Arts and Sciences Hall (ASH) University of Nebraska at Omaha |
UNO Philosophy
Program ASH
Suite 205
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Conflict Resolution 2008-2009 |
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Dr. Rory J. Conces is Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the International Studies faculty. He was born in East Chicago, Indiana and was raised in the nearby communities of Hammond and Munster. He received his B.A. in psychology and philosophy from Creighton University (1976), M.A. in philosophy from DePaul University (1980), and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1991). Dr. Conces is the program chair of UNOmaha's 30th National Global Studies Conference and the former editor of the International Third World Studies Journal and Review. He is also the founding editor of ID: International Dialogue, A Multi-Disciplinary Journal of World Affairs. Dr. Conces has written on ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of science, aesthetics, and the teaching of critical reasoning. A monograph on conflict resolution and applied philosophy, Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World, was published in 1997. He is also a contributor to Bosnia Daily, an electronic newspaper in Sarajevo. His most recent article, The Role of the Hyperintellectual in Civil Society Building and Democratization in the Balkans" will be published in Studies in East European Thought (September 2007). Dr. Conces' work has also been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, and German. Some of the other journals in which he has been published include Acta Analytica, Kakanien Revisited, Theoria, The Locke Newsletter, International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Journal of Philosophy and Social Science, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Southwest Philosophy Review, Dijalog, Sociajdemokrat, and Sociological Analysis. He is currently working on papers covering ethics, ethnic nationalism, conflict prevention; victimhood, and the epistemological problems associated with the use of narratives in democratization. He also furthered his work on strategies for resolving intractable conflicts by participation in workshops sponsored by the Nansen Dialogue Centres and Kosovo Initiative for Democratic Society (KIDS) on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Bjelašnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 2001 and the Alternatives to Violence Project (2003), as well as being an observer at the Dialogue for Reconstruction of Afghanistan's Civil Society during July 1999. During the past seven years, Dr. Conces has lectured in China at South China Normal University, Zhongshan University, and Hangzhou Teachers College; in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the University of Sarajevo, the University Dzemal Bijedic of Mostar (BiH), and the University of Tuzla; in Croatia at the University of Rijeka; in Kosovo at the University of Prishtina, the University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica (including Istanbul, Turkey), and at the Academic Training Association Mitrovica Summer School; and in Northern Ireland at Queen's University of Belfast. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) during the spring term of 2001. Dr. Conces lectured and conduct research in the areas of applied philosophy and conflict resolution. Dr. Conces spent part of summer 2006 traveling and lecturing in Balkans. He returned to Europe in 2007 to give a number of lectures including presentations at the European and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Graz, Austria; the Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia; and the International Political Science Association Conference on Terrorism, Globalization and Democracy at University College in London. Dr. Conces has taught courses on Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Ethical Theory, Contemporary Moral Issues, Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Critical Reasoning, History of Twentieth Century American Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Logic, and Religion and Conflict. He will be on leave during the 2008 fall semester. He has won a Fulbright Scholar award to Kosovo and will be teaching a conflict resolution course in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pristina. He will also conduct research in the same area.
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