David Hooker is associate professor of the practice of conflict transformation and peacebuilding at University of Notre Dame and former assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia. His areas of expertise include post-conflict community building, environmental justice, public policy and social justice, multi-party conflicts, negotiation, and mediation. He will discuss concerns driving the rise of populism and decline of liberal democratic institutions, and propose strategies drawn from narrative practices. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/hookerd

Neta Crawford is professor and chair of the political science at Boston University. Her most recent book is Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars (Oxford, 2013). She is currently working on a new book, To Make Heaven Weep: Civilians and the American Way of War. She will discuss Department of Defense concerns about the potential for climate change to spark armed conflict and negatively impact U.S. military installations and operations. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/crawfordn

Sabina Čehajić-Clancy is associate professor of social and political psychology at Sarajevo School of Science and Technology and a former dean of the Political Science and International Relations Department. Her research and work fit into four main categories: intergroup emotions, morality, intergroup contact and education policies. In this talk, she will present a new framework demonstrating the use of moral exemplars as a mechanism to (re)create positive and functional intergroup relations after violent conflicts such as wars, genocides and ethnic cleansing. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/clancys

Aisha Ahmad is assistant professor of political science at University of Toronto, director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative at Munk School of Global Affairs, and chair of the board of directors of Women in International Security (WIIS)-Canada. She is the author of Jihad and Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power (Oxford, 2017), which won the Mershon Center's Furniss Award for the best new book in international and national security, and the 2018 Best Book in Comparative Politics Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association. In the book, Ahmad tracks the economic activities of jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Mali, and Iraq, to uncover an unlikely actor: the local business community. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/ahmada

Join for a discussion of great power competition between global powers like Russia, China, and the United States. This discussion will feature Mershon affiliates  Peter Mansoor, Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History and former executive officer to Gen. David Petraeus from 2007-08, and Richard Herrmann, professor and chair of the Political Science Department and member of Secretary of State James Baker's policy planning staff from 1989-91. Free pizza and Coke products will be provided beforehand. Read more and register