Paula Garb co-founded the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and for twenty years was its co- director. She remains on the Center’s board and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peac...
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Paula Garb co-founded the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and for twenty years was its co- director. She remains on the Center’s board and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peacemaking Practice at George Mason University. Since 1994, she has facilitated citizen dialogues and taught peaceful problem-solving skills in conflict zones in the South Caucasus and Middle East. Her work as a peace practitioner and researcher has led to several publications in books and journals, and to a commitment to promoting the mainstreaming of peace literacy K-16 worldwide. For 25 years she taught courses in mediation, conflict resolution, civic and community engagement at UC Irvine, and gang mediation and negotiation at UCI, and at California State University, Los Angeles. She directed several academic programs at UCI, including the Mediation Certificate Program, Minor in Conflict Resolution, and Minor in Civic and Community Engagement.
