- Erin Baines
Key Publications:
- "Token Forces: How Tiny Troop Deployments became Ubiquitous in UN Peacekeeping" - 2022
- “Historical Ownership and Territorial Disputes”, Journal of Politics, 2020
- “China’s Evolving Motivations and Goals in UN Peacekeeping Participation”, International Journal, 2018
- “U.S. Military Aid and Recipient Country Cooperation”, Foreign Policy Analysis, 2011
See Xiaojun Li's full profile here
Current projects: “Let our ballots secure what our bullets have won:” Union Veterans and Voting for Radical Reconstruction
See Michael Weaver's full profile here.
Key Publications:
- "Token Forces: How Tiny Troop Deployments became Ubiquitous in UN Peacekeeping" - 2022
- “Downsizing in UN Peacekeeping: The Impact on Civilian Peacekeepers and the Missions Employing Them” International Peacekeeping, 2020
- “Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Potential Perils of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations” International Studies Review, 2020
- “Peacekeeping for Profit? The Scope and Limitations of ‘Mercenary’ UN Peacekeeping” Journal of Peace Research, 2018
Current projects: Local Staff in UN Peace Operations
See Katharina Coleman's full profile here.
Current projects: Darts and Letters: Podcasting for Intellectual Knowledge Mobilization in the 21st Century
See Allen Sens' full profile here.
Key publications:
- “Creating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism” International Studies Quarterly, 2013.
- A conceptual unpacking of ‘hybridity’: Accounting for notions of power, politics & progress in analyses of aid driven interfaces” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2013
- 'Resisting Securitized and Militarized Understandings of Protection: Aesthetics as Counterpower' International Politics, 2018'
Not currently teaching a graduate seminar; please contact if interested in Directed Studies
See Jenny Peterson's full profile here.
Key publications:
- 'Myth of International Order: Why weak states persist and alternatives to the state fade away' - 2018
- 'Sovereignty and Sovereign Power' - 2014
- 'Practices of Theory' - 2011
Not currently teaching a graduate seminar; please contact if interested in Directed Studies
See Arjun Chowdhury's full profile here.
Key publications:
- "Unspeakable: reflections on relational approaches to research in post-conflict settings", Peacebuilding, 2024
- "‘Together at the heart’: Familial relations and the social reintegration of ex-combatants" , International Peacekeeping, 2022
- "Complex political perpetrators: reflections on Dominic Ongwen", The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2009
- "The haunting of Alice: Local approaches to justice and reconciliation in Northern Uganda", The International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2007
- "‘This is how we survived’: Civilian agency and humanitarian protection", Security Dialogue, 2012
- "‘Today, I want to speak out the truth’ : Victim agency, responsibility, and transitional justice", International Political Sociology, 2015
Grants: SSHRC Partnership Grant: Transformative Memories in the aftermaths of political violence (Co-PI, 2024-2029)
See Erin Baines's full profile here.
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