Publications & Contact

Download a copy of my CV here: CV Firchow 2022

You can contact me at pfirchow@brandeis.edu

PUBLICATIONS IN THE MEDIA

How Photography can Build Peace and Justice in War-Torn Communities. The Conversation (September 2021)

Trash is Piling Up in Rural Colombia – That’s a bad Sign for Peace. Political Violence at a Glance (July 2, 2020)

What Afghan Women (and Men) Really Want. Foreign Policy Magazine (May 9, 2019)

Colombia’s long-term peace may depend on support for the Truth Commission.Washington Post, Monkey Cage (February 4, 2019)

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

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Books:

Firchow, P. (2018). Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in the Politics of Measurement and Evaluation after War. Cambridge University Press.

Firchow, P. (2020). Recuperando La Paz Cotidiana: Voces locales para la Medición y Evaluación después de la Guerra. Bogota: Editorial Universidad de Rosario.

Firchow, P. & H. Anastasiou, eds. (2016). Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding: Putting Theory to Work. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Peer Reviewed Articles:

Firchow, P. & Y. Selim (2022). Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes. International Journal of Transitional Justice. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab031
Firchow, P. & E. Urwin. (2021). Not Just at Home or in the Grave: Misunderstanding Women’s Rights in Afghanistan. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2020.1812893
Firchow, P. & M. Gellman, eds. (2021). Collaborative Methodologies: Why, How, and for Whom? PS Political Science & Politics. doi:10.1017/S1049096521000330
Levy, N. & P. Firchow (2021). Measuring Peace from the Bottom-up with the Pasto Indigenous Group in Nariño, Colombia. PS Political Science & Politics. doi:10.1017/S1049096521000275
Cole, E. & P. Firchow. (2019). Reconciliation Barometers: Tools for Post-Conflict Policy Design. International Journal of Transitional Justice.
Firchow, P. and R. Mac Ginty. (2017) Including hard to access populations using mobile phone surveys and participatory indicators. Sociological Methods and Research, DOI: 0049124117729702.
Firchow, P. (2017) Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia. International Journal of Transitional Justice. Vol. 11, Issue 2: 315-338.
Firchow, P. and R. Mac Ginty (2017) Measuring Peace: Comparability, Commensurability and Complementarity using Bottom-Up Indicators. International Studies Review. Vol. 19, Issue 1: 6-27.
Firchow, P. and C. Martin-Shields (2017) PeaceTech Symposium: The Liminal Spaces for Technology in Peacebuilding. International Studies Perspectives. Vol. 18, Issue 1: 4-42.
Firchow, P. and R. Mac Ginty (2017) The practicalities and ethics of mobile phone surveys in conflict-affected contexts. International Studies Perspectives. Vol. 18, Issue 1: 4-42.
Mac Ginty, R. and P. Firchow. (2016). Everyday Narratives in World Politics. Politics doi: 10.1177/0263395715622967
Firchow, P. (2014). The Implementation of the Institutional Program of Collective Reparations in Colombia. Journal of Human Rights Practice. Vol. 6, Issue 2: 327-355
Firchow, P. (2013). Must our Communities Bleed to Receive Social Services? Development Projects and Collective Reparations Schemes in Colombia. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8:3, 50-63.
Firchow, P. and Mac Ginty, R. (2013). Reparations and Peacebuilding: Issues and Controversies. Human Rights Review, Vol. 14, Issue 3: 231-239.Firchow,
Firchow, P. and Mac Ginty, R. eds. (2013). Special Section entitled “Reparations and Peacebuilding.” Human Rights Review, Vol. 14, Issue 3: 231-289.
Firchow, P. (2013). A Cuban Spring? The use of the Internet as a tool of democracy promotion by USAID in Cuba. Information Technology for Development. Vol. 19, Issue 4: 347-357.
Firchow, P. (2015). The Role of Power, Resistance and Protest in Shaping Contemporary Argentine Domestic Policies. Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 42, No. 1: 74-83.
Firchow, P. (2007). Social Protest in Argentina: Strategies, Conflicts and Forms of Interaction with the State. Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict. 2006-2007 Annual Edition, pgs. 37-49.
Firchow, P. (2005). ‘New’ War Theory: Does the Case of Colombia Apply? The Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development, 7, 32-58.