International peacekeeping works better when the people trying to do that job pay attention to local conflicts in the countries they are trying to help.
Severine Autesserre如是说, a 十大电竞游戏综合排名 political scientist who has won the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the ideas set forth in her book, “The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding.”
Drawing from more than 300 interviews and 18 months of field research, Autesserre analyzed a global effort from 2003 to 2006 to curb widespread violence in the Congo. She found the attempt failed because international workers trying to restore peace overlooked the importance of local disputes over land, 资源和政治权力.
Her message that lasting conflict resolution must take place from the bottom up as well as from the top down “holds great promise for the pursuit of peace,评审团说。.
Autesserre, who joined Barnard’s faculty in 2007, teaches and does research on civil wars, 建设和平与维持和平, humanitarian aid and 非洲政治. She also conducts a senior research seminar on civil wars and peace settlements at 哥伦比亚大学’s School of International and 公共事务.
She has traveled to the Congo regularly since 2001 and has worked with international humanitarian and development agencies in Afghanistan, 科索沃, 尼加拉瓜, India and the United States over the past 12 years.
UofL presents four Grawemeyer Awards each year for outstanding works in music composition, 世界秩序, 心理学与教育. The university and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary jointly give a fifth award in religion. 今年的奖金是每人10万美元.
关于Severine Autesserre
Severine Autesserre has spent years visiting some of the world’s most dangerous trouble spots with an eye on how to bring about lasting peace in those locations.
An assistant professor of political science at 十大电竞游戏综合排名, 哥伦比亚大学, she has quickly become a respected scholar in the areas of peacekeeping and peacebuilding, 非洲政治, international relations and the politics of humanitarian and development aid.
Autesserre’s research in the Congo culminated in her Grawemeyer Award-winning book, “The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. The book also won the International Studies Association’s 2011 Chadwick Alger Award.
Besides working in Barnard’s Africana studies program, she is affiliated with 哥伦比亚大学’s Salzman Institute for War and Peace Studies and Institute of African Studies. From 2006 to 2007 she studied and taught about civil wars, international intervention and 非洲政治 as a post-doctoral associate at Yale University.
She has been consultant or adviser to a variety of humanitarian groups such as Doctors Without Borders and 行动 Against Hunger.
She holds a doctorate in political science from New York University, two master’s degrees—one in international affairs from 哥伦比亚大学 and another in political and social sciences from Sciences-Po in France—as well as a bachelor’s degree in political science from Sorbonne University.
美国.S. 和平研究所, Harry Frank Guggenheim基金会, Mellon Fellowship in Security and Humanitarian 行动 and Fulbright Fellowship all have funded her research, and her insights have appeared in academic journals such as Foreign Affairs, African Studies Review and Journal of Humanitarian Affairs.
过去两年了, she has been studying how shared cultures and practices influence peacebuilding interventions on the ground, an effort that has included a primary case study in the Congo and comparative research in South Sudan, 布隆迪和塞浦路斯.