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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, University of Essex, a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science, University College London, and a Teaching Assistant in the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde.
My research focuses on the micro-dynamics of militant violence. In particular, I study militants’ target selection, tactic selection, and use of terrorism in civil conflict. I am interested, more broadly, in rebel governance and the spatial profile of violence. I also take an interest in quantitative methods (causal inference, maximum likelihood, and spatial econometrics).
I have previously worked as an Analyst and Researcher for Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), AKE International, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), E-International Relations (E-IR), Global Risk Insights, the School of Government and Public Policy, and the House of Commons (UK Parliament).
My doctoral research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and affiliated with the Urban Violence Research Network. I am also a member of the Conflict and Change Group in the Department of Political Science, University College London.
My website: blairwelsh.com
Twitter: @blairwelsh_
LinkedIn: blairwelsh
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I'm a professor in the Political Science Department at Northwestern University and have worked for over 20 years as a lawyer (J.D. 1989) and researcher (Ph.D. 2003) in refugee and forced migration studies. As an action researcher, I work relationally with communities both in the United States and internationally to design solutions and broaden our understandings of the rights and processes of refugee protection and the role of law and policy in settlement and inclusion in host societies.
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I am an Assistant Professor in computational political science at University Mohamed VI Polytechnique (Rabat, Morocco) and a Young Fellow in the Forced Displacement program of the World Bank.
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I direct the World Food Policy Center at Duke University and am Professor of Public Policy and former Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke. We do international and domestic work with equity and food justice at the center of it all.
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Dr Deon Cloete (PhD) is a systemic innovation specialist that researches the roles of cross-scale change agents in co-creating transformative change through complex adaptive systems applications in social-ecological/social-technical systems. He is an experienced facilitator of complexity thinking, systems change, and strategic foresight interventions with a focus on ‘systems change co-curation’ for just transitions. He researches and consults national, regional, continental, and global stakeholders in the health, mining, automotive, and energy sectors, but also a wide range of other development agencies, research groups and organisations, national and local governments. As Lead of SAIIA Futures programme he responsible for conducting complexity-informed research to advance futures literacy and anticipatory governance in the context of disruptive technologies, providing policy and planning decision support for leaders, decision-makers, policymakers, and multilateral institutions. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, School for Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, and has presented his research internationally. He is also a guest lecturer at various institutions and speaker in a variety of platforms on Complex Adaptive Systems, Systemic Change, Organisational and Systemic Design, Futures Literacy, Strategic Foresight, Anticipatory Governance, Systems Entrepreneurship, and Systemic Innovation. Deon has 20 years of business experience and currently holds a position as Director at Step Above Aerial Technologies and Mapping. He’s also the Founder and Principal Consultant of Transformability, a small consultancy that facilitates systemic change interventions, systems leadership journeys and workshops.
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Lead Social Policy Advisor at the Economic Policy Research Institute with 10+ years of research and policy advisory experience from 30 countries in inclusive social policies and integrated social protection systems, and interventions. I specialize in risk and vulnerability assessments and the design and evaluation of evidence-informed social protection policies and programmes.
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Professor Martina Linnenluecke leads the Center for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance at Macquarie University which brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading experts in the areas of corporate sustainability and environmental finance.
The Centre has worldwide reach and impact by demonstrating a financial case for action on environmental and social change, with projects focusing on stranded asset risk, ESG investing, climate policy impacts, as well as adaptation and resilience to global environmental change.
Professor Linnenluecke's research interests focus on the strategic and financial implications of corporate adaptation and resilience to climate change impacts. She is the author of the book "The Climate Resilient Organization", and has extensive experience in working with government and industry related to organizational climate adaptation strategies, assessments and planning.
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Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. NYU PhD. Expertise in monitoring and evaluation. Substantive interests in institutions, development, experiment and survey methodology, inter-group polarization.
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Aila M. Matanock is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research addresses how international and other outside actors engage in fragile states. Her most recent work in on comparative policing. She has conducted fieldwork in Colombia, Central America, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Her 2017 book, Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, was published by Cambridge University Press and won the 2018 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize. Her work has also been published by Foreign Affairs, Governance, International Security, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and elsewhere. She previously worked at the RAND Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and UCSD’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University.