Tarek Maassarani has been a student of Nonviolent Communication for over three years, fusing it with his passion for conflict resolution/peacebuilding in both his personal and professional life. He is a founding member of Maitri House, an intentional community based on the principles and practices of NVC, and Positive Relating, a non-profit that offers facilitation and support for transformative dialogue. As an adjunct professor at GWU, he teaches in the areas of peacebuilding and human rights. Tarek also directs a local low-income legal and mediation clinic, facilitates dialogue circles and peace workshops for youth, and consults for a peace education program that he helped establish at a school in southeast DC. He has worked on peacebuilding projects in the Middle East and directed “Sour Milk and Honey,” a video-journal style documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.