Peace and Conflict Studies Center Asia (PACSC Asia) Director, and Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program Coordinator (아시아 평화 분쟁 연구센터 센터장/평화와 분쟁 해결 학부 주임교수)
Dr. Roland B. Wilson is the Program Coordinator, Professor and faculty advisor for the School for Analysis of Conflict and Resolution at George Mason University’s new campus in South Korea. He is also the Peace and Conflict Studies Center Asia (PACSC Asia) Director, an international mediator and consultant. Dr. Wilson received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in linguistics, Korean, and teaching English as a second language from Indiana State University. He received his doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Dr. Wilson possesses more than 30 years of combined military, government and academic experience and has written about a myriad of complex subjects, including Asia Pacific relations, foreign policy, diplomacy, and security and conflict issues. He has also lived in East Asia for more than 25 years and speaks Korean at a professional-level.
로랜드 윌슨 박사는 한국조지메이슨대학교 분쟁분석 및 해결 학부 교수로 현재 학과 코디네이터와 교직원 고문을 맡고 있다. 또한, 아시아 평화와 분쟁 연구 센터장, 국제 조정자, 컨설턴트로서의 역할도 겸하고 있다. 윌슨 박사는 인디애나 주립대학에서 언어학, 한국어학, 제2외국어로서의 영어교육 전공으로 학사 및 석사 학위를 받았으며, 이후 조지메이슨대학교에서 분쟁분석 및 해결학 전공으로 박사 학위를 받았다.
윌슨 박사는 국가 기관, 군부대, 학계의 관련 분야에서 30년 이상의 실무 경험이 있으며, 아시아 태평양 지역 국가들 간의 관계, 외교 정책, 외교, 안보 및 분쟁에 대한 연구를 진행해 오고 있다. 또한, 지금까지 동아시아에서 25년 이상 거주하여 능숙한 한국어를 구사할 수 있다.
윌슨 박사는 현재 전 세계의 외교 정책뿐 아니라 외교와 분쟁을 해결하기 위한 다양한 노력들에 관심을 가지고 있다. 또한 관련된 교육과정 개발, 전문가 워크샵 그리고 다양한 훈련 과정을 개발함으로써 정부의 역량과 지역 사회의 기능을 증진시키는 데 일조하여 역사적으로 뿌리 깊은 분쟁이나 문화 다양성으로 인한 갈등 등을 해결할 수 있도록 노력하고 있다.
Dr. Wilson’s current interests include working to improve foreign policy, diplomacy, and conflict resolution efforts around the world. He is also working to enhance local community and governmental capacity to peacefully mediate, transform, and resolve culturally diverse and historically deep-rooted conflicts by developing courses and providing professional workshops and training.
Key Theories, Terms and Concepts in Dispute and Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, Roland B. Wilson Editor, May 2019 (English and Thai)
A Need to Expand the Understanding and Use of this Diverse Peacemaking Tool, Roland B. Wilson, Journal der ARGE Bildungsmanagement, Universitätsinstitut für Beratungs- und Managementwissenschaften an der Fakultät Psychologie der Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität, June 2018
The Importance of Position and Power Symmetry in International Relations: The Case of U.S. Foreign policy towards North Korea, Roland B. Wilson and Soyoung Kwon, North Korean Review, Spring 2018
The Growing Danger of Historical Distortionism in East Asia: China’s Northeast Asia Project, Roland B. Wilson and Youngmi Choi, Journal of Democracy and Human Rights, Vol 17, No 3, Fall 2017
Business Conflict Resolution Grant, Oct 2019
North-South Integration Issues Grant, Jun 2019
Conflict Resolution, Development and Pre/Post-Unification issues Grant, Jun 2018
Scholarship and Training Grant, Incheon Global Campus Startup Hub, Nov 2017
CONF 499: Independent Study
CONF 385/390/399/695; GLOA 480; INTS 399; INTS 595; and HIST 387: Field Experience/Study Abroad Course, The Balkans Case: Reconciliation and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Mass Violence
CONF 399: Historical Revisionism
CONF 370: Internship for Credit
CONF 340: Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution
CONF 210: Theories of Conflict Analysis and Resolution
CONF 101: Conflicts and our World
Bachelor in Linguistics, Indiana State University, 2002
Master in linguistics, Korean, and teaching English as a second language, Indiana State University, 2005
Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2015