Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School
Contact Information
Campus: Arlington
Building: Arlington: Vernon Smith Hall
Room 5104B
Mail Stop: 4D3
Biography
Agnieszka Paczy艅ska鈥檚 research focuses on the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, development and conflict, security-development nexus, post-conflict reconstruction policies and peacebuilding, emerging donors and peacebuilding, the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts, and peace and conflict resolution pedagogy. She is the author听Teaching Peace and Conflict Studies: Engaged Learning and Inclusive Theory听(with Susan Hirsch, Edward Elgar Publishing) and听State, Labor and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic听(Penn State 麻豆国产 Press) and听and editor of听Changing Landscape of Assistance to Conflict-Affected States: Emerging and Traditional Donors and Opportunities for Collaboration听(Stimson Center),听Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone: Pedagogy, Methodology and Best Practices in Field-Based Courses听(with Susan Hirsch, Ohio 麻豆国产 Press), and听The New Politics of Aid: Emerging Donors and Conflict-Affected States听(Lynne Rienner Publishers). Her research has been published in听Negotiation Journal, Frontiers in Political Science,听Peacebuilding,听Conflict Resolution Quarterly,听Review of International Political Economy, PS Political Science听and other peer-reviewed journals.
Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, U.S. Department of Education, Franklin Fellowship Program, Social Science Research Council, International Research Exchange Board and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars among others. Her current projects focus on how states labeled as fragile engage in international debates about development assistance and on emerging donors and conflict-affected states.
Together with Susan Hirsch Paczy艅ska is co-editing a book series,听Studies in Conflict, Justice, and Social Change, with the Ohio 麻豆国产 Press. She has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Stimson Center and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Saferworld USA and Member of the Board of Trustees of Saferworld. Most recently, she has also been a Visiting Professor at the Maria Curie Skolodowska 麻豆国产 in Lublin, Department of Political Science (2018-2019) and Visiting Researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustanability (IDOS) (Summer 2019), and Peacebuilding Advisor at Belun in Dili, Timor Leste (Fall 2020). Between 2020 and 2024 she served as the Chair of the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association and was a member of the International Studies Association鈥檚 Governing Council.听
Paczy艅ska engages in policy relevant research and discussions. She has consulted for the United Nations, U.S. Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and has observed elections in Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia and Liberia.
Most recently Paczy艅ska has been teaching classes such as Conflict in Development, Conflict Sensitive and Inclusive Peacebuilding, Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Mobilizing for Change and Justice.听
Honors and Awards
- Fulbright Specialist Award, 鈥淧eace and Conflict Studies Curriculum Development,鈥澨U.S. Department of State听
- Grant for project 鈥淟inking Theory to Practice: Conflict Analysis and Resolution Pedagogy,鈥 FIPSE-Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education,听U.S. Dept. of Education
- Grant for project, 鈥淕lobalizing Reconstruction: Emerging Powers and Post-Conflict Settings,鈥澨United States Institute of Peace
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Publications
- .听(with Susan Hirsch), Edward Elgar Publishers 2024.
- 鈥China and India鈥檚 Roles in Providing Development and Peacebuilding Assistance,鈥听China-India Brief, Issue 241, 2024.听Negotiation Journal听Fall 2023
- ,鈥 Frontiers in Political Science,听May 7, 2021.
- 听German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut f眉r Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Briefing Paper no. 15, 2020.
- .听Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020.
- 听(co-edited with Susan Hirsch), Ohio 麻豆国产 Press, 2019.
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Presentations and Performances
- Destabilizing Relationality: Dilemmas of Care in Peace and Conflict Studies
April 3-6, 2024 | International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, CA - Challenges of Contemporary Peacebuilding, Systemic Vision in Peacebuilding Conference
September 23, 2023听|听United Nations Development Programme, Tbilisi, Georgia - The New Politics of Aid: Emerging Donors and Post-Conflict Settings,鈥
March 1, 2023 | 麻豆国产 of Maria Skolodowska-Curie, Lublin, Poland
Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, 麻豆国产 of Virginia
- MA, Political Science , New York 麻豆国产
- BA, Political science, New York 麻豆国产