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Jinelle Piereder

Jinelle Piereder
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Jinelle Piereder is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. Supervised by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jinelle works within the Ideological Conflict Project based at the Balsillie School, and focuses on ideological conflict within global governance and public policy-making. Using approaches and tools from complexity science, including Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM) and social network theory, she aims to understand the ways that ideologies are constructed, contested and perpetuated in the context of specific global (and conflict-prone) issues.

Some key questions that will shape her research are: how do we address ideological conflict at different scales, from the individual to the global? What are the key drivers behind dominant or powerful ideologies and – going beyond “norm entrepreneurship” – (how) can we influence, challenge or support them? How do we depolarize issues that are intimately connected with core belief sets in order to build constructive policy and successful movements? By examining ideological conflict using a network-based framework, Jinelle hopes to add to what is known about the determinants of ideological attachment and change at the individual level, as well as the social contexts and forces that operate on those determinants.

Jinelle previously completed an MA in Global Governance at BSIA, where her research examined the relationships between ideational, socio-political and material networks in contemporary arms trade and control. She also pursued research on food security and food sovereignty discourses, resilience-based approaches to security, and nuclear disarmament. As part of her degree, she completed an internship with CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation in Johannesburg, South Africa.

As a CIGI Graduate Fellow during her Masters, Jinelle worked with Dr. David Welch in the field of Asia-Pacific security, researching air defence identification zones (ADIZs). She and her research team presented their findings and recommendations in Washington, D.C. at the National Security Council, U.S. State Department and American University. Their policy brief has been published by CIGI, the Centre for Strategic International Studies’ PacNet, and the International Security Relations Network in Zurich.

She currently serves on the Boards of the Peace and Conflict Studies Association of Canada (PACS-Can) and the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA). She is also a Student Member of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI).

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TOPICS

Agriculture and Food Asia Civil Society and Social Movements Conflict Conflict and Security Disarmament Environmental Governance Global Justice and Human Rights Global Social Governance Human Security International Law International Organizations Political Philosophy and Theory

RESEARCH
Conflict and Security
EDUCATION
  • MA, Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2015
  • BA, Global Studies with Research Specialization, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2014

Academic / Professional Awards

  • SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2017-2020
  • President’s Graduate Scholarship – University of Waterloo, 2017-2020, 2016/2017, 2014/2015
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2016/2017, 2014/2015
  • Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women, 2016
  • Balsillie Doctoral Fellowship, 2016
  • Graduate Research Award for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation – The Simons Foundation and DFATD’s International Security Research and Outreach Program, 2015
  • Rotary Peace Award, 2015
  • David Johnston Award, 2015
  • BSIA Graduate Research Scholarship, 2015

Publications

  • Sedra, Mark and Jinelle Piereder. (forthcoming). Second Generation Security Sector Reform (SSR) 8-Case Synthesis Report. Centre for Security Governance.
  • Piereder, Jinelle and Alex Brouse. 2018. “Gone AWOL? Canada’s Multi-track Diplomacy and Presence in the Asia Pacific.” International Journal Spotlight, Canadian International Council, June 8.
  • Dewitt, David, Mary Young, Alex Brouse and Jinelle Piereder. 2018. “AWOL – Canada’s Defence Policy and Presence in the Asia Pacific.” International Journal 73 (1): 5-32.
  • Lawrence, Michael, Jinelle Piereder, and Eric Tanguay. 18 Oct 2017. “Canada’s Cautious Return to Peacekeeping.” Canadian International Council.
  • Piereder, Jinelle. 2017. “Populism, globalization, and conspiracy theories: An Exploration.” Inquiry & Insight 9(1): 66-91.
  • Dewitt, David, Mary Young, Alex Brouse and Jinelle Piereder. 2016. “A Mapping Exercise of DND and CF Activities Related to Asia Pacific and Indo Pacific Security, 1990-2015”. Commissioned Research Paper for Defence Research & Development Canada.
  • Piereder, Jinelle. 2015. “The Right to Food, Food Security, and Food Sovereignty: the discourse of keeping people fed”. used in Dr. Rhoda Howard-Hassmann’s course, “International Human Rights,” at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
  • Charbonneau, Joelle, Katie Heelis and Jinelle Piereder. 2015. “Putting ADIZs on the Radar”. CIGI Graduate Fellows Policy Brief No 1.
  • Charbonneau, Joelle, Katie Heelis and Jinelle Piereder. 2015. “Putting ADIZs on the Radar”. Center for Strategic & International Studies’ PacNet #36.
  • Charbonneau, Joelle, Katie Heelis and Jinelle Piereder. 2015. “Putting ADIZs on the Radar”. International Security Relations Network in Zurich.
  • Piereder, Jinelle. 2014. “The Imam and the Pastor: Attempts at Peace in Nigeria using Interfaith Dialogue”. Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts.

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