Alexander Waworuntu is a PhD candidate in Global Governance and Global Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His primary research focus is on the political economy of digital entertainment industries. His doctoral research explores the role of state actors in cultivating national video game industries in Southeast Asia. His other research interests […]
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Brandon Dickson (he/him) is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research focuses on the international drivers of sustainability decision making in organizational policies. Previously, Brandon’s research programme has focused on the politics of education in the wake of mass atrocities. Brandon has worked in various research roles in academic,
Abdiasis Issa is a PhD Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research interests include United Nations and African Union peace operations, regional security governance, security regionalism and the interplay of international and regional organizations in peacebuilding, managing conflict and global governance. His dissertation critically examines the United Nations-African Union
Mark Raymond is the Wick Cary Associate Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Cyber Governance and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Social Practices of Rule-Making in World Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). His work appears in various academic journals including International Theory, the
Felicia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her doctoral research examines how trust and mistrust effects refugees’ journeys and integration into their host communities. She hopes her work will provide essential insights into where refugees’ experiences of trust/mistrust stem from, how it influences their decision-making in
Global Governance Programs(MAGG, PhD)and Partnership ManagerUniversity of Waterloo
Ana Visan is a PhD candidate in Global Governance. Her interests lie at the intersection of critical border studies, science and technology studies, and migration governance. Her project looks at how the EU is using technology to achieve interoperability in migration management. Ana completed a Master’s degree in Global Migration at University College London. Her
Eric Tanguay is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. His primary research interests include post-conflict peace processes, the role of traditional and religious institutions in African security governance, and the protection of civilians in peacekeeping operations. Eric’s dissertation investigates the potential of “Infrastructures for Peace”— multilevel
Madeleine Pinard is a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on creating environmental migration governance to mitigate human conflict. Madeleine Pinard completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto where she studied peace, conflict and justice studies. She then pursued a postgraduate certificate in
International Policy and Governance
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Ashley Lebner is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is currently completing a monograph, The Mystic of Friendship in Settler Amazonia, which explores the mystic relational dynamics that have animated the resettlement and politics of Southeast Amazonia since the late twentieth century. The book extends work that has appeared in venues including Current Anthropology (see especially
Dr. Narendran Kumarakulasingam’s work explores the world-making capacities of marginalized actors in contexts of massive violence. One area of his scholarship examines the lived experience of atrocity in postcolonial societies as a site for rethinking globalized notions of redress, repair and transgression. A second, undertaken in collaboration with Mvuselelo Ngcoya (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban),
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