Selected Faculty Publications
Professor Mohammed Abu-Nimer
- "Non-violent Resistance in the Arab World: The Demythologizing of Essentialist Myths about Arab Societies" in Arab World Geographer. 14(2) Spring: 153-159. 2011.
- "Religious Leaders in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Violent Incitement to Nonviolence Resistance" in Peace and Change. 36(4) October: 556-580. 2011.
- (Co-authored with J. Badawi) "Alternatives to war and violence: An Islamic perspective" in Peace movements worldwide: History, psychology, and practices, Vol. 1: History and vitality of peace movements. M. Pilisuk & Michael Nagler, Eds. Santa Barbara, CA; Praeger. p. 151-169. 2011.
- Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East. (With A. Khoury and E. Welty.) USIP, 2007.
- A Shared Future: Local Capacities for Peace in Community Development. (With M. Garred.) World Vision, 2006.
- Human Rights and Building Peace: the case of Pakistani madrasas
- Peace-Building By, Between, and Beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians. (Editor, with David Augsburger.) Rowman and Littlefield. 2009.
- (co-authored with Ayse Kadayifci) "Muslim Peace Building Actors in Africa and the Balkan Context: Challenges and Needs." in Peace and Change. 33.4: p. 549-581. July 2008.
- Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islam: Theory and Practice. Gainesville: University of Florida. 2008.
- "Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide For Muslims" (With Dr. Muhammad Shafiq), Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue (CISD) Salam: Peace and Justice Institute, and International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), July, 2007.
- "Peace Education in a Bilingual and Bi-ethnic School for Palestinians and Jews in Israel: Lessons and Challenges."Ilham Nasser and Mohammed Abu-Nimer. In: Educational Response to Conflict: Systemic issues. Macmillan Palgrave (Eds.). Zvi Bekerman. 2007.
- "Religious Contribution to Dialogue and Nonviolence Actions in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Possibilities and Obstacles."Palestinian Society and History Review. Vol. 2. Spring 2007 (Arabic).
- (co-authored with Ned Lazarus) "The Peacebuilders Paradox and the Dynamics of Dialogue: Psychosocial Approaches to Israeli/Palestinian Peacebuilding" In: Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding between Palestinians and Israelis. (J. Kuriansky ed.) (Greenwood Press, 2007).
- (co-authored with Abdul Aziz Said and Meena Sharify-Funk) "Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, not Static." London: Routledge. 2006.
- "We Make Friends with Our Enemies." Yale Israel Journal, Special Issue on Israel Palestine Elections, 2006.
- "Religion, Dialogue and Non-Violent Actions in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict." in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. 17:3. p 491-511. 2003.
Professor Charles Call
- Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence. Georgetown University Press, 2012.
- Building States to Build Peace.(ed.) Lynne Rienner, 2008.
- Constructing Security and Justice After War (ed.) U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
- “Beyond the ‘Failed State’: Toward Conceptual Alternatives,” European Journal of International Relations, 17, 2 (June 2011, online April 2010).
- “The Fallacy of the Failed State,” Third World Quarterly 29,8 (December 2008).
- “Knowing Peace When You See It: Setting Standards for Peacebuilding Success,” Civil Wars 10, 2 (June 2008), 174-195.
- “Ending Wars and Building Peace,” International Studies Perspectives 9,1 (February 2008), pp. 1-21 (with Elizabeth Cousens).
- “Democratization, War, and State-Building: Constructing the Rule of Law in El Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 35:4 (November 2003).
- “War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America.” Comparative Politics, 35:1 (October 2002).
- “On Democracy and Peacebuilding,” Global Governance 9,2 (Spring 2003), co-authored with Susan Cook.
Professor Ronald Fisher
- "Theories of Intergroup Conflict" in The Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. 2011.
- “Methods of Third-Party Intervention” in The Berghof Handbook II : 2011.
- “The Contingency Model for Third Party Interventions”, in Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, Volume 2. p 683-700. 2011.
- US Government Innovations in Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution: Implications for the IPCR Program (with IPCR alumni Sarah Beller and Graig Klein), 2010
- Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking. Lexington Books, 2005.
- Interactive Conflict Resolution. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
- "Assessing the Contingency Model of Third Party Intervention in Successful Cases of Prenegotiation," Journal of Peace Research, 2007.
- "Interactive Conflict Resolution," In I.W. Zartman (ed.), Peacemaking in International Conflict (rev. ed.). United States Institute of Peace, 2007.
- "Coordination Between Track Two and Track One Diplomacy in Successful Cases of Prenegotiation," International Negotiation, 2006.
- "Intergroup Conflict Resolution," In M. Deutsch, P.T. Coleman and E. Marcus (eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Resolution (2nd ed.), Jossey-Bass, 2006.
- "Interactive Conflict Resolution: A Social-Psychological Approach to Resolving Violent Ethnopolitical Conflict," In M. Fitzduff and C. Stout (eds.), The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflict, Volume 3: Intervention. Praeger, 2006.
- "Cyprus: The Failure of Mediation and the Escalation of an Identity-Based Conflict to an Adversarial Impasse,"Journal of Peace Research, 2001, pp. 307-326.
Professor Julie Mertus
- "Operation Allied Force: Handmaiden of Independent Kosovo." in International Affairs, 85.3: 461-76. 2009. Print.
- Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009. Print.
- Human Rights and Conflict. (Co-edited with J. Helsing). USIP, 2006.
- The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era. Routledge Press, 2005.
- Bait and Switch: Human Rights and American Foreign Policy. Routledge Press, 2004.
- War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000).
- Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999).
- Local Action/Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls. Primary author, in collaboration with Mallika Dutt and Nancy Flowers. Paradigm, 2008.
- Women's Human Rights, Step-by-Step. With Dorothy Thomas (Human Rights Watch) and Marge Schuler (Women, Law and Development). (Washington, DC: Women, Law and Development and Human Rights Watch, 1997).
- Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo (with Vlatka Mihelic). (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1994).
- Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations. Co-editor with Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega, John King and Johanna Herman. (Routledge 2009; 2010).
- Human Rights and Conflict.Co-editor with Jeff Helsing and contributor). (United States institute of Peace, 2006).
Professor Susan Shepler
- "Helping our Children will Help in the Reconstruction of our Country, Repatriated Refugee Teachers in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone and Liberia" in Educating Children in Conflict Zones: Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change—A Tribute to Jackie Kirk. Karen Mundy and Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Eds. Teachers College Press. 2011.
- "The Real and Symbolic Importance of Food in War: Hunger Pains and Big Men’s Bellies in Sierra Leone." in Africa Today. 58(2): 43-56. 2011.
- "Introduction to Special Issue: Everyday Life in Postwar Sierra Leone." (co-authored with A.F. Ibrahim ) in Africa Today. 58(2): v-xii. 2011.
- "The Rights of the Child: Global Discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone," in Journal of Human Rights, June 2005.
- "Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone." In Youthscapes: The Popular, The National, the Global. Edited by S. Maira and E. Soep. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- "Educated in War: The Rehabilitation of Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone." In Conflict Resolution and Peace Education in Africa. Edited by E. Uwazie. Lexington Books, 2003.
- "Child labour and youth enterprise: Post-war urban infrastructure and the bearing boys of Freetown." Anthropology Today. 26(6): 19-22. December 2010.
- "Youth Music and Politics in Postwar Sierra Leone." The Journal of Modern African Studies. 48(4). 627-642. 2010.
- "Transnational Fosterage: The Novel Care Arrangements between Guinean Caregivers and Ivorian and Liberian Children Fleeing War" in Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective. Cati Coe and Rachel Reynolds, Eds. Vanderbilt University Press. 2011.
- "Post-war trajectories for girls associated with the fighting forces in Sierra Leone." in Gender, War, and Militarism. Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via, Eds. Praeger Security International Series: Santa Barbara. 2010.
- "Shifting priorities in child protection in Sierra Leone since Lome" in Sierra Leone Beyond Lome: Challenges and Possibilities for a Post-War Nation, Marda Mustapha and Joseph Bangura, Eds. Palgrave. 2010.
- "Are child soldiers in Sierra Leone a new phenomenon?" in The Powerful Presence of the Past: Historical Dimensions of Integration and Conflict in the Upper Guinea Coast , sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Germany. Jacqueline Knorr and Wilson Trajano Filho, Eds. Brill Publishers. 2010.
- "Documenting Human Rights Abuses among the Diaspora: Lessons Learned from the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (co-authored with Patricia Minikon.) In Human Rights after the Cold War: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities. Noha Shawki and Michaelene Cox, editors. Ashgate Publishers.; 2009.
Professor Abdul-Aziz Said
- (co-authored by Sheherazade Jaffari )“ Islam & Peacemaking” in Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, Volume I. p 228-243. Praeger Security International, Ed.: Susan Allen Nan, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, and Andrea Bartoli. 2011.
- Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static. (Co-edited with M. Sharify-Funk and M. Abu-Nimer). Routledge Press, 2006.
- Cultural Diversity and Islam. (Co-edited with M. Sharify-Funk). University Press of America, 2003.
- "Toward a Global Community: Sufism and World Order," (co-authored with Nathan Funk) Religious Studies and Theology, September 2010, 29.1.
- "Localizing Peace: An Agenda for Sustainable Peacemaking," (co-authored with Nathan Funk), Peace and Conflict Studies, Spring 2010, 17.1.
- Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East, co-authored with Nathan Funk, 2009.
- The World of Islam, with Abdul Karim Bangura. Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004.
- Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice, co-edited with Nathan C. Funk and Ayse Kadayifici, University Press of America, 2001.
- "Vision 20/20: Future of the Middle East," editor, Search for Common Ground, 2001.
Professor Anthony Wanis-St. John
- “Ancient Peacemakers: Exemplars of Humanity” in Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, Volume 2. p 563-584. 2011.
- Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in Middle East Peacemaking. Syracuse University Press, 2010.
- Back Channels: Two Edged Sword of Peacemaking. 2008.
- "Peace Processes, Secret Negotiations, and Civil Society," in International Negotiation, Volume 13, number 1, 2008.
- "Cultural Pathways in Negotiation and Conflict Management," in Handbook of Dispute Resolution, edited by M. Moffitt and R. Bordone. Jossey-Bass Press, 2005.
- Conflict Prevention in the New Security Context: The Case of Macedonia (with Anton Grizold, Marina Mitrevska, Vlado Buchkovski), Open Society Institute of Macedonia, 2009).
- "Comparative Peace Processes," in T. McElwee, B.W. Hall, J. Liechty, J. Garber, eds., Peace, Justice and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7th ed. (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009).
- "Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Confronting Exclusion," International Negotiation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2008) with Darren Kew.
- "Back Channel Negotiation: International Bargaining in the Shadows," Negotiation Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (2006).
- "The National Security Council: Tool of Presidential Crisis Management," Journal of Public and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998): 102-127.
- "Third Party Mediation Over Kashmir: A Modest Proposal," International Peacekeeping vol. 4, no. 4 (1997): 1-30.

