James Fearon

Background

Working experience:

James Fearon is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research has focused on democracy and international disputes, explanations for interstate wars, and, most recently, the causes of civil and especially ethnic violence.

Fearon won the 1999 Karl Deutsch Award, which is "presented annually to a scholar under the age of forty, or within ten years of the acquisition of his or her Doctoral Degree, who is judged to have made, through a body publications, the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research." He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2002.

PRIO Departments

• Centre for the Study of Civil War (2003 - 2012)
• Environmental Factors in Civil War
• Microfoundations of Civil War

PRIO Projects

• Transitional Justice in the Settlement of Conflicts and Kidnapping

Events

• Fri, 07 December 2007 – Mimicry in Civil War
• Tue, 18 October 2005 – Transitional Justice and Civil Conflicts Settlements
• Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:00-12:00 – Civil War Since 1945. What Can be Done?

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