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Join George Mason University President Gregory Washington as he invites experts, change-makers, innovators, and thought leaders to engage in meaningful conversations about the greatest challenges of our time.
Listen and learn from audacious people from Mason and beyond who represent the diversity of insight, the agility of collaboration, and the tenacity required in the struggle for a better future that is at the essence of the Mason Nation.
President Gregory Washington hosts each episode of the Access to Excellence podcast, recorded on the campus of George Mason University.
The tension between, war, justice, and peace
Karina Korostelina, a professor and social psychologist in Mason’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, conducts research with global implications that not only applies to countries and groups in conflict but societies as well. She tells Mason President Gregory Washington that Ukraine’s war with Russia, at its end, will present enormous problems with the reconciliation of people and territories. A look at Korostelina’s remarkable research and what it tells us about human nature and how we can find peace after conflict.
"The study was an analysis of 15 peace processes across the globe. What I found, in addition to many other factors, was that if a nation creates multicultural or civic — based on connection to the state — identity, then peace processes sustained. If a country promotes an ethnic concept of national identity, peace processes fail."
Karina Korostelina
Access to Excellence, Episode 52
Karina Korostelina is a professor in Mason's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Her research has global implications not only for countries and groups in conflict but societies as well.
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January 29, 2021What's it like to interview a mass murderer? Professor Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI profiler, fills us in on that and Mason's new Forensic Science Research and Training Laboratory, which will be one of only eight in the U.S. to use donor remains for forensic research.
January 29, 2021How did the election play into our national identity? How did Donald Trump mold the Republican Party in his image? How can we reform the Electoral College? Mason President Gregory Washington speaks with Schar School Dean Mark J. Rozell on where our politics goes from here.
January 29, 2021Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin J. Sherwin discusses his new book about the Cuban Missile Crisis and tells a terrifying, and not well-known, story of how close we came to nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
January 29, 2021Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, assistant professor in the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, explains how using our democratic freedoms will help overcome racism in America.
January 29, 2021Schar School Dean Mark J. Rozell provides an unbiased analysis of the stakes heading into the presidential debates -- with some debate history thrown in as well.
October 16, 2020Mason's Justin Gest, an expert on immigration and the politics of demographic change, explains why the U.S., from the outside looking in, appears to be a "closed angry giant."
October 15, 2020In a conversation with John Hollis, Mason's Charles Chavis, a historian of the early civil right movement, puts the current protests for racial justice in historical context.
July 27, 2020Did you know the torch relay began at the 1936 Berlin Games?
July 17, 2020Mason professor Laurie Robinson, who during the Obama administration was co-chair of the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing, explains a complicated legacy.
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June 3, 2020How does Monday and Friday as work-at-home days sound? Mason professors Matt Cronin and Kevin Rockmann talk with John Hollis about how the pandemic could change how we view the office.
June 3, 2020How does rhetoric play into debates about vaccination? Mason professor Heidi Lawrence tells John Hollis about her research into the role that professional communication from physicians, health officials, and researchers plays in shaping public debate and parental beliefs about vaccines.