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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.
The JR 2008-2009 Peace Scholars and JR Program Staff.
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 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).
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