Research

 
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My research interests largely focus on human rights. I am especially interested in refugees and host-state repression. I also focus on international and civil conflict, conflict management strategies, peace studies, and nonviolent resistance.

My dissertation research centers on refugees and host-state repression. Essentially, do states hosting refugees specifically target refugees with increased repression and what determines levels of repression targeting refugee populations? In tackling the broader question relating to refugees and repression, I focus on three related factors: (1) the duality of violence, including how conflict influences levels of repression, (2) the impact on repression of refugees by nongovernmental organizations working with or providing services to refugees, and finally (3) the impact on repression of refugees based on characteristics of the host-state and its governing body. In pursuing this research, I have collected data on every refugee-hosting state between 1996 and 2015.

Select Publications

  • Bsisu, Naji, Lacey Hunter, and Jerry Urtuzuastigui. 2023. “Human Rights Organizations, Equal Opportunity, and Violence Against Refugees.” The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Forthcoming.

  • Bsisu, Naji and Amanda Murdie. 2022. “Interventions and Repression Following Civil Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research. Volume 59(2):213-228

    • Winner of the ISA Frank J. Klingberg Award for Best Paper, 2017.

  • Avdan, Nazli, Naji Bsisu, and Amanda Murdie. 2021 “Abuse by Association: Migration from Terror-Prone Countries and Human Rights Abuses.” International Interactions. 47 (2), 237-265. 

  • Bsisu, Naji and Amanda Murdie. 2021. “Networks of Peace.” In the Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation. Edited by Oliver Richmond and Gëzim Visoka. Oxford University Press.  

  • Bsisu, Naji, Laila Farooq, and Amanda Murdie. 2022. “Human Security and Migration.” In Contextualizing Security: A Reader. Edited by Tobias Gibson and Kurt Jefferson. University of Georgia Press.

  • Murdie, Amanda, Andrew Owsiak, Naji Bsisu, Sam Bell, K. Chad Clay, Nicole Detraz, Dursun Peksen, and Timothy Peterson. 2018. “The Necessity of Research-Informed International Relations: Announcing a New Editorial Team for International Studies Review.” International Studies Review, Volume 20(1): 1-2.

Select Working Papers

  • Bsisu, Naji. “The Duality of Violence and Its Impact on Refugees”

  • Bsisu, Naji. “Host State Characteristics and Violence Against Refugees”

  • Atkinson, Douglas and Naji Bsisu “Refugees and Horizontal Inequality.”

Invited Talks

  • “Refugees and Human Rights.” Invited talk at Athens Academy. Athens, GA. Spring 2019.

  • “Stopping the Pain: Ending Post-Civil Conflict Repression.” Paper presented at the Ending Atrocities Workshop at Uppsala University. Uppsala, Sweden. Summer 2018.