Sarah Kenyon Lischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3046942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Kenyon Lischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Kenyon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lischer |
| SIGNATURE | LISCHER S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4807-723X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hypotheses on Agony: Field Research in a Genocidal Context
Drawing on my field research experiences in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia, I present a personal narrative that creates a vivid picture of field research in challenging environments and contemplates what research ethics look like in post-genocide societies. Working in violent, traumatized, or oppressive conditions reveals the fragility of traditional political science methods when confronted with the realities of human suffering. Part of the intrin…
Narrating atrocity: Genocide memorials, dark tourism, and the politics of memory
After a genocide, leaders compete to fill the postwar power vacuum and establish their preferred story of the past. Memorialisation, including through building memorials, provides a cornerstone of political power. The dominant public narrative determines the plotline; it labels victims and perpetrators, interprets history, assigns meaning to suffering, and sets the post-atrocity political agenda. Therefore, ownership of the past, in terms of the …
Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what conditions do refugee crises lead to the spread of civ…
The Global Refugee Crisis: Regional Destabilization & Humanitarian Protection
In addition to being a tragic output of civil war, large-scale displacement crises often become enmeshed in the politics, security, and economics of the conflict. Refugee and internally displaced populations thus exacerbate concerns about regional destabilization. The Syrian refugee crisis, for example, is deeply entwined with civil and international conflict. Neighboring host states of Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon bear the brunt of the crisis, wh…
Conflict and Crisis Induced Displacement
This chapter focuses on mass flight and displacement caused by political violence occurring in the country of origin—that is, conflict and political or economic crisis. It questions the validity of quantitative and qualitative methods used to explore causality in such complex contexts of mass flux and argues in favour of mixed-methods, multidisciplinary research. After providing an overview of theories of conflict-induced displacement, it conside…
Civil war, genocide and political order in Rwanda: Security Implications of Refugee Return
Scholars and policy-makers now recognise the security risks posed by refugee militarisation, including the spread of civil war and regional destabilisation. These analysts pay little attention to the militarised exiles once they return home. Instead, repatriation is uncritically accepted as the most desirable solution to refugee crises and as a prerequisite for post-conflict peace-building. Undoubtedly, the vast majority of the refugees desire a …
Security and Displacement in Iraq: Responding to the Forced Migration Crisis
Since the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari Mosque, 4.5 million Iraqis have fled their homes, and displacement has become a central strategy in the civil war. Militant groups have engineered these colossal population movements to consolidate their power and expand their territorial claims. As this crisis demonstrates, displacement can expand and intensify violence during a civil war. In addition, refugee flows increase the risk that conflict will spr…
Causes and Consequences of Conflict-Induced Displacement
Violent conflict causes millions of people to flee their homes every year. The resulting displacement crises not only create logistical and humanitarian nightmares, these crises threaten international security and risk the lives of displaced people, aid workers, and peacekeepers. Despite the dangers posed by conflict-induced displacement, scholars, policy makers and international organizations usually have only a partial understanding of these cr…
Military Intervention and the Humanitarian “Force Multiplier
Recent military interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have sparked controversy by using humanitarian aid to further military goals. In 1999, NATO forces set up refugee camps for fleeing Kosovars, even as NATO fighter pilots attacked Yugoslavia. US planes dropped both cluster bombs and food packets in Afghanistan in 2001. As the US military finalized plans for invading Iraq, the US Agency for International Development recruited nongovernm…
Ethnic Cleansing and Extermination as State-Building
Journal Article Ethnic Cleansing and Extermination as State-Building Get access State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples. By Rae Heather. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 372 pp., $65.00 cloth (ISBN: 0-521-79284-3), $24.00 paper (ISBN: 0-521-79708-X). Sarah Kenyon Lischer Sarah Kenyon Lischer Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Search for other works b…
Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict
July 01 2003 Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict Sarah Kenyon Lischer Sarah Kenyon Lischer Assistant Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sarah Kenyon Lischer Assistant Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. Online ISSN: 1531-4804 Print ISSN: 0162-2889 © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College a…
Causes of Communal War: Fear and Feasibility
Communal war results from two types of change-increases in fear and increases in the feasibility of gaining aims by force. Fear, or insecurity, becomes a trigger of war when an oppressed group perceives a heightened threat to its cultural or physical survival. Fear of domination or extinction leads to war when a threatened group believes that it can reduce or avoid danger by using violence. Indicators of increasing feasibility of violence include…
Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what conditions do refugee crises lead to the spread of civ…
Security and Displacement in Iraq: Responding to the Forced Migration Crisis
Since the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari Mosque, 4.5 million Iraqis have fled their homes, and displacement has become a central strategy in the civil war. Militant groups have engineered these colossal population movements to consolidate their power and expand their territorial claims. As this crisis demonstrates, displacement can expand and intensify violence during a civil war. In addition, refugee flows increase the risk that conflict will spr…
Causes and Consequences of Conflict-Induced Displacement
Violent conflict causes millions of people to flee their homes every year. The resulting displacement crises not only create logistical and humanitarian nightmares, these crises threaten international security and risk the lives of displaced people, aid workers, and peacekeepers. Despite the dangers posed by conflict-induced displacement, scholars, policy makers and international organizations usually have only a partial understanding of these cr…
Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict
July 01 2003 Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict Sarah Kenyon Lischer Sarah Kenyon Lischer Assistant Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sarah Kenyon Lischer Assistant Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. Online ISSN: 1531-4804 Print ISSN: 0162-2889 © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College a…
Military Intervention and the Humanitarian “Force Multiplier
Recent military interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have sparked controversy by using humanitarian aid to further military goals. In 1999, NATO forces set up refugee camps for fleeing Kosovars, even as NATO fighter pilots attacked Yugoslavia. US planes dropped both cluster bombs and food packets in Afghanistan in 2001. As the US military finalized plans for invading Iraq, the US Agency for International Development recruited nongovernm…
The Global Refugee Crisis: Regional Destabilization & Humanitarian Protection
In addition to being a tragic output of civil war, large-scale displacement crises often become enmeshed in the politics, security, and economics of the conflict. Refugee and internally displaced populations thus exacerbate concerns about regional destabilization. The Syrian refugee crisis, for example, is deeply entwined with civil and international conflict. Neighboring host states of Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon bear the brunt of the crisis, wh…
Narrating atrocity: Genocide memorials, dark tourism, and the politics of memory
After a genocide, leaders compete to fill the postwar power vacuum and establish their preferred story of the past. Memorialisation, including through building memorials, provides a cornerstone of political power. The dominant public narrative determines the plotline; it labels victims and perpetrators, interprets history, assigns meaning to suffering, and sets the post-atrocity political agenda. Therefore, ownership of the past, in terms of the …
Hypotheses on Agony: Field Research in a Genocidal Context
Drawing on my field research experiences in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia, I present a personal narrative that creates a vivid picture of field research in challenging environments and contemplates what research ethics look like in post-genocide societies. Working in violent, traumatized, or oppressive conditions reveals the fragility of traditional political science methods when confronted with the realities of human suffering. Part of the intrin…
Civil war, genocide and political order in Rwanda: Security Implications of Refugee Return
Scholars and policy-makers now recognise the security risks posed by refugee militarisation, including the spread of civil war and regional destabilisation. These analysts pay little attention to the militarised exiles once they return home. Instead, repatriation is uncritically accepted as the most desirable solution to refugee crises and as a prerequisite for post-conflict peace-building. Undoubtedly, the vast majority of the refugees desire a …
Causes of Communal War: Fear and Feasibility
Communal war results from two types of change-increases in fear and increases in the feasibility of gaining aims by force. Fear, or insecurity, becomes a trigger of war when an oppressed group perceives a heightened threat to its cultural or physical survival. Fear of domination or extinction leads to war when a threatened group believes that it can reduce or avoid danger by using violence. Indicators of increasing feasibility of violence include…
Causes of Communal War: Fear and Feasibility
Communal war results from two types of change-increases in fear and increases in the feasibility of gaining aims by force. Fear, or insecurity, becomes a trigger of war when an oppressed group perceives a heightened threat to its cultural or physical survival. Fear of domination or extinction leads to war when a threatened group believes that it can reduce or avoid danger by using violence. Indicators of increasing feasibility of violence include…
Ethnic Cleansing and Extermination as State-Building
Journal Article Ethnic Cleansing and Extermination as State-Building Get access State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples. By Rae Heather. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 372 pp., $65.00 cloth (ISBN: 0-521-79284-3), $24.00 paper (ISBN: 0-521-79708-X). Sarah Kenyon Lischer Sarah Kenyon Lischer Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Search for other works b…
Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict
July 01 2003 Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict Sarah Kenyon Lischer Sarah Kenyon Lischer Assistant Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sarah Kenyon Lischer Assistant Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. Online ISSN: 1531-4804 Print ISSN: 0162-2889 © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College a…
Causes and Consequences of Conflict-Induced Displacement
Violent conflict causes millions of people to flee their homes every year. The resulting displacement crises not only create logistical and humanitarian nightmares, these crises threaten international security and risk the lives of displaced people, aid workers, and peacekeepers. Despite the dangers posed by conflict-induced displacement, scholars, policy makers and international organizations usually have only a partial understanding of these cr…
Military Intervention and the Humanitarian “Force Multiplier
Recent military interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have sparked controversy by using humanitarian aid to further military goals. In 1999, NATO forces set up refugee camps for fleeing Kosovars, even as NATO fighter pilots attacked Yugoslavia. US planes dropped both cluster bombs and food packets in Afghanistan in 2001. As the US military finalized plans for invading Iraq, the US Agency for International Development recruited nongovernm…
Security and Displacement in Iraq: Responding to the Forced Migration Crisis
Since the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari Mosque, 4.5 million Iraqis have fled their homes, and displacement has become a central strategy in the civil war. Militant groups have engineered these colossal population movements to consolidate their power and expand their territorial claims. As this crisis demonstrates, displacement can expand and intensify violence during a civil war. In addition, refugee flows increase the risk that conflict will spr…
Civil war, genocide and political order in Rwanda: Security Implications of Refugee Return
Scholars and policy-makers now recognise the security risks posed by refugee militarisation, including the spread of civil war and regional destabilisation. These analysts pay little attention to the militarised exiles once they return home. Instead, repatriation is uncritically accepted as the most desirable solution to refugee crises and as a prerequisite for post-conflict peace-building. Undoubtedly, the vast majority of the refugees desire a …
Conflict and Crisis Induced Displacement
This chapter focuses on mass flight and displacement caused by political violence occurring in the country of origin—that is, conflict and political or economic crisis. It questions the validity of quantitative and qualitative methods used to explore causality in such complex contexts of mass flux and argues in favour of mixed-methods, multidisciplinary research. After providing an overview of theories of conflict-induced displacement, it conside…
Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what conditions do refugee crises lead to the spread of civ…
The Global Refugee Crisis: Regional Destabilization & Humanitarian Protection
In addition to being a tragic output of civil war, large-scale displacement crises often become enmeshed in the politics, security, and economics of the conflict. Refugee and internally displaced populations thus exacerbate concerns about regional destabilization. The Syrian refugee crisis, for example, is deeply entwined with civil and international conflict. Neighboring host states of Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon bear the brunt of the crisis, wh…
Narrating atrocity: Genocide memorials, dark tourism, and the politics of memory
After a genocide, leaders compete to fill the postwar power vacuum and establish their preferred story of the past. Memorialisation, including through building memorials, provides a cornerstone of political power. The dominant public narrative determines the plotline; it labels victims and perpetrators, interprets history, assigns meaning to suffering, and sets the post-atrocity political agenda. Therefore, ownership of the past, in terms of the …
Hypotheses on Agony: Field Research in a Genocidal Context
Drawing on my field research experiences in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia, I present a personal narrative that creates a vivid picture of field research in challenging environments and contemplates what research ethics look like in post-genocide societies. Working in violent, traumatized, or oppressive conditions reveals the fragility of traditional political science methods when confronted with the realities of human suffering. Part of the intrin…
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