Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University

ICAR ADVISORY BOARD INFORMATION


Dr. K. C. Soares, Chair, international management and organization development, worked in over 40 countries, published in 11 countries.

Dr. Alan Gropman, Vice Chair, Distinguished Professor, National Defense University, has written 200 publications on conflict.

Edwin H. Futa, General Secretary, The Rotary Foundation.

James R. Hobson, lawyer, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C. specialist in communications/telecommunications law, certified mediator, occasional arbitrator, ICAR Board member since 1989.

Dr. Alma AbdulHadi-Jadallah, President and Managing Director of Kommon Denominator Inc; National and international conflict resolution practitioner. Led and directed civil society initiatives related to the Arab world and the Islamic community.

Major General Charles D. Link, USAF (Ret) is President and CEO, National Defense University Foundation.

Carmen MacDougall, formerly Vice President for Communications at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has worked in the private, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Ambassador John W. McDonald, diplomat, lawyer, international civil servant, development expert, professor, author, and Peacebuilder concerned about the world's ethnic and regional conflicts; Chairman and C.E.O., Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy ( http://www.imtd.org/).

Robert Nealon

David J. Padilla

Edward Rice, trained as a computer scientist, has been involved with Track II diplomacy for nearly twenty years.

Thomas Davis Rust

Lester P. Schoene, Jr, Consultant in conflict resolution, mediation and problem solving; 34 years in information systems engineering and program management; MS CAR, 1992, GMU; ICAR Advisory Board member since 1997.

Hon. James M. Scott, Virginia House of Delegates and former member, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Assistant Vice President, Community Affairs with Inova Health System.

Robert Scott, Esq., Robert W. Scott, Attorney, ADR Team, Office of General Counsel, Federal Emergency Management Agency; 15 years experience in ADR, mediation and facilitation as a practitioner, educator and trainer; ICAR M.S. 1990.

Andy Shallal

Dr. Peter J. Stavrakis, Professor of Political Science, National Defense University.

Stanley E. Taylor, Vice President, Metropolitan Relations, George Mason University.

Dr. Craig Zelizer, Senior Partner, Alliance for Conflict Transformation, has 15 years of peacebuilding experience.

 

Student Representatives

Nancy R. Beiter, Ph.D. Candidate, ICAR; Attorney Advisor, Office of Congressional and Public Services, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C.; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Friends Meeting of Washington;  Corporation Member, American Friends Service Committee.

Vanessa Noël Brown, MS. Candidate.

 

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May 21, 2007
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