Zia Haque, Ph.D.
Director, The Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies & Elizabeth Evans Baker Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College
Dr. Zia Haque is director of The Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College. He has a Ph.D. in International Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University (KSU). Dr. Haque earned an MSc in Peace and Development Work from Linnaeus University, Sweden, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Dhaka.
Dr. Haque has been working and teaching in the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies since 2012, for programs in Bangladesh and the United States. Before joining Juniata College, Dr. Haque was an Assistant Professor of Peace Studies in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Kennesaw State University, where he taught courses in Peace Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Asian Studies, and Science, Technology and Society. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Dr. Haque studies the transformative impacts of tech-based conflict prevention and digital peacebuilding initiatives and explores issues in the emerging field of peace technology. His collaborative works have appeared in Global Governance, Information Technology for Development, and Election Law Journal. His current projects investigate the impact of the ICTs on conflict and peacebuilding.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Ziaul Haque and David Carroll. Assessing the Impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Electoral Integrity. Election Law Journal (Forthcoming).
Joseph G. Bock, Ziaul Haque and Kevin McMahon (2019). Displaced and Dismayed: How ICTs Are Helping Refugees and Migrants, and How We Can Do Better. Information Technology for Development (forthcoming)
Joseph G. Bock and Ziaul Haque (2018). Getting a Sharper View of the Humanitarian Marketplace: Introducing Conduit Engagement Theory. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 24(4), 517-535.
Ziaul Haque and Anashua Ananga (2018). Surging Illiberalism: How Do International Students Assess the Challenge of Populism? Social Science Review 35(1), 149-164.
Ziaul Haque and Anashua Ananga (2017). Does Transition to Democracy Improve Human Rights? Social Science Review, 34(1), 87-100.
Ziaul Haque and M. Sazzad Hossain (2014). Arab Spring and Democratization in the Middle East:Does Regime Change Facilitate Democracy? Social Science Review, 65-85.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Ziaul Haque and Joseph G. Bock (2019). Are there Ways That Digital Technologies Break down Walls of Communication during Conflict? Lessons from Leaders of a Women's Movement in Egypt. In A.P. Lamberti and Anne Richards, eds., Communication and Conflict Studies: Disciplinary Connections, Research Directions (pp. 19-39), New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brandon D.Lundy, Ziaul Haque, Akanmu G.Adebayo, Sherrill W. Hayes and Aaron Clarke (2018). Introduction: Reconciling Religious Conflicts / Reconciling Conflict Through Religion, in Lundy, Brandon D., Adebayo, Akanmu G., Hayes, Sherrill W., eds., Atone: Religion, conflict, and reconciliation (pp. xv-xxxvi.), Maryland: Lexington Books.
Md. Rafiqul Islam and Ziaul Haque (2014). Climate Change and Threats to Human Security in Bangladesh: An Analysis, in Narottam Gaan. ed., Climate Change and Threats to Human Security (pp. 78-113), New Delhi: Kalpaz Publications
Manual
Joseph G. Bock, Ziaul Haque, Lori Toscano, and Chip White (November, 2019). Halting Hate: How to Use the Interruption Model to Counter Hate-Motivated Violence. American Arbitration Association -International Center for Dispute Resolution Foundation (AAA-ICDR), pp. 1-28.
Papers in Progress
Ziaul Haque, Joseph G. Bock and David Carroll. Why do Electorates View Competitive Elections More Favorably? Explaining the Linkage between Victory Margin and Electoral Integrity.
Ziaul Haque. "Netpolitik” vs. "Realpolitik": How Is Digital Technology Making and Remaking International Relations?
Ziaul Haque. How to Obstruct Peace: Understanding the Behaviors, Actions , and Strategies of Nonviolent Spoilers in the Peace Process.
Book Project in Progress
Joseph G. Bock and Ziaul Haque, and Kevin McMahon. Humanitarianism Unleashed: How to Take. The World Into Your Own Hands (Manuscript under review by Oxford University Press)