Kevin D. Jones, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and a Research Scholar at the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). He has been a  Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, an IREX Fellow in Central Asia and a Guest Fellow at the Moscow office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  Dr. Jones has experience in researching, implementing and managing projects on civil conflict, crisis response, political transition, and economic development throughout the United States, Central Asia, Caucasus, Russia, and Ukraine.  The majority of his research and publications have examined the key components and dynamics of civil violence in order to effectively prevent and respond to violent conflict. 

Dr. Jones is an expert on Central Asia and specifically Kyrgyzstan.  He lived in Kyrgyzstan for almost five years working with Peace Corps and USAID and is working on a book tentatively titled “The Dynamics of Political Protests” about the 2005 Kyrgyzstan Tulip Revolution.

Dr. Jones can be contacted at kdejones [at] gmail.com

"Were the Drug Killings of U.S. Consulate Employees a Message to the U.S.? (with Steven Silverstein, Carlos Martin and Matthew Rose), forthcoming, 2010.

Can You Not See Mount Kenya?: Identification of Violent Trends as Precursors of Kenya's 2007 Election Violence" (with Steven Silverstein), in manuscript, 2010.

"Indicators of Escalating Tensions between Georgia and Russia Prior to the South Ossetian War" (with Greg Zalasky), in manuscript, 2010

"The Dynamics of Political Protests: A Case Study of the Kyrgyz Republic", Doctoral Dissertaion, University of Maryland, May 2007.

 “Fear of Democracy or Revolution: the Reaction to Andijon", (with Fiona Hill) Washington Quarterly, Summer 2006.