Global Governance: People, Power and Non-violent Solutions

Dr. Boaz is an Academic Advisor to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, a Washington DC-based human rights foundation that collects and disseminates, knowledge on civil resistance.  Her work with ICNC has sent her to conferences in India, Australia, Chile, Spain, and around the United States, including the annual Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict, at Tufts University, where she served as an instructor on four occasions (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012).  She considers her interview with Nobel Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi of Iran to be a highlight of her work in this field. Dr. Boaz continues to work alongside notable veterans of the struggles in South Africa, Serbia, Burma, and the US Civil Rights Movement, including Rev. James Lawson.  Dr. Boaz is a prolific writer and contributes analysis regularly to several news and commentary-based media, including Truthout, the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, Waging Nonviolence, and Open Democracy.

At Sonoma State, Dr. Boaz is the Faculty Advisor for the award-winning Model United Nations club and class, which every Spring participates in the National Model United Nations conference in New York City, and is department Internship Coordinator for placements with non-profits and local advocacy groups and organizations. Dr. Boaz is also an affiliated scholar with the UNESCO Program in Peach, Conflict and Development Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain, where she has taught courses in 2001, 2003, 2007, and 2011 and advises graduate students. She is founding board member of the Sonoma Independent, a grassroots media organization.  She spent her Fall 2015 sabbatical in West Cork, Ireland.