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 Child Soldiers Coming Home from War: Family and Caregiver Impact on Psychosocial Reintegration and Adjustment
Ivelina Borisova, The Human Development and Psychology Program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Ivelina Borisova specializes in the mental health and psychosocial well-being of children and adolescents exposed to violence and war-related trauma. Her dissertation project focuses on identifying the pathways for restoring positive mental health among former child combatants, particularly the role of family-level factors. Her project focuses on Sierra Leone.
 Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
David Siroky, Political Science Department, Duke University
David Siroky’s research asks why some secessions produce peace, prosperity and order, while others lead to violence, irredentism and instability. It aims to contribute to policy by mapping the conditions under which secession is a peaceful solution to ethnic conflict. The project creates original data sets to investigate all known cases of secession since the early 19th century and uses methodological advances at the interface of statistics, computer science and probability theory. Mr. Siroky's work makes use of research and data-collection in Albania, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovakia, with an in-depth focus on Kosovo and Georgia.
The JR Senior Fellows and JR Peace Scholars for 2008-2009.
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Orientation
The 2008-2009 Class of Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars and Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows met at USIP in Washington, D.C. from October 5-7, 2008, for an orientation program. This is the first year that Peace Scholars have been invited to Washington, D.C. for the two-day orientation program, part of a new initiative to build more active ties among Senior Fellows and Peace Scholars, and between both these groups and USIP.
Senior Fellows, Peace Scholars and USIP staff members were brought together in five thematic groups and were each asked to address a question relevant to his or her research. Moderators from USIP staff orchestrated intense discussions on the state of the field in each topic, insights from different case studies, and the most urgent questions facing scholars, practitioners and policy makers. The thematic groups were designed around the topics of “How to Make Peace Stick and How to Stabilize Post-Conflict Environments,” “Wars against People: Gender-Based Violence, Rape, Human Rights and the Role of Health Workers in Conflict,” “Post-Conflict Justice and Social Recovery,” “Conflict, Natural Resources and the Pitfalls of International Aid,” and “State-Building, Democratization and International Intervention.”
The Orientation Program included meetings on professional development and networking, with a discussion over lunch on “Building Bridges between Academics, Policymakers and Practitioners,” a breakfast discussion for Peace Scholars on how their program can be developed to meet more professional needs beyond financial support for dissertation work, and an informal dinner on a boat with USIP staff and board members. Finally, a set of briefings at the Pentagon, organized by 2007-2008 USIP Army Fellow Colonel Guy “Tom” Cosentino, Military Assistant to the ASD for Policy, gave both groups insights into policy planning for defense, the development of the military’s current policy on Stability Operations, and plans for the work of AfriCom.
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