Conflict Experts

Jessica Vapnek

Lecturer, Global Programs Advisor, and Director of the M.S.L. ProgramUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: vapnekjessica@uchastings.edu

Sarah A. Schnitker, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary InitiativesBaylor University

Leading researcher on the study of patience & gratitude and religion's role in virtue development in adolescents & emerging adults.

Howie Choset

Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science in RoboticsCarnegie Mellon University

Howie Choset's groups builds & deploys robots where they matter: from operating rooms and factories to disaster zones & space.

JJ Enoch

AssociateJ.S. Held LLC

African Affairs Analyst | Geopolitics Risk Expert | Policy & Governance Strategist | Government Relations Advisor

Petra Molnar

Associate DirectorRefugee Law Lab, Osgoode Hall Law School

Refugee and migration issues; technology and human rights; immigration detention; and the relationship between law, society, and culture

Christian Appy

Professor of History and Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and DemocracyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Christian Appy has written three books on the Vietnam War and heads the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy

Robert Winsor, Ph.D.

Professor of Marketing, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Hein Goemans

Professor of Political ScienceUniversity of Rochester

Goemans is an expert on international conflict and war termination

Elizabeth A. Drummond

Associate Professor of HistoryLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl

Urbanist and Feminist GeographerSimon Fraser University

Specializes in equity and inclusion. Uses policy analysis and collaborative research with women and LGBTQ people to examine urban change.