In a time of international turmoil, it is not surprising that Associate Professor of Government Claudena Skran regularly finds herself being sought out for informed analysis and commentary on Iraq, Afganistan and the war on terror, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In March, for example, she spoke to a Lunch at Lawrence audience on the subject “Iraq, One Year Later: A Retrospective and Look Ahead,” and the previous June discussed the history of refugees and the legal status of Palestinian refugees on the Todd Feinburg Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio program aired on more than 40 radio stations nationwide.
A scholar of international affairs, whose research focuses on the role of international organizations in providing emergency relief and the resettlement of refugees, she is the author of Refugees in Interwar Europe: The Emergence of a Regime, published by Oxford University Press.
Her recent publications include an article, “Collateral Damage from the War on Terror: Why the U.S. Needs to Rethink Policy Toward Refugees and International Students,” in The Executive Times and a chapter, “New Paradigms in Refugee Assistance,” that will appear in Nitza Nachmias’s and Rami Goldstein’s forthcoming International Politics of Forced Migration.
Current plans are for using an upcoming sabbatical next fall to travel to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to conduct research on the role of non-governmental organizations in the resettlement of refugees from the civil war that has consumed that country.
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