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Environmental and Natural Resources Governance: A Missing Link for Post-conflict Peacebuilding?
Michael D. Beevers, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
Michael Beevers investigates how and under what conditions environmental and natural resources governance affects trajectories for peace and stability in war-torn societies. The projects will identify the specific mechanisms and pathways by which environmental and natural resources governance influences the foundational requisites deemed critical to establishing a durable peace.
Explaining the Use of Sexual Violence During Civil War
Dara Kay Cohen, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Dara Cohen addresses the questions of why some civil wars experience mass rape while others do not, and why, even within the context of the same civil war, some combatant groups rape civilians while others never turn to sexual violence. Her research is based on fieldwork in Sierra Leone and East Timor.
Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent ConflictDavid Siroky, Department of Political Science, Duke University
In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict of summer 2008, current Peace Scholar David Siroky co-authored an OpEd with Mariya Chelova in the Kyiv Post on August 20, 2008, entitled "Who is Akhmetov?"
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Program Officer, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
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The Jennings Randolph (JR) Program for International Peace awards nonresidential Peace Scholar Dissertation Scholarships to students at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations on topics related to peace, conflict, and international security.
Each year the program awards approximately ten Peace Scholar Fellowships. Fellowships last for 10 months starting in September. Fellowships are open to citizens of any country.
Dissertation projects in all disciplines are welcome.
Current Peace Scholar Ivelina Borisova
The JR Program welcomes the first JR baby in a long time: On February 22 Ivelina Borisova gave birth to her son Alek Thielker. Congratulations to Iva and her family!
Former Peace Scholar Phillip L. Hammack
Phillip L. Hammack, (2005–2006), currently an assistant professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, in the Department of Psychology, has published or will publish three articles and a book chapter: "Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity" (Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 12, No. 222; "Exploring the Reproduction of Conflict Through Narrative: Israeli Youth Motivated to Participate in a Coexistence Program, "Peace and Conflict, Vol. 15, 2009); "The Cultural Psychology of Palestinian Youth: A Narrative Approach," (Cultural Psychology, forthcoming), and "The cultural Psychology of American-Based Coexistence Programs for Israeli and Palestinian Youth," in C. McGlynn, M. Zembylas, Z. Bekerman, & T. Gallagher (Eds.), Peace Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: Comparative Perspectives, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
Former Program Director John Crist and Former Peace Scholar Mark Geraghty
The JR Fellowship program works in strange and wonderful ways. A recent letter from the field from former Senior Program Officer and Acting Director of JR Program Director John Crist, currently Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, describes an unexpected meeting with former Peace Scholar, Mark Geraghty (2007–2008). Read more
Former Peace Scholar Severine Autesserre
Severine Autesserre (2004-2005), currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, recently had an article published in International Organization: "Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention." The abstract is available here.
Former Peace Scholar Winifred Tate
Winifred Tate's (2003-2004) book, Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia, based on her diessertation has been awarded the 2009 LASA Byrce Wood Book Award, given by the Latin American Studies Association to the outstanding book on Latin American in the social sciences and humanities published in English. Winifred Tate is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and Adjunt Professor of Research at Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. Read more
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