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Conflict Resolution

Researchers

Michael Sulmeyer
Pre-doctoral Fellow
Sarah Zukerman Daly
Affiliate
James D. Fearon
Senior Fellow
  • Professor, Political Science
Kelly M. Greenhill
Visiting Professor
Bruce Jones
Consulting Professor
David Laitin
  • Professor, Political Science
  • Senior Fellow, Woods Institute
Gail W. Lapidus
Senior Fellow, Emerita
  • Professor, Political Science, Emerita
John W. Lewis
Senior Fellow, Emeritus
  • Professor, Political Science, Emeritus
Eric Morris
Visiting Scholar
Emily Meierding
Zukerman Fellow (2009-2010)
Brenna M. Powell
Pre-doctoral Fellow, CISAC; Visiting Scholar, CDDRL
Kenneth A. Schultz
  • Professor, Political Science
Stephen J. Stedman
Senior Fellow, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science
Jeremy M. Weinstein
Senior Fellow
  • Professor, Political Science
Allen S. Weiner
  • Senior Lecturer, Law

This area focuses on research related to failed states and state building, civil wars, conflict resolution and peacekeeping, refugees and democratic change.

Publications

Slaughter of the Innocents: Understanding Political Killing, Including Limited Terror but Especially Large-Scale Killing and Genocide
  • Pamela Ballinger
Peacemaking in Civil War: International Mediation in Zimbabwe, 1974-1980
  • Stephen J. Stedman
Peace Operations: From Short-Term to Long-Term Commitment
  • Stephen J. Stedman
    ;
  • Donald Rothchild
Refugee Manipulation: War, Politics, and the Abuse of Human Suffering
  • Stephen J. Stedman
    ;
  • Fred Tanner
Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements
  • Stephen J. Stedman
    ;
  • Donald Rothchild
    ;
  • Elizabeth M. Cousens
New Is Not Yet Born: Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa, The
  • Stephen J. Stedman
    ;
  • Thomas Ohlson
    ;
  • Robert Davies
Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes
  • Stephen J. Stedman
Alchemy for a New World Order: Overselling Preventive Diplomacy
  • Stephen J. Stedman
    ;
  • Stephen J. Stedman
New Interventionists, The
  • Stephen J. Stedman
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States
  • James Fearon
    ;
  • David Laitin
Iraq: Democracy or Civil War?
  • James D. Fearon
Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
  • Jeremy M. Weinstein
Primary Commodity Exports and Civil War
  • James D. Fearon
Separatist Wars, Partition, and World Order
  • James D. Fearon
Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia
  • Jeremy M. Weinstein
    ;
  • James D. Fearon
    ;
  • Macartan Humphreys
Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer Than Others?
  • James D. Fearon
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
  • James D. Fearon
    ;
  • David Laitin
Iraq's Civil War
  • James Fearon
On the Brink: Weak States and US National Security
  • Jeremy M. Weinstein
    ;
  • John Edward Porter
    ;
  • Stuart E. Eizenstat
    ;
  • Michael McFaul
Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War
  • Macartan Humphreys
    ;
  • Jeremy Weinstein
Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment
  • Jeremy Weinstein
Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia
  • Stephen J. Stedman
    ;
  • David Holloway
Mozambique: A Fading U.N. Success Story
  • Jeremy Weinstein
Africa's Revolutionary Deficit
  • Jeremy M. Weinstein
Ethnic and Nationalist Violence
  • David Laitin
    ;
  • Rogers Brubaker
Between Assertiveness and Insecurity: Russian Elite Attitudes and the Russia-Georgia Crisis
  • Gail W. Lapidus
Conjuring Spirits from the Vasty Deep: A User's Guide to Proposals for Strengthening UN Civilian Capacity in Peace Operations
  • Eric Morris

Multimedia

Iraq: The Way Forward
Scott D. Sagan
Poorly Governed Resource-Dependent States: Policy Options for the New Administration
Stephen Haber
-Stanford

Topics:

Civil Wars
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Conflict
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Governance
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Institutions and Organizations
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International Relations
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Migration and Citizenship
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Peacekeeping
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Security

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