ADAM LICHTENHELD, PHD
I am a Senior Conflict Analyst at the Center for Conflict and Violence Prevention at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. I have worked with governments, donor agencies, and NGOs around the world to design and evaluate policies and programs on migration and displacement, violence prevention, conflict resolution, stabilization, and governance. I am the author of Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars, and my research, analysis, and commentary has appeared in a number of academic and policy journals, along with the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Just Security, and The Conversation. I have also taught university courses on forced migration and conflict, and trained development practitioners on research methods, conflict analysis, and program evaluation.​
I received my Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, I was the Executive Director of the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, Senior Researcher for Peace and Conflict at Mercy Corps, and a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University. I have also served as a consultant for UNHCR, the World Bank, the Danish Refugee Council, and USAID; reported for National Geographic in Jordan; and worked on USAID-funded stabilization and political transition programs in Afghanistan and Libya.
You can contact me at lichtenheld (at) gmail (dot) com.
Ein Issa Displacement Camp, Raqqa, Syria