“Armed conflict has declined in large part because armed conflict has fundamentally changed,” writes Joshua Goldstein in Foreign Policy this month.
“Today’s asymmetrical guerrilla wars may be intractable and nasty, but they will never produce anything like the siege of Leningrad.”
We hope.
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RU professors Alan Forrest and Ann Mary Roberts have had “a most amazing journey” teaching the Governor’s school students peace studies and conflict resolution. 
“These students have been enthusiastic and diligent at trying to understand all the complexities of our world that keep us from moving towards a more peaceful state, internally, locally, nationally and globally,” said Prof. Roberts.
The students co-constructed the course and the goal was to answer two things…
1. To what extent is peace possible?
2. What actions might you take to further the cause of peace?( how will you become a peaceful warrior?)
Students decided on their culminating project in which they have to answer the above questions.
One of their ideas was to take this photo, Roberts said.
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Revolutions in Communication by Prof. Kovarik is a critically acclaimed survey of media history with a third edition underway. It is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and directly from the publisher, Bloomsbury. The book is a social and technological history that explores four major epochs of the mass media through the technologies that characterized their development — printing, imaging, broadcasting and digital media. The historical narrative in Revolutions in Communication centers around technological change — a common thread that unites global media history. This approach also provides an alternative to nationalistic and professionally oriented narratives that have guided media history in the past. For more information, see The book's web site.
Mass Media & Environmental Conflict with Mark Neuzil, published by Sage in 1996, is an award-winning history about the process of social change embodied in the news coverage of issues like smoke abatement, millenary massacres, wilderness preservation and leaded gasoline. The book is an historical exploration of the long forgotten history of the conservation movement through mass media as well as a critical examination of the media’s role in fostering social change.
