Faculty
Among the internationally renowned faculty who are affiliated with the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict studies:
Ron Levi
Prof. Ron Levi, Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto. He is also a Scholar in the Successful Societies program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Domain Leader for Justice, Policing & Security with the Metropolis Project. He is a broadly interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on law, state governance, and internationalization. He holds law degrees in both civil law and common law from McGill University. After completing his master's degree in law at the University of Toronto, he pursued graduate study in sociology at Northwestern University, and completed his doctoral degree in law at the University of Toronto in 2003.
Vsevolod Gunitskiy
Prof. Vsevolod Gunitskiy's research examines the influence of the international system on domestic regime development. His work focuses on analyzing the mechanisms through which external forces like wars, economic crises, and institutional diffusion shape the dynamics of democratization. He has previously published articles in the Journal of International Affairs and World Policy Journal. Vsevolod is currently preparing his first book, Democracy and the Decline of Great Powers, which examines how the sudden rise and fall of great powers has shaped waves of democratic transformations in the twentieth century. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. (More information: http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/)
Jean-Yves Haine
Dr. Jean-Yves Haine is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a law degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a Master in International Relation from the Sorbonne (France) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences-Po. (France). Before joining U of T., he was Research fellow at the Government Department, Harvard University, Senior Research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris and European Security Research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and Senior Researcher for Transatlantic and Global Security at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Elisabeth King
Elisabeth King is a Research Fellow at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York. Her current research explores the impact of development on conflict and peacebuilding in Africa. Dr. King is working on a book, based on research in Rwanda, arguing that formal education, usually presumed to contribute to sustainable peace, can also divide societies. She is also conducting new research, in collaboration with UNDP, to examine the impact of the Millennium Villages Projects in Liberia on post-war social cohesion. Dr. King has also worked with NGOs on the global landmine crisis and world literacy. She has conducted fieldwork in Croatia, India, Liberia and Rwanda.
Nancy Bertoldi
Nancy’s research focuses on normative questions in international relations, with the goal of uncovering global principles that can provide a realistic moral foundation for a just and peaceful global order. Entitled Beyond Power and Plenty, her first book develops a civic conception of global justice to address the challenges of poverty and inequality as they arise in a plural world. Her second book will examine the practical implications of this theory for policy debates on the global governance of trade, health, and the environment. This work will pay special attention to the roles played by practices of collective justification in the construal of fairness claims and the necessity of developing governance mechanisms that allow for principled and rule-governed civil disobedience within multilateral global institutional frameworks.