PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

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

Mustafa Rezaie, Mustafa Rezaie – Pilot CBE Program in Jaghori District

Class 21 (2022-2024)
Home Country: Afghanistan

Mustafa Rezaie, Mustafa Rezaie – Promoting Education in a Conflict Zone: A policy recommendation to address illiteracy in rural communities in Afghanistan

Class 21 (2022-2024)
Home Country: Afghanistan

Mustafa Rezaie, Mustafa Rezaie – Participatory Budgeting: A Growing Approach for Citizen Empowerment in Marginalized Communities and Promoting SDGs

Class 21 (2022-2024)
Home Country: Afghanistan

Patrick Bwire – Building peace through young adult peace champions in Uganda

Class 15 (2016-2018)
Home Country: Uganda

Patrick Bwire – Disarming the Minds of War: The Story of a Peace Champion in Uganda

Class 15 (2016-2018)
Home Country: Uganda

Aung Aung – The International Politics of the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: China, Japan, and the United States

Class 8 (2009-2011)
Home Country: Myanmar

Kiran Singh Sirah – TEDxNashville--Storytelling: A Peaceful Power

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

Kiran Singh Sirah – Kiran Singh Sirah

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

Dilshad Jaff – Conflict, famine, outbreaks, and a pandemic: a deadly mix, in Academia Letters, 2022

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Silviya Nitsova – Ukraine’s oligarchs are united against Russia

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Bulgaria

Asha Asokan – Is Sudan heading to another dictatorship?

Class 17 (2018-2020)
Home Country: India

Dilshad Jaff – The use of chemical weapons: unhealed scars from contemporary mass atrocities. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 1 August 2021.

Class 12 (2013-2015)
Home Country: Iraq

Barbara Santibañez – Teaching human rights at school: a survey of persisting challenges to the practice

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Chile

Barbara Santibañez – COVID-19 and learning assessments: Taking stock of the lessons learned

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Chile

Barbara Santibañez – What’s new in student performance? Insights from the latest large-scale learning assessments

Class 14 (2015-2017)
Home Country: Chile

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.

Kiran Singh 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

Kiran Singh 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.