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Conflict, Violence and Security

The "Conflict, Violence and Security" research cluster aims to bring together those working in the areas of conflict and conflict processes, violence (and efforts to counter it, including non-violent approaches to conflict), and security - broadly defined to include human security initiatives as well as the security-seeking practices of political actors from the local to the global.  

My teaching and research interests include the politics of war law, transnational advocacy networks, protection of civilians, humanitarian disarmament, and the role of popular culture in global human security policy. I have a particular interest in the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security. I work with...Read more

I am currently serving as the Director of the Legal Studies Program and am happy to answer any questions about this interdisciplinary major. 

My research is focused on law and immigration politics, and I have a particular interest in migrant categorization and the concept of a refugee. My published work...Read more

Photograph of Paul Musgrave

Paul Musgrave is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He studies U.S. foreign policy, international relations theory, and how the two intersect. His research has appeared in International Organization, International Studies QuarterlyComparative Political StudiesAmerican Politics Review, and International Theory. He has written for The Washington Post, Foreign...Read more

I study and teach comparative politics, which I take to mean paying close attention to how power is organized and resisted across time and space. 

I write about how violence becomes acceptable in societies that claim to value nonviolence.  For my book every twelve seconds, I worked for nearly six months in...Read more

Dr. Rowen's research focuses on the use of law to redress mass atrocity and aid vulnerable groups. She is the founding director of UMass' Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, www.umasscjls.org and a research affiliate with the UMass Center of Excellence for Specialty Courts. Dr. Rowen's current projects examine relationships between immigration...Read more