Adam Day

Adam Day

Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs


Personal Details

Focus areas: Conflict resolution, UN peace operations, mediation, complexity theory, state-building

Adam Day is an Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, offering courses on conflict resolution and engagement with non-state groups in conflict. Adam served for over a decade in UN peace operations, including in Darfur, South Sudan, the Middle East and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as UN Headquarters in New York. He is currently the Head of Programmes at the Centre for Policy Research at UN University, where he oversees projects on violent extremist groups, peace operations, transitional justice, and conflict trends in the Sahel. Adam has an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a JD from the UC Berkeley School of Law, an MA in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and is a PhD candidate in War Studies at King’s College London.

Honors and Awards

  • Leverhulme Scholar, Centre for Grand Strategy, King’s College London (2018-present)
  • Alfred P. Rubin Prize in International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2006)
  • West Publishing Prize for Legal Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2006)
  • CV Starr Scholar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2006)

Research And Publications

Contextualising Conflict-Related Transitional Governance since 1989

Sep 2019

The Routledge Handbook on Transitional Governance

Adam Day

David M. Malone

The UN’s Role in Shaping Global Security Law

Sep 2019

The Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security

Adam Day

David M. Malone