Andrew G. ReiterAssistant Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Contact: 413-538-2812; [email protected]
Andrew G Reiter, assistant professor of politics, is an expert on political violence, how wars progress and end, and how societies rebuild from war. He offers insight into transitional justice, war crimes tribunals (or the potential for a tribunal), amnesty, truth commissions, reparations programs, controversies around a monument or memorial, and other issues of political memory.
Reiter’s current book manuscript—Fighting Over Peace: Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strategic Use of Violence—seeks to explain why some civil war peace agreements are implemented rather peacefully while others come under attack from a variety of violent actors. Furthermore, it asks why these attempts at "spoiling" peace prove successful following some agreements and not others. In examining the conditions under which spoilers arise, and their ultimate impact on peace processes, he uses an original dataset of spoiling following 241 civil war peace agreements in the post-Cold War era.
Reiter is also a co-founder of the Transitional Justice Data Base Project, which has developed a comprehensive, global dataset of trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration programs used by states over the past four decades to engage past human rights violations. The project has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace, among others. As part of the project, he has co-authored a book (with Tricia Olsen and Leigh Payne), titled Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2010), as well as numerous articles and book chapters in such venues as Human Rights Quarterly and Journal of Peace Research.
At Mount Holyoke, Reiter teaches World Politics, International Law and Organization, Latin American Politics, Transitional Justice, and Political Violence.
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