Research Projects
Peacebuilding through Service Delivery
This multi-year, collaborative research project seeks to improve both the theory and practice of how peace is achieved in post-conflict countries by disentangling the related goals of peacebuilding and statebuilding. It does so by focusing on the ability of three post-conflict states to provide public services and resolve societal grievances at the local level. It also seeks to understand how externally led peacebuilding interventions compare with more autonomous and domestically motivated peace processes in achieving sustainable peace and improvements in state capacity. This project is supported by the Minerva Initiative and undertaken in collaboration with Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo of the Naval Postgraduate School. Field research in Laos, Cambodia and Uganda began in summer 2014.
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Identity and Post-Conflict Education Reform in the former Yugoslavia
International Peacebuilding and the Politics of Identity: Lessons from Social Psychology using the Bosnian Case.
Published in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 8 (1) in 2014. This paper argues that international peacebuilding efforts must be understood as identity-building projects and applies what we know from social psychology about identity processes to post-conflict peacebuilding. Public Education and Social Reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Published in Eric Stover and Harvey Weinstein, (eds.), My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community after Mass Atrocity. London: Cambridge University Press in 2004. With Sarah Freedman, Dinka Corkalo, Dino Abazovic, Bronwyn Leebaw, Dean Adjukovic, Dino Djipa, and Harvey Weinstein. Learning National Identity: Post-Conflict Schooling Effects. This working paper assesses the effects of school organization and curricular content on students' identities in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. It finds that curricula designed to strengthen one ethno-national group's culture and identity might unintentionally foster nationalism in all the students who attend the school. |
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