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By Teri Murphy

There was something unsettling about gathering peacebuilders in Northern Ireland last week to ask what peace means today - and watching the past return almost literally to the doorstep.

We…

Peace N Ireland, Colombia, Basque

As a result in part of Mershon support, Governing reconciliation: Metagovernance, alignment, and sustainable peace in Northern Ireland was published in Peace and Sustainability …

TV screen with newscaster and Peter Mansoor

Peter Mansoor was interviewed by NewsNation on various topics including Iran, Ukraine, and the Pentagon.

View the NewsNation segment.

Nowshin Sharmila

Nowshin Sharmila’s Mershon-funded research project is a steppingstone for creating new models for ground-level problem-solving. A graduate student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies who…

Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Danielle Fosler-Lussier published an article about Ohio State’s Career Allies Academy in Inside Higher Ed.

Manuscript written in sorabe text, Madagascar, undated

Sarah Van Beurden co-authored the article Arts across Africa before 1600: An Ever-Growing Void? for the journal African Arts.

Manuscript written…

Leaders of USA, Denmark, and Greenland hold signed trilateral agreements

Peter Mansoor spoke with CNN about the trilateral agreement with the leaders of the US, Denmark and Greenland, which formalized a new Greenland security agreement.

Gravesite with photos of people on a hill of dirt

Co-directors Teri Murphy and Derek Congram talked to NBC4 about Mershon Search Lab and our collaboration with Colombia’s Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas dadas por Desaparecidas (UBPD).

People and bones on tables at a genetic identification laboratory in Colombia

We are thrilled to share an Ohio State News story featuring our Mershon Search Lab and our Colombian collaborators Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas dadas por Desaparecidas (UBPD).

American flag, 9/11 memorial, airplane

Just Security published a contribution from Dakota Rudesill, professor of law and Mershon affiliate, on their online symposium on 9/11 that includes essays by national security…

All the military leaders that have been recently fired by the Trump administration

Peter Mansoor, Mershon Center's Mason Chair in Military History, recently appeared on CNN as one of the military experts unpacking Hegseth's purges of U.S. military leadership.

A brownish green mountain with a forked glacial stream at its base

Madhumita Dutta published an article in The Wire about Jahlma Nallah, a glacial stream that floods in the sun. This phenomenon, affecting thousands of rural mountain households, local…

Fiona Cunningham

The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce that Fiona S. Cunningham has been selected to receive the 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for Under the Nuclear…

Ohio the Heart of it All road sign

Bart Elmore appeared on All Sides with Amy Juravich to talk about whether climate change and affordability are drawing people back to Midwest states.

Erik Ackroyd, Laurie Georges, Anneliese Schenk-Day, Cameron Macaskill, Felicity Risca, Ryo Sawayama, Dakota Rudesill

Dakota Rudesill, professor of law and director of the Mershon Center National Security Simulation, delivered a keynote and led The Ohio State University delegation of seven at the 2026…

Hannah Kosstrin and the book cover of Kinesthetic Peoplehood

Hannah Kosstrin recently published a new book entitled Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations (Oxford University Press 2026), which examines Jewish diasporic dance…

Peter Mansoor and an image of Douglas MacArthur

Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines by Peter R. Mansoor, professor of history and Mershon Center Major General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History, won…

Brooks Marmon with the cover of his Edson Sithole book

Brooks Marmon, former Mershon Center postdoctoral scholar currently at the University of Arkansas, edited a new book, Edson Sithole: Law, Liberation and the Cost of Dissent (Voices of…