Research Assistant Openings
2008-09 Conflict Resolution Program Research Assistants are contributing to the following projects:
- Professor Andy Bennett, Government Department
Topics: How the proponents of intervention in Iraq - - politicians, pundits, academics, and others - - explain to themselves and others why their predictions did not match expectations; and Russia's intervention in Chechnya
- Professor Fathali Moghaddam, Psychology Department
Topics: intergroup relations, terrorism & democracy; Parent's Circle
- Professor Charles Villa-Vicencio, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Topic: tracking political developments in the Sudan and Mozambique
- Jessica Raper, Office of the President, Georgetown University
Topic: Georgetown University AIDS Network Initiative
- Professor Susan Martin, Institute for the Study of International Migration
Topics: role of diasporas in conflict and crisis; women, migration and conflict; Jesuit Humanitarian Action Network
- Professor Scott D. Taylor, African Studies
Topic: project on leadership, accountability and impunity in Africa
- Professor Tom Banchoff, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Topic: Database work around questions of religion, violence, and reconciliation
- Professor Clyde Wilcox, Government Department
Topics: Attitudes toward the Gulf War, and torture
- Professor Craig Zelizer, Conflict Resolution Program
Topics: The role of peace commissions in conflict zones and careers in the field
- Professor Tristan Mabry, Government Department
Topics: Ethnic identity and Islam in conflict
Research Assistant positions are open to all students in the Georgetown Conflict Resolution Master of Arts program. Applications will be accepted until September 15 at conflictresolution@georgetown.edu . The positions are paid.