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JR Peace Scholar Dissertation ProgramCurrent Peace ScholarsPeace Scholar dissertation fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding doctoral students enrolled in recognized programs in U.S. universities. The fellowships support one year of dissertation research and writing on topics addressing the sources, nature, prevention, and management of international conflict. For further information please consult the Peace Scholar Overview page. The 2008-2009 Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship is from September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009 unless otherwise indicated.
Environmental and Natural Resources Governance: A Missing Link for Post-conflict Peacebuilding? 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. Beevers has conducted research at the World Resources Institute and Princeton University, and worked as a natural resource planner in Seattle’s King Country Department of Natural Resources. His international experiences include working in Nepal as a research consultant for the environment and development, and in Niger as a community development specialist in the U.S. Peace Corps. Beevers earned his MPA from the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, his MS in Natural Resources Management and Environmental Policy from the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, and a BS in geology from Western Illinois University. He previously worked as mountaineering and climbing instructor for Outward Bound, and as a park and wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service. Beavers speaks Zarma and French. Publications:
E-mail: mbeevers@gvpt.umd.edu
Child Soldiers Coming Home from War: Family and Caregiver Impact on Psychosocial Reintegration and Adjustment 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. Borisova has coordinated a study on Children in Global Adversity for Harvard’s School of Public Health, worked as the lead analyst on a project studying the mental health and reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, was part of a study analyzing mental health interventions for children and adolescents displaced by war in Northern Uganda, and has worked and as a research co-investigator for UNICEF’s Child Protection Section in Sudan. In addition to the Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Fellowship, Borisova has earned several awards and research fellowships from Harvard University as well as a fellowship to study local folklore and traditional arts in Scandinavia. Borisova’s international experience includes an academic program in Italy, an international conflict and applied peacemaking skills program in Switzerland at the Caux Scholars Institute, and a year teaching primary education in Lebanon. Borisova earned dual BA degrees from Williams College in psychology and art. She speaks Bulgarian, Italian, French, Spanish, and Russian. Publications:
E-mail: borisoiv@gse.harvard.edu
Organizational Barriers to Peace: Pathologies of International Peace-Building Susanna Campbell focuses on peacebuilding, conflict prevention, organizational theory, and the causes of war and peace. She is investigating the characteristics of international peacebuilding organizations that influence the identification of and effective response to post-conflict dynamics. Campbell’s experience in conflict prevention and peacebuilding includes work with the Council on Foreign Relations, UNICEF, International Crisis Group, The World Bank, International Alert, the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER), the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as consulting for the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), The World Bank’s LICUS Implementation Trust Fund and Catholic Relief Services. Campbell earned her BA in international relations from Tufts University, where she concentrated on global conflict, cooperation, and justice. She is fluent in French. Publications:
Website: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/phd/students/campbell.shtml E-mail: susanna.campbell@tufts.edu
Explaining the Use of Sexual Violence During Civil War 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. Cohen has served as the as a research assistant to the Princeton Project on National Security at Princeton University’s Relative Threat Assessment Working Group, an intern in the Economic Policy Section of the U.S. Embassy in London, and as a paralegal specialist in the Counterterrorism Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Cohen also completed internships with Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit in the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office and Congressman Richard Neal’s office. Cohen earned a dual BA from Brown University in political science and philosophy, and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. Publications:
E-mail: dkcohen@stanford.edu
Armed Conflict and Post-Conflict Development in Uganda Daniel Fahey examines the causes, nature and consequences of Uganda’s interventions since 1996 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including why did Uganda’s military, political and economic activities in the DRC change over time, and how did international political agendas and financial assistance affect these interventions. His work is based on extensive field research in Uganda, the DRC, the U.S. and Europe. Fahey has been a consultant for the UN Food and Agricultural Organization in Sudan and for Amnesty International on depleted uranium munitions; Communications Director for land use and urban planning for the Greenbelt Alliance in San Francisco; a paralegal working on disability claims for several veterans’ associations; and a Missiles Officer and Executive Officer’s Assistant in the U.S. Navy. He has held fellowships from the U.C. Berkeley Center for African Studies and Tufts University, and has won awards from the National Gulf War Resource Center and the Navy. Fahey holds a MALD degree from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, a certificate from the U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officers School, and a BA in government from the University of Notre Dame. Publications:
E-mail: dfahey@nature.berkeley.edu
Repertoires of Violence Against Noncombatants: The Role of Armed Group Institutions and Ideologies Amelia Hoover’s dissertation research is based on field research for two complementary studies of armed groups and sub-groups in El Salvador and Sierra Leone. In her work, she aims to broaden the more usual focus on killing as the major form of violence studied in modern war to include non-lethal acts of violence against civilians, which in fact outnumber, and often far exceed, outright killings. Hoover’s work examines the question of how and when do armed groups, having induced combatants to commit violence, effectively control the form or forms that violence takes. Hoover also works at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in California as a Research Fellow, where she has authored or co-authored reports on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court. Hoover has conducted analysis on violence against civilians in Kosovo, Colombia, El Salvador, and Sierra Leone. Hoover earned a BA with high honors in Political Science and Mathematical Statistics from Swarthmore College, and speaks German and Spanish. Publications:
E-mail: amelia.hoover@yale.edu
The Role of Warlords in Post-Conflict State Building Dipali Mukhopadhyay’s research attempts to assess the capacity of Afghanistan’s warlords, who are by necessity important figures in the post-conflict state architecture, to contribute to governance and state strength as a function of their individual attributes, as well as the bargaining process that unfolds between them and the post-conflict Afghan state and its international supporters. Her research will take her to a diverse set of Afghanistan’s provinces and will focus on provincial governors and their governance output. Mukhopadhyay previously worked as a consultant for the Foreign Ministry of Canada, and authored a paper on diplomatic efforts by the UN Special Representatives to the Secretary-General in pre-2001 Afghanistan. She has also worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the Democracy and Rule of Law Project; as an intern in the Office for Near East/South Asia in the Department of Defense’s Office of the Secretary of Defense; as a researcher in the monitoring and evaluation unit in the Aga Khan Development Network in Afghanistan; and as a Junior Fellow on the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mukhopadhyay received her MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School after completing a thesis entitled “Negotiating a Transformation from Warlordism to Nation-State, Afghanistan 2001 to the Present,” as well as a BA from Yale University. Publications:
E-mail: dipali.mukhopadhyay@tufts.edu
Organizational Character of Rebel Movements and the Dynamics of Civil Wars Anoop Sarbahi’s research attempts to examine how the organizational character of a rebel movement affects its interaction with the state and the civil war and peace process through analyzing three different levels of interaction: the state and rebel movements; the different rebel factions, if any; and the rebel movement or faction and the population. The dissertation combines an in-depth study of four rebel movements in North-East India with a cross-national and statistical analysis of all cases of civil wars between 1960 and 2004. Sarbahi has worked as a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology. While there his work focused on the political economy of insurgencies in North East India. Sarbahi was a visiting scholar at the Indian Council of Social Science Research-North Eastern Regional Center from 2007 to 2008. He has also worked as an expert on South Asia for the Expert Survey on Ethnic Groups, a project led by Andreas Wimmer and Lars Erik Cederman. Sarbahi earned an MA in political science from the University of Iowa, an MPhil in planning and development from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a BA in political science and history from Lucknow University. E-mail: sarbahi@ucla.edu
Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict 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. The project also employs qualitative methods to analyze several prominent cases in depth, such as Kosovo and Georgia, using interviews and archival material collected during field research in Albania, Georgia, Kosovo, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovakia. Mr. Siroky was Researcher-in-Residence at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) archives and volunteer statistical consultant on conflict zones to the International Rescue Committee (IRC). He also served as a university instructor at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nuremberg and Humboldt University in Berlin. Siroky was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for a research project based at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Mr. Siroky is completing his doctoral dissertation in Political Science and master's degree in Economics at Duke University. He received his MPP from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, MA from the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and BA in the University Professors Program at Boston University. Mr. Siroky speaks Czech and Slovak fluently, reads German and Polish and has a working knowledge of Albanian, Russian, and Servo-Croatian. Publications:
E-mail: d.siroky@duke.edu
Achieving Post-War Peace: The Internal Politics of Demilitarizing Colombia’s Paramilitary Groups Sarah Zukerman seeks to explain variation in the post-demobilization trajectories of paramilitary organizations through field work in Colombia which analyzes the demilitarization of 37 guerilla blocs and 35,288 combatants. Zukerman was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2007 to study the micro dynamics and causal mechanisms of demilitarizing armed organizations, networks, and individuals in Colombia, and at the same time was a research consultant for the Organization of American States in its Mission to support the Peace Process in Colombia. Previously she conducted research for the High Council for the Reintegration of Armed Groups in the office of the Colombian Presidency, the Center for Economic Development Studies at the University of the Andes, and at the Conflict Analysis Resource Center in Bogotá. Zukerman served as a visiting scholar at the International Peace Research Institute in Norway, as the Stanford in Government fellow at the World Bank Development Research Group, and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she conducted research on conflicts in Cyprus, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, India/Pakistan, and Israel/Palestinian Territories. Zukerman completed an MS at the London School of Economics in development studies, and holds a BA in international relations from Stanford University. She speaks Spanish and French. Publications:
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