GRADUATE CERTIFICATES IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
Complete a Graduate Certificate in one year through programs of study tailored to mid-career professionals:
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Conflict Analysis and Resolution Collaborative Leadership in Community Planning
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Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Prevention, Reconstruction and Stabilization Contexts
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Certificate Descriptions
Graduate Education for Mid-Career Professionals
Each of these one-year 15-credit programs is specifically tailored to provide students with practical knowledge of Conflict Analysis and Resolution relevant to their focused areas of work. Designed for mid-career professionals studying in a cohort environment, the Graduate Certificates degrees integrate conflict analysis and resolution theory, research, and practical technique focused on areas of the respective certificate programs. These programs utilize intensive course sessions, lecture, seminar, and applied mentored learning in real and simulated situations to prepare students to utilize Conflict Analysis and Resolution approaches in their work in a variety of fields.
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Advanced Skills
Enhance your constructive engagement in interpersonal, organizational, business, and community contexts with expertise in New Practices: narrative mediation, narrative facilitation, conflict coaching, conflict conferencing, dialogue models. Learn Innovative Technologies: Positive Connotation, Appreciative Inquiry, Reframing, Externalization, Circular Questions, Stakeholder Mapping, and Social Network Analysis for Assessment and Evaluation. Apply your skills for effective leadership in the workplace and beyond.
Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Collaborative Leadership in Community Planning
Strengthen your ability to constructively engage differences in community contexts. Learn from successes bringing together diverse stakeholders to build meaningful and lasting shared agreements. Apply these insights to leadership in land use, development, or other community planning challenges, while strengthening skills in analyzing stakeholders, assessing interests, designing collaborative processes, and evaluating collaborative initiatives.
Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Prevention, Reconstruction, and Stabilization Contexts
Augment your development, defense, security, or humanitarian aid work experience with the theories and skills of conflict analysis and resolution for designing, implementing, and evaluating conflict-sensitive initiatives internationally in areas of potential violence and post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization contexts. Consider holistic cross-sectoral approaches to long-term violence prevention and constructive conflict resolution.
World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Build your capability to reduce global violence and terrorism by incorporating the best moral practices of religious communities into policy planning, diplomacy, civil society building and democratization. Learn strategies to elicit moderate moral religious expressions in conflict regions to strengthen civil society and democracy. As a diplomat or religious or other leader, create political, religious and social openings that allow international political compromises and vital peace processes to flourish.
In addition to meeting all admission requirements for graduate study, applicants must submit the following:
- Undergraduate transcript showing completion of an undergraduate degree or equivalent
- Two letters of recomendation
- C.V. or Resume indicating relevant work experience
- International Transcript Submission Guidelines
Students are strongly encouraged to participate fully in the cohort learning experience by enrolling in the Fall semester, taking two courses in Fall and two in the Spring, and completing their certificates with the final course in the Summer.
For deadline informaiton, please refer to our admissions page
15 credits are required for each Graduate Certificate.
Required Courses
Each degree consists of three courses (9 credits) required of all certificate programs. The semester in which the courses are generally offered is indicated in parentheses:
CONF 502 Intensive Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution (Fall)
CONF 660 Conflict Assessment and Program Evaluation (Spring)
CONF 668 Applied Integration for Graduate Certificates (Summer)
Each certificate requires one core course (3 credits), corresponding with the certificate title:
CONF 650 Conflict Analysis and Resolution Advanced Skills (Fall)
CONF 651 Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Collaborative Leadership
in Community Planning (Fall)
CONF 652 Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Prevention,
Reconstruction, and Stabilization Contexts (Fall)
CONF 653 World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (Fall)
Elective Courses
In addition, each student may choose one elective. Students may select their elective course from the following courses:
CONF 656 Integrating Complementary Approaches in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (Spring)
CONF 657 Facilitation Skills (Spring)
CONF 658 Diversity in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (Spring)
CONF 659 Leadership in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (Spring)
Or other course as approved by the Director of Certificates.
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CONF 502 Intensive Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution Introduces the field of conflict analysis and resolution and its broad range of approaches to analyzing and resolving conflict, including consideration of interpersonal, community, and large scale intergroup conflict.
CONF 650 Conflict Analysis and Resolution Advanced Skills
Considers traditional conflict resolution skills in advanced practice contexts, and covers innovative practices such as: narrative mediation, conflict coaching, and conflict conferencing, and innovative technologies such as: positive connotation, appreciative inquiry, circular questions, and stakeholder mapping.
CONF 651 Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Collaborative Leadership in Community Planning
Covers designing collaborative processes to work with diverse stakeholders to build meaningful and lasting shared agreements. Considers applications in land use, development, or other community planning contexts.
CONF 652 Conflict Analysis and Resolution for Prevention, Reconstruction, and Stabilization Contexts
Considers Conflict Analysis and Resolution approaches to designing, implementing, and evaluating holistic cross-sectoral conflict-sensitive initiatives in areas of potential violence and post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization contexts.
CONF 653 World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Analyzes the ways in which world religions play a role in conflict, war, diplomacy, peace making and conflict resolution.
CONF 656 Integrating Complementary Approaches in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Considers designs and methods for conflict analysis and resolution that integrate multiple approaches, multiple stakeholders, and multiple methods. Applies to social conflicts in local and international contexts.
CONF 657 Facilitation Skills
Covers range of skills in group facilitation processes, with emphasis on conflict analysis and resolution approaches to improve group communication. Includes skills building exercises.
CONF 658 Diversity in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Covers elements of cultural diversity, understanding and awareness; creative ways of approaching issues of diversity, identity, worldviews, and territory; considers individuals, organizations, communities and nations.
CONF 659 Leadership in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Covers roles and styles of leadership in interpersonal, organizational, community, group, and international
CONF 660 Conflict Assessment and Program Evaluation
The course examines the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of conflict resolution programs and initiatives and will teach the evaluation strategies relevant for work in conflict or post-conflict contexts.
E-mail: icarcert@gmu.edu
703.993.1300
Dr. Mara Schoeny, Director, ICAR Certificate Programs
Julie Shedd, Director, ICAR Graduate Admissions
Erin Ogilvie, Assistant Director, ICAR Graduate Admissions
Zoe Rose, ICAR Graduate Admissions Assistant
