Agnieszka Paczynska

Agnieszka Paczynska
Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Director of the Master's Program

Ph.D., Political Science 2002, University of Virginia
Dissertation:Historical Legacies and Policy Choice: Public Sector Reform in Poland, Egypt, Mexico and the Czech Republic 1991-1992 Fellow at the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA)
M.A., Political Science 1991, The New York University
B.A., Political Science, Cum Laude, New York University, 1989
New York University Summer 1990 Middlebury College Arabic Language Institute
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, American University in Cairo

Biography

Agnieszka Paczynska’s research focuses on the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, development and conflict, security-development nexus, post-conflict reconstruction policies, the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts, and conflict resolution pedagogy. In addition to a book State, Labor and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic, her work has been published in such journals as Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy and PS Political Science. Her most resent scholarship investigates policies of emerging donors in conflict-affected states and the role of foreign direct investment in post-conflict reconstruction processes. In 2014 she received a grant from the United Sates Institute of Peace to support her research on emerging donors and together with Susan Hirsch began co-editing a book series Studies in Conflict, Justice, and Social Change with the Ohio University Press. 

Paczynska is involved in policy relevant research and discussions. She has consulted for the Department of State, United States Agency for International Development and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command. She is a Nonresident Fellow at the Stimson Center and serves on the Board of Trustees of Saferworld USA. She has also observed elections in Afghanistan, Egypt and Liberia.

Most recently Paczynska has been teaching classes such as the Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Foundations of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Structural Theories and Conflict in Development. She current



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Awards and Honors
FIPSE-Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
Undergraduate Experiential Learning  Project Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education FIPSE (2011-2013)Agnieszka Paczynska (co-PI)Susan F. Hirsch (PI)Institute for Conflict Analysis and...
First Franklin Fellow
GMU's first Franklin Fellow to work in the Office of the Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction.
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Continuation of steps in research process to prepare dissertation and implement published research. Builds on CONF 811 by examining qualitative...
Understanding social conflict and potential for conflict resolution requires that both conflict and cooperation be...
This graduate seminar will investigate key questions related to some of the most vexing challenges of war and...
Explores how people translate underlying grievances into collective action. Examines how groups organize, frame, and...
Examines the relationship between processes of political and economic change and conflict; the relationship between...
This foundation course is 6 credits and has two classes a week.Introduces field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines definitions...
Introduces field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines definitions of conflict and diverse views of its...
Capstone course in which students reflect on what they have learned, integrating knowledge from course work and...
Covers conflict at macro level, introducing theories of international and global violence and conflict, drawing from...
Brief history of field, survey of key conflict resolution themes and theories, and intervention methods. Overview includes general factors of...
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November 29, 2016
Over the past two decades there have been significant shifts in international economic dynamics and a gradual restructuring of global political relationships and collaborations. Emerging powers such as China, India, Brazil, and Arab Gulf states have become much...
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June 21, 2016
This article examines the utility of experiential learning activities (ELAs) for teaching about global complexity and conflict resolution in higher education classrooms. It focuses on two key concepts: the nexus between global and local and the precarity...
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June 05, 2016
A key component of post-conflict reconstruction is inclusive and equitable economic development. In the post-Cold War era, Western donors have promoted the liberal peacebuilding model that emphasises democratisation and marketisation to accomplish stability and...
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May 27, 2015
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December 31, 2014
This article describes guidelines for assignments designed to build and improve policy-oriented writing skills of college students. Based on our experiences as Franklin Fellows at the United States Department of State, we developed strategies for teaching writing...
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May 01, 2014
This article examines how organized labor has responded to and sought to influence privatization of the public sector. In order to explain the variation in labor organizations' influence on the process of privatization design and implementation it examines the...
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April 01, 2013
The Arab uprisings, like the fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago, are watershed events that have raised fundamental questions about our understanding of the processes of political change, the emergence and diffusion of contentious collective action,...
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October 01, 2011
The last two decades have witnessed fundamental shifts in international economic dynamics and the gradual reshaping of global political relationships and collaborations. In particular, emerging powers in the global south are now playing a much more prominent role...
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August 01, 2010
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August 01, 2010
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May 01, 2010
The Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework (ICAF) application began in a full-day workshop which was held on January 8, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. About 30 representatives from across the interagency with expertise in Liberia participated in the opening phase...
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2010
Executive SummaryDecades of political and economic exclusion, years of violence and insecurity, and a population of displaced and traumatized people are just some of the complex factors that contribute to the intricate political and social dynamics in Liberia....
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March 01, 2010
The International Studies Encyclopedia and its online version, International Studies Online, published in association with the International Studies Association (ISA), is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international...
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January 2010
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2009
This paper assesses the prospects and challenges for integrating development strategies into counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan.MAIN FINDINGSMany of the challenges that confront post-conflict reconstruction processes similarly confound...
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2009
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural...
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September 01, 2008
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September 01, 2008
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August 01, 2008
The Center for Global Studies at George Mason University was founded to promote multidisciplinary research on globalization. The Center comprises more than 100 associated faculty members whose collective expertise spans the full range of disciplines. The Center...
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July 15, 2008
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May 28, 2008
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March 28, 2008
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June 26, 2007
As the victorious great powers surveyed the devastation brought on by World War II and faced the crumbling of old colonial empires two issues came to dominate the international agenda: the reconstruction of countries devastated by the war and the economic and...
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May 01, 2007
This article examines how organized labor has responded to and sought to influence privatization of the public sector. In order to explain the variation in labor organizations' influence on the process of privatization design and implementation it examines the...
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September 18, 2006
Over the last two decades global integration has accelerated. The volume of foreign direct investment, trade, and capital movements has grown exponentially. At the same time, changes in communications technology and cheaper travel have led to the growing...
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March 01, 2006
This article examines the decade-long contentious encounter between the Egyptian regime and Egyptian organized labor over changes in the labor law. I examine why an authoritarian regime which was often willing to deploy violence against its opponents encountered...
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November 01, 2005
This article examines the challenges that democratic deepening has encountered in countries undertaking simultaneous economic and political reforms. It does so by examining the experience of Poland following the 1989 transition. It explores the Polish public's...
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May 01, 2004
With this third issue of the Cooperative Security Program: Opinions, we return to the topic of fostering democracy and human rights in the Middle East. Dr. Agnieszka Paczynska explores the possibility and potential outcome of a Helsinki-style process for the...
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February 01, 2004
The economic changes brought on by globalization imply a fundamental restructuring of the relationship between the state and society, a transformation that inherently generates conflicts. Everyone has been affected by these changes, but the costs and benefits of...
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February 09, 2016
The Stimson Center announced the appointment today of five Nonresident Fellows: Elizabeth Chalecki, Melissa S. Hersh,
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April 21, 2014
On February 22 and 23, 2014, the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution welcomed 33 participants from ten national
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February 21, 2014
Originally published in “Notes of Excellence” newsletter, issue 012 – February 2014.Susan Hirsch and
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January 23, 2014
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February 2012
On February 9th, the Central Asia, Africa and Latin America Working Groups co-hosted a conference, “Working in
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October 2011
S-CAR is very pleased to welcome a new faculty member. Dr. Arthur Romano joins the School as an Assistant Professor in
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April 20, 2011
On April 3rd, 2011 Kazakhstan held presidential elections. Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1991, called these
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April 20, 2011
On April 3rd, 2011 Kazakhstan held presidential elections. Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1991, called these
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October 01, 2009
On August 20th, 2009 Afghanistan held presidential and provincial council elections. There were 41 presidential and
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Brown Bag - Liberia: Challenges to Managing the Ebola CrisisThursday, October 30th12:30pm - 2:00pm Conference room 5183 Join Professor Agnieszka Paczynska and S-CAR PhD student Samuel Wai Johnson for a brown bag on Liberia and the challenges faced on both a state and local level in
October 30, 2014
Brokering "peace" in competitive authoritarian Central Asian Regimes: understanding peace building functions of informal and formal civil society in the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic' Tuesday, July 29th11:00am - 1:00pmMetropolitan Building Room 5145  
July 29, 2014
Elissa Teeple - Dissertation Defense:   Does Time Matter? Looking For Patterns of Timing, Sequencing and Synergy in Peacebuilding Processes. Wednesday, April 30th11:00am - 1:00pmRoom 5000 
April 30, 2014
Agnieska Paczynskaparticipated in the International Studies Association Conference in Toronto, where she presented the paper, “Examining the Drivers and Impacts of Emerging Power Investment, Aid, and Engagement in Fragile States.”
March 26, 2014
Dissertation Defense - Khadija AliThe Role of Hegemonies within African Regional Organization’s Interventions: A comparative study of Nigeria in ECOWAS’s intervention in Liberia and Ethiopia in IGAD’s intervention in Somalia Wednesday, March 19th9:00am - 11:00amMetropolitan
March 19, 2014
March 18, 2014
Social Mobilization in Morocco: February 20 movement, Local Tansikiyats, and the Struggle for Real Change?Fatima HadjiTuesday, June 11; 10:00AM - 12:00PMTruland Building, 7th Floor Conference Room  Committee members: Dr. Terrence Lyons (Chair) Dr. Agnieszka Paczynska Dr. Bassam
June 11, 2013
With Chris Alden (The London School of Economics)Monday, February 18th, 12:00pmTruland 540Arlington CampusApplying the gradualism characteristic of its approach to policy formulation and implementation, the Chinese policy making community is playing a key role in redefining the contemporary
February 18, 2013
 The Central Asia, Africa and Latin America Working Groups are looking forward to welcoming you to the Truland Building on February 9th! This event will explore the ethical challenges of field work as well as three specific kinds of those challenges: corruption/obstruction, data
February 09, 2012
 The Undergraduate Experiential Learning Project (UELP) at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) invites you to attend a lunch and afternoon of workshops on experiential learning located at Dewberry Hall in the Johnson Center on the Fairfax campus.
December 01, 2011
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Mason’s Center for Global Studies celebrated its 10th annual spring conference last week, welcoming students, faculty, academics, policy makers, and members of the public for two days of presentations of innovative research and discussion on the challenges of peacebuilding in the world today
March 28, 2013
The Dialogue & Difference Project begins the fall semester with a panel discussion and dialogue exploring the relationships and tensions between transnational corporations and governments. The discussion will also look at the economic and social effects at the community level.Panelists will
September 25, 2012
 This research examines the differences between the perceptions of the U.S.-led international intervention actors and the Afghan population, particularly in the area of security and justice over the period between 2001 and 2006. Understanding these perceptions was instructive in a
April 25, 2012
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