Leadership
The operations of The Fares Center are managed by its Director and Center Coordinator.
Nadim Rouhana, Director
Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies
Email: Nadim.Rouhana@tufts.edu
In addition to research and writing on conflict studies and international negotiation, Dr. Rouhana’s research includes work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli and Palestinian societies, the dynamics of protracted social conflict, collective identity and democratic citizenship in multi-ethnic states, settler colonialism, and questions of reconciliation and transitional justice. His most recent books include “When Politics Are Sacralized: International Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism” (Cambridge University Press,2021); “Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State” (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and “The Palestinians in Israel: Readings in history, politics, and society” (Mada al-Carmel, 2015).
Dr. Rouhana is currently working on a book proposing a new paradigm for conflict resolution. Prior to joining Fletcher, Dr. Rouhana was the Henry Hart Rice professor of conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University. He was a co-founder of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where he co-chaired the Center’s seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution from 1992-2001. Dr. Rouhana is an affiliate faculty at the Harvard Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He is also founding director at the Mada al-Carmel–Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa.
Amaia Elorza Arregi, Center Coordinator
PhD Candidate
MALD ’21
Email: Amaia.Elorza_Arregi@tufts.edu
Amaia is a third-year PhD Student, focusing on conflict studies and social movements. In addition to her role at the Fares Center, Amaia also works as a Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant. She completed the Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), Fletcher’s flagship degree program, in May 2021. During the MALD, Amaia focused on conflict studies, gender, and intersectional analysis, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
Amaia lived in the West Bank from 2012 to 2018, working as a legal researcher on international law and human rights violations in Israel/Palestine. At Fletcher, she co-organized the Decolonizing International Relations Conference, worked as a Research Assistant at the World Peace Foundation, and as a Teaching Assistant and Coordinator at the Tufts University Prison Initiative. During the summer of 2020 she was a Topol Fellow in Nonviolent Resistance and analyzed the impact of external actors on nonviolent resistance movements in the West Bank.
Amaia holds a Law Degree (J.D.) from the Complutense University of Madrid and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics.