Straus Adjunct Professor David Dowling (MDR '09) Featured in "Pepperdine Professor Teaches Ukrainian Students About Conflict Resolution Amid War" -- ABC7 News

Straus Institute adjunct professor and alumnus David Dowling (MDR '09) is featured in the ABC7 News story "Pepperdine Professor Teaches Ukrainian Students About Conflict Resolution Amid War." Professor Dowling traveled to Ukraine to teach a course on conflict and dispute resolution. He taught his first day of class in a bomb shelter.

Excerpt from "Pepperdine Professor Teaches Ukrainian Students About Conflict Resolution Amid War"

"Our very first day, I walked into class and the students all came in and put their bags down, and then they started picking up their bags and walking out because the air-raid sirens started going off," he recalled.

For the students, this was the first time they had been back in a classroom together since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and the Russian invasion of their country.

Dowling recalls his students calmly leading him to a bomb shelter.

"The ceilings were low, and there were two little benches, and some of them were huddled up in the corners, and I thought, 'Let's teach!' That's what I'm here to do, and it was going to keep me calm."

The compete article may be found at ABC7 Eyewitness News