People

Fathali Moghaddam, Ph.D. is Director of the Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution and Professor of Psychology. His research and teaching interests include psychological processes associated with inter-group conflict, collective aggression, perceived injustice (particularly human duties and rights), terrorism, culture and democracy, and policies for managing diversity.

Craig Zelizer, Ph.D. is Associate Director of the MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Visiting Assistant Professor. His areas of expertise include working with youth from violent conflict regions, civil society development and capacity building in transitional societies, program evaluation and design, working on conflict sensitivity and mainstreaming across development sectors, and arts and peacebuilding.

Michael Bailey, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government. He is the Col. William J. Walsh Chair in American Government and specializes in political economy, statistical analysis and the United States Congress.

Thomas Banchoff, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Government and works on European integration, globalization, and the role of values and religion in politics.

Claudia Fetter is a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, and has many years of experience with multiple aspects of Conflict Resolution as a practitioner and trainer, having conducted training programs for the World Bank and the Harvard Program on Negotiation and worked with organizations like the Conflict Management Group and USAID on field-based, post-conflict programming.

Lise M. Howard, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Government. She specializes in theories of conflict resolution, peacekeeping, area studies of Africa and the Balkans, and international relations.

Carol Lancaster, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Government Department and in the School of Foreign Service, and Director, Mortara Center for International Studies. Her areas of expertise include foreign aid, development and democracy in Africa, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as political organizations.

Kathleen Maas Weigert, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service and Research Professor in both Sociology and the Program on Justice and Peace. She specializes in experiential and community-based learning and education for justice and peace.

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, J.D., LL.D. is A.B. Chettle, Jr. Professor of Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure and Director of the Georgetown Hewlett Fellowship Program in Conflict Resolution and Problem-Solving at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a national expert in alternative dispute resolution, the legal profession, legal ethics, clinical legal education, feminist legal theory, and women in the legal profession.

Jessica Raper, J.D., M.A.  is Senior Assistant to the President for Initiatives at Georgetown University, where she incubates strategic initiatives that require the development of collaborations within and outside the university community. Her priority areas of focus include health systems development and conflict resolution. Ms. Raper’s research and teaching interests include dispute resolution in transitional justice settings and the integration of customary dispute resolution mechanisms into developing formalized legal systems.

Scott D. Taylor, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service and Director of the African Studies Program.  His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of African politics and political economy, with a particular emphasis on business-state relations, anti-corruption programs, warlords, and economic reform.

Alan C. Tidwell, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies in the School of Foreign Service. He specializes in conflict resolution and education, conflict in the Australasian region, and organizational conflict management.

Catherine Tinsley, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Business. She specializes in international negotiations, the effects of diversity on group performance, and the roles of gender, culture, perceptions of fairness, and reputation in the management of conflict.

Elizabeth Z. Waetzig, J.D. is a Research Instructor with the Center for Child and Human Development at the Georgetown University Medical Center. An attorney by training, she specializes in mediation, negotiation, and systems change in health care and child serving systems.

Clyde Wilcox, Ph.D. is Professor of Government. He writes on public opinion and electoral behavior, religion and politics, gender politics, and the politics of social issues such as abortion, gay rights, and gun control.


Adjunct Faculty 2009-2010 

Beatrice Pouligny, Ph.D., "Conflict Resolution Theory"

Charles Villa-Vicencio, Ph.D., Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa
"Transnational Justice" and "Post-Conflict Transformation in Africa"