Scott Edwards

Scott Edwards serves as a Part-time Lecturer at the Elliott School, The George Washington University, and concurrently holds the position of Director of the Research and Advocacy Program at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.

His research expertise spans critical human rights and conflict domains:

• Human Rights Law/Practice
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Criminal Law/War Crimes
• Armed Conflict analysis
• Violent Political Conflict dynamics
• Forced Displacement patterns
• Migration systems
• Behavioral Psychology applications
• Sub-Saharan Africa regional focus

Dr. Edwards maintains an active research profile centered on complex humanitarian crises, innovations in human rights compliance monitoring, and the human rights implications of emerging technologies. His current professional emphasis investigates mis/disinformation impacts within political settings and conflict processes. He earned his doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where his dissertation pioneered complexity modeling approaches for predicting forced displacement phenomena.