MARIE-JOËLLE ZAHAR EDUCATION CONSULTANCY EXPERTISE

MARIE-JOËLLE ZAHAR
Senior Expert on Power Sharing, 2013 Standby Team of Mediation Experts
Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
1800 Docteur-Penfield Avenue, Apt. 403, Montréal, Québec H3H 1B4
+1 (514) 258-1583
Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal (on leave 2013)
Research Director, Research Network on Peace Operations
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7
+1 (514) 343-6111 *20325/*26736
[email protected]
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Marie-Joëlle Zahar is professor of political science and research director of the Research Network on Peace
Operations at the Université de Montréal. A Middle-East expert with solid academic and field experience of
conflicts in the Balkans and Africa as well, she researches and works in the areas of conflict-resolution and
post-conflict peace-building. She has developed particular expertise on power-sharing as well as the dynamics
of violence in peace processes. She is fully trilingual (French, Arabic and English) and a citizen of Lebanon
and Canada. She is the author or co-author of over 40 articles and book chapters and has co-edited four books.
Because of her policy-grounded research, Professor Zahar is often sought after for her expertise. She has
conducted missions and/or research assignments for, among others, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade (DFAIT) as well as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
at the United Nations. She has served as consultant for the programs “Peace and Democratic Governance in
Iraq” and “Peace and Democratic Governance in the Sudan” financed by DFAIT and conducted by the Forum
of Federations, one of the world’s leading think-tanks in the design of federal institutions, as well as for the
United States Institute of Peace. More recently, she was the senior expert responsible for developing the Forum
of Federations’ program in support of the Popular Consultations process in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
states in the Sudan. She has also conducted field missions for the Forum in Jordan and has worked and
conducted independent research in Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Angola, Mozambique and South Africa.
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EDUCATION
February 2000
Ph.D. (cum laude), Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dissertation: Fanatics, Mercenaries, Brigands … and Politicians: Militia DecisionMaking and Conflict Resolution
Winner: Prix d’excellence, Humanities and Social Sciences, Académie des Grands
Montréalais
June 1994
M.A., Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 1984
B.A. (cum laude), Department of Political Science and Public Administration,
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
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CONSULTANCY EXPERTISE
03/2011-to date
Jury Member, Quebec Roster of Non-Governmental Expertise, Ministère des
Relations Internationales du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
Responsible for assisting in assigning NGO experts dispatched by the Ministry in cases of emergency
deployments abroad.
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
08/2010-12/2010
2/12
Senior Expert, Program of activities in support for the Popular Consultations in South
Kordofan and Blue Nile States (Sudan), “Peace and Democratic Governance in the
Sudan”, Forum of Federations, Ottawa, Canada and Khartoum, Sudan
Designed the program of activities after conducting extensive consultations with government officials,
academics, public intellectuals and NGO representatives from Blue Nile, South Kordofan and
Khartoum (Delay in funding prevented me from taking the lead in program delivery as planned).
06/2010-11/ 2010
Consultant, United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., USA
Co-wrote an options paper on power sharing between Blue Nile and South Kordofan States and the
Government of Sudan to be used by participants in the popular consultations process.
2008-2010
Consultant, “Peace and Democratic Governance in the Sudan”, Forum of
Federations, Khartoum, Sudan
Designed and delivered modules on federalism and conflict-resolution, and federal experiences in the
Arab world for an audience of university professors, central and regional government officials, and
party representatives from North and South Sudan.
Trained party representatives ahead of the April 2010 parliamentary elections.
Designed a number of workshop activities intended to bring participants from opposite political sides
to exchange views and collaborate in joint initiatives.
2006-2007
Consultant, Academic Capacity-Building in Post-Conflict Countries, “Peace and
Democratic Governance in Iraq”, Forum of Federations, Amman, Jordan
Designed and delivered modules on federalism and conflict-resolution, and federal experiences in the
Arab world for an audience of university professors and government officials from all regions of Iraq.
Designed and led a number of workshop activities intended to bring participants from opposite political
sides to exchange views and collaborate in joint initiatives.
03/2008
Invited Expert, 2nd Human Security and Cities Conference, Canadian Consortium for
Human Security and Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(Canada), Liu Institute for Global Issues, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
01/2008
Invited Expert, Fast Talk on Conflict Resilience, Human Security Research and
Outreach Program, Human Security Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Report on resilience in the Middle East and the Balkans.
09/2007-05/2011
Member, Advisory Committee Member, Canada’s World/Canada monde, A citizen
dialogue on Canada’s Foreign Policy funded by a number of Canadian think-tanks
and foundations [www.canadasworld.ca]
Advised the project leader on project design and outreach activities; advised student members in
designing and conducting activities.
02/2007
Invited Expert, Brainstorming Workshop “Religion and Geopolitics”, Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
03/2006
Invited Expert, Member of the Canadian Delegation, Conférence franco-canadienne
sur le dialogue avec le monde musulman [Bilateral talks on dialogue with the Muslim
world], Canadian Embassy in Paris and Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision du
Ministère des Affaires étrangères (France)
09/2005
Expert, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Calgary)
Report on the social structure of Lebanon’s criminal networks.
01/2005
Invited Expert, “War to Peace Transitions: 8th Annual Peacebuilding and Human
Security Consultations,” Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee and
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
3/12
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
04/2003
Consultant, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Report on the state of the rule of law in Lebanon in relation to the Lebanese judiciary’s
performance in trying war crimes.
01/1999-04/1999
Consultant, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations,
New York, USA
Report on relations between non-state armed actors and civilian populations to assess the conditions
under which NSAGs will be amenable to respecting international humanitarian law.
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NON-ACADEMIC TEACHING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE
08/2011-to date
Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force, Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, Fragile States and Violent Conflict, Ottawa, Canada
Designed and helped facilitate the three-day course which has become part of the standard training of
START officers and is now being offered to civil servants across the Government of Canada.
31/08 – 2/10, 2010
Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) - United Nations Political Affairs
Department, Responding to non-traditional security threats and their impact on
democracy building, peace and security, New York, USA
“Democracy promotion, peacemaking and peace building in the Middle East”
28/04/2010
Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), New Issues in Security Course 2008:
Global Peace and Security: Challenges and Responses, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Spoiler Idea in Peace Processes: Insight or Misnomer?”
12-16/04/2010
Academic leaders program, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro, Mexico
“Intervening to Build Peace? Peacebuilding Strategies and Violence in War-to-Peace Transitions”
“Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Cold War”
“The Political Economy of Conflict in the Middle East”
“United Nations Peacekeeping: Challenges and Prospects”
2003-2005
Pearson Peacekeeping Center, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada and Bamako, Mali
“Free and Equal: Human Rights in Peace Operations”, 18-22 Oct. 2004 (Course Director)
“The Foundations of Peace Operations”, 21-27 June 2004
“Free and equals. Human Rights in Peace Operations”, 10-14 May 2004
“The Foundations of Peace Operations”, 22- 26 March 2004
“Governance in peacebuilding contexts”, 30 August/16 September/3 November/3 December 2003
15-29/08/2004
United Nations-Institute for Peace and Justice Education, International Summer
School on Conflict Prevention and Transformation, Jubayl, Lebanon
“Understanding the causes of civil wars”
“Economic factors in civil wars”
6-10/05/2002
International Peace Academy, “The Political Economy of Civil Wars,” New York,
USA
“Spoilers in Peace Processes”
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Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
4/12
MEDIA WORK
2001-to date
Invited Expert/Media analyst and commentator
Canadian media : Réseau de l’information/Radio Canada/Radio Canada Internationale, Journal de
Montréal, La Presse, TVA/LCN, Radio Moyen-Orient, Télévision Quatre Saisons, CTV Network,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, TV Ontario
International media: Radio France Internationale, The Voice of America/La voix de l’Amérique, BBC
Afrique, Les Afriques, 20minutes.fr, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Guardian, El Watan (Algeria),
l’Orient-le Jour (Lebanon)
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
GRANTS FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Beyond democratic symbolism: elections as a tool of conflict-management in war-to-peace transitions
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Cnd $ 260,000, June 2012-May 2016.
Individual grant
Rethinking the Nexus between Federalism and Conflict-Resolution
United States Institute of Peace, USD 60 000, June 2010-June 2011
Unsolicited team grant managed by the Forum of Federations
Empowering Citizens: Democracy Promotion and Peacebuilding in the Middle East
International Development Research Centre, Canada, Cnd $ 428,000, January 2009-December 2011
Group grant, co-director
Construire une paix soutenable après un conflit interne: du rôle de la société civile [Building sustainable
peace after civil war: the role of civil society]
Petites subventions CRSH, Faculté des Arts et Sciences, Université de Montréal, Cnd. $ 3,500, June 2007-June 2008
Individual grant
Ethnicity and Democratic Governance
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Cnd. $ 2,497,021, January 2006-January 2011
Major Collaborative Research Grant, collaborator, 30 person-team
Understanding Transition Violence: African Experiences in Theoretical Perspective
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Cnd. $ 115,850, April 2004-April 2007
Team grant, lead researcher
Saving Lives: Understanding Civilian-Combatant Relations in Intra-State War
Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Québec, Cdn. $ 52,000, April 2003-April 2006
Individual grant
Urgence, ingérence, action : une perspective critique de l’intervention dans les Balkans post-communistes
[Emergency, interference, action : a critical perspective of intervention in the post-communist Balkans]
Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Québec, Cdn. $ 130,950, April 2003-April 2006
Team grant, co-researcher
A Peace that lasts: Foreign intervention and the strength of post-conflict states
United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), Cdn. $ 32,000/year, January 2002-December 2004
Team grant, lead researcher, 10-person team
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
5/12
Powersharing and Peacemaking
Carnegie Corporation of New York, USD 150,000/year, September 2000-September 2002
Team grant, collaborator, 15 person-team
Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC)
Funded by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre-Dame, September 2001September 2003
Team grant, collaborator, 14 person-team
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
2000-2001
Post-doctoral fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada,
Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
01/01-30/06, 2000
Post-doctoral fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Center for
International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
DOCTORAL RESEARCH
1998-2000
Pre-doctoral Hamburg Fellow, Carnegie Corporation, Center for International
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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HONORS AND AWARDS
2013
Senior Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of NotreDame, Southbend, Indiana (declined).
2006
Finalist, Competition: Arab Women of Quebec-2007, Category: Research and
Teaching, Espace féminin arabe and Council for the Status of Women, Government
of Quebec.
2005
Distinction, Commitment to International Affairs, Permanent Committee on the
Status of Women, Université de Montréal.
2001
Academic Excellence Prize, L’Académie des Grands Montréalais.
2001
Second place, Marvin Gelber competition for the best article written by a young
researcher in international relations, Canadian Institute for International Affairs.
2000-2001
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of
Toronto.
2000
Distinction (cum laude), Dean’s Honor List, McGill University
2000
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre pour la sécurité et
la coopération internationales, Université Stanford
1999
Bourse pré-doctorale John D. et Catherine T. MacArthur, Center for International
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
1999
Alma Mater Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, McGill University
1998
Hamburg/ Carnegie Corporation Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for International
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
1998
Research Grant, Sub-Committee for the Social Sciences, McGill University
1998
Fieldwork Research Grant, Canadian Committee of the Middle East Studies
Association (CANMES)
1996-1997
Dalbir Bindra Grant, McGill University
1994-1995
Differential fee waiver for academic excellence, McGill University
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
6/12
1985
Faculty of Arts Grant, American University of Beirut
1984
Distinction (cum laude), American University of Beirut
1984
American Near East Refugee Aid Grant, American University of Beirut
1983-1984
Dean’s Honor List, Faculty of Arts, American University of Beirut
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
01/2013-to date
Director, B. Sc. in International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de
Montréal.
06/2012-to date
Associate Director, Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale [Centre
for International Peace and Security Studies], Université de Montréal and McGill
University
2011-to date
Member, Pre-Selection Committee no. 5 (Policy Analysis Public and Private),
Doctoral Fellowship Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,
Canada
06/2009-to date
Research Director, Réseau de recherche sur les opérations de paix [Research
Network on Peace Operations], Centre d’études et de recherches internationales,
Université de Montréal
03/2009-05/2009
Member, Review Panel, Strategic Research Areas, Swedish Research Council,
Stockholm.
01/2009-to date
Member, Scientific committee, Bulletin de maintien de la paix, Réseau de recherche
sur les opérations de paix (CÉRIUM) and Centre d’études des politiques étrangères et de
sécurité (UQAM).
11/2007-04/2008
Invited Researcher, Centre d’études pour le monde arabe moderne, Université SaintJoseph, Beirut (Lebanon)
09/2007-10/2007
Invited Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Université Lumière-Lyon 2
and Institut d’études politiques de Lyon, Lyon (France)
10/2006-10/2007
Co-chair, Organizing Committee, Conference on Immigration, Minorities and
Democratic Pluralism, Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Ethnicity and
Democratic Governance.
09/2006-05/ 2007
Director, B. Sc. in International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de
Montréal.
05/2006-06/2007
Research Director, Réseau d’études du Moyen-Orient [Middle East Studies
Network], Centre d’études et de recherches internationales, Université de Montréal
2006-2007
Member, Pre-Selection Committee no. 5 (Policy Analysis Public and Private),
Doctoral Fellowship Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,
Canada
03/2005-12/2005
Member, Steering Committee, Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes
[Canadian Centre for German and European Studies], Université de Montréal
01/2003-05/12
Member, Editorial Committee, Théologiques, Faculty of Religious Studies,
Université de Montréal
09/2002-05/2007
Member, East-West Research Centre, Centre canadien d’études allemandes et
européennes [Canadian Centre for German and European Studies], Université de
Montréal
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
7/12
09/200-to date
Member, Steering Committee, Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle
Eastern Studies, Université de Montréal-McGill University
09/2001-to date
Fellow, Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale [Centre for
International Peace and Security Studies], Université de Montréal and McGill
University
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
06/2010-05/2012
Member, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Calgary, Alberta
2010-to date
Member, Canadian Institute of International Affairs
2007-to date
Member, Steering Committee, Program on States and Security, Ralph Bunche
Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
2005-2008
Member, Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
2004-2008
Member, Canadian Consortium on Human Security [served on the CCHS Executive
Committee from 2005 to 2008]
1996-to date
Member, International Studies Association [served as treasurer of the Canadian
Committee of ISA from 2005 to 2007; since 2011, serving on the Committee for the
Status of Women of the ISA]
1997-to date
Member, Canadian Political Science Association [served on the Board of Directors
from 2004 to 2006]
1998-to date
Member, American Political Science Association
1998-to date
Member, Middle East Studies Association
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Rex Brynen, Pete W. Moore, Bassel F. Salloukh and Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Beyond the Arab Spring:
Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World. Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2012.
Stephen Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar (eds.). Intra-State Conflicts, Governments and Security: Dilemmas
of Deterrence and Assurance. London: Routledge, 2008.
Michel Beaudin and Marie-Joëlle Zahar (eds.). Territoire et sacré, Special issue of Théologiques, vol. 16, no.
2 (2008).
Mariella Pandolfi, Annie Lafontaine, Laurence McFalls and Marie-Joëlle Zahar (eds.). Intellectuals and the
Media: East-West Dialogue on Democracy for the Balkans, Special Issue of Transitions vol. XLV, 1
(Brussels, 2005), 110p.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
David Morin, Lori-Anne Théroux-Bénoni and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, “When Peacekeeping Intersects with La
Francophonie: Scope, Significance and Implications,” International Peacekeeping 19, 3 (summer 2012):
287-300.
“Norm Transmission in Peace- and State-building: Lessons from Democracy Promotion in Sudan and
Lebanon”, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations vol. 18,
no. 1 (January-March 2012): 73-88.
“A Journey of a Thousand Steps: The Challenges of State and Nation Building in South Sudan”, Middle East
Report, 41, 259 (summer 2011): 36-39.
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
8/12
“SRSG Mediation in Civil Wars: Revisiting the ‘Spoiler’ Debate,” Global Governance: A Review of
Multilateralism and International Organizations vol. 16, 2 (avril-juin 2010): 265-280.
With Chandra Lekha Sriram, “The Perils of Power-Sharing: Africa and Beyond,” Africa Spectrum vol. 44, 3
(2009): 11-39.
With Stephen Brown, “Committing to Peace: Soft Guarantees and Alternative Approaches to Power Sharing in
Angola and Mozambique,” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development vol. 4, 2 (2008): 75-88.
With Michel Beaudin, “Le territoire et le sacré,” Théologiques vol. 16, 2 (2008) : 5-23.
“Power Sharing, Credible Commitment, and State (re)Building: Comparative Lessons from Bosnia and
Lebanon,” in Denisa Kostovicova (editor), Comparing the Balkans: War Legacies and State-Building
in the Age of Globalisation, special issue of Suedosteuropa, vol. 1 (2008): 35-57.
“Des dangers de l’imposition étrangère lors du nation-building: la question nationale au Liban et en Irak,”
Critique Internationale 28 (Fall 2005)
“Intervention, Prevention and “the Responsibility to Protect’’ – Considerations for Canadian Foreign Policy,”
International Journal 60, 3 (Summer 2005)
Mariella Pandolfi, Annie Lafontaine, Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Laurence McFalls “Introduction. The Theater of
Intervention: Representing the Balkans,” Transitions XLV, 1 (special issue): 5-10.
Mariella Pandolfi, Annie Lafontaine, Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Laurence McFalls “Paradoxes et démocratie de
l’information en Albanie contemporaine,” Transitions XLV, 1 (special issue): 11-30.
“Arafat: le passé, le présent et les options futures,” Études Internationales 34, 4 (December 2003) : 631-638.
“Protégés, Clients, Cannon Fodder: Civilians in the Calculus of Militias,” Managing Armed Conflicts in the
Twenty-first Century, special issue of International Peacekeeping 7, 4 (Winter 2001): 107-128.
“Is All the News Bad News for Peace? Economic Agendas in the Lebanese Civil War,” International Journal
56, 1 (Winter 2001): 115-128
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
“A Problem of Trust: Can Federalism Silence the Guns?” In David Cameron, Grace Skogstad, Keith Banting
and Martin Papillon (eds.). The Global Promise of Federalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
(forthcoming 2013).
With France Gaudreault, “ Les opérations de paix ”. In Ryoa Chung and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer,
(eds.). Éthique des relations internationales: Problématiques contemporaines. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France (forthcoming 2013).
“ Foreign Interventions, Power Sharing and the Dynamics of Conflict and Coexistence in Lebanon ”. In Are
Knudsen and Michael Kerr (eds.). Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution. London: Hurst, 2012.
“ Handling Spoilers : External Actors, Mediation and the Prospect of Violence ”. In William Zartmann and
Mark Anstey (eds.), The Slippery Slope to Genocide: Reducing Identity Conflict and Preventing Mass
Murder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 173-193.
“Foreign Intervention and State Reconstruction: Bosnian Fragility in Comparative Perspective”. In Vesna
Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova (eds.). State Weakness in the Balkans: Context, Comparison
and Implications. London: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 115-127.
“Liberal Interventions, Illiberal Outcomes: The UN, Western Powers, and Lebanon”. In Edward Newman,
Oliver Richmond and Roland Paris (eds.). New Perspectives on the Liberal Peace. Tokyo: United
Nations University Press, 2009. Pp. 292-315.
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“Fieldwork, Objectivity, and the Academic Enterprise”. In Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie Mertus,
Olga Martin-Ortega and Johanna Herman (eds.). Surviving Research: Doing Fieldwork in Difficult and
Violent Situations. London: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 191-212.
“Lebanon”. In David P. Forsythe (ed.). Encyclopedia of Human Rights. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Volume 3, 2009. Pp. 417-423.
“Conflit et développement”. In Pierre Beaudet, Jessica Schafer and Paul Haslam (eds.). Introduction au
développement international: Approches, acteurs et enjeux. Ottawa: Les Presses de l’Université
d’Ottawa, 2008. Pp. 318-333.
With Stephen M. Saideman, Causing Security, Reducing Fear: Deterring Intra-State Violence and Assuring
Government Restraint.” In Stephen Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar (eds.). Insecurity in Intra-State
Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders. London: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 1-19.
With Stephen M. Saideman, “Conclusion—Dilemmas of Insecurity: Research and Policy Implications.” In
Stephen Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar (eds.). Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments,
Rebels, and Outsiders. London: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 205-220.
“Reframing the Spoilers Debate”. In John Darby and Roger MacGinty (eds.). Contemporary Peacemaking:
Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes. Second edition. Londres and New York: Palgrave-Mcmillan,
2008. Pp. 159-177.
“Talking One Talk, Walking Another: Norm Entrepreneurship and Canada’s Foreign Policy in the Middle
East ”. In Paul Heinbecker and Bessma Momani (eds.). Canada and the Middle East. Waterloo: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 2007. Pp. 45-72.
“Le Liban au cœur des tensions régionales”. In Bertrand Badie and Sandrine Tolotti (eds.). L’État du monde
2008, Paris and Montréal: La Découverte and les Éditions Boréal, 2007. Pp. 119-122.
“L’international dans les relations internationales : réflexions sur une mutation amorcée ”. In François Crépeau
and Jean-Philippe Thérien (eds.). Penser l’international : Perspectives et contributions des sciences
sociales, Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal. Pp. 131-149.
“Understanding the Violence of Insiders: Loyalty, Custodians of Peace, and the Sustainability of Conflict
Settlement,” in Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond (editors). Spoilers and Peace Processes:
Conflict Settlement and Devious Objectives. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006. Pp. 40-58.
“Political Violence in Peace Processes: Voice, Exit and Loyalty in the Post-Accord Period”. In John Darby
(ed.). Violence and Reconstruction. Volume 1, Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic
Conflict Series. Southbend, Illinois: Notre Dame University Press, 2006.
“Guerre, paix, et condition féminine au Proche-Orient : Quand toutes les bonnes choses ne vont pas de pair !”
In Jean-Sébastien Rioux and Julie Gagné (eds.). Femmes et conflits armés: réalités, leçons et
avancement des politiques. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2005.
“The Dichotomy of International Mediation and Leader Intransigence: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
In Ian O’Flynn and David Russell (eds.). New Challenges for Power-Sharing: Institutional and Social
Reform in Divided Societies. London: Pluto Press, 2005.
“Power Sharing in Lebanon: Foreign Protectors, Domestic Peace, and Democratic Failure”. In Donald
Rothchild and Philip Roeder (eds.). Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 219-240.
“Bosnia and Herzegovina”. In Ann L. Griffiths (ed.). Handbook of Federal Countries. Montréal and Kingston:
McGill/Queen’s Press and the Forum of Federations, 2005. Pp. 116-129.
“Rétribution contre protection: la Cour pénale internationale devant le parquet de la science politique”. In
Hélène Dumont and Marie-Anne Boisvert (eds.). La voie canadienne vers la cour pénale
internationale: Tous les chemins mènent à Rome. Montréal : Éditions Thémis, 2004. Pp. 349-362.
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
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With Paul Kingston, “Rebuilding a House of Many Mansions: The Rise and Fall of Militia Cantons in
Lebanon”. In Ian Spears and Paul Kingston (eds.). States within States: Incipient Political Entities in
the Post-Cold War Era. London and New York: Palgrave-McMillan, 2004. Pp. 81-98.
“Republika Srspka”. In Tozun Bahcheli, Barry Bartmann and Henry Srebrnik (eds.). De Facto States: The
Quest for Sovereignty. London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 32-51.
“Les nouvelles relations internationales”. In Diane Ethier. Manuel de relations internationales. Second
edition. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2004. Pp. 251-281.
“Reframing the Spoilers Debate.” In John Darby and Roger MacGinty (eds.). Contemporary Peacemaking:
Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes. London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 114124.
“Peace by Unconventional Means: Evaluating Lebanon's Ta'if Accord”. In Donald Rothchild, Steve Stedman,
and Elizabeth Cousens (eds.). Ending Civil Wars. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002. Pp. 567-597.
“Bosnia and Herzegovina”. In Ann L. Griffiths (ed.). Handbook of Federal Countries. Montréal and Kingston:
McGill/Queen’s Press and the Forum of Federations, July 2002. Pp. 107-121.
“The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990”. In Joseph Rudolph (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Conflict in the
Twentieth Century. Westport: Greenwood, 2003. Pp. 109-117.
“Clients, Protégés, Cannon Fodder: Civilians in the Calculus of Belligerents”. In Simon Chesterman (ed.).
Civilians in War: Global Norms, Local Contexts. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001. Pp. 43-65.
“One World or Many: Reflections on ‘Restoring Order: Ethnic Conflict and the Institutional Conditions for
Peace’”. In Ann L. Griffiths (ed.). Ethnic Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia. Halifax: Center for
Foreign Policy Studies, 1999.
NON-PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
“Internal Choice or External Fate? Recasting the Debate on Lebanon’s Vulnerability “, in Elizabeth Picard and
Alexander Ramsbotham (eds.). Positive Peace for Lebanon: Reconciliation, Reform, and Resilience.
Accord 24. London: Conciliation Resources, 2012. Pp. 55-56.
With Elena Aoun, “ Le Moyen-Orient : En équilibre précaire au bord du gouffre ”, in Michel Fortmann and
Gérard Hervouet (eds.). Les conflits dans le monde 2010. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval and
Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2010. Pp. 164-197.
With Jocelyn Coulon, « Les casques bleus maintiennent-ils la paix?» In La politique internationale en
questions (Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2009).
« La communauté internationale peut-elle reconstruire la paix? » In La politique internationale en questions
(Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2009).
“Des logiques qui tuent : Pourquoi autant de violence en politique? ” In La politique en questions (Montréal :
Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2008).
With Laurence Niosi, “Le Moyen-Orient: Quand les promesses de changement se heurtent au mur de la
réalité,” in Michel Fortmann and Gérard Hervouet (editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2009 (Quebec:
Presses de l’Université Laval and Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2009).
With Elena Aoun, “Le Moyen-Orient: guerres larvées et immobilisme politique,” in Michel Fortmann and
Gérard Hervouet (editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2008 (Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval and
Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2008).
“Les conflits au Moyen-Orient: Entre localisme et globalisme,” in Albert Legault, Michel Fortmann and
Gérard Hervouet (editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2007 (Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval and
Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2007).
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
11/12
“Moyen-Orient: L’année de tous les dangers”, in Albert Legault, Michel Fortmann and Gérard Hervouet
(editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2006(Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval and Institut
québécois des hautes études internationales, 2006).
“Crises de gestion et gestion de crises: Le Moyen-Orient en 2005,” in Albert Legault, Michel Fortmann and
Gérard Hervouet (editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2005 (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval
and Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2005).
“Entre puissance et force: le Moyen-Orient à l’ère de l’hyper-puissance américaine,” in Albert Legault, Michel
Fortmann and Gérard Hervouet (editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2004 (Québec: Presses de
l’Université Laval and Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2004). Pp. 121-143.
“Le Moyen-Orient dans le collimateur de Washington,” in Albert Legault, Michel Fortmann and Gérard
Hervouet (editors). Les conflits dans le monde 2003 (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval and
Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2003). Pp. 101-116.
BOOK REVIEWS
Guest editor (with Christian Nadeau), Dossier: Guerres justes et injustes, Spirale 212 (January/February 2008).
With Christian Nadeau, “Guerres justes et injustes dans le monde actuel ” (Introduction to the special
issue)
“33 jours lourds de conséquences – la guerre juste et le conflit Israël-Hezbollah de l’été 2006 ”,
Spirale 218, January/February 2008. Review of: Franck Mermier and Élizabeth Picard (eds.). Liban :
Une guerre de 33 jours. Paris : La Découverte, 2007. 256 pages; and Gilbert Achcar and Michel
Warchawski. La guerre des 33 jours : La guerre d’Israël contre le Hezbollah au Liban et ses
conséquences. Paris: Textuel, 2006. 112 pages.
« De la ‘vraie’ nature des groupes terroristes : regards croisés sur le Hezbollah libanais », Spirale 212,
January/February 2007. Review essay covering: Walid Charara and Frédéric Domont, Le Hezbollah—
un mouvement islamo-nationaliste; Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh, In the Path of Hizbullah; and Hala Jaber,
Hezbollah: Born with a Vengeance
Shlomo Ben Ami, "Quel avenir pour Israel?," Canadian journal of political science (Summer 2005)
Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg (editors), "Globalization and the Politics of Development in the
Middle East," The International Journal 58, 2 (Spring 2003).
Nejbosa Popov (editor), “The Road to War in Serbia,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 8, 1 (Spring 2002)
Meir Zamir, “Lebanon's Quest,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 7, 3 (Fall 2001).
May Chartouni-Dubarry (ed.), “Le couple syro-libanais dans le processus de paix” Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin, June 1999.
David Garnham and Mark Tessler (eds.), “Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East,” Journal of
Palestine Studies 26, 3 (Spring 1997): 105-106.
Grigor Suny and Geoff Eley (eds.), “Becoming National: A Reader,” H-Teachpol, H-Net Reviews, September
1998 http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews
Mordechai Bar-On, “The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back, 1955-1957,” Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin, December 1995.
POLICY REPORTS / POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS
“Much Ado about Nothing? The 2011 Uprisings and Relations between the West and the Arab World”. The
Dispatch (Quarterly Review of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute) (winter 2011): 2526.
Special Report: Indépendance du Soudan du Sud, Opérationspaix.net (Juillet
http://www.operationspaix.net/60-dossier-special-independance-du-soudan-du-sud.html
2011).
Marie-Joëlle ZAHAR
12/12
“The Sudan: A Test for the West in Africa ?”. The Dispatch (Quarterly Review of the Canadian Defence and
Foreign Affairs Institute) (winter 2010): 24-25.
Concept Note: Support to the Popular Consultations in Blue Nile and South Kordofan States. Forum of
Federations, October 2010.
With Richard Simeon, Power-sharing between Blue Nile and South Kordofan States and the Sudanese
Government: An Options Paper. United States Institute of Peace, September 2010.
Sudan’s Political Parties: A Primer, Forum of Federations, February 2009.
Submission: Urban Resilience and Conflict Spaces, Fast Talk on Conflict Resilience, Human Security
Research and Outreach Program, Human Security Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, January 2008.
Les effets des crises au Moyen-Orient : analyses comparées France-Canada. Report prepared for the
Conférence franco-canadienne sur le dialogue avec le monde musulman et la prévention de
l’extrémisme, Canadian Embassy in Paris and Quai d’Orsay, Paris, 8-9 March 2006.
Civil-Militia Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Humanitarian Assistance and Protection. Report for
the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations, March 2000.
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