Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution

  Recent Alumni: Class of 2011

Consuelo Amat Matus 
BA in International Affairs, Philosophy, Minor in Economics, Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies

University of Colorado at Boulder 


Country of Origin: Venezuela

Academic interests include conflict analysis and resolution, nonviolence, and security issues in Latin America.

Claire Anderson
BA in Religion, Minors in Sociology and Anthropology

Denison University

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include gender in peace building and the Balkans.

Sarah Arkin
BA in International Relations and Spanish 
Tufts University 


Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include ethnic and religiously-driven conflict, perceived injustices and the role of media, civil society capacity building, and children affected by conflict.

 Kristina Aronson
BA in Political Science
Rollins College


Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include determining the causes of conflict and post conflict reconstruction and stabilization.

 Eli Bailey
BA in History
Colorado College 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Leah Barkoukis
BA in Government & Classical Studies 
College of William and Mary

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include transitional justice and genocide. 

Tyler Beckelman
BA in Political Science, International Studies
Macalester College

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include interests include East Africa and the Sahel.

Kathleen Beringer
BA in Political Science, Minor in Business 
Villanova University


Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include the Middle East conflict, Southeast Asia conflict, and origins of conflict.
 

Abby Bruell
BA in Security and Conflict, Minor in Hebrew
Emory University

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include post-conflict development, institution building, and military theory.

Sigma Chang
BA in International Studies
University of Washington - Seattle

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include humanitarian emergencies and refugees.

Rebecca Cunfer
St. Joseph’s University 


Country of Origin: USA

Vedrana Durakovic  
BA in International Studies
University of Washington - Seattle

Country of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Academic interests include transnational justice, security studies (and security in post-conflict societies), negotiations, human rights, South Africa, and the Balkans.

Vanessa Francis  
Psychology
University of Houston

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include the Middle East.

Walker Grooms  
BA in Philosophy, Minor in Latin American Studies 
Birmingham-Southern College 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include indigenous rights struggles in the wake of economic globalization, religion and conflict, and nonviolent conflict.

Ayca Guralp
 

BA in Anthropology, International Studies
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include the Middle East and how group identities lead to conflict. 

Anuj Gurung
BA in Communication, Minors in Political Science and History
Hiram College 

Country of Origin: Nepal

Academic interests include ethnicity-based conflict, refugee issues, and genocide. 

Sarah Jackson  
BA in International Studies and World Politics and Diplomacy, Minors in French and History 
University of Richmond

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include ethnic conflict, R2P, the Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa, and human rights. 

Sarah graduated from the University of Richmond in 2008 with a BA in International Studies. At Georgetown, she is pursuing the MA in Conflict Resolution as well as a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. Her academic interests include the role of women in peacebuilding , transitional justice, and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Washington DC, Sarah interned at the Enough Project and at the Advocacy Project and is currently working as a Research Assistant at the United States Institute of Peace. She has volunteered in Morocco and Rwanda and spent this past summer interning at the Refugee Consortium of Kenya in Nairobi.

 
Haja Kakay  
BS in Psychology and Sociology 
College of William and Mary

Countries of Origin: Liberia and Sierra Leone

Academic interests include humanitarian aid and assistance, peacekeeping and conflicts in Africa, and the rehabilitation of children involved in West African conflicts.

Vlatka Landay
BS School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University 

Country of Origin: Croatia

Academic interests include environmental conflict; peacebuilding; transitional justice; Balkan wars, and the region's post-war reconstruction and democratization.

Brittani Manzo  
BA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Journalism 
New York University

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include Israel and Palestine.

Ashley McArthur
BA in Religious Studies, Minor in Philsosophy 
University of Pennsylvania

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include conflict prevention, social psychology of conflict, religion and politics, and post-conflict reconstruction.

Adam Mellion
BA in Political Science, Minors in African Development and French
University of Rhode Island 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include rebel groups in Sub-Saharan Africa, refugees/internally displaced persons, and genocide/crimes against humanity.

Megan Neville  
Anthropology and Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

Seth Newton
BA in Anthropological Sciences with Public Service Honors
Stanford University 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include the roles of psychology, community/labor organizing, and social movement roles in conflict resolution.

 

Ruzan Sarwar  
BA in Political Science, Minors in English and International Studies 
Stony Brook University

Country of Origin: Bangladesh

Academic interests include South Asia, the Middle East, developing nations, and IDPs.

Marie Schell 
BS in Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include the origins of conflict, conflict transformation and alternative dispute resolution.

Aaron Seyedian  
BA in International Affairs
George Washington University

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include the Middle East and Central Asia.

William Smedley
Bachelor of Specialized Studies, Concentrations in Arabic Language and English Literature
Ohio University

Country of Origin: USA 

Academic interests include Arabic, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, psychological antecedents to conflict, victimization, and communalization of war trauma/PTSD.

Rhea Vance-Cheng
BA in Theatre, Minor in Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution 
Mary Baldwin College

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include theatre, art and music as tools in conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post conflict reconstruction, nonviolent peacemaking, and truth commissions and reconciliation.

Rhea Vance-Cheng graduated summa cum laude from Mary Baldwin College in 2009. She majored in Theatre, concentrating on playwriting, with a minor in Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution. During her time at Mary Baldwin she was Vice President of the Mary Baldwin Global Initiative, which promoted human trafficking awareness and prevention in Nepal. She also studied inter-cultural communication and the peacemaking process abroad in Cyprus in May of 2009. She is now a Research Assistant in the Georgetown President's Office Initiatives Team.

Aimee Wilson  
BA in International Relations, History, Philosophy, & Sociology of Science, B.S.
Michigan State University 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests environmental conflict.

Shannon Zimmerman
BA in Musical Theater 
University of Colorado at Boulder 

Country of Origin: USA

Academic interests include using the culture and the arts to foster conflict prevention or reconciliation.
 

Laila Zulkaphil
BA in Political Science and International Relations, Minor in European Studies 
American University in Bulgaria 

Country of Origin: Mongolia

Academic interests include human rights issues in the Muslim world, ethnic and religious conflicts, UN peace operations.