Professor

Dr. Ronald Fisher is a professor of International Relations in the division of International Peace and Conflict Resolution. He was the founding coordinator of the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, a... [More]

Professor

Mohammed Abu-Nimer, of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, serves as Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute. He has conducted interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in confl... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Mubarak Awad is the Founder and national President of the Youth Advocate Program, which provides alternative foster care and counseling to "at risk" youth and their families. He is also the Founder of the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonvi... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Charles “Chuck” Call, an assistant professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, focuses on post-conflict peacebuilding, democratization, human rights and policing and justice reform. He has conducted field research in all of Central ... [More]

Assistant Professor

After receiving her Ph.D. from the School of International Service, Dr. Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt returned as SIS’s post-doctoral scholar in residence for the 2008-9 academic year. Now an assistant professor, her academic research interest in civil so... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Adina Friedman holds a PhD from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Dr. Friedman grew up in Israel, and has worked and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and parts of Europe. Her research intere... [More]

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Joseph Groves formerly served as a professor of religious studies and the director of peace and conflict studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, for 20 years and is a founding member of and continues to work with the Beloved Community Cent... [More]

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Instructor

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah advised and worked on the national and international levels on strategic projects related to: conflict prevention, mitigation, and recovery; leadership and program development and research; gender equality and women’s empowerm... [More]

Assistant Professor

Lynn Kunkle is an assistant professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution with interests in religion, culture, U.S. foreign policy, Islam and Western relations and the Middle East. She is an expert of interfaith dialogue and has traveled a... [More]

Adjunct Assistant Professor

At American University, Tarek Farouk Maassarani is a lecturer in the field of peacebuilding and an adviser to the Dialogue Development Group. He also provides dispute resolution services, including mediation, dialogue facilitation, training, peace ed... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Adjunct Professor

Professor

Professor Julie Mertus is the co-director of Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs. She has written widely on human rights and gender, conflict, the Balkans, U.S. foreign policy and U.N. institutions. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Ba... [More]

Assistant Professor

Shadi Mokhtari specializes in human rights, Middle East Politics and Political Islam. She has an extensive background in human rights and women’s rights issues in the Middle East and Muslim World. She is the Editor in Chief of the Muslim World Journa... [More]

Assistant Professor

As a visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute, Dr. Neufeldt examined the relationship between religious and ethnic identity in inter-group conflict and peacebuilding. She specifically investigated the effects of a ten-year int... [More]

Assistant Professor

Kwaku Nuamah is an assistant professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution. As a practitioner, Dr. Nuamah has worked in the international development and conflict resolution fields, including as director of research for the Democracy Coal... [More]

Assistant Professor

Ekaterina Romanova has received her PhD from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Her dissertation research focuses on the challenges of identity formation in the context of varying immigration trends in today’... [More]

Professor

Dr. Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the endowed Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Shepler's research interests include youth and conflict, reintegration of former child soldiers, post-conflict reconstruction, refugees, education and economic development, NGOs and globalization, and childhood studies. In addition to her academi... [More]

Scholar in Residence

Scholar in Residence

Before becoming a scholar, Professor Margaret Smith worked for some years for the peacemaking NGO Initiatives of Change. She did her doctoral research and the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and was for five years as an associate of the Program on... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Anthony Wanis-St. John researches international negotiation, military negotiations, ceasefires, humanitarian negotiations and peace processes. He has created several advanced courses on negotiation for SIS, ranging from interpersonal skills and ... [More]

Adjunct Instructor

Since 1981, Barbara Wien has worked to stop human rights abuses, violence and war. She has protected civilians from death squads in conflict zones, led eight nonprofit organizations, taught alternatives to war and violence at six universities, and d... [More]