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Lisa Schirch

Lisa Schirch
Professor of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, S-CAR Alumna
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Ph.D. Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
M.S. Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
B.A. Political Science and International Relations, University of Waterloo

Biography

Lisa Schirch is Director of Human Security at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. Schirch connects policymakers with global civil society networks, facilitates civil-military dialogue and provides a conflict prevention and peacebuilding lens on current policy issues. Schirch is also a Research Professor at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.

Schirch is currently working with a global network to write a Curriculum on Security Sector and Civil Society Engagement for Human Security.

A former Fulbright Fellow in East and West Africa, Schirch has conducted conflict assessments and participated in peacebuilding planning alongside local colleagues in over 20 countries in conflict prevention and peacebuilding including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya, Ghana, and Fiji. Schirch has published five books and dozens of chapters and articles on a range of themes including the design and structure of a comprehensive peace process in Afghanistan, civil-military relations, and the role of the media in peacebuilding.

Schirch’s most recent book is Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security published by Kumarian/Lynne Reinner Press in May 2013. The website for the book can be found at



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April 01, 2012
In response to the challenges in Afghanistan and Iraq, top U.S. military and political leaders elevated the importance of stabilization activities such as de¬velopment, called for strengthened civilian capacities, and put more resources toward civil-military...
Category: Book Chapter
September 2011
SummaryCurrent negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan fail to build on lessons learned from peace processes in other countries. Exclusion of key stakeholders, especially diverse sectors of civil society, and exclusion of key issues underlying the current...
Category: Papers & Reports
November 25, 2007
The word "dialogue" suffers from over-use, yet its practice is as transforming and as freshly hopeful as ever.Authors Schirch and Campt demonstrate dialogue's life and possibilities in this clear and absorbing manual: "Dialogue allows people in...
Category: Book
February 25, 2005
So we'd all like a more peaceful world -- no wars, no poverty, no more racism, no community disputes, no office tensions, no marital skirmishes.Lisa Schirch in her timely book sets forth paths to such realities. In fact, she points a way to more than the absence...
Category: Book
May 01, 2001
Most of the early Western writings in the field of conflict studies sought to understand conflict through an objective, anlaytical lens that downplayed the subjective realm of culture and worldview and tried to control the percetputal and emotional factors that...
Category: Book Chapter
June 01, 1999
Many of the current peacebuilding tools originated in academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Theoretical frameworks, communication skills, and problem-solving exercises are now mimicked internationally, regardless of cultural context. Ritual peacebuilding...
Category: Doctoral Dissertation
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May 24, 2011
Islamabad - People power and the use of mass nonviolent action are not new to Muslims. Even before Gandhi, political
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May 05, 2011
Pakistan-based graduates of Eastern Mennonite University say U.S. military policy in their country has fed extremism
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April 28, 2011
George Mason University in Fairfax, VA started the first Master's in the world on Conflict Analysis and Resolution in
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April 25, 2011
As a foreigner visiting Pakistan, this weekend's protests in Peshawar against U.S. drones remind me of prior Pakistani
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January 27, 2011
The United States needs to invest more in development and diplomacy to address root causes of insecurity worldwide. And
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12/8/2010
One of the topics in the “Great Decisions” foreign policy discussion series that was offered through the
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November 10, 2009
During her recent visit to Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton emphasised the need to foster a
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January 19, 2009
Open Letter to President Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring SecurityDear President Obama,
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December, 2008
Lisa Schirch of the 3D Security Initiative at Eastern Mennonite University discusses the root causes of the crisis and
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