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JR Peace Scholar Dissertation Program

Former Peace Scholars

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Mohammed Abu Nimer (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
George Mason University | "Conflict Resolution between Arabs and Jews in Israel: A Study of Six Intervention Programs."

 

Zachary Abuza (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University | "Coping With China: Vietnamese Elite Responses to an Emerging Superpower."

 

Alice Ackerman (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
University of Maryland | "Foreign Policy Issues in a Newly Unified Germany."

 

George Agbango (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Atlanta University | "Political Instability and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa."

 

Burcu Akan (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
School of International Service, American University | "Praying for a Nation: Islamization and Construction of Ethnic Albanian Identity in Macedonia."

 

Nida Alahmad (2005-2006 Peace Scholar)
New School University | "Survival of a State: Looking Inside the Boundaries of the Iraqi Ba'thist State"

 

Cecilia Albin (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
The Johns Hopkins University | "Resolving Conflicts over Indivisibles through Negotiation: The Case of Jerusalem."

 

Lori Allen (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | "Suffering Through a Nationalist Uprising: Violence, Victimization, and Human Rights in Palestinian Politics."

 

Antony Anghie (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
Harvard University | "International Law, Human Rights and Cultural Identity: a New Approach to Ethnic Identity?"

 

Anthony Armstrong (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
University of Washington | "Breaking the Ice: Initiatives to Improve Relations with a National Adversary."

 

Senem Aslan (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Washington | "National Makeovers and Resistance: Kurdish and Berber Activism in Turkey and Morocco."

 

Severne Autesserre (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Politics, New York University | "The Politics of the Peace Process in the Eastern Congo."




B

Eileen Babbitt (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Beyond Neutrality: The Use of Leverage by Powerful States as Mediators in International Conflict."

 

Daniel Bahr (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Iowa State University | "Explaining International Voluntary Cooperation under Anarchy: An Analysis of Emergent Norm-Governed Behavior as Substitute for a Global Sovereign."

 

Naazneed Barma (2005-2006 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Berkeley | "Shared Sovereignty: Building Democracy and Reconstructing State Capacity in postconflict Nation-States"

 

Geoffrey Bate (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
City University of New York | "The Anthropological Sources of Basque Terrorism."

 

Martijn van Beek (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
Cornell University | "Social Identification and Ethnic Mobilization in Ladakh, India."

 

Orna Ben-Naftali (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Tufts University | "A Court of Lost Appeal: The United States and the Idea and Institution of a World Court to 1985."

 

Shawn Bird (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
University of Florida | "Institutional Reform and Democratization in Post-War El Salvador."

 

Belete Bizuneh (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, Boston University | "Pastoralists, States, and Violence Along the Ethiopian-Kenyan-Somali Borderland, ca. 1897-1980s."

 

Christopher Blattman (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Berkeley | "What’s Special about Being a Child Soldier? Estimating the Labor Market Impact of Involuntary Military Service Using a Survey of Young Ex-combatants in Uganda."

 

Mia M. Bloom (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Columbia University | "Failures of Intervention: The unintended consequences of mixed messages and the exacerbation of ethnic conflict."

 

Catherine Bolten (2005-2006 Peace Scholar)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | "Post-war Identity and the Historical Imagination in Northern Sierra Leone"

 

Jean Boone (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
Georgetown University | "Trading in Power: The Politics of Soviet Foreign Economic Reform, 1986-1991."

 

Lisa Brandes (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Yale University | "Public Opinion, International Security Policy, and Gender: The United States and Great Britain since 1945."

 

Jurgen Brauer (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
University of Notre Dame | "Military Expenditures, Arms Production, and the Economic Performance of Developing Nations."

 

D'Arcy Brissman (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, Duke University | "Democracy by Drill and Harrow": Haitian Civil-Military Relations and U.S. Occupation, 1915-1934."

 

Rebecca Bryant (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of Chicago | "Educating Ethnicity: On the Birth and Reproduction of the Cypriot Ethnic Conflict."

 

Jennie Burnet (2000-01 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina | "Crisis as Opportunity: Women and Reconciliation in Rwanda."

 

Katherine Burns (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, MIT | "Subnational Power and Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia."

 

Josephine Burt (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
Columbia University | "Failing States and Political Vacuums: The Struggle for Local Power and the Demise of Democracy in Peru, 1980-1995."



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Charles T. Call (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Stanford University | "From Soldiers to Cops: 'War Transitions' and the Demilitarization of Policing in Latin America and the Caribbean."

 

Tatiana Carayannis (2005-2006 Peace Scholar)
The City University of New York | "Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses: The Congo Wars, 1996-2004"

 

Anthony Chase (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Tufts University | "Relativism and Reality in the Muslim World: Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law in Political Context."

 

Pamela Chasek (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
Johns Hopkins University | "From Stockholm to Rio: An Analysis of 20 Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiation in the United Nations System."

 

Ajin Choi (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Duke University | "Democracy, Alliances, and War Performance in Militarized International Conflicts, 1812-1992."

 

Alev I. Cinar (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania | "Bodies, Places and Time: Islamic Visibilities in the Public Sphere and the Contestations of Secular Modernity in Turkey."

 

Kathleen Collins (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Stanford University | "Post-Soviet Political Transitions in Central Asia."

 

Michele Commercio (2000-01 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania | "Contentious Peace in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Latvia."

 

Richard Conroy (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
University of Notre Dame | "Beyond Peacekeeping: Strategies of United Nations Peace Enforcement in a Turbulent World."

 

Jennifer Curtis (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Washington University | "Making Peace: Community Development in West Belfast."



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Xinyuan Dai (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago | "On Compliance: International Institutions and Domestic Constituency."

 

Jaleh Dashti-Gibson (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Government, University of Notre Dame | "Sharpening the Bite: A Framework for Monitoring Multilateral Economic Sanctions."

 

Josip Dasovic (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Brown University | "Social Networks as a Bulwark against Inter-Ethnic Violence at the Community Level in the Former Yugoslavia."

 

Kurt Dassel (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
Columbia University | "Domestic Instability, the Military, and War."

 

Mark F. Davidheiser (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Florida | "Multiculturalism and Peacemaking: Conflict Mediation in the Gambia."

 

William DeMars (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
Notre Dame University | "Helping People in a People's War: Humanitarian Organizations and the Ethiopian Conflict, 1980-1988."

 

Ralph DiMuccio (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
University of Southern California | "Interdependence and Exchange in Interstate Relationships: A Reassessment of Anglo-German Relations in the 1930s."

 

Daniela Donno (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
Yale University | "Defending Democratic Norms: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations and the Consolidation of Democracy."

 

Stuart Douglas (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, Rice University | "The Cultural Politics of Reconciliation: An Ethnography of Reparation and Rehabilitation in Contemporary South Africa."



E

Alan Emery (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Sociology, University of Southern California | "The National Party in the Democratic Transformation of South African Politics, 1976-1991."

 

Andrew Erdmann (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Harvard University | "Politics by Other Means: Americans' Search for 'Victory' in the Twentieth Century."

 

Gil Eyal (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Los Angeles | "The Breakdown of Czechoslovakia."



F

Tulia G. Falleti (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University | "Decentralization Trajectories and Balance of Power in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, 1982-1999."

 

Nora Femenia (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
Syracuse University | "National Self-Images, Enemy Images and Conflict Strategies in the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas War."

 

Huiyun Feng (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
Arizona State University, Department of Political Science | "A Dragon on Defense: China's Strategic Culture and War."

 

Joel S. Fetzer (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Yale University | "National Borders / Cultural Boundaries: Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany."

 

Michael Findley(2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | "Spoiling the Peace or Seeking the Spoils? Civil War Peace Processes and the Impact of Spoilers."

 

Karl-Orfeo Fioretos(1994-95 Peace Scholar)
Columbia University | "Managing Interdependence in the New Europe: Economic Exchange and the Consolidation of Peace."

 

Thomas Firestone (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Berkeley | "The Methods and Intent of Soviet Efforts to Influence Western European Public Opinion against NATO Deployments."

 

Ann Florini (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Los Angeles | "Transparency and International Relations."

 

Coleen Fox (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Geography, University of Oregon | "Hydro-Development and Potential Crisis in the Mekong: Strategies for Peace in an Interstate Watershed."

 

Carla P. Freeman (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of China Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University | "China's Reform Challenge: The Political Economy of Reform in Northeast China, 1978-1998."

 

Nathalie Frensley (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
University of Texas at Austin | "Domestic Politics and International Conflict Termination: The Dynamic Group Theory of Conflict Processes with Northern Ireland as a Test Case."

 

Gabriela M. Fried (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles | "Reconciling Authoritarian Legacies: Enduring Collective Memories of Political Repression, Disappearance, Political Prison and Exile in Uruguay Today."

 

Suzanne E. Fry (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, New York University | "When States Kill Their Own: Understanding the Legitimation Process."

 

Alejandro de la Fuente (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
University of Pittsburgh | "'With All and For All': Race, Inequality, and Politics in Cuba, 1900-1930."

 

Melissa Ann Fuller (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, UCLA | "Nations Dividing: Ethnic Conflict and its Democratic Management."



G

Kurt Taylor Gaubatz (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
Stanford University | "Elections and War: A Study of the Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace."

 

Marc Genest (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
Georgetown University | "Negotiating in the Public Eye: The Impact of the Press on the Intermediate- Range Nuclear Force Negotiations."

 

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Sociology, University of California,Santa Cruz | "Islamism and the Quest for Alternative Modernities."

 

Gautam Ghosh (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | "Defining Diasporas: Partitioned States, Refugee Flows, and Religious Chauvinism in India and Bangladesh, 1947-Present."

 

Daniel Gibson (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
Duke University | "The Politics of Involuntary Resettlement: World Bank-Supported Projects in Asia (Resettlement Policy, India, Indonesia>

 

Elise Giuliano (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
University of Chicago | "Paths to the Decline of Nationalism: Ethnic Politics in Russia."

 

Ran Greenstein (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Settlement, Resistance and Conflict: Class, Nation, State and Political Discourse in South Africa and Palestine/Israel to 1948."

 

Alexandru-Valentin (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Grigorescu Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh | "The Impact of International Organizations on Domestic Transparency".

 

Emily Gunzburger (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
Cornell University, Department of Architecture | "Representing Competing Identities: Building and Rebuilding in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina."



H

Devin Hagerty (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of Pennsylvania | "The Theory and Practice of Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia."

 

Henry E. Hale (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Government Department, Harvard University | "Independence and Integration: Secession and State-Building in the Former Soviet Union."

 

Philip Hammack (2005-2006 Peace Scholar)
University of Chicago | "Identity and the Cultural Psychology of Adolescence: Life Stories of Israeli and Palestinian Youth"

 

Landon E. Hancock (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University | "Peace from the People: Identity Salience in the Northern Ireland Peace Process."

 

Jussi Hanhimaki (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
Boston University | "Containment, Coexistence, and Neutrality: America, Russia, and the 'Finnish Solution,' 1948-1956."

 

Karrin Hanshew (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, University of Chicago | "Negotiating Terror: Political Violence and Democracy in 1970s West Germany."

 

W. Scott Harrop (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
University of Virginia | "Assessing the Ability of Protracted Insurrections to Gain International Approval."

 

Jennifer Hazen (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
Georgetown University, Department of Government | "Rebel Groups, Their Networks, and the Incentives for Continued Warfare."

 

Yinan He (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Overcoming Shadows of the Past: Historical Trauma and Reconciliation in Europe and East Asia."

 

Jairo Hernandez (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
Tufts University | "Costa Rica as Mediator in the Settlement of Central American Disputes in the 1980s."

 

Kristine Herrmann (2000-01 Peace Scholar)
School of International Service, American University | "Implementing or Impairing Democracy: Lessons in Democratization Assistance."

 

Miles Hochstein (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
University of Southern California | "Rethinking Genocide Theory: State Making and Socially Administered Mass Morality."

 

Azra Hromadzic (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Pennsylvania | "Emerging Citizens: Youth, Education and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina."

 

Alexandra M. Hrycak (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago | "From the Iron Fist to the Invisible Hand: Writers, Artists, and the Nation in Ukraine."



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Tuba Inal (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Minnesota | "Development of Global Prohibition Regimes: Rape and Pillage in War"

 

Cynthia Irvin (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
Duke University | "Paramilitary Politics in Parliamentary Democracies: Militant Nationalism in Ireland and Spain."



J

Vinodh Jaichand (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School | "Achieving Racial Equality through Restitution of Land Rights in South Africa."

 

Laura Jenkins (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Contested Categories: Affirmative Action in India."



K

Switbert R. Kamazima (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota | "Globalization from Below: Cooperation and Regional Integration along the Tanzania-Uganda Border."

 

Mikael Karlstrom (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
University of Chicago | "The Cultural Kingdom in Uganda: Popular Royalism and the Restoration the Buganda Kingship."

 

Naveeda Khan (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University | "Authorizing the Muslim Speaking Subject: Religious Debates in Pakistan."

 

Deepa Khosla (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
University of Maryland | "Third Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts: A Force for Peace or Spiraling Violence."

 

Moira Killoran (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
University of Texas at Austin | "Pirate State, Poet Nation: The Poetic Struggle over 'The Past' in North Cyprus."

 

Sung Hee Kim (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
Tufts University | "Revenge and Conflict Escalation: The Effects of Power and Audience."

 

John T. King (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Education, University of Washington | "Beyond Incommensurability: Fostering Cross-Cultural Understanding in Northern Ireland."

 

Riina Kionka (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
Columbia University | "The International Politics of Estonian Nationality Policy."

 

Betsy O. Konefal (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, University of Pittsburgh | "Rights, Identity and the the Politics of Concientizaci-n: Organizing for Racial and Social Justice in the Guatemalan Highlands, 1960-2000."

 

Megan Koreman (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Berkeley | "From War to Peace: Three French Towns in 1944-1945."

 

Ronald Krebs (2000-01 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Columbia University | "A School for the Nation? Military Institutions and the Boundaries of Nationality."

 

Alan Kuperman (2000-01 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Tragic Consequences: How and Why Communal Groups Provoke Genocidal Retaliation."



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Mark Lagon (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
Georgetown University | "Crusade For Freedom": International and Ideological Sources of the Reagan Doctrine."

 

Curtis W. Lambrecht (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Yale University | "Violence in Burmese State-Making: The Making of a Human Rights Pariah."

 

Barbara Larney (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
Arizona State University | "Children of World War II in Germany: A Life Course Analysis."

 

Sandra Leavitt (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Government, Georgetown University | "Between Security and Conflict: Governments and Muslim Minorities in Asia."

 

Itshak Lederman (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
University of Maryland | "Verification of Conventional Arms Control Agreements in Europe."

 

Terence Lee (2005-2006 Peace Scholar)
University of Washington | "The Causes of Military Insubordination: Explaining Military Organizational Behavior in China, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand"

 

Jeffrey Legro (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
University of California at Los Angeles | "Cooperation Within Conflict: Submarines, Strategic Bombing, Chemical Warfare and Restraint in World War II."

 

Helen Lennon (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Comparitive Literature, Yale University | "Creating a Witness: Film as Evidence in International War Crimes Tribunals."

 

Fernando Lopez-Alves (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
University of California at Los Angeles | "Why Do Unions Coalesce? Labor Solidarity in Colombia and Uruguay."

 

Janet Lord (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
National Law Center, George Washington University | "Remedies Under International Human Rights Law."

 

Russell Lucas (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Georgetown University | "Choice, Constraint, and Regime Survival Strategies: Jordan Since 1989."



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Martin Malin (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
Columbia University | "Entrepreneurial Statecraft: Egypt and the Superpowers, 1952-1967."

 

Gregory Maney (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Transnational Networks and Ethnic Mobilization: Origins of the Troubles in Northern Ireland."

 

Dorgam Mara'ee (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Harvard University | "Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Future of Democracy in the Middle East."

 

Terrence Markin (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
The Johns Hopkins University | "The West Irian Dispute: How the Kennedy Administration Resolved that "Other" Southeast Asian Conflict."

 

Erin L. McCandless (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
School of International Service, American University | "Transformative Participation in Policymaking: The Case of Zimbabwean Civil Society."

 

Fredline M’Cormack (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Florida | "Whose Democracy? NGOs and the Democracy Project in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone."

 

Hugo van der Merwe (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University | "Reconciliation in South Africa: The Role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission."

 

Roberta Micallef (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of Texas at Austin | "The Role of Literature and Intellectuals in National Identity Construction: The Case of Uzbekistan."

 

Aleksandra Milicevic
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles | "Joining Serbia's Wars: Volunteers and Draft-Dodgers, 1991-1995."

 

Daniel Monterescu (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | "Jewish-Arab Relations, Urban Space, and the State in Palestinian-Israeli Mixed Towns, 1948-2002."

 

Ellen Moodie (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan | "Negotiating Peace and Memory through Salvadoran News Media."

 

Adam Moore (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of Wisconsin-Madison | "Ethno-territoriality, Local Institutions and the Production of ‘Ethnic Conflict’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina."

 

Mark Mullenbach (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Arizona | "Third Party Interventions in Intrastate Disputes."

 

Peter Mwesige (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ernie Pyle School of Journalism | "Radio Talk Shows, Political Participation, and Democratization in Uganda."



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Susan Allen Nan (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University | "Finding Order in the Chaos of Multiple Conflict Resolution Interventions in Eurasian Secessionist Conflict."

 

Denise Natali (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
University of Pennsylvania | "Manufacturing Identity and Managing Kurds: A Study in the Formation of Ethnonationalism."

 

Monika Nalepa (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, Columbia University | "Shedding the Light: Theory and Practice of Truth Revelation Procedures in Post-Communist Europe."

Tova Norlen (2005-06 Peace Scholar)
Johns Hopkins University | "Sacred Stones and Religious Nuts: Resolving Conflicts over Absolute Sacred Space."



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Krisjon Olson (2006-07 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Berkeley | "Youth without Sanctuary: The New Ethics of Humanitarianism in Post-War Guatemala."



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Raul Pangalangan (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Harvard University | "Competing Normative Themes in Third World Argument in International Law."

 

Thazhakuzhyil Paul (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
University of California at Los Angeles | "Asymmetric Conflicts: A Study of War Initiation by Lesser Powers."

 

Wendy Pearlman (2005-06 Peace Scholar)
Harvard University | "Why Violence? Explaining Patterns in Palestinian Use of Force During the Second Intifada"

 

Vjekoslav Perica (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, University of Minnesota | "The Making of the Post-Yugoslav Nations: Church-Sponsored Political Mobilization in the Former Yugoslavia, 1965-1995."

 

Todd Perry (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland | "The Origins and Implementation of the 1992 Nuclear Suppliers Group."

 

Victor A. Peskin (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley | "Conflicts of Justice: International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Governments."

 

Jennifer J. Philpot (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | "Peace Under Fire: Protestantism, Human Rights and Civil Society in Post-War Guatemala."

 

Paula Pickering (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan | "Minority Choices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina."



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Simei Qing (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
Michigan State University | "Chinese and American conceptions of peace, order, and economic development from 1944 to 1984."



R

James Rae (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii | "Justice and Reconciliation in Cambodia and East Timor: The Role of Human Rights in UN Peacebuilding Operations."

 


Maria Clemencia Ramirez de Jara (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University | "The Colonos of the Amazon region of Colombia: Violence, Coca, State-Decentralization and the Construction of Identities."

 

Laura Reed (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "The Roads Not Taken: The United States Security Debate over Germany, 1944-1949."

 

Andrew Reynolds (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego | "Electoral Systems and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Africa."

 

Isaias Rojas-Perez (2005-06 Peace Scholar)
Johns Hopkins University | "Law, National Reconciliation and Social Repair in Post-war Peru"

 

Martin Rouse (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
Cornell University | "Trade policies of Indonesia and Thailand as indicators of growing conflict in the region."

 

Jennifer Rubenstein (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science | "Just Samaritans? The Ethics of Private Humanitarian Aid."

 

Curtis Ryan (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | "Realignments and Crises in Inter-Arab Politics: the Cases of Jordan and Syria."



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Jan Sallinger-McBride (1992-93 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Santa Barbara | "Concertation vs. Transformation: A Comparative Analysis of Democratic Transition in Argentina and Uruguay."

 

James Schechter (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Anthropology | "Finding 'Lost Boys?' Governing Sudanese Minors in a UNHCR Refugee Camp."

 

David Schimmelpenninck (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, Yale University | "'Ex Oriente Lux': Ideologies of Empire and Russia's Far East, 1895-1904."

 

Luigi Sensi (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Rutgers University | "The Burden of Hegemony: Superpower Intervention in Civil Wars."

 

Rebecca P. Sewall (2002-2003 Peace Scholar)
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University | "Bartered Peace: Women and Conflict Management Strategies."

 

Lee Seymour (2006-2007 Peace Scholar)
Northwestern University | "Insurgents and International Relations: Sovereignty, Territory and Conflicts of Self-Determination, 1975-2005."

 

Mona Siegel (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of Wisconsin at Madison | "Lasting Lessons: War, Peace and Patriotism in French Primary Schools, 1914-1939."

 

Paul Silverstein (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | "Trans-Politics: Islam, Berberity, and the French Nation-State."

 

Julie Sisskind (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
University of Pennsylvania | "Repartriation, Transitional Settlements, and Community Change in Western Eritrea."

 

Henrik Sommer (1997-98 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado | "Direct Action and Democratization: The Impact of Nonviolent Direct Action on Apartheid,1976-1994."

 

Scott Straus (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science | "The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda."

 

Jelena Subotic (2005-06 Peace Scholar)
University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation of International Norms"

 

Jeremi Suri (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, Yale University | "Failed Peace: Detente and Dissent, 1958-1972."



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Winifred Tate (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
New York University, Department of Anthropology | "Suffering Citizens: Human Rights Claims and Counterclaims in Colombia."

 

Christopher Tennant (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University | "Mayas Going Home: A Study of a Multi-Ethnic New Community in Guatemala."

 

Daniel Thomas (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
Cornell University | "Norms and Change in World Politics: The Helsinki Accords, Human Rights and the Demise of Communism, 1975-1990."

 

Monica Toft (1996-97 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago | "The Geography of Ethnic Conflict."

 

Brett B. Troyan (2001-2002 Peace Scholar)
Department of History, Cornell University | "Peace and Ethnic Identity in Southwestern Colombia, 1930-1991."

 

Astrid Tuminez (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Russian Nationalism, 1865-1995: Content, Empowerment, and Impact on Russian Foreign Policy."



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Santiago Villaveces (1994-95 Peace Scholar)
Rice University | "Peace, Conflict, and Governance in Contemporary Colombia: toward the manufacturing of consensus."



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Sadek M. Wahba (1995-96 Peace Scholar)
Department of Economics, Harvard University | "Essays on Migration."

 

Virginia Walsh (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of California at Los Angeles | "International Markets and Interstate Cooperation: United States-Japanese Efforts to Conserve Ocean Life, 1950-1995."

 

Nicole Watts (1999-2000 Peace Scholar)
Near and Middle East Studies Program, University of Washington | "Ethnic Allies and State Power: Kurdish-State Relations in the Middle East."

 

Harry West (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
University of Wisconsin | "Sorcery of Construction and Sorcery of Ruin: Power and Ambivalence on the Mudea Plateau, Mozambique (1882-1994)."

 

Jon Western (1998-99 Peace Scholar)
Columbia University | "Warring Ideas: Explaining U.S. Military Intervention (1882-1994)."

 

Christiane Wilke (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Political Science, New School University | "A Belated Vindication of Rights: Criminal Trials for Mass Human Rights Violations and the Task of Democratization."

 

James Winkler (1988-89 Peace Scholar)
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University | "Stability in the Third World: The Spectrum of Security and Development in U.S. Policy: the case of El Salvador."

 

Leslie Wirpsa (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
University of Southern California, School of International Relations | "Resources and Indigenous Rights: Transnational Politics and the Expansion of the Oil Frontier in Colombia and Ecuador."

 

Aaron Wolf (1991-92 Peace Scholar)
University of Wisconsin at Madison | "The Impact of Scarce Water Resources on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Study of Water Conflict Analysis and Proposals for Conflict Resolution."

 

Elisabeth Wood (1993-94 Peace Scholar)
Stanford University | "Agrarian Social Relations and Democratization: The Negotiated Resolution of the Civil War in El Salvador."



Y

Michael Yaffe (1989-90 Peace Scholar)
University of Pennsylvania | "Origins of the Tactical Nuclear Weapons Modernization Program: 1969-1979."

 

Caroline Yezer (2004-05 Peace Scholar)
Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University | "Memory and Truth in the Shadow of War: Local and National Reconciliation in the Peruvian Andes."

 

Ahmet Yukleyen (2003-2004 Peace Scholar)
Boston University, Department of Anthropology | "Sources of Tolerance and Radicalism Among Turkish- Islamic Organizations in Europe (January-December 2004)."



Z

Qiang Zhai (1990-91 Peace Scholar)
Ohio University | "The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations During the Cold War, 1949-1958."


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