Margarita Tadevosyan

Margarita Tadevosyan is a Research Assistant Professor at Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Executive Director of the Center of Peacemaking Practice. She is a scholar-practitioner of conflict resolution with a geographic concentration in the countries of the South Caucasus and post-Soviet spaces. As a practitioner, she has over a decade of experience in designing, convening, and facilitating Track II dialogue workshops, and has expertise in program design and evaluation, local–international coordination and complementarity, and civil society engagement for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Her practical work in collaboration with Dr. Susan Allen has been supported by the US Department of State, European Union, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Swiss MFA, UN and other major donors. 

Margarita Tadevosyan is a George Mason University alumna. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the Carter School and holds an MS degree (2010) in Peace Operations Policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government. Before joining Carter School, Margarita worked at the Political and Economic Section of the United States Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia. She actively collaborates with leading peacebuilding NGOs in the world such as Conciliation Resources, Ottawa Dialogue Project, Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation, and others. 

Margarita Tadevosyan’s research interest is focused on peacebuilding engagement within the local communities in conflict-affected countries and understanding and elevating marginalized voices within the conflict resolution theory and practice domain. Her current research focuses on two interrelated aspects of local peacebuilding: first, understanding local approaches to peacebuilding effectiveness and conceptualization of evidence, and second, how the local views on effectiveness and evidence fit into international practices and discourse around evidence. It examines the intersection of local and global perceptions of peacebuilding effectiveness and its impact on program development and peacebuilding engagement.

Margarita Tadevosyan serves on the board of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and is also active member of the International Studies Association and Association for the Study of Nationalities. She regularly presents at the various academic conferences and events. 

Honors and Awards

Edmund Muskie Graduate Fellowship 2008-2010

Affiliations

Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) – Co-Chair of the Board 

Degrees

• PhD, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

• MA, Peace Operations Policy, George Mason University

• MS, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

• BA, Sociology, Yerevan State University