I would love to report that undergraduate and graduate students in conflict resolution never resort to plagiarism, but unfortunately experience tells me otherwise.
Cheating at school work isn’t new, but plagiarism seems to be on the rise in academia, and here’s where I put the blame:
1. The internet has made plagiarism exponentially easier.
2. For [...]

I just received this announcement about the David-Putter Scholarship. Judging by past scholarships, it looks as if both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible, and there’s certainly a heavy overlap with the study interests, practice work, and peace & social justice values of many conflict resolution students.

The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students [...]

Nothing related to CR research in this entry, just a photo intermission (photography is a hobby of mine). This is University of Baltimore’s new Student Center.

IBM’s Visual Communication Lab has just opened up the alpha version of Many Eyes, a web-based resource with the goal of “democratizing visualization and enabling a new social kind of data analysis.”
Many Eyes allows you to quickly and easily upload datasets (including just cutting and pasting from Excel) and then to represent your data through [...]

This advertisement for a postdoc position just went out…
The Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict (link) at the University of Pennsylvania is accepting applications for an Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowship on power-sharing in deeply divided places. The Fellowship begins July 1, 2007 and ends June 30, 2008; it includes a [...]

Many thanks to Jim Melamed for adding CResearch to the list of Mediate.com’s featured blogs.

Research isn’t just about building knowledge, it’s also about sharing what we learn in an accessible and compelling way. Presentation matters. And on that note, here are 5 quick recommendations for authors and tools to check out when considering inspiration for how to graphically represent the information, concepts, and findings you want to [...]

This evening was the semester’s first meeting of my graduate Research Methods in Conflict Resolution course. I’ve been teaching conflict resolution graduate students about research methods for a while now—first at ICAR (George Mason) and now at CNCM (University of Baltimore)—and I’ve fallen into a regular schtick for the first class.
Step [...]