**Note: During 2012-13, Roland Paris
will be a visiting fellow at Sciences Po-Paris. **
Roland Paris has expertise in the fields of international security,
international governance and foreign policy. He is
founding director of the University of Ottawa's
Centre for International Policy
Studies and associate professor in the
Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs.
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GLOBAL ETHICS FELLOW, Carnegie Council
for Ethics in International Affairs
Three-year appointment to participate in the Carnegie Council's
Global Ethics Network.
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RECENT OP-EDS, INTERVIEWS, BLOG
POSTS
Newspaper op-eds and media interviews:
Commentary.
Blog posts:
CIC Roundtable,
CIPS
Blog and
Political
Violence at a Glance blog.
JOURNAL ARTICLE: RESEARCH &
POLICYMAKING ON FRAGILE STATES (Int'l Studies Review, March 2011)
Academic research
on fragile states seems to have little direct effect on
policy, but the ideas emerging from this research appear to have
important indirect effects, helping policymakers define
and refine their understandings of state fragility and think
through possible responses. Read more
SPECIAL SECTION: NATO & SUSTAINABLE
PEACEBUILDING (Global Governance, Jan-March 2011)
This special
section of Global Governance journal (co-edited with
Alexandra Gheciu) examines the challenges that NATO faces in
peacebuilding environments, and the specific problems of
promoting "sustainable" outcomes. The section begins with an
introduction by the co-editors. Read more
JOURNAL ARTICLE: EFFECTS OF
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (Int'l J. of Transitional Justice, Nov. 2010)
What have social
scientists learned about the effects of transitional justice
mechanisms such as war crimes tribunals and truth commissions in
transitional societies? This article, coauthored with Oskar N.T.
Thoms and James Ron, shows that empirical evidence is still
insufficient to support strong claims that transitional justice
mechanisms have either positive or negative effects. Read more
JOURNAL ARTICLE: SAVING LIBERAL
PEACEBUILDING (Review of Int'l Studies, April 2010)
"Liberal
peacebuilding" has been the target of considerable criticism,
much of it warranted, but some exaggerated or misdirected. At a
time of uncertainty about the future of the peacebuilding
enterprise, it is important to distinguish between justified and
unjustified criticisms, and to promote a more balanced debate on
the meaning, shortcomings and prospects of liberal peacebuilding. Read more
TWO EDITED BOOKS ON PEACEBUILDING (2009)
These two edited
volumes offer the latest scholarly thinking on the difficulties
of establishing functioning, legitimate government institutions
in countries after internal conflicts: