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Charles Call Assoc Professor School of International Service

Degrees
PhD, Stanford University; MA, Stanford University; BA, cum laude, Princeton University

Favorite Spot on Campus
The garden next to Bender Arena
Bio
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Call, an associate professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, focuses on post-war peacebuilding, statebuilding, democratization, human rights and police and justice reform. He has conducted field research in Central America, West Africa, the Balkans, Colombia, Haiti and Afghanistan. In 2012-14 he served as senior advisor in the State Department. In 2017 he was senior external advisor to the World Bank/UN report Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict, and spent 2004-05 working at UN headquarters. He has consulted for Human Rights Watch, the UN Development Programme, and the European Commission.
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Dr. Call's research interests include post-war peacebuilding, post-conflict governance and reconstruction, Latin America & the Caribbean, human rights and democratization, and justice and security sector reform.

Selected Publications

  • Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence. Georgetown University Press, 2012.
  • Building States to Build Peace.(ed.) Lynne Rienner, 2008.
  • Constructing Security and Justice After War. (ed.) U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
  • “Beyond the ‘Failed State’: Toward Conceptual Alternatives,” European Journal of International Relations, 17, 2 (June 2011, online April 2010).
  • "The Fallacy of the Failed State,” Third World Quarterly 29,8 (December 2008).
  • “Knowing Peace When You See It: Setting Standards for Peacebuilding Success,” Civil Wars 10, 2 (June 2008), 174-195.
  • “Ending Wars and Building Peace,” International Studies Perspectives 9,1 (February 2008), pp. 1-21 (with Elizabeth Cousens).
  • “Democratization, War, and State-Building: Constructing the Rule of Law in El Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 35:4 (November 2003).
  • “War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America.” Comparative Politics, 35:1 (October 2002).
  • “On Democracy and Peacebuilding,” Global Governance 9,2 (Spring 2003), co-authored with Susan Cook.

Media Appearances

  • BBC World Service
  • ABC World News This Morning
  • CNN Spanish
  • Le Monde
  • The Boston Globe
  • The Chicago Tribune
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The New York Times
  • The Washington Times
  • The Los Angeles Times

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Senior Fellow, US Institute of Peace, 2008-09.
  • Guest Scholar and Grant Recipient, U.S. Institute of Peace. "Constructing Security and Justice after War" Project, 2001-03.
  • Research and Writing Grant Recipient, MacArthur Foundation, 1999-2000.
  • Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1995-96.
  • National Security Education Program Fellow, 1995-96.
  • Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation Grant Recipient, 1995.
  • Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellow, 1995-96.
  • National Science Foundation Fellow, 1988-90.

Professional Services

  • United Nations Secretariat, New York
  • United Nations Development Programme and International Peace Academy
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
  • United Nations UN Development Programme and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations
  • Human Rights Watch, Colombia
  • Human Rights Watch, Russia
  • European Commission/US Agency for International Development
  • Ford Foundation
  • Inter-American Development Bank
  • U.S. Department of Justice