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Dec 2, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Alumni from around the globe descended on Grey Towers Castle on Oct. 12 to celebrate 20 years of a unique Arcadia program that’s centered on changing the world: the International Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) Master of Arts program. For two decades, the IPCR program has provided Arcadia...
May 21, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
On May 16 and 17, the 892 members of the Class of 2019 crossed the stage on Haber Green and began their journeys as alumni of Arcadia University at the 163rd annual Graduate and Undergraduate Commencement Ceremonies. In total, 118 doctorate, 325 master’s, and 449 bachelor’s degrees were awarded to...
Feb 8, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Arcadia faculty are taking over the podcast The Academic Minute from Feb. 11 to 15. Each day of the week, a different faculty member will discuss their current research projects. Featured faculty include Dr. Bruce Campbell, associate professor of Education, Dr. Kalenda Eaton, associate professor...
May 9, 2018 • Jen Retter
Dr. Said bin Nasser Al Salmi, director general of the Office of His Majesty the Sultan's Advisor for Cultural Affairs in Oman, met with President Ajay Nair on April 27 to discuss expanding Arcadia’s programs in Oman. An archaeologist by training, Dr. bin Nasser Al Salmi expressed interest in...
May 8, 2018 • Jen Retter
On April 26, Dr. Kipyego Cheluget, ambassador from Kenya and assistant secretary general for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), visited President Ajay Nair at Arcadia to explore a joint project between Arcadia, COMESA, and the American Graduate School (AGS) in Paris....
Nov 22, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Through performances and presentations, Arcadia University students, faculty, and friends highlighted cultures from around the world at the annual Celebrating Cultures fair on Nov. 16, as part of Arcadia’s International Education Week. Throughout the night, students entertained and informed the...
Nov 15, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
For the seventh consecutive year, Arcadia University is ranked first in the U.S. in study abroad participation, according to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors report that was released yesterday. Arcadia earned the recognition based on the percentage of undergraduate students...
Jun 27, 2016 • Christopher Sarachilli
Left to Right: Megan Pritchard, Gabriele Paone, Ahmed Samy Lotf, Sakshi Mishra, Emily Davison, Simisola Osekunowo, Aurora Eck Nilsen, Tigidankay Sannoh, Fazola Nasretdinova, Erin Robbins, Elisa Gabrieli. On June 4 in Paris, France, seven students graduated from the Master of Arts in...
Mar 4, 2015 • jretter Retter
Dr. Warren Haffar, dean of international affairs, presented “Internationalization, Faculty Development, and Project-based Learning” at the New American Colleges and Universities Conference hosted by University of Redlands in June 2014. Haffer also gave presentations on “Conflict Resolution...
Feb 12, 2015 • Purnell Cropper
On Feb. 6, Arcadia University President Nicolette DeVille Christensen and President Geun-young Lee of Korea’s Daejin University signed an appendix agreement to a Memorandum of Understanding in Grey Towers Castle. The appendix will allow groups of Daejin University students to come to Arcadia for a...
Warren Haffar is Director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution MA Program. He received his Ph.D. and MA in Conflict Analysis and Peace Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, and his BS in Political Science from the University of Utah in 1990. In his 15 years at Arcadia he’s developed expertise in international development and conflict resolution, teaching graduate and undergraduate field study courses in East and West Africa, Latin America, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and South Korea. He came to Arcadia in 2000 from the Project on Ethnic Relations in Princeton, an NGO that conducts programs of high-level intervention and serves as a neutral mediator to prevent ethnic conflict in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. He is a certified mediator and has practitioner experience developing consensus based sustainable development strategies for the state of Pennsylvania.
He has been active administratively while at Arcadia, being elected to faculty council and the University’s promotion and tenure committee. He co-led a task force that redesigned the university general education requirements, passed by faculty with a 90% vote. He received a grant from the President’s office to launch the Center for Peace Research in Tanzania. As Director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program for 13 years, he created dual degree programs with International Public Health, Trauma Counseling Program and Graduate School of Education.
From 2013-2018 he served as the founding Dean of International Affairs, has leading Arcadia’s international efforts in the area of international field courses and international partnerships. He launched the English Language Institute at Arcadia, and established research and exchange programs with universities in South Korea, and the University of Havana in Cuba, among others. He established Arcadia’s partnership with the American Graduate School for International Relations and Diplomacy in Paris, and the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. In West Africa he established a joint research and field project for students with Heifer International in Sierra Leone and Ghana. At Arcadia, he created the Peace Corps prep program, a program that connects the experiential leaning opportunities to a certificate for US Peace Corps service.
Peace and conflict resolution, participatory urban planning, sustainable development
Hometown
New Paltz, New York
Home Country
United States
His academic interests are at the intersection of conflict resolution and international development, with special focus on the relationship between regional planning, sustainable development and participatory conflict resolution practices. In Costa Rica, he directed field work on the indigenous Brunca people and a conflict in land use, culminating in the book “Conflict Resolution of the Buruca Hydro-Electric Project.” Working in Arusha, Tanzania, he established, in partnership with the East African Community (EAC), the Julius Nyerere Center for Peace Research which focused on capacity building and regional development among the member states. Current research and teaching focuses on the divided island.
In addition to Global Field Study courses, Dr. Haffar teaches courses in Economics, Development and the Environment, conflict analysis, and first year preview courses. His research utilizes content analysis to examine the formation of conflicts and pathways to resolve them in community and organizational conflicts. He developed the emergent peacemaker data set that tracks international peacemaking initiatives for the 1990 Gulf War, the war in Kosovo and the recent peace efforts in Iraq.