Program on Urban Peacebuilding Team

Stella Lovelady is a senior at George Mason University studying Conflict Analysis and Resolution with a concentration in Building Peace in Divided Societies and a minor in Global Affairs. As an Undergraduate Research and Outreach Fellow for the Program on Urban Peacebuilding, Stella is working on mapping violence prevention efforts in Washington, DC as well as working on creating a social media presence for the program.

Dr. William McInerney will bring his expertise on Violent Masculinities and the use of the arts and peace education interventions to bear on the work of urban peacebuilding.

Ashton is a third-year PhD candidate at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. As an urban planner by training and a safe streets advocate in her home city of Washington, DC, she is drawn to questions about how our transportation systems shape social interactions - and how our social interactions shape our transportation systems. Specifically, Ashton examines vehicular violence and the conflict system of car supremacy through an interdisciplinary lens and studies how a range of strategies - whether it’s mobilizing bike buses as a form of social movement or tapping into the power of positive message framing to unlock our collective moral imagination - can be leveraged to co-create a more peaceful present for our mobility network. You can learn more by visiting her blog Peace and Planning.

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