The University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland is a public research university, the flagship campus of the University System of Maryland, and the original 1862 land grant institution in Maryland. It is the only public Carnegie Research institution in Maryland and one of only 60 American members of the Association of American Universities. Located on 1,500 acres of rolling land along the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. high-tech corridor, it offers approximately 24,500 undergraduates and 8,500 graduate students a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary degree programs in the humanities and the creative and performing arts; the physical, mathematical, information, biological, social, and engineering sciences; and public affairs and policy, business and management, education, journalism, agriculture, and architecture. In some disciplines and interdisciplinary areas as well, the University offers undergraduate and graduate certificates and citations. The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is the university’s largest college. It has more than 4,000 undergraduate majors and 800 masters and doctoral students, and is comprised of 10 academic departments and four stand-alone research and service centers. The disciplines and fields encompassed by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences explore issues that are central to our political, economic, social and cultural lives. At the core of these sciences is a drive to understand human beings-both individually and collectively. By studying human behavior and the relationship between behavior and the environment, we gain insight and knowledge that enhances our development as individual members of social communities and in so doing, those social communities themselves. The Center for International Development and Conflict Management The Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) is an inter-disciplinary research and training center dedicated to civil society built on a foundation of sustainable peace and development and ethics. For more than fifteen years, CIDCM has worked at the intersection of international development and conflict management, technology and social justice, both in theory and practice. CIDCM conducts a uniquely comprehensive program of inter-disciplinary and empirical research services: from data-collection and analysis to monitoring and risk-assessments; from applied policy advice and publications to problem-solving workshops, confidence-building training and international dialogue. Founded by the late Edward Azar in 1981, the Center is one of the pioneers of “Track-II” Diplomacy and policy-relevant applied research on the causes and consequences of protracted conflicts among states, groups, and individuals.