Narrative

The Carter School is proud to coordinate the development of a Global Peace Labs Network as part of its innovative peace labs initiative. This network is rapidly expanding, with the recent inauguration of the York Peace Lab in partnership with the University of York in the UK. Building on this momentum, two new Peace Labs will join the network in 2025, funded by the State Department, in Japan and Korea.

Despite being more than 5,000 miles away from the war in Ukraine, students at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution are actively assessing the conflict dynamics, with hopes that their research could improve the situation.

Of the more than 4,000 lynchings of Black Americans that took place in the United States between 1865 and 1950, at least 43 cases occurred in Maryland.
George Mason University’s John Mitchell Jr. Program (JMJP), housed within the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, has been helping research several of these cases since 2019 to support the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In October, they received news that they will be taking their research to the next level, thanks to a $300,000 Department of Justice grant they helped secure for the commission.

Dr. Cobb teaches and conducts research on the relationship between narrative and violent conflict.