Our faculty are experts in the causes, conduct, management, and consequences of conflict, as well as human rights, forced migration, and criminal violence. They direct a number of large research projects supported by external funding.
Javier Osorio is a collaborator on this Department of Defense funded project on the characteristics and causes of Armed Non-State Actor’s governance in Colombia and Afghanistan.
Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns
Jessica Braithwaite is a co-PI on this USIP and Norwegian Research Council funded project exploring how networks of organizations in collective dissent influence democratization.
Alex Braithwaite and Faten Ghosn are co-PIs on this US Department of Defense funded project designing tools for the analysis of data on refugee movements out of conflict zones.
Javier Osorio is the founder of this project supported by USAID-El Salvador that seeks to build institutional capacity on citizen security policies in the Northern Triangle region of Central America.
Jessica Braithwaite is a Co-PI on this project examining the roots of rebellion by considering the characteristics and activities of the "parent" organizations from which rebel groups emerged.
This network builds community among scholars of political and social conflict that work at universities in the four corner states: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
Alex Braithwaite
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International relations
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Refugees and forced migration
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Violent and nonviolent conflict
Jessica Maves Braithwaite
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International relations
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Violent and nonviolent conflict
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Human rights and repression
Susan Brewer-Osorio
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Comparative politics
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Latin American politics
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Peace and conflict
Michael Burgoyne
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Western Hemisphere security policy
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Transnational organized crime
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Defense policy and strategy
Cameron Mailhot
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International organizations
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Peace and conflict processes
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Statebuilding and reconstruction
H. Brinton Milward
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Interorganizational networks
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Illegal and covert networks
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Public management
Javier Osorio
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Comparative politics
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Political and criminal violence
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Natural language processing
Lori Poloni-Staudinger
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Terrorism and political violence
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Social movements
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Women and politics
Kirssa Cline Ryckman
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International relations
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Violent and nonviolent conflict
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Civilians in conflict