Katherine Collin

I am the director of Georgetown University's MA program in Conflict Resolution and an assistant teaching professor in Georgetown's Department of Government. My PhD is from American University's School of International Service in International Relations. I also earned an MA in International Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley in History and Peace & Conflict Studies. Prior to Georgetown, I was an instructor of conflict analysis and international relations at American University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Brookings Institution.

My research is on the role of elections in post-conflict transitions, in particular the use of referendums in peace processes. At the intersection of peace studies, international relations and comparative politics, I study the ways in which democratic decision-making can build-up or tear-down peace and mechanisms that can help bridge the gap between peacemaking among warriors and peacebuilding among people.

I worked for several years in the civilian components of multilateral peace operations, most often in elections projects, including with refugee and expat communities. I worked with the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, and IFES in the US, Europe, Asia, MENA and sub-Saharan Africa.

Education

• American University - Ph.D., International Relations
• Monterey Institute of International Studies - M.A.
• University of California-Berkeley - B.A. with Honors, Peace Studies