Peace and conflict studies in northern Ohio: Northern Ohio Live article, May 2006

5/06

Former CACM student publishes article on community mediation based on his internship

3/06

What Works! Conflict Resolution Education Conference
September 28 - October 1, 2005, Columbus, OH

7/05

CACM director Patrick Coy's op-ed article entitled "How to Exit the Quagmire in Iraq" was recently published
in a variety of newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal.

6/05

Patrick Coy receives Hewlett Foundation grant for research on conflict resolution degree programs

Patrick Coy (Kent State University) and Timothy Hedeen (Kennesaw State University) were awarded a $15,000 grant in December, 2004 from the Hewlett Foundation's Knowledge Gaps program for their 18 month-long research project, "Assessing the State of Undergraduate Conflict Resolution Education."

1/05

Patrick Coy receives NSF grant for research on U.S. Peace Movement 1990-2005

CACM director Patrick Coy and two colleagues (Gregory Maney, Hofstra University and Lynne Woehrle, Mount Mary College) received a National Science Foundation grant in August, 2004 of $110,000 for a two-year long research project: "Harnessing and Challenging Hegemony During Three Wars: The U.S. Peace Movement, 1990-2004." The project is a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the discourse of fifteen U.S. peace movement organizations during the Gulf War, 9/11 and the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War. Link to abstract: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0423289

10/04

American Liberalism's Achilles Heel

CACM professor Patrick Coy published an op-ed in the Akron Beacon Journal and elsewhere entitled "American Liberalism's Achilles Heel," arguing that leading Democrats have failed to step up on behalf of the party to challenge Republican President George Bush.

6/04

The War Crimes of Nakedgate

CACM professor Patrick Coy recently published an op-ed in a number of papers arguing that the sexual torture at Abu Ghraib prison formally constitutes a war crime, with the chain of command sharing responsibility.

5/04

National Conference on Conflict Resolution in Education: 
May 5th - 8th, 2004 in Columbus, Ohio

4/04

Myth Making and Spitting Images from Vietnam

Professor Patrick Coy's analysis of the Vietnam War-era peace movement and its legacy for the Iraq War peace movement and the current presidential campaign was recently published in the Cleveland Free Times.

3/04

Dr. Shall Sinha as Mahatma Gandhi:
Tuesday, 9/30/03 at 7:30 p.m. in the KIVA

09/03

The Truth about Intelligence on Iraq: “Bring it On”

CACM associate professor Patrick Coy's recent op-ed article on Bush administration deceits regarding the Iraq War was recently published in a variety of newspapers.

8/03

CACM professor's new edited book, Consensus Decision Making, Northern Ireland and Indigenous Movements, now available.

2002

CACM 31003, Nonviolence: Theory and Practice, Fall 2002

As part of their course requirements, students in CACM's Nonviolence: Theory and Practice class are tackling such tough topics as religion, politics, homosexuality, police brutality and discrimination. You are invited to join a series of student-led discussion forums during the week of November 18-25.  List of forums and events

11/02

"President Bush's dangerous ultimatum to the United Nations"

This opinion article of Dr. Patrick Coy's on the current crisis with Iraq and the future of the United Nations recently appeared in a variety of newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal.

9/02

"Introduction to Conflict Management"course becomes an LER,
effective Fall 2002!    Daily Kent Stater 1/24/02 article

1/02

CACM professor's new co-edited book,
Social Conflicts and Collective Identities, now available

Social Conflicts and Collective Identities; Patrick G. Coy and Lynne M. Woehrle, editors

Despite the ubiquity of conflict, significant gaps remain in our knowledge of what influences its escalation and resolution. How collective identity formation impacts social conflicts is one large gap that is now narrowed thanks to this well-integrated collection of original research.

These compelling and fascinating case studies range from church and community disputes to ethnic conflicts to environmental disputes to international trade disputes and wars. Utilizing diverse research methods, the conflict resolution scholars included here embark on a shared analytical search for the functions that collective identities play in social conflicts. Important themes include the dynamics of enemy-imaging, the constructs of race and gender, in-groups and out-groups, and the double-edged potential of collective identity formation to both escalate and de-escalate conflicts. Throughout, social conflicts are presented as potent forces for cultural and political change.

Methods for resolving intractable identity-based conflicts are illuminated, including challenging assumptions about the 'Other', creating inclusive identities, and using various negotiation and mediation venues as catalysts for constructive identity shifts.

Given the protracted and costly conflicts facing communities across the globe, a more timely collection could scarcely be imagined. With its ground-breaking scholarship, Social Conflicts and Collective Identities is sure to become a basic building block for the burgeoning conflict resolution field and for improved understanding of identity dynamics in human conflict.

"The simultaneously scholarly and engaged essays in this fine collection make an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the topic, providing important ideas for handling the growing class of identity-based conflict within and between countries and communities throughout the world."
---Jay Rothman, Director of the ARIA Group, Inc. and author of Resolving Identity Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations and Communities

"This book offfers fresh theoretical insights and empirically grounded case studies on the complex interplay between identity, conflict and conflict resolution. Highly original, well-researched and timely, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers, researchers and practitioners."
---Simona Sharoni, The Evergreen State College and the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED)

Link to the publisher's web site, which contains the Table of Contents, more reviews, and ordering information

10/24/00

CACM faculty member's published research on community mediation
now available on-line

Professor Patrick Coy recently co-authored (with Timothy Hedeen) two articles on community mediation, both of which were originally published in Mediation Quarterly. Those two articles, " Community Mediation and the Court System: The Ties that Bind," Mediation Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2000, and " Disabilities and Mediation Readiness in Court-Referred Cases: Developing Screening Criteria and Service Networks," Mediation Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1998, have now been uploaded on to The Mediation Information and Resource Center (MIRC) web site, www.mediate.com.

9/22/00

CACM professor wins "Distinguished Teaching Award!"

The Center for Applied Conflict Management is pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Coy, a professor at the Center, was awarded the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Council "Distinguished Teaching Award" for academic year 1999-2000.

Nominations for this award are made by students in the College of Arts and Sciences, and students on the College's student advisory council select the awardees. There were 57 nominees this year, and three awardees.

A story in the Daily Kent Stater quoted a student involved in the deliberations regarding her/his (student participation is anonymous) support for Dr. Coy:

"Patrick Coy is what all teachers should be. but unfortunately, he is what most never will be. He inspires students to strive to make the world a better place."

"The two characteristics that prompted me to vote for Dr. Coy are his concerns for student success and well-being and his dedication and sincere drive to be the absolute best educator he can be. Through his daily expression of these two characteristics, his students know that he truly wants us to be successful. Students in Dr. Coy's classes don't just learn facts, we become educated individuals--better individuals than we were before taking his classes."

4/19/00