Amelia Hoover Green
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Amelia Hoover Green joined the Department of History and Politics as an Assistant Professor in September 2012, after completing her PhD in Political Science at Yale University (December 2011). Her PhD thesis and related work considers the role of political education programs in armed groups' attempts to control violence against civilians, and her more general research interests include the dynamics of violence during armed conflict, the diffusion of ideas through organizations, the political psychology of violence, and the measurement of political violence. She received the United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar award and a MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant for her dissertation work.
Research Interest
Dynamics of conflict-related violence; intra-armed group politics and socialization; statistics in human rights
Publications
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2010 “Learning the Hard Way at the ICTY: Statistical Evidence of Human Rights Violations in an AdversarialInformation Environment.†In Collective Violence and International Criminal Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Smeulers, ed. Antwerp, Belgium: Intersentia.
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2011 Using Quantitative Data to Assess Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Colombia: Challenges and Opportunities (with Françoise Roth and Tamy Guberek). Report of the Benetech Human Rights Program (Palo Alto, CA) and Corporación Punto de Vista (Bogotá, Colombia). See http://www.hrdag.org/resources/publications/.
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2011 “Rape Reporting During War: Why the Numbers Don’t Mean What You Think They Do†(with Amber Peterman, Tia Palermo and Dara Kay Cohen). Foreign Affairs, 1 August. Online: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68008/amber-peterman-dara-kay-cohen-tia-palermo-and-amelia-hoover-gree/rape-reporting-during-war?page=show
