PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

Below you will find links to papers, videos and and articles by and about our alumni.

Asha Asokan – The United Nations Children and Armed Conflict Agenda: Integrating Child Protection Issues and Children’s Voices in Peace Processes

Class 17 (2018-2020)
Home Country: India

Daniel Auguste – Who Becomes a Business Owner in High-Inequality Regimes? The Conditioning Effect of Economic Inequality on the Impact of Individual Educational and Financial Endowment on Entrepreneurship

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: Haiti

Daniel Auguste – Exclusive Religious Beliefs and Social Capital: Unpacking Nuances in the Relationship between Religion and Social Capital Formation

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: Haiti

Sarah Champagne – ‘I’m shooting images instead of people.’ A former guerrilla changes his lens.

Class 17 (2018-2020)
Home Country: Canada

Daniela Schermerhorn – Big Debates of Development: Challenges and Opportunities of Brazil Memo to the Incoming Administration

Class 15 (2016-2018)
Home Country: Brazil

Asha Asokan – The Power Of Nonviolent Action In An Increasingly Violent World

Class 17 (2018-2020)
Home Country: India

Chenai Kadungure, Chenai Kadungure – Voices from the Field: "Twinning" for sustainability in Malawi

Class 15 (2016-2018)
Home Country: Zimbabwe

Limabenla Jamir – Meet The Young Woman Whose Organisation Is Revolutionizing Youth Leadership In The Conflict-Affected Nagaland

Class 17 (2018-2020)
Home Country: India

Sajjad Hussain – Pashtun Lives Matter

Class 16 (2017-2019)
Home Country: Pakistan

Sajjad Hussain – It’s Not Just the U.S. with a Gerrymandering Problem — Look at Pakistan

Class 16 (2017-2019)
Home Country: Pakistan

Hayley Welgus – Teen dating violence: a culture of change starts in our classrooms

Class 15 (2016-2018)
Home Country: Australia

Daniela Schermerhorn – Addressing Brazil’s national Plan to combat the Use of Crack Cocaine

Class 15 (2016-2018)
Home Country: Brazil

Mariana Abdalla – Finn

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Brazil

Mariana won many awards for her documentary film titled “Finn” about a 81-year-old Danish retired bricklayer that lost his wife and traveled abroad for the first time after her passing in 2015.

Gabriel Maisonnave – The Chronicles of Peace Project

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Argentina

This project seeks to record and share the stories of those individuals working in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Barbara Santibañez, Dr. Catherine Honeyman, Director of Ishya Consulting – Chile’s Education Quality Assurance Agency

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Chile

Geysar Gurbanov – America’s homegrown radicals: the alt-right

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Azerbaijan

Geysar Gurbanov – The New Cold War

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Azerbaijan

Dilshad Jaff, Johanna Schubert, Barbara Stilwell, Mary Surya – Violence, Armed Conflict and the Burden of Mental Illness in the Middle East and Beyond. (Book Chapter). 1st edition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK). p. 168 – 191.

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff, Verina Wild, N. Sarita Shah, Mike Frick – Tuberculosis, human rights and ethics considerations along the route of a highly vulnerable migrant from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD), 21(10):1075–1085.

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff – Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Iraqi Kurdistan: a challenge. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 33(3): 212-215. DOI

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff – How can we be useful in conflict zones and complex emergencies? Carolina Public Health Magazine, 3(1): 43-44

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff – A Public Health Initiative to Address Road Traffic Accidents in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. World Family Medicine/Middle East Journal of Family Medicine, 16(2): 280-284. World Family Medicine

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff – The role of palliative care in addressing the health needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff – Mental Health Needs in Forcibly Displaced Populations: Critical Reflections. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 34(1): 10-12

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff – Ungovernable life: mandatory medicine and statecraft in Iraq. Book review. Medicine, Conflict and Survival

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Dilshad Jaff, Kavita Singh, Lewis Margolis – Targeting Health Care in Armed Conflicts and Emergencies: Is It Underestimated? Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 32(1): 21-29.

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Silvia Fontana, Maria Rosaria Garofalo, Flor Avila Hernandez – Governance and Human Development

Class 11 (2012-2014)
Home Country: Italy

Silvia co-authored a section on the complexity of theories and practices on sustainable human development, with a focus on SDG16, in Springer’s Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance.

Kirandeep Sirah – Fostering peace through stories

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: United Kingdom

Daniel Auguste – Income Inequality, Globalization, and the Welfare State: Evidence from 23 Industrial Countries, 1990–2009

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: Haiti

Kirandeep Sirah – Telling Stories that Matter: A Toolkit

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: United Kingdom

Kirandeep Sirah developed “Telling Stories that Matter: A Toolkit” during his Applied Field Experience with Partners for Democratic Change in the Summer of 2012. The toolkit is available online, and can be downloaded for free.

Rachel Rafferty – Understanding the cultural dimension of intractable conflict: What are the implications for peace education practice?

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: United Kingdom

Jessica Butcher Trijsburg, Katie Kuschminder – Advanced Academic Update Overview: Return, Reintegration and Development

Class 10 (2011-2013)
Home Country: Australia

Ali Reza Eshraghi – Debunking the Rafsanjani myth

Class 9 (2010-2012)
Home Country: Iran

Ali Reza Eshraghi – Iran’s proposed cabinet: The old guard is back in charge

Class 9 (2010-2012)
Home Country: Iran

Aung Aung – Emerging Political Configurations in the Run-up to the 2020 Myanmar Elections

Class 8 (2009-2011)
Home Country: Myanmar

Aung Aung – Understanding Ethnic Political Parties in Myanmar: The Cases of Mon and Karen States

Class 8 (2009-2011)
Home Country: Myanmar

Aung Aung – Myanmar’s Current Politics: Implications for the 2020 General Elections

Class 8 (2009-2011)
Home Country: Myanmar

Anabella Palacios, Brigit Helms – The Sharing Economy can Transform Economic Development

Class 8 (2009-2011)
Home Country: Argentina

Aung Aung – Promoting Democracy in Myanmar

Class 8 (2009-2011)
Home Country: Myanmar

Juan Esteban Ugarriza – The Relevance of Ideology to Contemporary Armed Conflicts: A Quantitative Analysis of Former Combatants in Colombia

Class 4 (2005-2007)
Home Country: Colombia

Martín Kunik – Why Anti-Peronism is a Mistake

Class 4 (2005-2007)
Home Country: Argentina

(Article is in Spanish)

Stephanie Borsboom – Climate Change in Nepal and Bangladesh: Some Evidence

Class 4 (2005-2007)
Home Country: Netherlands

Stephanie Borsboom lives and works in the country that has become her second home – Nepal. Her small NGO is still running well and they have now completed the construction of over 30 schools, 50 water supply systems with many more in the pipeline. In addition, her job at the World Bank has proven to be extremely challenging and interesting. She is now working in the water resources, climate change and environment unit and had the opportunity to work on the project in this video.

Mitchell O’Brien – Benchmarking and Self-Assessment for Parliaments

Class 1 (2002-2004)
Home Country: Australia

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