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Margarita Tadevosyan is a Research Assistant Professor at Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Executive Director of the Center of Peacemaking Practice. She is a scholar-practitioner of conflict resolution with a geographic concentration in the countries of the South Caucasus and post-Soviet spaces. As a practitioner, she has over a decade of experience in designing, convening, and facilitating Track II dialogue workshops, and has expertise in program design and evaluation, local–international coordination and complementarity, and civil society engagement for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Her practical work in collaboration with Dr. Susan Allen has been supported by the US Department of State, European Union, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Swiss MFA, UN and other major donors.��

Margarita Tadevosyan is a George Mason �鶹���� alumna. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the Carter School and holds an MS degree (2010) in Peace Operations Policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government. Before joining Carter School, Margarita worked at the Political and Economic Section of the United States Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia. She actively collaborates with leading peacebuilding NGOs in the world such as Conciliation Resources, Ottawa Dialogue Project, Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation, and others.��

Margarita Tadevosyan’s research interest is focused on peacebuilding engagement within the local communities in conflict-affected countries and understanding and elevating marginalized voices within the conflict resolution theory and practice domain. Her current research focuses on two interrelated aspects of local peacebuilding: first, understanding local approaches to peacebuilding effectiveness and conceptualization of evidence, and second, how the local views on effectiveness and evidence fit into international practices and discourse around evidence. It examines the intersection of local and global perceptions of peacebuilding effectiveness and its impact on program development and peacebuilding engagement.

Margarita Tadevosyan serves on the board of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and is also active member of the International Studies Association and Association for the Study of Nationalities. She regularly presents at the various academic conferences and events.��

Recent Awards

• Principal Investigator, “Conflict Resolution and Leadership Institute for Burmese Scholars,” supported by USAID/Burma and the Institute of International Education, 2023–2025.
• Principal Investigator, “Human Security in the Georgian–Abkhaz Context,” supported by the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM), 2023 - 2024.
• Co-Principal Investigator, “Truth Telling About Collective Resilience with Diasporic Communities,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 2024–2025.
• Co-Principal Investigator, “SCOPE: Supporting Communities of Practice and Exchange,” supported by the European Union, 2023–2026.
• Co-Principal Investigator, “Interactive Peacemaking in Georgia,” supported by the U.S. Department of State, Embassy in Tbilisi, 2022–2024.
• Principal Investigator, “Human Security in the Georgian–South Ossetian Context,” supported by the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM), 2022 - 2023.
• Principal Investigator, “The Value of Dialogue: Human Stories and Perspectives,” supported by the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (German Marshall Fund), 2020.

Recent Publications

• Tadevosyan, Margarita. Local Peace: Concepts, Views and Evidence. Under contract with Routledge, forthcoming 2025.
• Arai, Tatsushi and Margarita Tadevosyan. Functional Coexistence in Socio-Political Conflict: Enabling Social Change Across Decades. Routledge, 2025.
• Tadevosyan, Margarita. “Routine Observance of Human Rights in Shadow of an Unresolved Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: External vs. Internal Locus of Responsibility.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2023.
• Tadevosyan, Margarita. “Peacebuilding in Politically Challenging Environments: How Do Local Peacebuilders Navigate Muddy Waters in the South Caucasus?” International Negotiation, 2022.
• Sweigart, Michael, Kristina Hook, Margarita Tadevosyan, and Susan H. Allen. “Locally Useful Evidence: Re-Centering Knowledge Creation for Local Peace Work.” In Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness, eds. Stacey Connaughton and Jasmine Linabary. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
• Tadevosyan, Margarita. “Music as a Means to Combat Genocide Denial and Assert Armenian Identity.” In Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide, eds. John Cox, Amal Khoury, and Sarah Minslow. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Professional Memberships and Service to the Field

• Co-chair, Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Board
• Member, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Caucasus Section Conference Committee
• Member, International Studies Association (ISA), Peace Studies Section Executive Committee
• Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (SAGE)��

Awards and Honors��

• Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Social Impact, George Mason �鶹���� 2025
• Indar Jit Rikhye Award, George Mason �鶹����, 2010.
• Distinguished Student Award, Schar School for Policy and Government Alumni Chapter Award, 2009.
• Edmund Muskie Graduate Fellowship, US Department of State, 2008-2010

Degrees

• PhD, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason �鶹����
• MA, Peace Operations Policy, George Mason �鶹����
• MS, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason �鶹����
• BA, Sociology, Yerevan State �鶹����