About Me

Stewart Prest

I’m a researcher and consultant in the areas of conflict and policy analysis.

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Risk assessment and state failure.” (With David Carment and John Gazo). 2007. Global Society. Vol. 21, no. 1.

“The 2006 CIFP Country Indicators for Foreign Policy: Opportunities and challenges for the Canadian Government.” (With David Carment, Souleima el-Achkar, and Yiagadeesen Samy). 2006. Canadian Foreign Policy. Vol. 13, no. 1.

“Assessing small island developing state fragility.” (With David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy). 2006. Lino Briguglio and Eliawony J. Kisanga, eds. Economic vulnerability and resilience of small states. London: Formatek Publishing, on behalf of Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Conference Papers

“Policy Relevant Risk Assessment in Failed and Fragile States Environments.” (With David Carment, Yiagadeesen Samy, and C. Elizabeth St. Jean). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA’s 49th Annual Convention: Bridging Multiple Divides, San Francisco, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008.

“Determinants of State Fragility and Implications for Aid Allocation: An Assessment Based on the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Project.” United Nations University — World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Research Paper No. 2008/46. April 2008.

“Jamaica, Haiti, diasporas and peacebuilding.” (With David Carment, Carlo Dade, Andrew Harrington, and Per Unheim). Presented at the Expert forum on capacity building for peace and development: Roles of diaspora, University of Peace. Toronto, ON. 19-20 October 2006.

“Working out strategies for strengthening fragile states: The British, American and German experience.” (With David Carment and John Gazo). Presented at Fragile, dangerous, and failed states: Implementing Canada’s International Policy Statement, organized by the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia. 26-28 November 2005.

“Creating an organized crime SENTINEL: Towards the development and implementation of a strategic early warning methodology for law enforcement.” (With Richard Bruneau, David Carment, Bruno Nordeste, and Greg O’Hayon). Presented at the International symposium on forecasting. San Antonio TX. 12-15 June 2005.

Other Scholarly and Policy Papers

“Assessing the circumstances and forms of Canada’s involvement in fragile states: Towards a methodology of relevance and impact.” (With Carment, David, John Gazo, Terry Bell, and Sarah Houghton). 2006. Human Security Bulletin. December.

“Failed and fragile states: A concept paper for the Canadian Government.” Part 1 and Part 2. (With David Carment, John Gazo, and Terry Bell). 2005. Prepared for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). December.

“Upheaval in Haiti: The criminal threat to Canada.” 2005. Background research document created for CISC SENTINEL Strategic Early Warning Pilot Project.

“Russia: Criminogenic early warning and indicator survey, 1991-1997.” (With Julia Novitskaia). 2004. Background research document for CISC SENTINEL Strategic Early Warning Pilot Project.

Current Projects

“State fragility and implications for aid allocation: an empirical analysis.” (With David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy).

“Jamaican and Haitian diasporas.” (With David Carment, Carlo Dade, Andrew Harrington, and Per Unheim). Forthcoming. Terry-Ann Jones and Stacy-Ann Wilson, eds. Comparative Caribbean Migration. (Publisher TBD).

“Jamaica, Haiti, and the role of diasporas.” (With David Carment, Andrew Harrington, and Per Unheim). Forthcoming. D. Carment and D. Bercuson, eds. Canadian foreign policy and the new 3Ds: diaspora, demography and domestic politics. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.