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Kyaw Lin Htut, an MS Student at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) at George Mason University, sits down with Kwaw de-Graft Johnson, PhD Student at S-CAR and host of S-CAR Speaks, a weekly podcast series, to discusses the recent changes in Burma, and the history behind it.
Dissertation Defense: Maneshka Part 2 Q&A
Dissertation Defense: Maneshka Eliatamby - When the Tiger was a Woman - Presentation: Unraveling the Myth and Comprehending the Complexities of the Female Combatant in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Conventional narratives concerning violent conflict portray women as more likely to choose non-violence over violence, their roles limited to victim or peacemaker. These portrayals capture a partial truth. This dissertation explicates the structural, cultural and individual factors that cont...
Kwaw de-Graft Johnson, PhD Student at S-CAR and host of S-CAR Speaks, a weekly podcast series, sits down with Jason Miller, MS graduate; and Jacquelyn Bleak, MS student, to discuss the recent controversies with contraception, and the divergent views of Catholics in America on this issue. http://scar.gmu.edu
Please join PhD student Borislava Manojlovic and MS student Jacquie Antonson as they present on their research concerning the post conflict education systems in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina respectively. The presentations will elaborate on new research on both systems, and also offer a space for comparison between the two cases. This event is sponsored by the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict, and the Balkans Working Group. http://scar.gmu.edu/event/14129
Mohammed Cherkaoui: Dissertation Defense, Part 2: Q&A
Mohammed Cherkaoui presents on "Why Social Groups Split? A Hamas-Fatah Case Study" This research focuses on how we should define the energy that empowers rebellion and generates appealing frames and imposes change, and whether one can claim some correlation between this bottom-up shift and weak leadership, institutional fatigue, public discontent, or social malaise. As seen now in several Arab countries at the height of the collective emotional commitment among the revolutionaries, this energy...