🌉 More updates! GGHS UMass Boston shone at the PJSA conference at George Mason University! 👏 Clara Nithiaparan presented her paper on transitional justice 🏆 Pryanka Peñafiel-Cevallos won Best Graduate Dissertation! 🎉 Alum David Sulewski was runner-up (in absentia)!

Please join the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance for our 40th anniversary gala on November 13, 2026!

US troops have left Iraqi Kurdistan. Is the region safer, or just less protected? Our PhD student @Firmeskrahim asks which will vanish faster: the threats or the protection. New on @ConversationUS theconversation.com/iraqi-ku…

🌉Karen Ross, @jpugh00 , Seth Karamage facilitated a roundtable entitled "Perspectives on mobilizing networks to increase peacebuilding impact" at this year's Peace and Justice Studies Association conference at George Mason University!

Join us tonight on Zoom for a panel discussion with four accomplished alumni of the Global Governance and Human Security (GGHS) PhD program who have excelled in non-academic career tracks: Allyson Bachta, Ph.D , Polly Cegielski, J. Michael Denney, and Kundan Mishra

🌉 GGHS was well represented at the @BtGProjectDC 2026 New Era Workshop in Denver (Sept 24–26)! Our contingent: Beth Fascitelli (alum), Nurhati Tangging (student), Weston Marume (student), Olga Skaredina (former student) @jpugh00 #BridgingTheGap #GlobalGovernance

TONIGHT! A Theory of Agency in International Politics, with Professor Adam Lerner, Associate Professor of Political Science at UMass Lowell. October 6, 2026 05:30pm - 07:00pm Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Alumni Lounge 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125

Apply to be a Housing Policy Fellow at @BHA_Boston ! Link here: bostonhousing.org/en/Job-Pos…

🎉 New from Prof. Stacy VanDeveer: He wrote the introduction to a new H-Diplo roundtable (18-7) on Kathryn C. Lavelle's Reluctant Conquest: American Wealth, Power, and Science in the Arctic (Yale UP, 2025) issforum.org/roundtables/rou…

Congrats to Prof. Michelle Jurkovich on the publication of "Descriptive Inquiry in Political Science" a special issue in International Politics (Vol. 63, Issue 4)! Co-edited with Carolyn Holmes, Meg Guliford & Mary Anne Mendoza-Davé link.springer.com/journal/41…

🎉 Book Launch Recap: Dr. Jamie J. Hagen's Queering Women, Peace and Security What a great event! On Sept 16, we celebrated GGHS alumna @Jamiejhagen's new book on expanding feminist approaches to gender in peacebuilding!

📢 Sept 24: We hosted Dr. Emrah Karakaya (@KTHuniversity) on AI as a probabilistic general-purpose technology and why it creates unique organizational challenges. Co-sponsored by @UMassBoston's Applied Ethics Center & Center for Governance and Sustainability.

Our esteemed PhD candidate Jiedine Phanbuh presented a paper at the 2026 Bath conference on Earth Systems Governance, titled “Measuring Success in Transboundary Water Governance: Justice, Allocation, and Adaptive Capacity in Three Major River Treaties. Congratulations, Jiedine!

Professor @ashoswai joined us yesterday for a day full of presentations and discussions with our wonderful Global Governance & Human Security PhD students. Thank you to @UMassBostonCGS @StacyDVanDeveer for organizing the visit!

Congrats GGHS PhD Candidates: Sahar Badiezadeh, Buket Altınçelep, George Awazi, Lilian Sibanda, Farman Kakar, Dominic Offei and Weston Marume and many thanks to Prof Rita Kiki Edozie for representing our department in supporting the candidates! #celebrating #milestone

🌟 Speaker Spotlight: @StacyDVanDeveer 🌍An expert in environmental policy and global governance, Stacy will bring key insights to @UConn Law’s Earth Day Conference on April 11. Join us to explore how international environmental policy can adapt to political change.

📢 Don’t miss Panel: International Environmental Policy in a Time of Political Change at the #EarthDay2025 conference hosted by @UConnLaw at 11:45 AM! 🎙 @StacyDVanDeveer will be speaking! 💬 The Panel discuss global climate cooperation beyond the Paris Agreement.