Adam Lichtenheld is a PhD candidate researching forced migration, civil wars, counterinsurgency, peacekeeping, and local governance in conflict and post-conflict environments. His dissertation examines the strategic use of population displacement in armed conflicts, and includes a cross-national analysis of 159 civil wars (1944-2004) along with in-depth case studies from Uganda (1986-2006) and Syria (2011-present). His research has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace, the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law School, and UC-Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies, Center for African Studies, and Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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