Georgetown’s M.A. in Conflict Resolution prepares students to resolve conflict in a turbulent world. Our world-class program includes a theoretically rigorous core curriculum, skills taught by top practitioners with a focus on negotiation, mediation and facilitation, and practice through an experiential learning series. Our curriculum explores the nature of conflict and how peace is made, built, and sustained. Building on Georgetown’s commitment to social justice, the program supports our students’ focus at local, national, and global levels.
Georgetown’s Conflict Resolution program condemns state violence against citizens, structural violence, systemic oppression and white supremacy. We support the demands of citizens and our students for individual and systemic accountability for violations of human rights. In the United States, the commission and tolerance of state violence against Black communities and other marginalized and vulnerable communities are failures of democracy and governance. The program champions peacebuilding and conflict transformation. We will continue to center justice, liberation and dialogue as routes to and characteristics of positive peace.
Conflict Resolution Program Statement of Solidarity,
June 2020
Founder of the Conflict Resolution program, Professor Lise Howard, co-published Foreign Policy op-ed about UN peacekeeping in Afghanistan
September 21st, 2021
How Not to Lose the Peace in AfghanistanA U.N. peacekeeping mission could help avert civil war.By Charli Carpenter and Lise HowardSeptember 21,…
Professor Desha Girod published Foreign Policy op-ed about responses to Taliban victory in Afghanistan
August 31st, 2021
Can the West Make the Taliban Moderate? The United States has leverage over the new Afghan government. Here’s how to use it. By Desha Girod Foreign Policy August 31,…
Founder of Conflict Resolution program, Professor Lise Howard, published Los Angeles Times op-ed about UN peacekeeping in Afghanistan
August 29th, 2021
Op-Ed: A U.N. peacekeeping mission could make all the difference in Afghanistan. Here’s why By Lise HowardLos Angeles Times August 29,…
Professor Laia Balcells co-published Agenda Publica analysis about Spanish king
July 27th, 2021
El Rey, ¿institución neutral o de parte? By Francesc Amat and Laia Balcells July 27,…
Professor Laia Balcells co-published el Diario op-ed about referendums in Spain
June 28th, 2021
Referéndums: un experimento y una propuesta de votos secuenciales By Laia Balcells and Francesc Amat June 28,…
SJ Fernandez (G ’20), Yanxi Liu (G’ 20) and Kristina Zanzinger (G ’20) for the North American Center for Latin America: “Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue”
March 5th, 2021
In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed longstanding challenges in combatting gender…
