JAROSLAV TIR is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Incentivizing Peace: How International Organizations Can Help Prevent Civil Wars in Member Countries (Oxford University Press, 2018, with Johannes Karreth; see the PV@AG and OUPblog posts). He specializes in international relations, focusing on causes, management, and attitudinal and behavioral consequences of armed conflicts. His research spans the topics of territorial disputes, ethnic conflict, rally around the flag and diversionary hypotheses, environmental security, and democratic regime dynamics. 

Dr. Tir 's current work includes research on attitudinal and behavioral impacts of threat and conflict; civil war management by economic international organizations; and projects on inter-ethnic relations and attitudes. 

Dr. Tir has been awarded National Science Foundation grants to study how environmental stress in the form of freshwater scarcity impacts support for violence in rural Kenya and how institutionalized international river treaties can help prevent the so-called water wars of the future. Other awards received by Dr. Tir include a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant (Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia), the Walter Isard Award for the Best Dissertation given by the Peace Science Society International, and the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction.

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E-mail: jtir [at] colorado {dot} edu