Research
From community-level conflict to regional security, I study how people and institutions respond to rupture.
Qualitative · Mixed methods · Policy engagedResearch programme
Four connected fields of inquiry.
My research moves between local experience and global systems. It is informed by fieldwork, military service, UN peacekeeping, teaching, and institutional collaboration.
Conflict transformation
How communities and institutions turn social conflict into dialogue, trust, and durable peace.
Displacement and the Rohingya
Statelessness, humanitarian diplomacy, regional geopolitics, refugee education, and credible pathways to return.
Extremism and resilience
Education-led prevention, community intervention, polarization, and responses that protect civil society.
Security and geopolitics
UN peacekeeping, Arctic sovereignty, climate security, foreign interference, and defence innovation.
Current projects
Research designed for public use.
Large, collaborative projects translate research into dialogue, educator tools, and policy options.
Charting a Lasting Peace in Myanmar
Research and regional dialogue on conflict resolution, Rohingya displacement, and investment-led stabilization in Rakhine State.
Visit projectCountering Radicalization in Manitoba Schools
A multi-year initiative developing evidence and practical tools for educators to recognize and prevent pathways to violent extremism.
Visit projectIndigenous-Led Arctic Sovereignty and Climate Security
Policy research connecting Indigenous leadership, northern security, climate change, and Canada’s defence industrial base.
Visit projectResearch craft
Methods matched to the question.
I combine interpretive depth with policy relevance, using methods that can capture lived experience, institutional choices, and changing information environments.
Selected scholarship
A sustained record across books and journals.
Foreign Interference
Book project, in press
Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World
Springer
Rethinking Humanitarian Diplomacy for Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Resolution
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Community-Focused Counter-Radicalization and Counter-Terrorism Projects
Lexington Books
Grassroots Approaches to Community-Based Peacebuilding Initiatives
Lexington Books
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