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Peace and Conflict Resolution scholars: NEGOTIATE PEACE NOW  

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter SchoolApril 1, 2022

Peace and Conflict Resolution scholars and foreign affairs practitioners convened at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School’s Point of View research and retreat facility in Mason Neck, Virginia on March 22, 2022 issued the following appeal to the conflicting parties in Ukraine:

All parties to this conflict are now hurting.  The costs in human life and suffering are mounting and the damaging effects of the conflict are rippling around the world.  It is high time for the parties to agree to an immediate and complete cessation of hostilities.  Continuing the struggle inevitably multiplies the damage and poses increasing risks that nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction may be used.

Along with the U.N. Secretary General, we believe that conditions now exist for negotiating an agreement acceptable to all parties.  The parties should therefore set about negotiating a comprehensive peace agreement with no preconditions.

We call on the international community to support peace as it emerges, offering humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding support for the long-term process of recovery.

In addition, it is imperative that all OSCE Participating States commit to a throughgoing review of the existing security architecture.  This review should begin immediately with a view to updating the Helsinki Final Act and other security agreements at the OSCE’s forthcoming 50th Anniversary in Helsinki in 2025.

Signatories are listed below.  Others are invited to join the statement and to distribute it freely.  For further information, please contact University Prof. Richard E. Rubenstein at rrubenst@gmu.edu.

 

John M. Evans

Former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia

 

Jeffrey Sachs

University Professor at Columbia University

 

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91

 

Richard Falk

Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University

 

Alpasian Ozerdem

Dean, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Christopher R. Mitchell

Professor Emeritus, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Susan H. Allen

Director, Center for Peacemaking Practice, George Mason University

 

Richard E. Rubenstein

University Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Karina Korostelina

Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Sergey Utkin, Leading Researcher, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

 

Daniel Rothbart

Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Prabha Sankaranarayan

President and CEO, Mediators Beyond Borders International

 

Hugh DeSantis

Former career office, U.S. State Department, Author

 

Sara Cobb

Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Dr. Margarita Tadevosyan
Research Assistant Professor
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

 

Ivan Kislenko

Fulbright Scholar

 

Alex van Oss

(Former) Coordinator, Caucasus Area Studies

Foreign Service Institute

 

Michael Shank

Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

 

Dr. Lara Olson

Consultant, Peacebuilding and Conflict Sensitive Development

Research Fellow, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS), University of Calgary, Canada

 

David Carment

Professor of International Affairs

Fellow, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, University of Calgary

 

Cynthia Lazaroff

Founder and Director, Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy

 

Omar Grech

Director, Centre for the Study and Practice of Conflict Resolution, University of Malta

 

Rene Wadlow

President, Association of World Citizens

 

Kevin Avruch

Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution Emeritus

Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, George Mason University

 

Peggy Mason

Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the United Nations

Current President of the Rideau Institute

 

Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa

Editor, Transcend Media Service

 

Jake Lynch

Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies

The University of Sydney

 

Diane Perlman

U.S. Convenor, TRANSCEND

 

John Scales Avery, PhD

 

Michael Loadenthal

Executive Director, The Peace and Justice Association

 

Jeremy Wildeman

Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor at the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University; and in International Development Studies, Trent University

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