Political science professor Severine Autesserre has been awarded the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the ideas set forth in her book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence 和 the Failure of International Peacebuilding. From the Grawemeyer Awards site:
"Drawing from more than 300 interviews 和 18 months of field research, Autesserre analyzed a global effort from 2003 to 2006 to curb widespread violence in the Congo. She found the attempt failed because international workers trying to restore peace overlooked the importance of local disputes over l和, resources 和 political power. Her message that lasting conflict resolution must take place from the bottom up as well as from the top down “holds great promise for the pursuit of peace,评审团说。."
教授. Autesserre's research focuses on civil wars, peacebuilding 和 peacekeeping, humanitarian aid 和 African politics. 她曾在 查理•罗斯, Public Radio International's "The World" 和 elsewhere discussing issues related to the local violence 和 international intervention in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 她的书, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, also won the International Studies Association's 2011 Chadwick Alger Award.
The Grawemeyer Awards are five annual prizes given in the fields of music, 政治科学, 心理学, 教育和宗教. 他们是由H. Charles Grawemeyer to help make the world a better place. 阅读更多 The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Louisville Courier-Journal 和 WFPL新闻
