{"id":955,"date":"2025-06-02T14:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/?p=955"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:14:04","slug":"introduction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/2025\/06\/02\/introduction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Coco Ridge. I am a sociology major and a leadership studies and philosophy minor. I am co-president of Sociology Club and involved with various other student organizations on campus. I recently took Peace Studies classes and got involved with Peace Studies Union because it naturally sparked my interest. My internship experiences got me involved in the labor movement. I am passionate about improving people&#8217;s daily lives and material conditions. That requires the skill of deeply understanding people and conflict that I hope to improve on this trip. I am excited to learn from people\u2019s lived experiences and immerse in the communities affected by the conflict. I am specifically interested in learning about integration and peace-building post-conflict, ideologically and physically. I hope to learn from Northern Ireland&#8217;s local politics and community work to apply to future career aspirations. The biggest challenge I anticipate is witnessing the heavy aftermath of violence and seeing how intergenerational trauma affects people after The Troubles. I am very excited to learn from the people and my experiences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-956\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/peacecomm2025\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC01044-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/05\/DSC01044-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/05\/DSC01044-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/05\/DSC01044-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/05\/DSC01044-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/05\/DSC01044-619x464.jpg 619w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/05\/DSC01044.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Coco Ridge. I am a sociology major and a leadership studies and philosophy minor. I am co-president of Sociology Club and involved with various other student organizations on campus. I recently took Peace Studies classes and got involved with Peace Studies Union because it naturally sparked my interest. My internship experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/peacecomm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}