Doctoral Research

The second Boren fellowship winner, Kimairis Toogood-Luehrs, will travel to Tajikistan to study the native language and complete her doctoral research, which explores civil society in the country. Toogood-Luehrs is a PhD student in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Her project will focus on how nongovernmental organizations contribute to the country’s bid for sustainable peace.

“As a conflict resolution scholar and practitioner, the findings from this project will not only help U.S. government officials understand a vital country in Central Asia, bordering Afghanistan to the north,” Toogood-Luehrs says. “It will also [help] conflict resolution scholars understand the mechanisms that allow the sustainability of nonviolence.”