Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow 2006-07

Room 329B Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-0937
Fax: (574) 631-6973

E-mail: jheather@nd.edu


John Heathershaw is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His dissertation is titled Peace as Complex Legitimacy: Politics, Space and Discourse in Tajikistan's Peacebuilding Process, 2000-2005.

During his time at the Kroc Institute, John will address some of
the implications of his dissertation findings, examining the role of
political Islam in peace and conflict dynamics in Central Asia. In addition, he will continue his work on other academic and non-academic projects related to conflict and peacebuilding in the region. 

From 2001 to 2003 Heathershaw was senior instructor of International and Comparative Politics at the American University--Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He previously worked as a temporary lecturer in war studies at King's College London, a research analyst for the UK Ministry of Defence, and with various international and non-governmental organizations working on conflict resolution in the UK, Central Asia and West Africa. He has published numerous chapters and journal articles in conflict and security studies, especially with regard to Central Asia, and recently co-edited a special issue of Central Asian Survey, “Discourses of Danger in Central Asia,” (vol. 24, no.1, March 2005).

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