Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Security, Conflict Resolution and Mediation
Dr. Roland B. Wilson is an assistant professor, faculty advisor, and program coordinator for the Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program at George Mason University Korea. He is also the Co-Director for the Peace and Conflict Studies Center Asia (PACSC Asia) and is an international mediator and consultant. Dr. Wilson possesses more than 30 years of combined military, government and academic experience and wrote about a myriad complex subjects, including Asia Pacific relations, foreign policy, diplomacy, and security and conflict issues. He has also lived in East Asia for more than 20 years and speaks Korean at a professional-level.
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 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