LATEST BOOK
Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding
In this book, I argue that international peacebuilding organizations repeatedly fail because they are accountable to global actors, not to local institutions or people. International peacebuilding can succeed only when country-based staff bypass existing accountability structures and empower local stakeholders to hold their global organizations accountable for achieving local-level peacebuilding outcomes. In other words, the innovative, if seemingly wayward, actions of individual country-office staff are necessary to improve peacebuilding performance.
News and Updates
February 2024: Awarded (Co-Principal Investigator) $5.7 million grant (2024-2028) from the National Science Foundation for project on research translation and evidence use by policymakers.
October 2023: Awarded $350,000 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for research-policy-practice partnership with Life & Peace Institute.
July 2023: Article published in American Journal of Political Science entitled Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma (with Jessica Di Salvatore).
July 2023: Awarded an additional $20,000 from the National Science Foundation to support research experiences for undergraduate students.