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Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty who are taking a philosophical and ethical approach to today’s global challenges.

Department Chair

Research interests

  • Internal dynamics of insurgent and paramilitary groups
  • DDR
  • Dynamics of post-conflict violence

Department Director of Graduate Studies

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

  kuraduse@american.edu

Research interests

  • Human rights
  • Social movements
  • Genocide

SIS Faculty

Research interests

  • Middle East
  • Islam
  • Nonviolence
  • Peace

Research interests

  • Environment
  • Development

Research interests

  • Extractive industries and conflict
  • Countering violent extremism
  • Localizing peace
  • Art and post-war healing

Research interests

  • Humanitarian interventions
  • Sustainable development
  • Global health

Research interests

  • Dialogue facilitation
  • Human rights
  • Collective memory
  • Democratization

Research interests

  • Human rights
  • Middle East politics
  • Political Islam

Research interests

  • International negotiation

Pek Koon Heng-Blackburn Assistant Prof Emerita

Research interests

  • International relations
  • Political economy of Asia

CAS Faculty