Sascha Sheehan specializes in the current conflict between global terrorism and counterterrorism and in international cultural and religious conflict resolution. His research, based on terrorism incident data, examines the impact of preemptive force on terrorist activity and the implications for U.S. foreign policy and international conflict management.

Dr. Sheehan received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College with a major in Political Science and a concentration in Peace and Conflict Studies. He studied post conflict stabilization and reconstruction in war-torn societies through the Peace Operations Policy Program at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland. He was trained in mediation at the Harvard Mediation Program and has served as a court appointed mediator.

Professor Sheehan has taught courses in comparative political systems in the International Studies Department at Bentley College and has taught courses on terrorism and conflict resolution at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. His first book, When Terrorism and Counterterrorism Clash: The War on Terror and the Transformation of Terrorist Activity, will be published in the fall of 2007.

Current Research Interests:
• Transnational Terrorism/Counterterrorism
• Evaluation and Analysis of Data Related to International and Intra-State Conflict
• International Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution
• Cultural and Religious Conflict and Conflict Resolution
• Post-Conflict Reconstruction/ Stabilization/ Nation-Building
• Application of Asymmetric War and Conflict Theory

Selected Publications:
• Sheehan, Ivan Sascha, When Terrorism and Counterterrorism Clash: The War on Terror and the Transformation of Terrorist Activity, Cambria Press, Fall 2007 (Forthcoming).
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• Sheehan, Ivan Sascha., Has the War on Terrorism Changed the Terrorist Threat: A Time Series Analysis, (In Preparation).
• Sheehan, Ivan Sascha, Assessing Transnational Terrorism Databases: A Comparison of RAND and ITERATE, (In Preparation).
• Moore, R. Scott, Future Trends of Global Terrorism, Section by Sheehan, S. in Chapter Two, Terrorism: Concepts, Causes and Conflict Resolution, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, ed. Lt. Col. Scott Moore, Fort Belvoir, VA., November 2002.
• Sheehan, S., Countering Global Terrorism: The Need for a Multi-Paradigmatic Analysis and a Multidimensional Strategy, Terrorism: Concepts, Causes and Conflict Resolution, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, ed. Lt. Col. Scott Moore, Fort Belvoir, VA., November 2002.
• Contributions to Professor Daniel Druckman’s Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis, Sage Publications, March 2005.