ROLAND PARIS

University of Ottawa, Canada

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis

1. Employment

1.1 Current Appointments

Associate Professor (tenured), Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, 2006-present

Founding Director, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, 2008-present

University Research Chair in International Security and Governance, University of Ottawa, 2007-present

Global Ethics Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York, 2012-present

Senior Fellow, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, 2013-present

1.2 Previous Appointments

Visiting Fellow, Centre d’études de relations internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13

Director of Research, Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa, 2005-2006

Foreign Policy Advisor, Government of Canada, Ottawa, 2003-2005

- Privy Council Office, 2004-2005

- Department of Foreign Affairs, 2003-2004

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1999-2006 (on leave 2003-2006)

Visiting Researcher, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., 1997-1998

Policy Analyst (Constitutional Affairs), Privy Council Office, Government of Canada, Ottawa, 1991-1992

1.3 Internships

Assistant to the Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations, New York, Spring 1997

Parliamentary Intern, Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, 1990-1991

2. Education

Ph.D. Yale University, USA

Political Science, 1999

M.Phil. Cambridge University, UK

International Relations, 1990

B.A. University of Toronto, Canada

International Relations and History, 1989

Diplôme University of Paris (Sorbonne), France

French Civilization and Language, 1984

3. Grants, Awards and Honors

3.1 Research Prizes, Awards and Scholarships

Global Ethics Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York, 2012-15

Special commendation, British International Studies Association-RIS Best Article Prize Committee (for “Saving Liberal Peacebuilding”), 2010

University Research Chair in International Security and Governance, University of Ottawa, 2007-present

Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2006 (for At War’s End)

Chadwick F. Alger Award, International Studies Association, for best book on international organization, 2005 (for At War’s End)

Eugene M. Kayden Award for best book manuscript by a faculty member of the University of Colorado, 2002 (for At War’s End)

Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado Council on Research and Creative Work, 2002

Dissertation Award, Academic Council on the United Nations System, 1998

Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 1997-98

Canadian Department of National Defence Ph.D. Scholarship, 1996-97, 1997-98

Overbrook Fellowship in Political Science, Yale University, 1994-95

Fulbright Scholarship, Canada-US Fulbright Program, 1993-94

Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1993-97

Moss Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1989 (top “all-round graduating student”)

3.2 Grants

Standard Research Grant ($45,606), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2010-13

Project Grant ($303,800), Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2007-2009 (with Timothy Sisk)

Project Grant ($318,500), Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2005-2007 (with Timothy Sisk)

Discretionary Grant, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2004

Dean’s Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado, Arts and Science, 2002

Conference Grant, University of Colorado, Council on Research and Creative Work, 2002

Small Project Grant, University of Colorado, Council on Research and Creative Work, 2000

3.3 Awards for Teaching

Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Student Association, University of Ottawa, 2009

Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Students in Political Science (GIPS), University of Colorado, 2003

Outstanding Teacher Award, Political Science Dept., University of Colorado, 2003

Teacher of the Year (campus wide), Student Organization for Alumni Relations, University of Colorado, 2002

3.4 Awards for Public Service

Environmental Conservation Award (for work on Devils Lake), Environment Canada, 2005

Group Merit Award (for work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America), Privy Council Office, 2005

4. Research and Writing

4.1 Books (Monograph)

At War’s End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Published in German translation as Wenn die Waffen schweigen: Friedenskonsolidierung nach innerstaatlichen Gewaltkonf likten (Hamburg: Hamburg Editions, 2007)

4.2 Books (Edited Volumes)

The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations, co-edited with Timothy D. Sisk (London: Routledge, 2009)

New Thinking on Liberal Peacebuilding, co-edited with Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2009)

4.3 Articles and Book Chapters

“Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?” Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming, June 2013).

“Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States,” International Studies Review 13:1 (March 2011), pp. 58-71

“Introduction: NATO and the Challenge of Sustainable Peacebuilding” (with Alexandra Gheciu), Global Governance 17:1 (Jan.-March 2011), pp. 75-79. (Also co-editor with Alexandra Gheciu of special section of this journal issue.)

“State-Level Effects of Transitional Justice: What Do We Know?” (with Oskar N.T. Thoms and James Ron), International Journal of Transitional Justice 4:3 (November 2010), pp. 329-354

“Saving Liberal Peacebuilding,” Review of International Studies 36:2 (April 2010), pp. 337-365

Special commendation, British International Studies Association-RIS Best Article Prize

Reprinted in Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam, eds., A Liberal Peace? The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding (London: Zed, 2011).

“Does Liberal Peacebuilding Have a Future?” in Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver Richmond, eds., New Thinking on Liberal Peacebuilding (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2009),

“Introduction” (co-authored with Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond) in Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver Richmond, eds., New Thinking on Liberal Peacebuilding (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2009), pp. 3-25.

“Understanding the Contradictions of Postwar Statebuilding” (co-authored with Timothy D. Sisk) in Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (London: Routledge, 2009), chapter 1

“The Coordination Problem in Postwar Statebuilding,” in Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (London: Routledge, 2009), chapter 3

“Confronting the Contradictions” (co-authored with Timothy D. Sisk) in Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (London: Routledge, 2009), chapter 13

“Post-Conflict Peacebuilding,” in Thomas Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., Oxford Handbook of the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 404-426

“NATO’s Choice in Afghanistan: Go Big or Go Home,” Policy Options (December 2006), pp. 35-43. (Selected as a “must read” article by the Council on Foreign Relations.)

“Bringing the Leviathan Back In: Classical vs. Contemporary Conceptions of the Liberal Peace,” International Studies Review 8:3 (September 2006), pp. 425-440

“Rational and Irrational Approaches to Human Security: A Reply to Ralph Pettman,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 18:3 (October 2005), pp. 479-81

“Still an Inscrutable Concept,” Security Dialogue 35:3 (September 2004), pp. 370-72

“International Peacekeeping and Global Culture,” European Journal of International Relations 9:3 (September 2003), pp. 441-73

Reprinted in Paul James, ed., Globalization and Violence, vol. 3, Globalizing War and Intervention (London: Sage, 2006)

“Multilateralism and American Power,” in Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu, eds., The Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars (Singapore: World Scientific Publishers, 2003)

“The Burden of Nation-Building in Postwar Iraq,” in Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu, eds., The Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars (Singapore: World Scientific Publishers, 2003)

“The Globalization of Taxation? Electronic Commerce and the Transformation of the State,” International Studies Quarterly 47:2 (June 2003), pp. 153-82

“International Peacebuilding and the ‘Mission Civilisatrice’,” Review of International Studies 28:4 (October 2002), pp. 637-56

Reprinted in Benedicte Bull and Morten Boas, eds., International Development (London: Sage, 2009).

“Peacebuilding in Central America: Reproducing the Sources of Conflict?” International Peacekeeping 9:4 (Winter 2002), pp. 39-68

“Kosovo and the Metaphor War,” Political Science Quarterly 117:3 (Fall 2002), pp. 423-50

Reprinted in Philip Seib, ed., War and Conflict Communication: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2010).

Reprinted in Scott Titsworth, ed., Public Speaking (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003).

“Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?” International Security 26:2 (Fall 2001), pp. 87-102

Reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al., eds., New Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004)

Reprinted in Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes, eds., Global Politics in a Changing World, 2nd edn. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).

“Echoes of the Mission Civilisatrice: Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era” in Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond, eds., The United Nations and Human Security (London: Palgrave, 2001)

“Wilson’s Ghost: The Faulty Assumptions of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding,” in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds., Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict (Washington, D.C.: US Institute of Peace Press, 2001)

“Broadening the Study of Peace Operations,” International Studies Review 2:3 (Fall 2000), pp. 27-44

“Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism,” International Security 22:2 (Fall 1997), pp. 54-89

Reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al., eds., Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, revised edition, 2001)

“Blue Helmet Blues: The End of the UN as a Security Organization?” Washington Quarterly 20:1 (Winter 1997), pp. 191-206

Reprinted in Timothy C. Lim, ed., Stand! Global Issues (Madison, Wis.: Coursewise Publishing, 1999)

4.4 Reports and Working Papers

“Rethinking Canada’s International Policy Priorities” (co-edited with Fen Osler Hampson), CIPS-NPSIA report, March 2010.

“Can Obama’s ‘New’ Foreign Policy Make a Difference?” Global Brief, May 2009.

“Scaling Back Expectations in Afghanistan,” Policy Brief no. 2, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, February 2009

“The Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms: A Summary of Empirical Research Findings and Implications for Analysts and Practitioners” (co-authored with Oskar N.T. Thoms and James Ron), Working Paper, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 2008

“Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding” (with Timothy D. Sisk), International Peace Academy, November 2007

Reprinted in Spanish: “Gestionar contradicciones: los dilemas inherentes a la construcción posbélica del estado,” Documentos para la Discusión Postbélica, No. 2. Bellaterra: ECP, 02/2011.

“The Devils Lake Dispute: A Case Study in Canada-US Diplomacy,” Canada School of Public Service, February 2007

“The Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment: How Investment in Both Directions Drives Our Economy,” (with Glen Hodgson), The Conference Board of Canada, March 2006

“Fighting Over Fabrics: The Textile Wars and the Politics of Free Trade” (with Charles Barrett), Conference Board of Canada, November 2005

4.5 Book Reviews

Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone and Ben Rowswell, eds., Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2007), reviewed in The Literary Review of Canada (Jan.-Feb. 2008).

Harold H. Saunders, A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts (New York: Palgrave, 1999), reviewed in Survival 45:2 (Summer 2003), pp. 205-6

Karin von Hippel, Democracy by Force: US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), reviewed in Political Studies 48:4 (September 2000), p. 876

Robert L. Rothstein, ed., After the Peace: Resistance and Reconciliation (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1999), reviewed in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 6:1 (Spring 2000), pp. 129-131

4.6 Conference Papers and Invited Presentations (last 5 years)

“The Unfortunate Demise of Canadian Diplomacy,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2013.

“Is Peacebuilding about Imposing Liberal Peace,” Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2012

“The Liberal Peace Revisited,” Kings College London, December 2012

“Libya, Syria and the Responsibility to Protect: What Can We Do?” 2012 Barry Farrell Speakership, Northwestern University, Chicago, April 2012

“Fated to Fail? R2P and Humanitarian Intervention After Libya,” annual conference of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, April 2012

“Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States,” Ch. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, May 2011

“Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States,” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway, May 2011

“From Khubilai Khan to David Petraeus: Relearning the Lessons of Externally Driven Statebuilding,” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway, May 2011

“Holism Versus Hubris: Understanding Post-War Statebuilding,” Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, May 2011

“Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States,” University of Pretoria, South Africa, May 2011

“Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States,” African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, Durban, South Africa, May 2011

“Building Peace After Civil Conflict,” University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, May 2011

“Historical Lessons of Externally Driven Statebuilding,” University of Cape Town, South Africa, May 2011

“From Khubilai Khan to David Petraeus: Relearning the Lessons of Externally Driven Statebuilding,” annual conference the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2011

“Statebuilding Lessons from Afghanistan: Real and Imagined,” Stanford University, California, February 2011

“Postconflict Elections and Violence,” United Nations Staff College, Turin, Italy, December 2010

“The Irrelevance of ‘Policy Relevance’? Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States,” Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, October 2010

“Regional Dimensions of the Afghan Conflict,” Carleton University, Ottawa, September 2010

“Global Trends and the Future of Development Policy,” Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, May 2010

“The Dilemmas of Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan,” Hiroshima Peacebuilders Center conference, Tokyo, Japan, February 2010

“Rethinking the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture,” presentation of project findings, workshop on the Future of the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture, New York, February 2010

“The Future of Liberal Peacebuilding,” Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, City University of New York, February 2010

“Saving Liberal Peacebuilding,” REGIS seminar, McGill University & l’Université de Montréal, November 2009

“Present and Future Challenges of International Statebuilding,” University of Westminster conference on statebuilding, London, October 2009

“What Do We Know about Post-Conflict Reconstruction?” RAND Workshop on Social Science and Security, Stability, Transition, and Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., September 2009

“Statebuilding: Setting the Scene,” Workshop on Securing Development in Weak and Fragile States, Aga Khan Foundation and Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, June 2009

“Is There a Crisis of Global Governance?” annual conference of the International Studies Association, New York, February 2009

“Ethical Dilemmas and the Contradictions of Peacebuilding,” Forum for Peacebuilding Ethics launch conference, New York, February 2009

“Cavalry to the Rescue? 2009 as a Pivotal Year for the Afghanistan Mission,” Canadian International Council, Ottawa, January 2009

“The Effectiveness of Transitional Justice Mechanisms: Evidence from Empirical Research” (with James Ron and Oskar Thoms), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade workshop, Ottawa, November 2008

“The Dilemmas of Postwar State-Building,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Fragile States Group, Paris, France, April 2008

“Understanding the ‘Coordination Problem’ in Postwar Statebuilding,” United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office, New York, August 2007

“Afghanistan: What’s at Stake?” Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Ottawa, May 2007

“Lessons for Effective Peacebuilding,” University of Louisville, Kentucky, April 2007

4.7 Newspaper Commentary (last 5 years)

“Baird’s East Jerusalem scandal shows Canada has a Mideast dishonesty gap,” Globe and Mail, April 16, 2013

“Baird’s silence on abuses in Bahrain exposes Canada’s inconsistency,” Globe and Mail, April 5, 2013

“CIDA merger is fine, but fundamental questions of policy remain unresolved,” Globe and Mail, March 22, 2013

“Staying out of Iraq was said to hurt Canada’s standing. It didn’t,” Globe and Mail, March 20, 2013

“The Cost of Saving Afghanistan,” Globe and Mail, July 11, 2012

“Talking Tough on Iran,” Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 26, 2012

“The Total Surveillance Society Approaches,” Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 22, 2011

“Lethal Drones Strike at Our Very Heart,” Globe and Mail, September 14, 2011

“Crowd-Sourcing Terror in Norway,” Ottawa Citizen, July 26, 2011

“Intervention in Libya Flawed, But Better than Inaction,” Globe and Mail, March 28, 2011

“Minority Governments Are Hobbling Canadian Foreign Policy,” Globe and Mail, March 30, 2010

“Don’t Pull Out Every Soldier,” Ottawa Citizen, March 4, 2010

“The Final Chapter of Our Afghan Mission,” Globe and Mail, February 1, 2010

“In Afghanistan, One Last Shot,” Globe and Mail, November 3, 2009

“Step Up, Canada: Propose a G8 Centre on Fragile States,” Globe and Mail, August 10, 2009

“Madly Off in All Directions: NATO Is at a Crossroads after Expanding Too Far and Losing Its Core Purpose,” Globe and Mail, July 13, 2009

“Year of the Afghan Mission,” Globe and Mail, December 17, 2008

“Trying to Reach the Taliban,” Globe and Mail, November 1, 2008

“A Call for Stronger Leadership,” Globe and Mail, January 23, 2008

5. Teaching

5.1 Awards

See section 3.3, “Awards for Teaching”

5.2 Courses Taught

5.2.1 Graduate Seminars

University of Ottawa

API 5102, Globalization and Governance

API 6337, Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

API 6737, Consolidation de la paix et reconstruction après les conflits

University of Colorado

PSCI 5013, Field Seminar in International Relations

PSCI 5043, International Governance and Democracy

PSCI 5013, Field Seminar in International Relations

5.2.2 Undergraduate Courses

University of Ottawa

POL 3146, Canadian Foreign Policy

POL 2103, Introduction to International Relations and Global Issues

University of Colorado

PSCI 4173, International Organization
IAFS 1000, Global Issues and International Affairs
IAFS 4500, The Post-Cold War World

5.3 Graduate Supervisions (completed)

Principal supervisor of 4 completed Ph.D. dissertations

Member of 8 Ph.D. dissertation examination committees

Member of 15 Ph.D. comprehensive examination committees

Principal supervisor for 2 completed M.A. research papers

Member of 4 M.A. thesis examination committees

6. Testimony Before Parliamentary Committees

House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (November 8, 2006) – “The Situation in Afghanistan”

House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (November 17, 2005) – “Canada’s International Policy Statement”

7. Contracts

International Development Research Centre (Summer 2009) – To survey recent dates and identify emerging research questions/issues on “Institutions of Governance in Post-Conflict and Fragile States”

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (December 2007) – To review findings in existing scholarship on the possible impacts of various “transitional justice” mechanisms in post-conflict societies (with James Ron).

Canada School of Public Service (December 2006) – To assist in developing and delivering a course for Canadian government executives on the US Governmental System and Canada-US Engagement Strategies.

The Conference Board of Canada / Public Works and Government Services Canada (September 2006) – To help facilitate three consultation meetings with suppliers of goods and services to the Government of Canada in the light of proposed changes to the Government’s procurement practices.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Canadian International Development Agency, and Department of National Defence (March 2006) – (1) To facilitate a workshop of government departments and stakeholders on Canada’s approach to fragile states held at the Meech Lake government conference facility; and (2) to produce a draft Government of Canada inter-departmental policy on Canada’s approach to fragile states.

8. Service

8.1 Project Director

Co-Director, Research Partnership on Postwar Statebuilding (with Timothy D. Sisk), 2006-07

Co-Director, Sustainable Peacebuilding Network (with Timothy D. Sisk), 2008-10

· Director, Research Group on the Future of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture

· Co-Director, Research Group on NATO and Sustainable Peacebuilding (with Alexandra Gheciu)

· Co-Director, Research Group on Sustainable Outcomes in Afghanistan (with Mark Sedra)

Co-Director, Working Group on Canada’s International Priorities (with Fen O. Hampson), 2009-10

8.2 Book Series Co-Editor

Co-Editor (with Fiona Adamson and Stefan Wolff) of the Routledge Security and Governance book series, 2006-present

8.3 Board Memberships

Current

Editorial Board, Global Governance, 2013-present

Editorial Board, International Studies Review, 2012-present

Editorial Board, Peacebuilding, 2012-present

Board of Directors, World University Service of Canada (WUSC), 2010-present

Editorial Board, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2010-present

Editorial Board, Intervention and State-Building, 2006-present

Past

Board of Directors, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), 2008-2010 (Vice-Chair, 2009-2010)

Editorial Advisory Board, Millennium journal, 2007-2008

8.4 Manuscript Reviewer

For: American Political Science Review, International Security, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, International Theory, Review of International Studies, International Relations, Security Dialogue, Millennium, Global Governance, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, International Peacekeeping, Études Internationales, Conflict and Cooperation, Journal of International Relations and Development, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, and American Review of Canadian Studies.

8.5 Referee for Research Awards, Scholarships and Grants

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program Adjudication Committee, 2008-10

Canada Research Chairs Program, 2008

National Science Foundation (US), 2008

Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung, 2006

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003

Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2002, 2003 and 2012

9. Other Information

9.1 Languages

English (mother tongue), French (competent – Canadian government E/E/E levels)

9.2 Security Clearance

Information on clearance levels available upon request

Full academic c.v. including teaching, advising, and service record available upon request.

Contact information: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/contact.html