Jeff Pugh

Jeffrey Pugh (http://jeffreypugh.com) is an associate professor of conflict resolution at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the executive director of the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict
(CEMPROC), an NGO in Ecuador. In 2024-25, he is serving as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives. He received his PhD in political science from the Johns
Hopkins University. Pugh’s research focuses on peacebuilding, migration, and non-state actors in the Global South. He has published scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy reports, and his award-winning book, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security (Oxford University Press, 2021), examines the integration, political participation, and access to human security of Colombian migrants in Ecuador. His current research agenda applies the human security framework to immigrant activism in the United States, and he is studying the networked effects of the Colombian Truth Commission’s work with exiles abroad on transitional justice and the networked peacebuilding effects of international training and education programs. His research has received more than 10 awards, from the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and others, and he was a 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar affiliated with FLACSO Ecuador. Pugh teaches graduate courses on Negotiation, Immigration & Conflict, Human Security, Theories of Peace and Conflict, and others. He is a co-founder of the Regional Institute on Nonviolent Action in the Americas as well as the Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation across Borders. He occasionally serves as an expert witness for asylum cases of Ecuadorians in the United States, and he is editor in chief of the Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies (MARLAS).