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Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty that are leading tomorrow's peacebuilders, today.

Department Chair

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

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Research interests

  • Human Rights
  • Social Movements
  • Genocide

Department Director of Graduate Studies

Research interests

  • Global racialization
  • Migration
  • Education
  • Geopolitics of war

Core Faculty

Research interests

  • Middle East
  • Islam
  • Nonviolence and peace
  • Interfaith dialogue

Research interests

  • Extractive industries and conflict
  • Countering violent extremism
  • Localizing peace
  • Art and post war healing

Research interests

  • Dialogue facilitation
  • Human rights
  • Collective memory
  • Democratization

Research interests

  • Conflict analysis
  • Mediation and negotiation training
  • Early warning and conflict prevention, African political risk consulting
  • Good governance advocacy

Research interests

  • Youth and conflict
  • Migration crises
  • Post-conflict reconstruction
  • Education and development

Research interests

  • Organized violence by non-state actors
  • Urban politics 

Anthony Wanis-St. John Associate Professor SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Research interests

  • International negotiation
  • Implementation problems in peace processes
  • Civil society and peace
  • Complex adaptive systems

Research interests

  • Political economy of conflict
  • Post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction 

Research interests

  • Transitional justice
  • Refugees and forcible displacement 
  • Gender and conflict and peacebuilding

Research interests

  • Violent, non-violent, and self-violent conflict
  • Contentious organizations in South Asia