Contributors

Students

Rachael Calleja is currently a Doctoral Student at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs.  Her research interests include aid effectiveness, multilateral development cooperation, South-South Cooperation, and the politics of donor policy making. She can be reached at rachael_calleja@carleton.ca.

Bryce Dillon is a third year JD/MA candidate at the University of Ottawa and the Norman Paterson School for International Affairs. His research interests include international law, constitutional law, and national security. He can be reached at bdill101@gmail.com. He can be followed on twitter at @bdill101

Sarah Katz-Lavigne is a Doctoral Student at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Her research interests include resource revenue transparency and “conflict minerals”; the political economy of resource extraction in Africa, especially the Democratic Republic of Congo; and corporate social responsibility and the investment practices of mining companies, particularly Canadian firms. She can be reached at SarahKatzLavigne@cmail.carleton.ca.

Joe Landry is a Doctoral Student at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. His research interests include fragile states, civil-war, forced migration, the security-development nexus and terrorism. He can be reached at joseph_landry@carleton.ca.

Simon Palamar is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. His research interests include arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, armed conflict, bargaining and negotiation, methods, Canadian foreign policy, and the practical aspects of developing and executing foreign policy. He can be reached at simon_palamar@carleton.ca.

Gaëlle Rivard Piché is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Her current research focuses on security sector reform, public order and violence. She is currently conducting field research in El Savador. She can be reached at gaelle_rivardpiche@carleton.ca.

Stephanie Soiffer is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Her research interests include policy networks, social capital, human rights reform, and human security. She can be reached at stephanie_soiffer@carleton.ca. She can be followed on Twitter @stefsoiffer.

Guests and Alumni

Philip Martin – NPSIA class of 2012 – is a PhD student in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and humanitarian aid are informed by an upbringing in the Canadian Mennonite community, as well as his (limited) experience travelling abroad. He has previously worked as a Mine Action Program Support Officer with Mines Action Canada and Norwegian People’s Aid in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, as a Research Assistant for the North-South Institute in Ottawa, and as a Short-Term Election Observer in Ukraine. He also graded a very large number of first-year law papers during his time as a stressed-out M.A. student at NPSIA. He can be reached at: philmartin54@gmail.com.

Faculty

David Carment is a full Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He is also a NATO Fellow and listed in Who’s Who in International Affairs. In addition Professor Carment serves as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project (CIFP). His research interests include the international dimensions of ethnic conflict including diaspora, the role of communication technologies in risk analysis and , early warning, peacekeeping, conflict prevention and Canadian foreign policy analysis. He can be reached at david_carment@carleton.ca.

Stephanie Carvin is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Her research interests are in the area of international law, security, terrorism and technology. Currently, she is teaching in the areas of critical infrastructure protection, technology and warfare and foreign policy. She can be reached at stephanie.carvin@carleton.ca.

Jean Daudelin is an Associate Professor and the Ph.D. Program Supervisor at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs. He is a specialist on Latin America, particularly Brazil and Central America, where he has researched religious movements, indigenous politics, urban violence, economic integration, and regional politics. His current research focuses on property rights and conflict, on the development and conflict implications of government revenue composition, and on the comparative foreign policy of Canada and Brazil. He can be reached at jean_daudelin@carleton.ca. He can be followed on Twitter @jacaremirim.

Trevor Findlay is a Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is also a joint Fellow with the International Security Program and Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. Additionally, in 2013 he was appointed to the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. His research interests include disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation and global nuclear governance. He can be reached at trevor.findlay@carleton.ca.

Jez Littlewood is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. His research interests include proliferation and counter-proliferation of WMD, terrorism, national and international security, and intelligence. He can be reached at Jeremy_Littlewood@carleton.ca.

Valerie Percival is an Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. Through previous positions at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the International Crisis Group, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Peace Research Institute Oslo, she has experienced the difficulties of international engagement in conflict affected states, the challenges of policy development, and the risks and rewards of inter-disciplinary research. Her current research focus is on the relationship between conflict and health. She can be reached at valerie_percival@carleton.ca.

Dane Rowlands is the Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. His primary research interests are in international debt, multilateral financial institutions, official development assistance, and the international aspects of economic development. He also conducts research on international migration, peacekeeping, and conflict and development. He can be reached at dane_rowlands@carleton.ca.

Stephen M. Saideman is the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton Universtiy. His research interests focus on the causes and consequences of intervention into intra-state conflicts. His current work focuses on Canadian and NATO’s efforts in Afghanistan and also on the mobilization of diaspora groups. He can be reached at steve_saideman@carleton.ca. He can be followed on Twitter @smsaideman.

Yanling Wang is an Associate Professor of economics at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.  Her research interests lie in the empirical issues related to international trade and foreign direct investment, such as knowledge spillovers from FDI and trade. She can be reached at yanling_wang@carleton.ca.