Academics posted Olivia A. Zeiner-Morrish ’22
Max Norteman ’23, a double major in political science and human rights from North Attleborough, Massachusetts, is one of many Trinity College students conducting research on campus this summer. Norteman’s research project with Benjamin C. Carbonetti director of the Human Rights Program and lecturer in human rights investigates the environmental impacts of United Nations peacekeeping projects.
What led you both to this research project?
Carbonetti: I am very interested in how agencies and NGOs [non-governmental organizations] affect peacebuilding outcomes, and I am also very interested in the methodology of how peacekeeping missions work. I actually had several students in my senior seminar write papers on environmental peacebuilding and that made me start to think about the role of UN peacekeeping missions in dealing with broader environmental issues that contribute to conflict.