Shedd & Jafari receive funding for Burma Leadership Activity

Juliette Shedd, Associate Dean, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Sheherazade R. Jafari, Director, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, received funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development for: “Burma Leadership Activity.”

The Burma Leadership Activity is a scholarship program for promising young individuals in Burma to improve technical competencies and leadership. The scholarship program also prepares participants to promote respect for ethnic and religious diversity.

Shedd and Jafari are developing a graduate-level conflict resolution training course that will supplement master’s degree curricula of approximately 100 Burma Leadership Activity scholars. The participants will be spread across two to three cohorts over a five-year period.

The researchers received $40,934 in funding for the first year of the project. Total funding for the work will be $330,000. Funding began in January 2020 and will conclude in July 2024.

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