Peace and Conflict Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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John “Sam” Keltner Inspiration Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Laura Irwin, Radical Peacemaker Interruptions: Restorative Justice Facilitator Perceptions of Power and Regarding the Relationship between RJ and the Carceral State |
| 2020 | Ellie Hudd |
| 2018 | Norma Musih |
| 2015 | Lindsay Harroff |
| 2014 | Fatima Barakji |
| 2013 | Thomas McCluskey |
| 2012 | Jennifer Hawkins and Deborah DeCloedt Pincon |
| 2011 | Rachel Stohr |
| 2008 | Gregory Paul |
| 2007 | Gregory Paul |
| 2006 | Jane Stuart Baker |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Doris Wesley, Spoilers in a Democratic Peace Process: A Critical Assessment of the 2023 Nigeria Presidential Election |
| 2023 | Kristen Cole & Spencer Choate, "Turning our Attention To Guns: Sociomaterial Actors in Political Moral Conflict" |
| 2020 | Tamara Dejanovic-Vukasovich and Christian Vukasovich, “At the Crossroads of Media and Fear: Using Nightmares to Sell War and Conflict” |
| 2019 | Louisa Ha, Yang Yang, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, Peiqui Chen, and Ke Guo, "How US and Chinese Media Cover the US-China Trade Conflict: A Case Study of War and Journalism Practice and the Foreign Policy Equilibrium Hypothesis" |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Hampton Hurst and John Haas, "Understanding social identity through children's drawing: How Syrian refugee orphans in Jordan draw their social groups" |
| 2016 | Gregory Paul and William Schenck-Hamlin, "Beliefs about Victim-Offender Conferences: Factors Influencing Victim-Offender Engagement" |
| 2015 | Deepa Anagondahalli and Lin Zhu, “Culture for the Student-Teacher Relationship” |
| 2014 | Madeline Maxwell, “Acrimony in Conflict Mediation” |
| 2013 | Sabine Chai, Edward L. Fink, and Deborah Cai, “Power Tactics in Negotiation: A Test and Application of Power Distance Reduction Theory” |
| 2012 | Erin Ortiz, “Discursive Linkages and Disjunctures between Human Rights and Labor Rights: A Case of the Unionization of Parish Workers with the U.S. Roman Catholic Church” |
| 2011 | Kathleen Krone and Sarah Steimel, “Cooperative Struggle: Re-Framing Intercultural Conflict in the Management of Sino-American Joint Ventures” |
| 2010 | Melissa Maier, Mike Allen, & Nancy Burrell, “International Conflict and Intervention: Application of the SAT Model” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
1st Runner-Up: Ruoyu Ni, Doubtful and Hesitant: A Corpus Analysis Based on European Media Reports on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict 2nd Runner-Up: Rezaul Karim, Legal and Diplomatic Responses to Ship Hijackings by Sea Pirates: A Critical Analysis |
| 2023 | Robert Tabackman, "Imagining Pluriversality in the Archives of War: Attending to The Zapatista's Understanding of Capitalism and State Violence in the Russian-Ukrainian War" |
| 2020 | Ellie Hudd, “Reassessing Radicalization: A Case for Applying the Reinforcing Spirals Model to Online Ideological Drift” |
| 2019 | Mark Kazemzadeh, "Exploring constructive resilience: A qualitative investigation of the Bahá'i response to oppression" |
| 2018 | Norma Musih, "Miska is here!" Touring a Destroyed Palestinian Village in Isreal, Articulating a Silenced Memory, Performing a Civil Community" |
| 2016 | Michael Bergmaier, "From Pakistan to Sandy Hook: The (Im)Possibility of Equality in an Age of Constructed Targets" |
| 2015 | Lindsay Harroff, “Witnessing South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: New Opportunities for Studying and Forming Community after Conflict” |
| 2014 | Fatima Barakji, “News Coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabyia, and BBC Arabic’s Websites: A Comparative Content Analysis Study” |
| 2013 | Thomas McCluskey, “From Terrorism to Pragmatism: A Burkean Analysis of Hamas’ 2005 Electoral Victory” |
| 2012 | Jennifer Hawkins and Deborah DeCloedt Pincon, “New Directions for an Old Problem: Understanding the Nature and Impact of Bullying through Discourse Analysis” |
| 2011 | Rachel Stohr, “Organizing Dialogical Citizenship: A Pluralistic Alternative to Exclusionary Liberalism" |
| 2008 | Gregory Paul, “Forgiveness as Cultural Phenomenon: A Case Study of Amish and English Forgiveness" |
| 2007 | Gregory Paul, “Framing Accounts: Understanding the Account Episode as Negotiated Interpretation” |
| 2006 | Jane Stuart Baker, “Dialectics of Facework in Negotiations: Off-Record Meanings and Construction of Identities" |
Outstanding Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Michael Major, “Allied Mediterranean Strategy in World War II: A Good Strategy with Poor Execution Due to Communication Failures” |
| 2020 | Meredith Pruden, “Black Pills and the Beta Uprising: Men’s Rights Discourses in The Daily Stormer” |
| 2020 | Lindsay Harroff, “Justice at a Crossroad: A Proposal for Truth and Reconciliation in the United States” |
| 2020 | elizaBeth Simpson, “Reviewing Restorative Circles: Principles for Practice and Theory” |
Outstanding Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Maria Subert, “A Roma Heritage Pilgrimage: Peace-Building and Redefinition of Identity in a Hungarian Roma Village” |
| 2020 | Ian Borton and Greg Paul, “The Crossroads of Retribution and Restoration: A Story of Justice” |
| 2020 | Nathalie Desrayaud, Gabriela R. Martin, and Fernando Olano-Vazquez, “Conflict Management, Ambivalent Sexism, and Latin Gender Roles” |