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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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November 30, 2016
Open letter to President-elect Donald Trump and government officials at all levelsTake an urgent stand to build respect
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September, 2016
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August 23, 2013
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October 10, 2011
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the 2001 U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. With the assassination of the head of the
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