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Center for Applied Conflict Management
The Center for Applied Conflict Management (CACM) was founded in 1971 as Kent State University's original "living memorial" to the students killed on May 4, 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen killed four and injured nine Kent State University students during a student protest against the United States' war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Following the shootings, a university-wide commission was charged with recommending long-range institutional responses. The commission's consensus recommendation was that KSU should establish a living memorial in the form of a Center to study and to promote peaceful mechanisms of change. Thus the Center for Peaceful Change was established in 1971, later renamed the Center for Applied Conflict Management.
The Center's undergraduate degree program in peace and conflict studies was established two years later, in 1973, making it one of the oldest in the country. Today it is also likely the country's largest, regularly enrolling more than 1,000 students in its courses each academic year. Thanks to the Center for Applied Conflict Management, Kent State students learn and practice applied skills in negotiation, mediation, community collaboration, workplace conflict management, dispute systems design, and nonviolent action.
Famous not only for the violent conflict of May 4th, Kent State is now also well-known for its academic study of conflict management. Many students come to Kent State University to study conflict and its creative management with the faculty of the Center for Applied Conflict Management. There are options at all levels. Besides our undergraduate major, minor and certificate in Applied Conflict Management, we also offer graduate students many options. Doctoral students come to Kent State to study closely with Center faculty members who also teach in the Public Policy doctoral degree, and many master’s-level students study with Center faculty through Kent State’s creative Master’s in Liberal Studies program, where students can fashion a conflict management degree program to fit their particular interests.
Points of Pride
- CACM Director Promoted to Rank of Full Professor Dr. Patrick G. Coy, Director at the Center for Applied Conflict Management (CACM), has recently been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Kent State University, effective fall 2011.
- Posted Feb. 3, 2012 - Landon Hancock Co-edits New Book, Local Peacebuilding and National Peace The new book co-edited by Dr. Landon Hancock, Local Peacebuilding and National Peace, picks up where his 1997 volume, Zones of Peace, left off.
- Posted Feb. 3, 2012 - Patrick Coy's Article Wins "Best Published Article" Award CACM Director Patrick G. Coy's co-authored article won the "Best Published Article" award from the American Sociological Association.
- Posted Oct. 6, 2009 - Patrick Coy Co-authors New Book, Contesting Patriotism Patrick Coy's co-authored book, Contestiing Patriotism: Culture, Power and Strategy in the Peace Movement, analyzes activism during war when space for political debate shrinks. Narrow ideas of patriotism and security marginalize opposition to militarism abroad and repression at home. This book shows how these ideas were resisted across five U.S. wars.
- Posted Apr. 2, 2009 - CACM Alum Anne Ambrose Helps Good Guys For Anne Ambrose, running the city of Palmdale's public safety office is less about fighting the bad guys and more about helping the good guys.
- Posted Nov. 28, 2008