GCI-Grand Challenge Initiative

  • September 17, 2025

    Beginning Monday, September 22, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University hosts its Fall 2025 Peace Week with the theme “Bridging Peacebuilding, Development, and Security.” This semi-annual series, launched in 2020, now draws thousands of participants to more than 30 in-person and virtual events each semester.

  • August 21, 2025

    A project led by George Mason University professor Arthur Romano is working to prevent gun violence in Baltimore through proactive peacebuilding initiatives.

  • July 25, 2025

    Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, recently participated in discussions at the 2025 Global Higher Education Symposium, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 18.

  • May 30, 2025

    Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, opened the 2025 Korea-U.S.-Japan Young Trilateral Leaders Regional Workshop Series, held in May at the Hiroshima Bunka Koryu Kaikan.