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2002-2003 Addressing Sectarian, Ethnic and Cultural Conflict within and across National Borders
2002-2003 NCS Scholars Group Photo
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| Welcome |
Clearly, the global problem of ethnic
conflict challenging the current cohort
of NCS Fellows is, this year in particular,
in the very background of the world's
preoccupation. For in South and Southeast
Asia the war on terrorism has put
into greater play than before the
virulence of ethnic or ethno-religious
conflicts. And a war on Iraq will
most likely, whether foreseen or not,
generate destabilization in the wider
region with a high potential for new
ethnic and ethno-religious conflict.
And that can only in turn lead to
the urgent need for new perspectives
on the peace process in the wake of
greater violence.
To fill this critical need, the NCS
2003 team of fellows aspires to become
recognized as is an emergent expert
system linking two major research
fields: the comparative assessment
of factors making for protracted ethnic
violence and conflict, and conflict
resolution and peace studies.
One of our NCS Fellows has aptly
put the accent on the core problematic
which integrates the three focus groups
and the overall endeavor of the 2003
program: How do conflict processes
interconnect with peace processes?
Shedding light on this becomes
our ultimate goal and mission, an
extension of Senator Fulbright's original
vision for the Fulbright Program. |
| NCS Distinguished Leader |
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Edward
A.Tiryakian, an alumnus of the Fulbright
Program, is Professor of Sociology
at Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from
Harvard and held faculty positions
at Princeton and Harvard before joining
the Sociology Department at Duke in
1967, where he has served as departmental
chair and as Director of International
Studies. He has held visiting professorships
at Freie Universität Berlin,
at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques
in Paris; and at the Sorbonne (where
he is docteur honoris causa),
among others.
Professor Tiryakian has served as
president of both the American Society
for the Study of Religion and the
Association Internationale des Sociologues
de Langue Française and twice
elected chair of the Theory Section
of the American Sociology Association.
He holds memberships in numerous national
and international sociological associations
and has been active on several editorial
boards, most currently Nations
and Nationalism, International Sociology, and The Journal of the History
of Sociology.
His current research projects relate
to comparative aspects of national
identity in the global age, the bearing
of religious factors in American foreign
policy, and a reconsideration of macro
sociological theory.
Click
here [.PDF] to view Professor
Tiryakian's complete c.v. with list
of publications. |
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| NCS Scholars, Midterm Meeting, Mexico. |
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NCS Scholars Lori Leonard and Seggane Musisi during first Global Health Summer Course Meeting.
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