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United States Institute of Peace Welcomes 22^nd Class of Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 18, 2008

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(Washington, September 18) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) today announced the names of this year’s 10 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars, who will each receive a grant of $20,000. The JR Peace Scholar Program is a competitive pre-doctoral award program open to American and non-American students writing doctoral dissertations at American universities on topics related to the prevention and management of international conflict and post-conflict stabilization efforts.

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, USIP’s associate vice president of the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, said, “The JR Peace Scholar program provides dissertation support for some of the best young scholars in the field of international affairs at critical junctures in their careers. It is an important program we hope to expand in the future.”

A list of this year’s JR Peace Scholars, their university affiliations and working dissertation titles follows.

• Michael Beevers, University of Maryland
  Environmental and Natural Resources Governance: A Missing Link for Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
• Ivelina Borisova, Harvard University
  Child Soldiers Coming Home from War: Family and Caregiver Impact on Psychosocial Reintegration and Adjustment
• Susanna Campbell, Tufts University
  Organizational Barriers to Peace: Pathologies of International Peacebuilding
• Dara Cohen, Stanford University
  Understanding Sexual Violence During Civil War: Evidence from Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and El Salvador
• Daniel Fahey, University of California, Berkeley
  Armed Conflict and Post-Conflict Development in Uganda
• Amelia Hoover, Yale University
  Repertoire of Violence Against Noncombatants: The Role of Armed Group Institutions and Ideologies
• Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Tufts University
  Warlord as Governor? State-building in Afghanistan, 2001 to the Present
• Anoop Sarbahi, University of California, Los Angeles
  Organizational Character of Rebel Movements and the Dynamics of Civil Wars
• David Siroky, Duke University
  Secession and Survival
• Sarah Zukerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Achieving Post-War Peace: The Internal Politics of Colombia’s Demilitarizing Paramilitary Groups

For more information on USIP’s Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars program, please visit http://www.usip.org/fellows/scholars.html.