This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Thomas Hill, to discuss his CGA journey and experience. Dr. Hill is a clinical associate professor at the CGA, where he is director of the Peace Research and Education Program. He oversees the peacebuilding concentration within the Master of Science in Global Affairs (MSGA) program. He is a peacebuilding practitioner and researcher with more than 15 years of experience focusing on Iraq. Dr. Hill has developed and has taught a variety of other graduate-level courses, including: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding; the Workshop in Applied Peacebuilding; Conflict Assessment; the Joint Research Seminar in Peacebuilding and the Advanced Joint Research Seminar in Peacebuilding, a two-course sequence that has been conducted in partnership with the University of Duhok in Iraq and the Escuela Superior de Administracion Publica in Colombia. He is a member of the Institute for Economics and Peace. A former journalist, his research interests include: the role of universities as actors and sites for peacebuilding; the importance of community-centered approaches to civil society-led peacebuilding; and the use of conflict analysis and assessment as tools for integrating development and peacebuilding.
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