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Jennifer Kandjii

Jennifer Kandjii

Jennifer Kandjii is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario. Her broad research interests include forced migration and post-conflict studies, gender and women, humanitarianism, and human rights, with a focus on refugee governance and precarious livelihoods. Jennifer’s Ph.D. dissertation focusses on refugee governance in South Africa, drawing […]

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Carla Johnston 2022

Carla Johnston

Carla Johnston is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research explores the processes of including Indigenous knowledge and practices in food systems governance from the local to the global scale, and the connections between these scales. More sustainable, resilient and just food systems are needed throughout

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Hari Har Jnawali

Hari Har Jnawali

Mr. Hari Har Jnawali is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, with specialization on global justice and human rights. In his dissertation, he takes a comparative approach to explore the factors that make Nepal and China hesitant to accommodate the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination

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Scott Janzwood

Scott Janzwood

Scott Janzwood’s research examines the ways that scientists and policymakers collaborate to address global catastrophic risks (GCRs) such as climate change, infectious disease outbreaks and near-Earth object (NEO) impacts. His research explores the intervening role of deep uncertainty and the approaches used by experts and decision makers to manage it. His dissertation focuses on the issues of

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Paul Heinbecker

Paul Heinbecker

Paul Heinbecker is a distinguished fellow, joining CIGI in 2003, and contributes to the Global Security & Politics program. His early diplomatic career included postings to Ankara, Stockholm and Paris (at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). After returning to Canada in 1979, Paul served as director of the US division in the External

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Abbas Imam

Abbas Imam

Abbas Imam is a MAGG student in the Global Governance program at Balsillie School of International Affairs. Abbas is pursuing a specialization in Global Social Governance and Conflict and Security. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Political Science as well as an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from York University. Abbas’s

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Kimie Hara

Kimie Hara is a Professor and the Renison Research Professor in East Asian Studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. She specializes in modern and contemporary international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, border studies, Cold War history, and Japanese politics and diplomacy. She supervises graduate students in the areas of East Asian Studies, International

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Erin Hannah

Erin Hannah

Erin Hannah is Associate Professor of Political Science at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. Her research and teaching interests include global political economy, development, gender and trade, global governance, global civil society, and the role of expert knowledge in global trade. She has published extensively on these topics in Review of

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Jonathan Hui

Jonathan Hui

Jonathan Hui is a Ph.D student at the Balsillie School with research interests in the discipline of futures studies, political ecology, and the intersections between digital infrastructure and climate resilience. His interests lie in the context of East Asia and China, in particular, around regional ecologies, technology sharing, and political economy as means towards climate adaptation

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Seyed Ali Hosseini

Seyed Ali Hosseini

Ali Hosseini is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, focusing on global social governance. His broad research interests include peacebuilding, development, and institutionalization of human rights. His PhD dissertation focuses on failure of international intervention in assisting post-Taliban Afghanistan in institutionalization of a culture of peace, drawing interactions between

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