Experts

Dr. Kevin Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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Ramesh Thakur is Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute where he is responsible for the programme on cooperative security and disarmament. Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy in Canberra, he has previously served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Senior Vice Rector of the UN University in charge of its Peace and Governance Programme; and Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the Australian National University.

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Dr. Sverre Lodgaard has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) since 2007, after serving 10 years as director.

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Dr. Lisa Schirch is Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute where she directs the Institute’s “Social Media, Technology and Peacebuilding” programme. Dr. Schirch is Richard G. Starmann Sr. Chair and Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

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Dr. Volker Boege is Toda Peace Institute's Senior Research Fellow for Climate Change and Conflict. Dr. Boege has worked extensively in the areas of peacebuilding and resilience in the Pacific region.

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Hugh Miall is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent, and Chair of the Conflict Research Society. He has been Research Director of the Oxford Research Group, Director of the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, a Research Fellow in the ...

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Olivia Stokes Dreier is a Senior Research Fellow for Toda Peace Institute on Global Challenges to Democracy. She is currently a Senior Peacebuilding Advisor to Karuna Center for Peacebuilding where she served for many years as Executive Director...

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Dr. Chaiwat Satha-Anand is currently a professor of political science at Thammasat University, Bangkok, and Founder and Director of the Thai Peace Information Centre which conducts studies and activism in relation to the Thai military and social issues.

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