Dialogue on Hatred: A Peacebuilder's PerspectiveTatsushi Arai, Ph.D.February 22, 20244:00pmVirtualRegister NowJoin us February 22nd at 4pm for the next program in the Dialogue and Difference program series, a joint project of he Division of People, Culture and Belonging and the School of Peace and Conflict Studies.Campus life in the United States is a microcosm of identity-based differences, capable of providing a promising ground for dialogue and mutual learning. However, these differences can also become a basis for identity-based discrimination, stereotyping, and hatred when members of the ...

Molly Merryman, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, received a double dose of prestige recently when she was invited to speak at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in England in the same week.Neil Cooper, director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, and a U.K. native, said being invited to speak at both prestigious British universities is a great honor.“To be invited to speak at one of them is quite an honor, but to speak at two in the space of a week or two is quite remarkable,” Cooper said.Merryman sa...