Peace Studies Program
Florida Atlantic University
Peace Studies Program
FAU PEACE STUDIES
PROGRAM
Undergraduate Certificate in Peace
Studies
The Undergraduate Certificate in Peace Studies is
designed to promote the study of peace-related
issues by students of all majors. An interdisciplinary
certificate program, Peace Studies draws its classes
from ten departments across three colleges.
Master of Arts Concentration in
Peace Studies
Students accepted into the Master of Liberal Studies
(MLS) program may elect to pursue a concentration
in Peace Studies. The program offers opportunities
for students to approach scholarship
from a
multiple academic perspectives in order to study
peace and conflict resolution.
Doctor of Philosophy Concentration
in Peace Studies
Students accepted into the Public Intellectuals
Program of the Ph.D. in Comparative Studies may
elect to pursue a concentration in Peace Studies. The
Public Intellectuals Program is an interdisciplinary
program for students interested in advanced study
and life as a public intellectual.
Model United Nations Program
Since 1997, Florida Atlantic University's Model
United Nations Program has participated yearly in a
national-level Model United Nations simulation.
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Mission Statement
The Peace Studies Program at Florida
Atlantic University is committed to the
extensive investigation and understanding of
the causes of peace from a multidisciplinary
perspective.
Program Description
Established in 1999 in the Dorothy F.
Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the
Peace Studies Program at Florida Atlantic
University
promotes
interdisciplinary
studies to understand the complex need for
peace and conflict resolution.
The program is designed to provide students
with a deeper understanding of the
complexity of peace and the resolution of
conflict
from
an
interdisciplinary
perspective. Students from different
disciplines can engage with a wide range of
issues of peace, cooperation, and justice.
The Peace Studies Program offers students a
number of opportunities to participate in its
activities at various levels of study.
2008 Lecture Series
Conflict, Peace and Societies in
Transition
January 16: Mark Kramer, Harvard
University
April 17: Cezar Ornatowski, San Diego
State University
May 2: Vladimir Tismaneanu, University
of Maryland, College Park
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2007/2008
Community Outreach Series
Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World
Feb. 27: Jane Goodall. Reasons for Hope
March 8: Jill Bornmann, Inner Peace,
Outer Peace
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
March 29: Workshop, Creating Peace and
Compassion
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Peace Studies Lecture Series: Conflict, Peace and Societies in
Transition
Mark Kramer, Ph.D
Jan. 16, 2008:
5-7 pm
Cezar M. Ornatowski, Ph.D
April 17, 2008: 4-6 pm
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Ph.D
May 2, 2008:
4-6 pm
Senate Chambers, University
Center
Majestic Palm Room, University
Center
Senate Chambers, University
Center
Dr. Mark Kramer is the Director of the
Harvard Cold War Studies Project at
Harvard University and a senior
fellow at Harvard's Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies. Dr.
Kramer is the editor of the Journal of
Cold War Studies.
Author of
numerous books such as Crisis in
Czechoslovakia, 1968: The Prague
Spring and the Soviet Invasion;
Soldier and State in Poland: CivilMilitary Relations and Institutional
Change After Communism; The
Collapse of the Soviet Union (2008);
and Income Distribution and Social
Transfer Policies in the PostCommunist Transition: Changing
Patterns of Inequality (2009), he is
currently working on a new book
entitled Soviet Policy in East-Central
Europe, 1945-1991.
Dr. Cezar Ornatowski is Professor of
Rhetoric at San Diego State
University. A native of Poland, Dr.
Ornatowski is author of Revisioning
Democracy: Central Europe and
America, Critical Perspectives with
Jerzy Kutnik. Publications featured in
Advances in the History of Rhetoric,
Technical Communication Quarterly,
Journal for the Study of Religion,
focus on rhetoric of national identity,
presidential and/or religious discourse.
Recent works are in edited volumes
like European Parliaments Under
Scrutiny: Argumentative Strategies
and Rhetorical Styles (2008), The
Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II (2009)
and Sizing Up Rhetoric (2008).
Dr. Vladimir Tismaneanu is the
Director of the Center for the Study of
Post-Communist
Societies
at
University of Maryland, College Park.
A native of Romania, Dr. Vladimir
Tismaneanu is Professor of Political
Science at University of Maryland,
College Park. Past editor of the
important journal East European
Politics and Societies, his work had
been published in several countries.
Some of his books include Reinventing
Politics (1992, 2000, 2005, 2007),
Fantasies
of
Salvation,
The
Revolutions of 1989 (1996), Stalinism
for All Seasons: A Political History of
Romanian Communism (2004) and
World Order After Leninism (2006).