Georgetown’s M.A. in Conflict Resolution supports the active research agendas of its students and faculty.
Balcells, Laia. 2017. Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Balcells, Laia, Valeria Palanza, and Elsa Voytas. 2020. “Do transitional justice museums persuade visitors? Evidence from a field experiment.” Accepted for publication at The Journal of Politics.
Balcells, Laia. 2018. “Dynamics of Internal Resettlement During Civil War. Evidence from Catalonia (1936-1939).” Journal of Peace Research 55(2): 236-251.
Balcells, Laia and Christopher Sullivan. 2018. “New Findings from Conflict Archives: An Introduction and Methodological Framework.” Journal of Peace Research 55(2): 137-146.
Collin, Katherine. 2020. “Peacemaking referendums: The use of direct democracy in peace processes.” Democratization 27 (3).
Collin, Katherine. 2019. “Peacemaking Referendums in Oceania: Making or Delaying Peace in New Caledonia and Bougainville.” Ethnopolitics 18 (2): 139-157.
Collin, Katherine. 2019. “Populist and authoritarian referendums: the role of direct democracy in democratic deconsolidation.” The Brookings Institution.
Girod, Desha M. 2015. Explaining Post-conflict Reconstruction. New York, Oxford University Press.
Girod, Desha M. 2019 “How to Win Friends and Influence Development: Optimising US Foreign Assistance.” Survival, Global Politics and Strategy 16(6): 99-114.
Girod, Desha M, Megan A Stewart, and Meir R Walters. 2018. “Mass protests and the resource curse: The politics of demobilization in rentier autocracies.” Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science 35(5): 503-522.
Girod, Desha M, and Jennifer L. Tobin. 2016. “Take the money and run: The determinants of compliance with aid agreements.” International Organization 70(1): 209-239.
Howard, Lise Morjé. 2019. Power in Peacekeeping. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Howard, Lise. 2019. “Peacekeeping is Not Counterinsurgency.” International Peacekeeping 26(5): 545-548.
Howard, Lise Morjé and Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal. 2018. The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping. International Organization 72I(1):1-33.
Howard, Lise Morjé and Alexandra Stark. 2018. “How civil wars end: The international system, norms, and the role of external actors” International Security 42(3):127-171.
Nugent, Elizabeth and Chantal Berman. 2018. “Ctrl-Alt-Revolt? Online and Online Networks during the 2011 Egyptian Uprising.” Middle East Law and Governance 10(1): 59-90.
SJ Fernandez (G ’20), Yanxi Liu (G’ 20) and Kristina Zanzinger (G ’20) for the North American Center for Latin America: “Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue”
March 5th, 2021
In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed longstanding challenges in combatting gender…
Professor Laia Balcells interviewed in La Vanguardia
February 6th, 2021
Laia Balcells: Entender mejor la guerra es importante para la política actual “En “Rivalidad y venganza. La política de la violencia en las guerras civiles”, Laia Balcells (Granollers,…
Caroline Brazill (G ’20) and Imrul Islam (G ’20) for Inkstick Media:
February 5th, 2021
HOW THE UNITED STATES CAN LOOK INWARD After repeated calls for unity, it’s time to seriously prioritize conflict resolution. Brazill and Islam, reflecting on the January 6, 2020 insurrection…
Professor Chantal Berman recently published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies
January 1st, 2021
“Islamists were the Arab Spring’s largest immediate beneficiaries, yet Islamist parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco played markedly different roles in the historic uprisings of 2011. Why was…
Founder of the Conflict Resolution program, Professor Lise Howard’s research was profiled on PRI’s The World
December 1st, 2020
Peacekeeping work: Part I “This week, Critical State, our global security newsletter, takes a deep dive into the rationale behind peacekeeping missions. A political science Voltron came…
