Alexis Lerner

Alexis Lerner is a mixed-methods scholar of comparative authoritarianism, with a focus on conflict in the post-Soviet region. She is also an award-winning teacher in comparative politics, international relations, and statistics. Alexis is finishing a PhD in Political Science and Jewish Studies, where she develops predictive models of autocratic repression and co-optation. Her work appears in Comparative Political Studies, The Arctic Review of Law and Politics, and The Journal of...

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Joe MacInnis

Joe MacInnis is a physician-scientist, deep-sea explorer and storyteller who studies leadership in high risk environments. He led ten research expeditions under the ice of the Arctic Ocean. Recently, he was a medical advisor and journalist on the James Cameron-National Geographic seven-mile dive into the Mariana Trench. He has worked with the U.S. Navy and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His latest book, Deep Leadership: Essential Insights from High Risk...

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Tim Danson

Tim Danson has been a trial and appellate lawyer for 36 years. He appears before all levels of Court and administrative tribunals, including International Sport Tribunals. Mr. Danson also has an extensive appellate practice, making numerous appearances before the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada on issues of considerable public interest and importance. Mr. Danson regularly lectures about these cases in Canada, United States and...

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Nancy Bertoldi

Nancy Bertoldi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on normative questions in international relations and explores the contours of a just and peaceful global order. Entitled Human Rights and Sovereignty, her first book project develops a civic conception of global justice inspired by Rawls to address the challenges of poverty and inequality as they arise in a plural world. Her second book will...

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Room 3123, 100 St. George St

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T 416-946-0181

nancy.bertoldi@chass.utoronto.ca
Nathaniel Brunt

Nathaniel Brunt is an interdisciplinary scholar, photographer and archival artist based in Toronto, Canada. His research and photographic practice focus on the history and photographic representation of modern war. Brunt is currently pursuing a PhD in the Communication and Culture joint program at Ryerson University and York University. His doctoral research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. Brunt’s photographic work has been featured...

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Michele St-Amant

I am a 3rd year Ph.D student in Political Science focusing on International Relations and Comparative Politics. My fields of interest include US foreign policy, great power military interventions, failed and weak states, great power conflicts and competition, great power financial statecraft, and the great power politics of natural resources and water. My research usually involves large-n data analysis, and I have been involved in other collaborative data collection and...

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Gerald Barebbe

I am a PhD student in my final year writing my dissertation on Military and Post-Conflict Governance in Uganda and Rwanda. I completed my undergraduate studies at Makerere University, Uganda and my Master’s degree in International Relations at Makerere University, with an Advanced Master’s Degree in Governance and Development at the University of Antwerp. My other fields of study include comparative politics and comparative political economy, particularly in the context of...

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gerald.bareebe@mail.utoronto.ca
Laura Niemi

Dr. Laura Niemi is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology and Global Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Dr. Niemi began at the University of Toronto in 2018 and teaches at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice. Prior to arriving at the University of Toronto, she completed research fellowships at Duke University and Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology and...

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Room B220, 315 Bloor Street West

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T 416-946-0409

laura.niemi@utoronto.ca

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Valérie Kindarji

I am a second-year PhD student interested in International Security. I completed my undergraduate studies at Concordia University, and my Master’s degree at Université de Montréal. I first became interested in International Relations in Dr. Norrin M. Ripsman’s course. During my Master’s degree, I then became particularly interested in security issues after taking a course on Civil War with Dr. Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Broadly, I seek to understand why conflict occurs, and which...

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valerie.kindarji@mail.utoronto.ca
Alexandre Trudeau

Alexandre Trudeau is a filmmaker and journalist. His work, dealing with hot topics in geopolitics, includes Embedded in Baghdad (on the ordinary life of Iraqi citizens during the American-led invasion), Secure Freedom (on terror suspects jailed without trial), Refuge: A Film About Darfur (on the humanitarian crisis), and The New Great Game (on the maritime geopolitics of the Middle-East). His book on the New China, Barbarian Lost, will be published...

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Jeff Otis

Jeff Otis is President and Chief Executive Officer of Grand National Apparel Inc., a Canadian menswear supplier. He has served on numerous advisory committees and task forces at the federal and provincial levels, including as Chair of the Federal Advisory Group on International Trade for Apparel and Footwear and Co-Chair of the Canadian Partnership for Ethical Trading. He is the Immediate Past President of the Canadian Apparel Federation and the Canadian...

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Michael A. Levine

Michael A. Levine is Chairman of Westwood Creative Artists, former partner of Goodmans, LLP; Executive Producer of various fiction and non-fiction films and television properties; Chairman of Bravo!FACT; and Director of the National Screen Institute. He concentrated his work on the legal aspects of the entertainment industry, primarily the financing, production and distribution of theatre, film, television, books and multimedia. He has degrees in Political Science and Law from the...

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Paola Salardi

Paola Salardi is an Assistant Professor in Economics and the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her background is as an applied economist with a focus on economics of conflict, economic development, inequality and political economy. Paola’s research has focused on the short and long-term consequences of conflict on welfare, the...

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paola.salardi@utoronto.ca

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Adrian Macdonald

Adrian Merchant Macdonald was Press Secretary to the Minister of Transport, a Partner of AML Consulting, and worked for Media Profile. She has been on the Boards of numerous non-profit organizations, among them The Vanier Institute of the Family, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Winnipeg Symphony, Canadian Stage, Canadian Battlefields Foundation, Partners in Research, Shakespeare Globe Canada, and The National Theatre School of Canada. She sits on the Justice of...

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Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is a professor, author and journalist who has reported from Ottawa, Toronto, London, Washington and Berlin. Among his best-selling books are While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World, a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award. His most recent is Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History. He has won two National Newspaper Awards and three National Magazine Awards....

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Anthony Graham

Anthony Graham is Vice Chairman of Wittington Investments and President of Selfridges Group and Sumarria Inc. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of George WestonPower Corporation of Canada, Power Financial Corporation, Graymont Limited, Selfridges, Holt Renfrew, deBijenkorf, and Grupo Calidra. He is Chairman of the Ontario Arts Foundation, Shaw Festival Foundation and Vice-Chairman of the Council of Business and the Arts in Canada. He is also a Canadian...

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Adam Casey

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. My dissertation and book project examine the impact of foreign sponsorship on the durability of authoritarian client regimes. In particular, I focus on the divergent effects of foreign support on client coup prevention strategies and military loyalty. In addition to data collection on foreign support for autocratic regimes for my book project, I have...

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Tara Sutton

Tara Sutton is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker whose work in conflict zones has received many awards. She has reported from the Middle East, Africa and South America. Her work appears on BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News, CBC, Al-Jazeera and The Guardian. She is currently directing a documentary about modern slavery. She sits on the board of The Collateral Repair Project, which assists Syrian and Iraqi refugees. She lives between...

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Chris Snyder

Chris Snyder is a pioneer in the personal finance business and co-founder and chair of the ECC Group. He has authored many articles and five books on personal finance. His most recent book, Be Smart with Your Money, focuses on human behaviour and money. He is chair of The Canadian Landmine Foundation, HIP (Honouring Indigenous Peoples) and runs hands-on school building trips for Rotary to the developing world. Chris is...

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Nidhi Panwar

Nidhi Panwar is a PhD student pursuing a collaborative program in Political Science and South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research interests focus on security issues in South Asia, specifically the conceptualization of India’s security and terrorism doctrine in the age of Hindu nationalism and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s rising populism. She is a Trudeau Fellow in Peace, Conflict and Justice, a Junior Fellow at Massey College...

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John English

A Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, John English has been a Liberal Member of Parliament, a Special Ambassador for Landmines and a Special Envoy for the election of Canada to the United Nations Security Council. He has also served as President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review, chair of the Board of the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian...

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T 519-498-0759

john.english@utoronto.ca
Randall Hansen

Randall Hansen is Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. He is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration. He works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of war on civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the...

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Room 216, 315 Bloor Street West

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T 416-946-8450

F 416-946-8915

r.hansen@utoronto.ca
Dylan Clark

Dylan Clark is an instructor for Contemporary Asian Studies and the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice. Clark has worked at the University of Toronto since 2006; teaching and serving in the the departments of Anthropology, Geography, Contemporary Asian Studies. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2006-2012) and Director of Contemporary Asian Studies (2012-2015). Prior to arriving at the University of Toronto, he worked at the University of...

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Room 003N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8975

dylan.clark@utoronto.ca
Cheng Xu

I am a second year PhD student in the department of Political Science, specializing in the fields of International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Development Studies. I was born in the People’s Republic of China. My family moved to Canada when I was nine years old to escape political persecution. As a result of that experience, I spent close to ten years serving in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Airborne...

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cheng.xu@mail.utoronto.ca

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Gerald Barebbe

Fellow, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice (2018-2019)

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Nancy Bertoldi

Associate Professor, cross-appointed in Political Science and Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Nathaniel Brunt

Research Affiliate, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Adam Casey

Fellow, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice (2019-2020)

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Dylan Clark

Lecturer, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice
Lecturer, Contemporary Asian Studies Program, Asian Institute

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Andrew Cohen

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Tim Danson

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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John English

Director, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History
Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Anthony Graham

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Randall Hansen

Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Director, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Professor, Political Science

Executive Assistant: Amanda Martin at amandas.martin@utoronto.ca

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Valérie Kindarji

Fellow, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice (2018-2019)

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Alexis Lerner

Course Instructor, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Michael A. Levine

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Adrian Macdonald

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Joe MacInnis

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Jona Malile

Program Coordinator, Munk One & Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Room 221N, 1 Devonshire Place
Laura Niemi

Assistant Professor, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Jeff Otis

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Nidhi Panwar

Fellow, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice (2019-2020)

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Paola Salardi

Assistant Professor, Master of Global Affairs
Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Chris Snyder

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Michele St-Amant

Fellow, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice (2019-2020)

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Tara Sutton

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Alexandre Trudeau

Advisory Board Member, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

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Cheng Xu

Fellow, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice (2018-2019)

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