Rob Grace

Rob Grace has a decade of experience leading and contributing to policy-oriented research projects and capacity building efforts related to various dimensions of international humanitarian response. He is a researcher and affiliated fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS), based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, where he undertakes research on humanitarian-military relations. During the 2019-2020 academic year, he was a USIP-Minerva Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and a Graduate Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Previously, he was a researcher at Harvard University, first at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) and then at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), where he led research projects on humanitarian negotiation and international fact-finding. He is the co-editor of the HPCR Practitioner’s Handbook on Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. His work has also been published by the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Journal of Conflict & Security Law, World Health & Population, Conflict and Health, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, Negotiation Journal, the European Society of International Law, Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection, the Foreign Policy Association, and Foreign Policy in Focus. He is a doctoral candidate in political science at Brown University, where he is working on a dissertation analyzing humanitarian access negotiations.