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Sarah Meharg is an adjunct professor with the Department of Politics
and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada and is Senior
Research Associate at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre where she is
involved in the research and development of a range of peace
operations curricula. Dr. Meharg is a leading post-conflict
reconstruction theorist and has a regional focus on the Balkans,
Afghanistan, and Iraq. She has extensive experience conducting field
research in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She holds a Ph.D. (Cultural
Geography) from Queen’s University, an MA (War Studies) from RMC, and
a Landscape Architecture degree from Guelph University.
Dr. Meharg has created an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruction
and stabilization operations through the connections of cultural
geography, urban planning and design, and contemporary armed warfare.
Her recent publications include Measuring the Effectiveness of
Reconstruction and Stabilization Activities (Pearson Papers, 2007);
Identicide and the Geographies of Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Land
Quality Press: University of Nottingham, 2007); Identicide: Precursor
to Genocide (CSDS Carleton University, 2006).
Keywords:
Post-conflict reconstruction, reconstruction and stabilization
operations, military geography, identicide, genocide, nation-building,
contemporary armed conflict, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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