Jennifer M. Hazen

Jennifer M. Hazen Research Fellow     Contact: Email: jennifer.hazen@smallarmssurvey.org Phone:+41 22 908 57 74     Biography: Jennifer M. Hazen has been a Senior Researcher at the Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, since December 2007. She holds a BA in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) and an MA and PhD in international relations from Georgetown University (USA). Prior to joining the Small Arms Survey, she was an Assistant Professor in the International Peace Studies program at the UN-mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica. She has previously served as a Political Affairs Officer with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and as an analyst with International Crisis Group in their West Africa office. She has also worked as a consultant for various international and national organizations. She has been working in the fields of US foreign policy, international relations, and conflict studies since 1994, and has focused her research on armed groups and intrastate conflicts since 2000. Her research interests include: conflict dynamics, armed groups, network analysis, peacekeeping, and post-conflict peacebuilding.     Field(s)of Interest: Foreign policy (US foreign policy, humanitarian intervention, international foreign aid policy) Violent conflict (conflict dynamics, network analysis, regional and international networks) Armed groups (rebel organizations, urban gangs, insurgencies) Post-Conflict issues (peace agreements, peacekeeping, peace-building, post-conflict reconstruction)     Selected Publications: "How Armed Groups Rise from Social Movements: A Case Study from Nigeria.” Contemporary Security Policy, forthcoming 2009. "A Public Health Approach to Reducing Armed Violence.” In Small Arms Survey 2008, Chapter 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, July 2008. "Risk and Resilience: Understanding the Prospects for Violence.” In Small Arms Survey 2008, Chapter 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, July 2008. (with Chris Stevenson) “Public Health Interventions: Targeting Armed Violence.” In Small Arms Survey 2008, Chapter 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, July 2008. (with Jonas Horner) Small Arms, Armed Groups, and Insecurity in Nigeria. Occasional Paper No. 20, Geneva: Small Arms Survey, December 2007. “Can Peacekeepers be Peacebuilders?,” International Peacekeeping, Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer 2007.