News & Events
Feb. 6, 2015
Karen Cunningham, associate professor with the Center for Applied Conflict Management (now the School of Peace and Conflict Studies) at 5XÉçÇø, was recently asked by YES! Magazine to write an article for their online issue on a creative assignment she gave to…
Feb. 5, 2015
Political Science doctoral student Amanda Clark and CACM Director Dr. Patrick Coy have a chapter in a new Nonviolence textbook! Their book chapter has just been published in Understanding Nonviolence: Contours and Contexts, edited by Maia Carter Hallward and Julie Norman, Polity…
Feb. 5, 2015
The new Kent State Student Mediation Services (SMS), with program manager Jacquelyn Bleak, celebrated its grand opening on January 27. CACM student Tori Swarm was the first place winner of the art contest sponsored by SMS as part of the celebration. …
Dec. 18, 2014
Students in Karen Cunningham's Introduction to Conflict Management classes and Nonviolence: Theory and Practice class wrote essays this Fall semester for consideration in the YES! Magazine Fall 2014 Essay contest.
A portion of Ray Stovall’s essay (written for Nonviolence:…
Dec. 1, 2014
A new on-campus mediation service is underway at 5XÉçÇø for students experiencing conflict. Student Mediation Services, which began this fall, is led by Jacquelyn Bleak and is located at 118 Twin Towers on the Kent Campus.
Nov. 26, 2014
Dr. Patrick Coy, Director of Kent State's Center for Applied Conflict Management, was interviewed by WAKR about what positive, constructive conflict management steps can now be taken in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury failed to return an indictment in the Michael Brown…
Sept. 4, 2014
Dr. Aysegul Keskin Zeren has recently accepted a position as a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Transformation in the at the University of Notre Dame.
Aug. 14, 2014
Dr. Patrick Coy was interviewed by the Akron Beacon Journal about conflicts between police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, after unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by police. …
April 20, 2014
Karen Cunningham, a CACM assistant professor from 1990 - 1994 and 2001 to present, was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor effective with the 2013-14 academic year.
March 3, 2014
Kent State is too often known for the violent conflict that occurred on campus on May 4, 1970.Yet it is becoming increasingly well-known for its many creative and constructive responses to that conflict.