Joint event offered in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Rhode Island.

Dr. Skip Mark works at URI as an Assistant Professor of political science, a faculty affiliate of Africana Studies, the Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, the current Sylvia-Chandley Peace Professor. He is also a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention for the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University. He is one of Diverse Issues in Higher Educations 2024 emerging scholars. He is a co-director of the CIRIGHTS data project, the world's largest human rights dataset. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of human rights violations, how to measure complex phenomena, and the interrelationships between human rights, development, and conflict.