This study examines a conversation of four high school peers in which one participant's identity as a father becomes discussed. Being a father becomes contrasted with the person's age, leading to the claim that he is too young to be a father. These conflicting aspects of the membership category, young father, result in various forms of identity management such as narratives, accounts, and claims which contextualize and make understandable the teller's positioning.
Persons discursively position themselves or others, and thereby, co-construct identities.
Professor Marsh leads the graduate seminar on European peacemaking to London each March. Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky takes a look at recent Colombian history, explores the background of the guerilla and drug problems and the organizations that represent them, examines the sources of Colombian and US Government policies toward these problems and finally discusses the implications for the United States with a view toward coming to some conclusions about our current involvement and our policies and programs. Participants should think carefully about the extent and level of US engagement in Colombia and be prepared to offer ideas of their own on these issues. Participants might structure their thoughts in terms of an Op-Ed piece they might write, either for or against current US policy. He is an internationally known mediator, facilitator, dispute system designer, trainer and author.