Carter School Visiting Scholars

Dr. Azime Telli is a scholar of international relations. Her primary research interests encompass foreign policy, geopolitics, energy policy, energy security, energy diplomacy, energy transition, and climate change.

Ibrahim Fevzi Guven is a political scientist, whose main research interests include peace and conflict studies, the local turn in peacebuilding, nationalism, and security studies. Guven's research has primarily centered on the Balkan region, particularly post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dr. Ann L. Phillips is a scholar practitioner focused on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Her research and consultations incorporate not only the bilateral historical and contemporary context but also interests and influence of regional and international actors. The purpose is to identify realistic possibilities for peace.

Dr. Nicholas R. Sherwood is a peace psychologist and expert in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in conflict zones, resilience and wellbeing within peacebuilding practitioners and conflict-impacted populations, peri-/post-conflict reconciliation, and qualitative/participatory action research methodologies. During his Visiting Scholar appointment, Dr. Sherwood is completing his book project and other publications focusing on the psychological experiences of insider peacebuilders, including resilience-building, wellbeing promotion, and trauma healing in conflict zones.

Throughout Abdul Wahid Gulrani's tenure at Carter School, the primary focus is on conducting in-depth research on the social and cultural factors contributing to the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in August 2021.

Dr. William McInerney will bring his expertise on Violent Masculinities and the use of the arts and peace education interventions to bear on the work of urban peacebuilding.

Greta Uehling is a cultural anthropologist whose academic research is broadly concerned with the subjective experience of war and peace, the gender dimensions of conflict resolution, and the relationship between social memory, reconciliation, and transitional justice.

Michael’s professional career includes leading press and/or policy shops at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Climate Nexus (clients included the United Nations, Vatican City, The White House, and Fortune 500 Companies), U.S. Congress, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Institute for Economics and Peace, Biodiversity Northwest, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and more.

In  partnership with the GMU Afghan Scholars Program, the Carter School welcomes Dr. Mansoor Ehsan.  A political analyst and researcher, Dr. Ehsan joins the Carter School as Scholar in Residence for a year beginning summer 2022.