Overview
Through the generous support of the Charles E. Scheidt Family Foundation, the Charles E. Scheidt Resident Practitioner Fellowship Program will bring up to two genocide and mass atrocity prevention practitioners to Binghamton University for a residential stay of one academic semester (mid-August through mid-December, or mid-January to mid-May). The program offers practitioners an opportunity to pause and reflect on their work, share their experience and expertise with faculty, academic staff and students at the Institute, instruct and learn from their academic colleagues, and collaborate on new projects with both academic and non-academic partners. Resident Practitioners may take full advantage of the welcoming and vibrant intellectual atmosphere of the institute to try out new ideas and initiatives, explore the scholarly literature associated with their work, attend regular lectures, visits from academic and non-academic peers, visit classes, and take part in the full range of informal intellectual interaction of the Institute and of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ.
Resident Practitioners are expected to offer at least one public presentation at Binghamton University during their residency; additional presentations in the broader community or on other campuses are encouraged. In addition, Resident Practitioners will make periodic visits to I-GMAP courses for more informal presentations and discussions of their work. Resident Practitioners will participate in regularly scheduled Institute events, including the annual Atrocity Intervention Simulation Exercise (normally every Fall semester) and the annual Frontiers of Prevention international conference (normally every Spring semester). Depending on qualifications and interest, Resident Practitioners may also explore the option of teaching (either independently or in partnership with an I-GMAP affiliated faculty) an academic course during their residency.
The Fellowship covers travel costs to and from Binghamton, NY, and provides a stipend to cover the costs of local housing, board, and related expenses. Fellows are provided with a workspace in the I-GMAP offices, administrative support, library and computing privileges, and a small stipend to offset the costs of professional travel during the residency.
New in the 2026-2027 academic year, we've extended the program to offer academics a semester-long residential fellowship to work on their research projects, interact with faculty and staff, and participate in the many events, lectures, conferences, and workshops held at I-GMAP during their semester of residency. Similar to the resident practitioner program, academic visitors receive travel, a stipend, workspace, administrative support, and library and computing privileges.
2026-2027 Academic Visitors
Bimal Adhikari
Bimal Adhikari is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Missouri and his B.A. in 2013 from Coe College. He was a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ's Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, 2025-2026. His research interests include human rights, foreign policy, international organizations, and political economy. His research has been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Interactions, Journal of Human Rights, Public Choice, and Research and Politics, among others.
2025-2026 Charles E. Scheidt Resident Practitioners
Mustapha Hadji
Mustapha Hadji researches issues related to transitional justice, democracy, human rights, and immigration in North Africa. As a consultant for the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), he researched and wrote a study on transitional justice and prevention in Morocco. He has also worked with the National Democratic Institute, where he served as a program director for youth political participation in Morocco. Additionally, Mustapha has worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross as a field protection delegate, carrying out field missions that included, among other things, protecting civilian populations affected by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and conducting visits to high-security detention centers in Chad. Mustapha also worked as an academic advisor at an Arab Embassy in Washington, D.C., for several years, and is currently a PhD candidate at the UC Louvain in Belgium and a researcher in the Law and Anthropology department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
Mustapha holds a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from George Mason University, a Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization from the Global Campus of Human Rights in Italy, and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Law and International Affairs from Moulay Ismail University in Morocco. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English, and also speaks Amazigh/Berber.
