Contributors

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Dr. Mark George Bound


Dr. Mark George Bound is the Founding Director of The Institute of Conflict Science and the Research Director of Social/Political Conflict Anthropology. 


He he is an accomplished author and educator teaching courses in interdisciplinary studies, constitutional law, social justice, and social political theory.  


He is currently the Editor in Chief of The Journal of Interdisciplinary Conflict Science http://nsuworks.nova.edu/jics ISSN 2377-6382.

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Originally from the Upstate of New York he now resides in the upstate of  South Carolina.  When not playing golf or brewing beer he is engaged in numerous publication and research projects

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https://mb1761.wixsite.com/drmgbound
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Dr. Brooklynn Ann Welden

Dr. Brooklynn Ann Welden currently teaches Workplace Conflict Management at Southern New Hampshire University. She also teaches English as a Second Language for Bear Says, and as a private tutor. 


Doctor of Philosophy, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova Southeastern University


Master of Arts, cum laude, Diplomacy, Norwich University


Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, Empire State College, State University of New York


Alternative Dispute Resolution Certification, York University

TESL Canada Certification, Hansa School

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Dr. Priscilla Hobbs

Dr. Priscilla Hobbs is an accomplished author and educator. She is the author of Walt’s Utopia: Disneyland and American Mythmaking and Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics, and the editor of the collection Interpreting and Experiencing Disney: Mediating the Mouse. Dr. Hobbs actively researches Disney, American popular culture, and utopianism.

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Dr. Scott Gerschwer

Guests

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Guest

Ashok Panikkar

Mediator, teacher & consultant with over 30 years of experience in cross-cultural diversity & conflict management. Ashok holds a B.A in Visual Communication & M.A in Critical and Creative Thinking, University of Massachusetts. 

Founder of MetaCulture in Bangalore, India, facilitating complex inter-faith & business-civil society dialogues & consensus building. After coming back to the USA, I founded the Village Idiot Studio (www.villageidiot.studio) helping people think through complex cultural and political issues of the 21st Century. 

I teach the DemoSapiens (Wise Citizen) online courses on democracy, pluralism and critical thinking, create videos and write a weekly column on Substack: What, Me Think? - by Village Idiot - Village’s Substack. 

https://villageidiotstudio.substack.com/p/the-global-conspiracy-against-thinking

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Frank Schaeffer

 

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of Keeping Faith. Crazy for God, and over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, a Religious Reform Activist and regular guest commentator on The ReidOut on MSNBC with Joy Reid, and has been a frequent guest of Rachel Maddow and Christiane Amanpour, sought after for his perspective on national and world news events.

 

Frank is the host of In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer on YouTube and Apple Podcasts, and his cultural commentary series, It Has to Be Said., which can be seen at frankschaeffer.substack.com.

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