Landon Hancock

SECTION CHAIR | APR 2012 - MAR 2014
Kent State University
Lhancock2@kent.edu

Gearoid Millar

BOULDING AWARD COMMITTEE CHAIR | APR 2012 - APR 2013
Radboud University Nijmegen
G.millar@fm.ru.nl

Executive Committee

Landon Hancock (2012-2014)
Landon Hancock is Associate Professor of Applied Conflict Management and Political Science at Kent State University. His research is focused on identity-driven conflict, from the reasons for its inception and outbreak to its resolution and to periods of post-conflict peacebuilding and transitional justice. Recent publications include articles in Ethnopolitics, Peace & Change, Irish Political Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, and Journal of Peace Education. He is co-editor (with Christopher Mitchell) of two volumes, Zones of Peace (2007) and Local Peacebuilding and National Peace (2012).

Soumita Basu (2012-2014)
Soumita Basu is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the New-Delhi based South Asian University (SAU), an intergovernmental initiative of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Her areas of expertise include critical security studies, feminist International Relations, conflict resolution, and the United Nations. Much of her recent research has focused on the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women and Peace and Security. Soumita holds a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (as Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow) and Kenyon College in Ohio (as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow). She has worked with Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (New Delhi) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (New York). Currently, Soumita co-edits the Conversations section of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
 

Catia Confortini (2011-2013)
Dr. Confortini holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California's School of International Relations and is an assistant professor in the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College. Her book entitled Intelligent Compassion: the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Feminist Peace (forthcoming in August 2012 with Oxford University Press) examines the evolving and gendered understandings of peace in the longest-living and arguably most influential international women's peace organization in the world. Her research interests focus on the contribution of women's peace activism to peace studies as an academic field and as a practice. Her work on feminist peace studies is published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future (eds Laura Sjoberg and J. Ann Tickner, Routledge 2011), Gender, War and Militarism (ed. by Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via, Prager 2010), the International Studies Association's Encyclopedia, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Peace Review, and Peace and Freedom, the magazine of the US Section of the WILPF. For ISA, in addition to being a member of the executive committee of the Peace Studies Section, she is FTGS’ program chair-elect, and a member of the ISA Professional Development Committee. She is the US representative to the WILPF’s International Board for 2011-2014.

Maia Hallward (2011-2013)
Maia Carter Hallward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University and is jointly appointed to the PhD in International Conflict Management. She received her PhD in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service, with concentrations in Peace and Conflict Resolution and Critical Geopolitics. She is the author of Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada (University Press of Florida, August 2011) and co-editor of Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada: Activism and Advocacy (Palgrave Macmillian, Fall 2011). Her articles have appeared in journals including Journal of Peace Research, International Political Sociology and Critical Middle Eastern Politics.
 
Roger Mac Ginty (2012-2014)
Roger Mac Ginty is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, and the Department of Politics, University of Manchester. He edits the journal Peacebuilding, and a book series with Palgrave entitled 'Rethinking Political Violence'. He is currently working on an EUFP7 project on Cultures of governance and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. His latest book is International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of peace.

Abigail Ruane (2011-2013)
Abigail E. Ruane is an award-winning scholar and teacher working to envision and establish more inclusive human rights in our world of difference. Currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Hunter College, Dr. Ruane’s research analyzing the evolution of women’s human rights discourse at the United Nations (1948-2008) received the 2011 American Political Science Association (APSA) Human Rights Section Best Dissertation Award and the 2010 International Studies Association (ISA) Peace Studies Section Kenneth Boulding Award.  Dr. Ruane was also awarded the 2009 ISA Misty Gerner Teaching Award with Patrick James for their collaborative innovative teaching work, and is publishing the corresponding book with James later this year (The International Relations of Middle-earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings, 2012, University of Michigan Press). A strong advocate of inclusive social justice, Dr. Ruane is practically engaged in women’s human rights advocacy. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and lives in New York City.

Jessica Senehi (2012-2014)
Jessica Senehi is Assistant Professor with the Ph.D. program in Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Director of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba. With Sean Byrne, she co-directed The North American Conflict Resolution Program: A Cross Cultural, Interdisciplinary Experiment in Peacebuilding student exchange sponsored by a 2003-2007 grant from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. She has completed drafts of two manuscripts, The Process of Storytelling: Building Community, Building Peace, and VIOLENCE: Intervention and Prevention. With two other academics, she is assessing the Jerusalem Stories Project. She is the organizer and director of Winnipeg’s annual International Storytelling Festival as well as the academic institute Storytelling for Peacebuilding and Renewing Community (SPARC) that is situated in the Mauro Centre.