PROFESSOR BOUND FOR CAPITAL : PLANS PEACE STUDIES IN D.C., MIDDLE EAST.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. political science Professor Donald Ranish will go to Washington this summer as a fellow in the State Department's Institute of Peace. Ranish, a Fulbright scholar, and about 20 other professors from throughout the nation will spend two weeks attending briefings and meeting with senior diplomatic officials. ``I'm very excited,'' Ranish said. ``I will get an overview and will create an analytical framework to understand how to resolve international conflict in a peaceful manner.'' The Institute of Peace was created in 1984 and is intended to be an independent and nonpartisan federal institution. Its purpose is to help the president, Congress and other policy-makers resolve international conflicts. Among the goals of the institute is to strengthen curricula and instruction from high school through graduate education about the changing character of international conflict and nonviolent approaches to managing international disputes. After the Washington visit, Ranish will travel to the Middle East under the auspices of the International Political Science Association. There, he will meet with academics and government officials from North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Africa and the South Pacific. Ranish expects to stay through July. He will preside over a panel of international legal experts discussing judicial systems in a changing world. Ranish teaches classes in American government, judicial process, criminology, comparative government and international relations international relations, study of the relations among states and other political and economic units in the international system. Particular areas of study within the field of international relations include diplomacy and diplomatic history, international law, . He also has published dozens of professional papers and articles on political behavior, judicial systems, crime, public policy and international affairs Noun 1. international affairs - affairs between nations; "you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television" world affairs affairs - transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state" . In 1987, he was a Fulbright scholar to Korea, where he taught postgraduate students in Seoul. More recently, Ranish was in eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. to assess the democratization de·moc·ra·tize tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es To make democratic. de·moc of former Soviet bloc countries. |
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