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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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Paola Salardi

Paola Salardi is the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs and 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 changing role of women in post-conflict...

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Room 259S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8918

paola.salardi@utoronto.ca

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Christopher LaRoche

Christopher David LaRoche is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Fellow at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His research focuses on how great power geopolitics interact with global governance institutions and international norms. His dissertation, The Geopolitics of Intervention, examines how great powers used geopolitical elements of world politics, like spheres of influence, to...

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christopher.laroche@utoronto.ca

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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

Nathan Sears

Nathan possesses a Bachelor of Arts, Honours Specialization in History and Minor in Political Science from The University of Western Ontario, and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. From 2012 to 2016 he was a full-time Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Las Américas in Quito, Ecuador. Nathan is currently a PhD student in Political Science...

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T 647-646-2965

n.sears@mail.utoronto.ca

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

Mark Kersten

Mark Kersten is a Fellow, researcher, and consultant based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, as well as the Deputy Director of the Wayamo Foundation. Mark’s research and work focuses on: the investigation and prosecution of international crimes; mass atrocity responses and prevention; the effects of judicial interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on conflict, peace, and justice processes; capacity-building and domestic accountability...

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mark.kersten@utoronto.ca

www.justiceinconflict.org

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Neekoo Collett

Neekoo Collett is a Ph.D student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where her research focuses on state violence against, and persecution of, religious minorities. Currently her research asks: (i) why governments choose to persecute certain minorities; (ii) why and how governments select certain persecutory policies and not others; and (iii) what mechanisms drive governments to revise those policies. Her case studies include the Bahà’ì...

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