Oliver Kaplan is an Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of the book, Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which examines how civilian communities organize to protect themselves from wartime violence. He was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and previously a postdoctoral Research...
In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from dif…
What happens when a research subject becomes a research and briefing partner? In 2017, I was contacted by the peacebuilding NGO Peace Direct to contribute to a policy report on community-based atrocities prevention. I invited a local peacebuilder I knew from Colombia to partner with me in the endeavor. We co-facilitated an online forum and drafted a chapter for the report. We then shared our findings – plus her experiences and my...
Trey is a Data Scientist with the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and received his PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include the dynamics and consequences of violence, mass atrocities, spatial analysis, and causal inference. His work...
Sooyeon Kang is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and a non-resident Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights (Harvard Kennedy School). She received her doctorate from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) and was a 2020-2021 Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace as well as a 2020-2021 Doctoral Research...
You’re not going to like this book.
Ron E. Hassner (PhD, Stanford University 2003) is Chancellors Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley. His research focuses on religion and conflict, territorial and border disputes, intelligence analysis, and Israel Studies. He is the author of Religion on the Battlefield (Cornell 2016), Religion in the Military Worldwide (Cambridge, 2013), and War on Sacred Grounds (Cornell, 2009).
At its core, the current war in Ukraine reflects an incompatibility of nationalist narratives. Many Ukrainians want to escape Russia’s imperial shadow. Putin wants to reextend that shadow – to erase Ukraine as an independent national identity.
The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.
Stuart J. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Dr. Kaufman taught at the University of Kentucky from 1990 to 2004. He spent 1999 working as Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council staff. Dr. Kaufman specializes in ethnic conflict, international security affairs and international relations history, and he is the author of two...
I hold a PhD in history from the University of Virginia. Like many graduate students, I began my doctoral program hoping to become a professor. When I decided to pursue a different career, my university didn’t know how to advise me. Here’s what I learned about finding a non-academic job.