Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs
Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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Alice Volkov

Alice Volkov has a master's degree from the Graduate School of International Affairs at Australian National University in Canberra. She wrote her thesis on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and the intervention in Libya in 2011. Recently, she was an intern with the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi. Her areas of interest also include strategies for preventing mass atrocity crimes; international development practices relating to the governance sector; and criminal justice reform. Volkov received a bachelor's degree, with honors, in history from the University of Melbourne.

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Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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