The Russia-Ukraine war: obstacles to negotiations and finding solutions

You are warmly invited to attend a public talk and Q and A with Professor Lise Howard, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C..

Professor Howard will discuss the prospects and obstacles for peace in the Russia-Ukraine War, in the context of the ongoing violence, the new Trump Presidency, political changes in Europe and the role of the UN system in responding to conflict. She will also discuss what solutions may follow when peace finally comes. 

Professor Lise Howard is visiting New Zealand as a Fulbright Specialist and is also speaking at the NZIIA national conference in Wellington on 17 June. 

About Professor Lise Howard

Lise Morjé Howard is a tenured Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with joint appointments in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She teaches and conducts research on matters of war, peace, and security.

Professor Howard earned her A.B. in Soviet Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She studied Philology at Leningrad State University, and then Soviet Constitutional Law at the re-named St. Petersburg State University, during the collapse of the constitutional order. She has held yearlong residential fellowships at Stanford University (CISAC), Harvard University (Belfer Center), and the United States Institute of Peace.

Professor Howard researches and teaches courses about international relations, war termination, the Russia-Ukraine war, peacekeeping, and U.S. foreign policy. She has conducted fieldwork in conflict zones in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Eurasia. Her articles and book chapters have appeared in, among others, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, The British Journal of Political Science, International Peacekeeping, Global Governance. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2008), won the Book Award from the Academic Council on the UN System for the best book on the UN system published in the previous three years. Another book, Power in Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2019) won the Book Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

More information here: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RX4CAAW/lise-howard