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Pamina Firchow

Pamina Firchow
Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution
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PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEID), Geneva, Switzerland
Development Studies
MA, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
International Relations and Peace & Conflict Studies
MSc, London School of Economics, London, UK
Comparative Politics
BA, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Political Science

Biography

Pamina Firchow is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Her main research interests surround the study of the international accompaniment of communities affected by mass violence, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. In this vein, her work focuses on the design, monitoring and evaluation of transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding interventions. Since 2013, she has been developing and piloting an inclusive and participatory measurement system called the Everyday Peace Indicators. This participatory measurement system is used to make claims about the effectiveness of local level interventions after war in Firchow’s forthcoming monograph, Reclaiming Everyday Peace, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Firchow has published in several journals, including International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Review, Human Rights Review, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development and Politics. She is also the editor of Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding: Putting Theory to Work.

Dr. Firchow has received support for her research from the United States Institute of Peace, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rotary Foundation, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the University of Geneva. She was recently a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at USIP and serves as a consultant to various international peacebuilding organizations. Firchow earned her PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She has been working in the peacebuilding sector as a scholar-practition



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Awards and Honors
Carnegie Corporation Grant
Dr. Pamina Firchow was awarded a Carnegie Corporation Grant of $300,000 for her Everyday Peace Indicators Project
USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, 2015-2016
About the Project:This project is an empirical attempt to bridge the gap between liberal peace and justice interventions and community needs. It uses an innovative methodology to narrow that gap in a...
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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...
Introduces social science research methods at undergraduate level. Covers basic epistemology of social research,...
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May 01, 2017
This article examines the possibilities of interaction and collaboration between top-down and bottom-up indicators of peace. It is based on the Everyday Peace Indicators project – an experimental research project that operated in local communities in four...
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April 26, 2017
Colombia is groundbreaking in its approach of prioritizing victim involvement and participation in its peace process and including victims in peace agreement discussions in Havana. Colombia started this process with an ambitious reparations law, which aims to...
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December 20, 2016
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as...
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May 09, 2016
Whose version of the war and peace story wins out? The version created by international actors, by national elites or by the local actors who experienced the violence (and possibly the making of peace) on the ground?Do the characterisations of war, insecurity and...
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April 21, 2016
Based on findings from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, the article considers how top-down and bottom-up narratives and understandings of conflict often differ. The article posits that top-down narratives are often the result of a peculiar framing system...
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March 01, 2016
What is sustainable peacebuilding? And what is the relationship between empirical realities and theoretical approaches to the subject? The authors of Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding present a series of case studies from around the world to explore how...
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January 20, 2015
In contemporary Argentina, as in much of Latin America, politics is often found in the streets. In recent years it has bypassed traditional political party politics to bring day-today needs to the forefront through road blockades and cacerolazos (pot banging)....
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December 12, 2014
The path to peace is mostly paved with good intentions, but can be perilous to maneuver. Often, the peril does not lie in the policies developed by peacebuilders to build peace, but it is in the implementation of those policies where the best intentions lose their...
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November 2014
Much academic and practitioner literature has placed an emphasis on the need to capture ‘local voices’ in societies experiencing conflict and transitions out of conflict. The rationale behind this is that ‘local voices’ will be authentic...
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June 25, 2014
After more than five decades of conflict in Colombia, it seems that significant political will for transitional justice programmes—in particular reparations programmes—has emerged with the passing of the 2005 Justice and Peace Law, the 2010 election of...
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September 01, 2013
This introduction to our special section of Human Rights Review on Reparations and Peacebuilding gives an overview of the challenges currently confronting both peacebuilding and reparations. The special section aims to explore the relationship between these two...
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June 01, 2013
The provision of social services in protracted conflicts, such as the Colombian conflict, is scarce and sometimes non-existent. Collective reparations are normally composed of restitution, compensation, rehabilitation and guarantees of no repetition. They...
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May 22, 2013
This paper is an exploration of the use of Internet technologies as tools that form a part of democracy promotion programs in authoritarian regimes by international development actors – in particular United States Agency for International Development. It...
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June 02, 2011
The Central American nation of Costa Rica is one of the few countries in the world that does not possess a standing military. Nevertheless, Costa Rica, like other Latin American countries, faces a variety of security threats that test the country’s security...
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June 01, 2007
The article analyzes the interaction of recent social protest movements, both revolutionary and reformist, with the political process in Argentina. According to experts and social movements alike, the failure of the established neo-liberal policies which, along...
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July 01, 2005
This paper explores the evolution of the concept of war and its effects on the  nation-state. It begins by looking at how the current conception of war came into  being and goes on to argue why this tradition al concept is inappropriate for dealing...
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June 01, 2004
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February 23, 2017
Curious about what Mason students would name as “everyday peace indicators,” George Mason University
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April 27, 2016
How do we know a storm is coming? Clouds thicken and a gray tone takes over the normally blue sky. Simple, yet
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November 04, 2015
The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the recipients of 10 competitive fellowships for 2015-2016 and the
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In this episode of the ACUNS Current Issues Podcast, Pamina Firchow, Assistant Professor at the School of Conflict
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August 24, 2015
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The United States has made it a priority to help American weapons makers export their wares. Yet the arms industry
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The Center for Peacemaking Practice presents:Working towards reconciliation in Colombia: the implementation of collective and individual reparationsNov. 17th 12:30 - 1:30pmRoom 5183Come for a discussion on reparations with Sonia Londoño who has worked with indigenous organizations and most re
November 17, 2016
The meeting will present one such initiative, the Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI), which aims to investigate alternative, bottom-up indicators of peace and has been piloted since 2013 in sub-Saharan Africa and, more recently, in Latin America. Taking its cue from studies in
May 27, 2016
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity for Mason's undergraduate students to present their original research projects and experiences in the field that relate to conflict, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding. Hosted by the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, the
April 21, 2015
Everyday Peace Indicators:Including Hard to Access Populations in International Peacebuilding Efforts"The Everyday Peace Indicators project uses participatory action research methods and longitudinal, multi-mode mobile phone surveys to reach hard to access populations
March 25, 2015
Tech Tools for Creating Early Warning SystemsOpenGov HubWednesday, October 15, 2014 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (EDT)Washington, DC
October 15, 2014
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UNDP’s Responsive and Accountable Institutions Team in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, and the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, invite you to a presentation and dialogue:Everyday Peace Indicatorsputting local communities at the heart of measurement #Goal16Pamina Firchow,
March 10, 2017
Collecting and utilizing citizen feedback is challenging in general, but perhaps most so in conflict-prone or politically restrictive environments. Yet beneficiary feedback in such environments is even more essential with such high stakes. Lack of security and stability can impede both governments
October 28, 2016
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