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Tim Sisk
Associate Professor
Tim Sisk
ph | 303.871.2998
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Cherrington Hall 208C
2201 South Gaylord St
Denver, CO 80208 USA
Timothy D. Sisk is Associate Professor with tenure in the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, where he also serves as faculty in the Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution. In GSIS, he also serves as director of the BA Program in International Studies.
His recent research has focused on systematic approaches to conflict assessment and governance institutions and processes for conflict management. Sisk specializes in the nexus between democracy and governance and the management of conflict in deeply divided societies, especially those emerging from a period of intense social violence: peace processes, design of political institutions, negotiations, society-level conflict interventions, post-settlement implementation of peace agreements, and conflict amelioration and human development. He has conducted extensive research on the role of international and regional organizations, particularly the UN, on the impact of peace operations in peacemaking and peacebuilding.
Sisk is just completing a major new scholarly book titled Bargaining with Bullets: Political Violence and Peace Negotiations. He is also the author ofanew book for policy practitioners titled Democracy, Conflict and Human Security (with Judith Large; International IDEA, 2006; www.idea.int). He has written five other books and many articles, including Democracy at the Local Level (IDEA, 2000), Democratization in South Africa (Princeton, 1995) and Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts (Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1995). Sisk earned a Ph.D. "with distinction" in political science (comparative politics, research methods) from The George Washington University, in 1992, and an MA in International Journalism (1984) and a BA in Foreign Service and German (1982) from Baylor University.