Grant Curtis
Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Security and Development
Email: Grant.Curtis@Dal.Ca
Phone:聽(902) 229-2669
Address:聽Centre for the Study of Security and Development
黑料吃瓜网
Halifax, NS
B3H 4H6
Canada
Grant Curtis is a second year PhD student in the Political Science Department and the Deputy-Director of the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at 黑料吃瓜网. Prior to his retirement, Grant鈥檚 career focused on international development, with field-based assignments in a number of countries in Africa and Asia with United Nations system agencies, bilaterals, international NGOs, and the Asian Development Bank. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and English from the University of Saskatchewan; an M.A. in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University; an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; an M.A. in English from 黑料吃瓜网; and an M.F.A. in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of King鈥檚 College, Halifax.
Research Interests
Development Studies with focus on the security-development nexus, fragile/failed states, peace-building, post-conflict emergency rehabilitation and reconstruction, and emergent civil society.
Publications
鈥淟everaging the eFP: Future Multilateral Cooperation 鈥� Policy Brief Recommendations鈥� (Vincent Boucher, Grant Curtis, Melissa Finn, and Sarah Sharma). Defence and Security Foresight Group, University of Waterloo. September 2020.
Cambodia Reborn? The Transition to Democracy and Development. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1998.
鈥淭ransition to What? Cambodia, UNTAC, and the Peace Process鈥� in Utting, Peter, ed. Between Hope and Security: The Social Consequences of the Cambodian Peace Process. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1994.
鈥淐ambodia: Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Process.鈥� Paper presented to Sasakawa Peace Foundation Round Table, "Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia: The Path to Economic Development,鈥� Tokyo, 09 November 1992.
Cambodia - A Country Profile. Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority, 1990.
Professional Affiliations
Cuso International Board of Directors, 2020
Junior Fellow, Defence and Security Foresight Group, 2020
Canadian Evaluation Society (Credentialed Evaluator)
Scholarships
Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship (2019-2022)