Kerstin Fisk is an associate professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University and a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo. Her research focuses on issues of conflict and security, emphasizing civil war dynamics, violence against civilians, and communal conflict. She has published work in Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Civil Wars, and International Studies Perspectives.
Fisk’s most recent projects investigate subnational-level patterns of communal violence related to refugee encampment and government-sponsored militia attacks on refugee hosting locations in Africa. She is also working on two multi-year research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway: TRUST: Refugee Impacts on Host Sociopolitical Attitudes and CONMIG:Geographies of Conflict-Induced Migration.
Kerstin Fisk
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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Conflict ProcessesRefugeesCivil Conflict and ViolencePreventive Force and DronesInternational RelationsComparative PoliticsForced MigrationPolitical Violence
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Introduction to Comparative Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Introduction to International Relations
Introduction to International Relations
Politics of Africa
Politics of Africa
Humanitarian Intervention
Humanitarian Intervention
International Security
International Security
Political Violence and Terrorism
Political Violence and Terrorism
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Refugee Encampment and Communal Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Peace Research
Kerstin Fisk
2019-01-01
Fisk, Kerstin. 2019. “Refugee Encampment and Communal Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.” Journal of Peace Research 56(1): 58-72.
Emotions, Terrorist Threat, and Drones: Anger Drives Support for Drone Strikes
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer L Merolla, and Jennifer M Ramos
2019-04-01
Fisk, Kerstin, Jennifer L Merolla, and Jennifer M Ramos. 2019. “Emotions, Terrorist Threat, and Drones: Anger Drives Support for Drone Strikes.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(4): 976-1000.
One-Sided Violence in Refugee-Hosting Areas
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Kerstin Fisk
2018-03-01
Fisk, Kerstin. 2018. “One-Sided Violence in Refugee-Hosting Areas.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 62(3): 529-556.
Refugee Geography and the Diffusion of Armed Conflict in Africa
Civil Wars
Kerstin Fisk
2014-10-01
Fisk, Kerstin. 2014. “Refugee Geography and the Diffusion of Armed Conflict in Africa.” Civil Wars 16(3): 255-75.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Preventive Self- Defense as a Cascading Norm
International Studies Perspectives
Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos
2014-05-01
Fisk, Kerstin and Jennifer M. Ramos. 2014. “Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Preventive Self- Defense as a Cascading Norm.” International Studies Perspectives 15(2): 163-185.
Chapter - Out of the Fire, into the Frying Pan? Examining Violence against Forced Migrants in Africa
Emerging Threats to Human Rights: Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship
Kerstin Fisk
2019-07-01
Fisk, Kerstin. 2019. “Out of the Fire, into the Frying Pan? Examining Violence against Forced Migrants in Africa.” In Smith-Cannoy, Heather (ed), Emerging Threats to Human Rights: Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship. Temple University Press.
Chapter - Making the World Safe for Preventive Force
The Ethics of War and Peace in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty
Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M Ramos
2017-11-01
Fisk, Kerstin and Jennifer M Ramos. 2018. “Making the World Safe for Preventive Force.” In Brunsetter, Daniel R and Jean Vincent-Holeindre (eds). The Ethics of War and Peace in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty. Georgetown University Press.
Chapter - The Preventive Force Continuum
Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare
Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos
2016-07-01
Fisk, Kerstin and Jennifer M. Ramos. 2016. “The Preventive Force Continuum.” In Fisk, Kerstin and Jennifer M. Ramos (eds). 2016. Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare. NYU Press
Plausible deniability? An investigation of government and government-outsourced violence in refugee hosting areas
International Interactions
Kerstin Fisk
2020-12-23
Kerstin Fisk (2021) Plausible deniability? An investigation of government and government-outsourced violence in refugee hosting areas, International Interactions, 47:2, 191-220.
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