 by Éditions Izuba, is a testimony of what he himself experienced during the genocide.

Adelit Rukomangana is a native of Rwanda and a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi and a former Catholic Jesuit Priest. He is married and lives with his wife and children in Vermont. Since 1994, he has been working in supportive counseling, human and mental health services in Rwanda, Kenya, and the United States. He served traumatized child-headed households in Kigali, Congolese refugees in Kiziba Camp, persons with HIV-AIDS in Kibera slum in Nairobi and adults with psychiatric challenges in Vermont. He has spoken about the history of Rwanda, the genocide against the Tutsi to educational, civic and faith – based institutions. He studied in Africa and in the United States. He holds undergraduate degrees in philosophy and biology as well as a graduate degree in social and theological ethics.

Moderator: Rafiki Ubald, doctoral Student at The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Analysis, George Mason University.

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Format: Virtual 

This session explores how understanding identity, culture, and inclusion is essential to effective peacebuilding. Participants will engage in dialogue and use practical approaches to foster trust, bridge differences, and create inclusive strategies that empower communities to resolve conflict collaboratively and sustainably.

Facilitators:

• Karina Korostelina, Director Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution Sustainable Peace Lab
• Binalakshmi Nepram, Director and Founder of the Global Alliance for Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace, E-Peace Satellite Club leader 
• Daniel Stoian, Founder of the Center for Emerging Global Leaders

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Contemporary societies are experiencing heightened polarization, declining civic trust, and the normalization of incivility in public discourse. Peacebuilding scholarship increasingly emphasizes the limitations of reactive and post-conflict interventions, underscoring the need for preventative, structural approaches to peace. This panel argues that peace education must be understood as a developmental and systemic process beginning in early childhood and extending throughout K–12 education. Grounded in the principle that “peace begins at home,” the session examines how early experiences of kindness, empathy, and respectful communication—first within families and later reinforced through schools—shape long-term civic behavior and conflict engagement. The panel introduces a comprehensive K–12 peace education curriculum developed by an interdisciplinary team of emerging scholars with expertise in language development, civics, sociology, social justice, and special education. Designed as a flexible and adaptable teachers’ manual, the curriculum is applicable across diverse educational contexts, including formal U.S. classrooms, international and cross-cultural settings, informal learning environments, and contexts involving displaced or marginalized children. By integrating age-appropriate peace competencies across developmental stages, the curriculum seeks to foster empathetic, civically engaged individuals capable of contributing to sustainable peace.

This session situates peace education within broader peacebuilding and conflict prevention frameworks emphasized during Peace Week. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, the panel explores how early socialization processes—beginning in the family and reinforced through schooling—serve as critical sites for cultivating peace-oriented values and behaviors. Peace education, when systematically embedded across developmental stages, contributes to the formation of moral reasoning, prosocial behavior, and democratic participation.

The presenters will outline the structure, theoretical grounding, and pedagogical strategies of a comprehensive K–12 peace curriculum designed for flexible implementation. Particular attention is given to inclusivity, cultural responsiveness, and accessibility, aligning with research on social justice education and inclusive pedagogy. The curriculum is designed to function within existing educational constraints, allowing educators to integrate peace learning during advisory periods, interdisciplinary instruction, or commemorative days such as the UN International Day of Peace.

The session will highlight:

• The conceptual foundation of “peace begins at home” and its relevance to educational systems

• The role of schools in reinforcing family- and community-based peace values

• The structure and pedagogical approach of a comprehensive K–12 peace curriculum

• Strategies for implementation in diverse contexts, including under-resourced, displaced, and international settings

• The value of technical tools such as Apps to facilitate learning

• Opportunities for educators to use the curriculum during flexible instructional periods (e.g., free days, UN International Day of Peace, advisory periods)

Participants will be invited to reflect on how peace education can function as both prevention and transformation—reducing future conflict by nurturing emotionally intelligent, civically engaged individuals.

Peace Week emphasizes interdisciplinary, preventative, and justice-oriented approaches to peacebuilding. This session contributes to that mission by framing peace education as a foundational peacebuilding strategy rather than an ancillary or symbolic intervention. Structural peacebuilding scholars argue that sustainable peace requires attention to cultural norms, socialization, and education systems that shape how individuals understand conflict and coexistence.

Speakers: 

• Rose Cardarelli, Ed.D.
• Lucijan Jovic, Ed.D.
• Mike Castiglia, M.S., Ed.D.
• Matthew Schneider, M.A.

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Format: In-Person (Fairfax Campus) 

This session explores the transformative impact of the Students Peace Initiative in Eastern Africa, a region where a burgeoning youth population faces significant marginalization. Moving beyond traditional, rigid interventions, this program utilizes a bottom-up approach to foster local ownership and social cohesion. By engaging universities as incubators for change, the initiative empowers students to lead micro-level peacebuilding efforts that resonate within their specific local contexts.

Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Adaptive Peacebuilding, the session highlights how student-led networks shift participants from passive witnesses to active agents of change. Facilitators will demonstrate a ground-up methodology that prioritizes relationship-building across historical divides and integrates social healing into the peace process. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to directly interact with Students Peace Initiative regional leaders, gaining first-hand insights into how these decentralized, self-organizing networks act as catalysts for sustainable peacebuilding. Through these practical lessons and personal narratives, this demonstrates that empowering local agency is essential for dismantling cycles of conflict and building a lasting, locally owned social equilibrium.

Speakers: 

• Rowda Olad, Associate Director of MHCR, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Antti Penttkainen, Professor of Practice , Executive Direct of MHCR Associate Director, MHCR Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Dr. Cherie Bridges Patrick, Director of Maandeeq Mental Health

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Format: In-Person (Mason Square) 

Peacebuilding as a field includes a normative commitment to creating a specific outcome: peace. However, this term is frequently ambiguous and lacks a precise definition for both academics and practitioners. Without a definitive understanding of our objectives as an applied discipline, it becomes challenging to strategically develop interventions, policies, and social movements that effectively foster peace itself. Moreover, this term is often confined to the liberal peace paradigm.

We shall scrutinize the concept of liberal peace in the contemporary era by analyzing failures in both theory and implementation. Additionally, we will examine current crises in relation to the issues inherent in liberal peace frameworks and propose constructive alternatives. Our approach will incorporate creativity and envision a future state rooted in diverse and competing conceptions of peace.

What is the appropriate course of action moving forward? Should we refine and improve liberalism, or should we pursue a completely different path? This roundtable aims to collaborate with the audience to address these challenges and develop comprehensive answers to these questions.

As one of the final sessions of Peace Week, we hope to reflect on lessons learned and invite the audience to co-create knowledge with us. 

*Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Speakers: 

• Sean Heravi: PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)
• Tian Ford: PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)
• Kemal Buyukyuksel: PhD Student, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (GMU)

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Format: Virtual 

Digital authoritarianism thrives in the pipes and platforms that carry our information: algorithmic ranking systems, data‑broker markets, AI content engines, content‑moderation pipelines, and even the on/off switches of connectivity. This roundtable unpacks those mechanisms; how they can suppress access to information, distort public discourse, and undermine institutional trust, and then co‑designs practical responses that advance SDG 16 (access to information; accountable, inclusive institutions).

Participants will learn to identify common manipulation patterns (from deepfakes to down‑ranking), verify content with accessible tools, and apply community‑anchored strategies (media & information literacy, transparency asks, emergency connectivity protocols).

(We will close the roundtable discussion by drafting a one‑page “Principles & Actions” brief and a starter schema for a Carter School digital harms knowledge base.)

Speakers: 

• Dr. Marcus Michaelsen, PhD., Co‑author of the definitive 2024 Oxford Handbook chapter on Digital Authoritarianism
• Dr. Kris Ruijgrok, PhD., examines how tech companies’ tools are used within digital repression strategies
• Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra, PhD., Ethical AI governance, AI governance intersects with digital authoritarian risks
• Dr. Peter Pomerantsev, PhD., 2025 Digital Authoritarianism Practitioner’s Guide, YALE
• Marwa Fatafta, Access NOW, MENA Policy Lead
• Peter Guest, Investigations Editor, Rest of World
• Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis, Kentik

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