Joelle Burbank is a Research Associate at the Fund for Peace.
Since joining the Fund for Peace in 2005, she has worked
primarily on a variety of conflict assessment projects,
including the Failed States Index (FSI) and the further
development of the CAST software. She is currently the
team leader of the country profiles project, which seeks
to provide insight into scores published in the FSI through
two-page country profiles explaining key events that affected
the scores for each country, and has also written a short
paper on the Kimberley Process for the Fund for Peace's
Globalization and Human Rights Series. Ms. Burbank received
a BA in International Relations and German from American University,
where she focused mainly on economic development issues and
the relationship between natural resources and conflict.
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