Faculty - Shaul Cohen
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Co-Director, Peace Studies Program
Contact
Office: Condon Hall 107G
Phone: (541) 346-4500
Email Shaul Cohen
Courses:
Understanding Societies in Conflict: Northern Ireland and Peacemaking
Shaul Cohen's work in political and cultural geography focuses on questions of ethnicity and identity and conflicts over territory. He concentrates in particular on conflicts in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, as well as on developing models for territorial sharing in the context of dispute resolution. Professor Cohen initiated the "riparian analogy" strategy for territorial disputes, drawing upon material in the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database. He has been involved in track-two negotiations concerning the future of Jerusalem and has conducted fieldwork for over twenty years there and in the West Bank, as well as in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. He teaches in the Department of Geography and has a class on Northern Ireland in the CRES program. He is also a Co-director of the Peace Studies Program and coordinator of the study abroad in Northern Ireland programs.
Recent works include:
Cohen, S. 2007. "Winning While Losing: The Apprentice Boys of Derry Walk Their Beat." Political Geography 26(8):951-967.
Cohen, S. 2006. "Israel's West Bank Barrier: An Impediment to Peace?" Geographical Review, 96(4):682-695.
Cohen, S. 2004. Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental
Stewardship in America. University of California Press
