Mara Schoeny is an assistant professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and the Director of the Institute’s Graduate Certificate Program. She teaches courses in research and evaluation methods, practice skills and the integration of inter-disciplinary approaches to conflict analysis and resolution. She was a 1998 USIA Visiting Fellow in the Curriculum Development Exchange Program, in residence at Yerevan State University, Armenia. As part of the grant she developed and taught simulation courses for undergraduate and master’s level sociology and social work students in family, organizational, political and community conflict. She is a former youth camp director with experience in traditional camp settings as well as dialogue and co-existence camps for youth from conflict areas.  Her research and practice interests include nonviolence, education and training and dialogue processes.

Graduate Courses

"Intensive Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution" (CONF 502)

"Advanced Skills in Conflict Analysis and Resolution" (CONF 650)

"Evaluation of Conflict Resolution Programs and Initiatives" (CONF 660)

"Applied Integration" (CONF 668)

"Third Party Roles, Resources and Ethics" (CONF 740)

"Philosophy and Methods of Conflict Research" (CONF 610)

Undergraduate Courses

“Integration” (CONF 490)

Selected Publications

“Reconnecting systems maintenance with social justice: a critical role for conflict resolution”, with Wallace Warfield, Negotiation Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, July 2000.

“Identifying Violence, Pledging Peace,” with Nancy Finneran. Peace Review. Vol. 9,
Number 2, June 1997.

"Conflict and Confrontation in Ovett Mississippi," in Conflict Analysis and Resolution: Challenges for the Times, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 1996.