All FSI Projects

Ongoing

Conflict Resolution

Researchers

Michael Sulmeyer

Investigator

Sarah Zukerman Daly

Investigator

James D. Fearon

Investigator

Kelly M. Greenhill

Investigator

Bruce Jones

Investigator

David Laitin

Investigator

Gail W. Lapidus

Investigator

John W. Lewis

Investigator

Eric Morris

Investigator

Emily Meierding

Investigator

Brenna M. Powell

Investigator

Kenneth A. Schultz

Investigator

Stephen J. Stedman

Investigator

Jeremy M. Weinstein

Investigator

Allen S. Weiner

Investigator

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

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

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Refugee Manipulation: War, Politics, and the Abuse of Human Suffering

Stephen J. Stedman

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Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements

Stephen J. Stedman

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New Is Not Yet Born: Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa, The

Stephen J. Stedman

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Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes

Stephen J. Stedman

Alchemy for a New World Order: Overselling Preventive Diplomacy

Stephen J. Stedman

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Stephen J. Stedman

New Interventionists, The

Stephen J. Stedman

Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States

James D. Fearon

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David Laitin

Iraq: Democracy or Civil War?

James D. Fearon

Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence

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

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James D. Fearon

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Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer Than Others?

James D. Fearon

Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

James D. Fearon

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David Laitin

Iraq's Civil War

James D. Fearon

Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War

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Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment

Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia

Stephen J. Stedman

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David Holloway

Mozambique: A Fading U.N. Success Story

Africa's Revolutionary Deficit

Ethnic and Nationalist Violence

David Laitin

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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

Multimedia

Iraq: The Way Forward (Audio)

Audio

Scott D. Sagan

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William J. Perry

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James D. Fearon

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Larry Diamond

Topics:

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

Events

Seminars

Bankruptcy, Guns or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories

Thursday, November 12, 2009
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Seminars

Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion? Evidence From a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia

Thursday, May 28, 2009
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Workshops

Poorly Governed Resource-Dependent States: Policy Options for the New Administration

Friday, March 13, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Seminars

Locating the Oil Wars

Thursday, December 4, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Seminars

Insurgent State-Building

Thursday, June 5, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Seminars

Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents' Choices after Civil War

Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Seminars

Counterinsurgency Without Killing: Public Goods and Violence in the Iraqi Civil War

Thursday, November 8, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)

Seminars

Leaders, Accountability and Foreign Policy in Non-Democracies

Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)