Faculty Forum Continues at Westminster

Dr. Andrea K. Grove, assistant professor of political science at Westminster College, will speak at Faculty Forum Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 11:30 a.m. in Patterson Hall room 311.

Grove will present "Problem Representation and Conflict Dynamics in Northern Ireland and the Middle East: Domestic Political Processes with International Impact." She has been working on this project with Donald A. Sylvan, professor of political science and associate of the Mershon Center for International Peach and Security at Ohio State University.

"In an effort to explain conflictual and cooperative actions in the Middle East and Northern Ireland at a time (1995-1999) when international structural factors were relatively constant, this paper focuses on cognitive factors," said Grove. "Specifically, states of leaders representing multiple actors in the Israeli-Palestinian and Northern Ireland relationship are examined. This paper explores the relationship among leaders problem representations' and the conflict between the entities they lead."

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Grove at (724) 946-7254 or e-mail groveak@westminster.edu.