Mike Brand

Mike Brand is a human rights, atrocities prevention, and peacebuilding professional with nearly two decades of experience in policy, advocacy, organizing, and education. Throughout his career, Mike has worked for NGOs in the United States, Rwanda, and South Sudan, and has done fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Mike directs the Human Security Project and supports civil society organizations and diaspora networks in strategic planning, program development, and achieving their advocacy and organizing objectives. He has been published in peer-reviewed journals, national and international publications, and has been quoted in international news outlets as an expert in his field. He has forthcoming chapters in the “Routledge Handbook of Genocide Studies” and “Genocide Studies: Through the Eyes of Intergenerational Survivors.” In addition to his policy and advocacy work, Mike is an Adjunct Professor of mass atrocities prevention and human rights at Georgetown University and the University of Connecticut, a Visiting Professor at the Genocide Prevention Program in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. Mike is currently pursuing a PhD in Security Studies and he holds a Master of Arts in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University, with a concentration in human rights and atrocities prevention, and Bachelors of Arts in History and Political Science with a minor in human rights from the University of Connecticut.