Roland Paris, associate professor of public and international affairs, has been named the winner of the 2007 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He was selected from among 45 nominations from
seven countries.
Paris won the award for his ideas on post-conflict peacebuilding, discussed in his book At War’s End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict. In his book, he sets out a strategy for post-conflict peacebuilding, one that emphasizes the reconstruction of effective security, police and judicial institutions as the essential first step in the gradual transformation of war-torn states into stable market democracies.
The Grawemeyer Foundation at the University of Louisville presents an annual award of US$200,000 for ideas improving world order. Paris’ book has claimed two other prizes, including the 2005 Chadwick Alger Prize from the International Studies Association for best book on multilateralism.
“Roland Paris’ research contributes greatly to our understanding of peacebuilding and of the state. Paris has the ability to link theory and policy issues allowing him to develop new and innovative ways of understanding what is happening in our global world,” said François Houle, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. “The Grawemeyer Award is an important and well-deserved recognition of Paris’ research and contribution to policy,” continued Houle.
Paris is widely considered an expert in international security, international governance and foreign policy. He joined the University of Ottawa in June 2006, where he co-directs the Research Partnership on Postwar State-Building. This collaborative research project funded by the Carnegie Corporation is comprised of 14 scholars from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Germany, who share an interest in the challenges and dilemmas of long-term state-building in societies that are just emerging from war.
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