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My name is Jungmin Han (한정민, 韩政潣, or 韓政潣). I am currently a postdoctoral researcher for Patterns of Conflict Emergence project at Trinity College Dublin. Also, I am an affiliated faculty member at the Ford Institute of Human Secruty at the University of Pittsburgh. My research and teaching interests center on international security, conflict resolution, foreign policy, and political behavior, with a regional focus on East Asia.

I earned my Ph.D. degree in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh with a focus on International Relations and Research Methods. Prior to this, I completed my MA in International Relations from Peking University in Beijing, China, as well as a double-BA degree in Political Science and Economics from State University of New York at Stony Brook and in Public Administration from the University of Seoul.

The central motivation of my research is to advance understanding of why the public resists peace despite its leader’s successful cooperation with a foreign adversary. Even when democratic leaders successfully elicit cooperation from rival states, many citizens continue to view them negatively and resist conciliatory policies. My research, including my doctoral dissertation, investigates the socio-psychological barriers that sustain such public resistance to peace in East Asia. Along with this theme, published works at Conflict Management and Peace Science and Journal of Contemporary China show how identity-based biases shape public interpretations of rivals’ cooperative gestures, often neutralizing or even reversing their peace-promoting effects. Also, reflecting my broader interests in political behavior, democracy, and computational text analysis, my work at European Journal of Political Research examines how greater online visibility disproportionately exposes female candidates to multiple forms of online violence in in Türkiye.

Furthermore, I have several working projects on the impact of more broader political contexts on public opinion on peace, foreign intervention in civil wars, and online violence during electoral campaigns. About further details about my research, please see my CV or contact me via email (jhan@tcd.ie).