Claudena M. Skran is Professor of Government and Edwin and Ruth West Professor of Economics and Society at Lawrence University in the United States. Dr. Skran earned her D. Phil in International Relations at Oxford University and is the author of Refugees in Interwar Europe:  the Emergence of a Regime. A specialist on international organizations that assist, Dr. Skran has also been a fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace, a Fulbright Research Scholar in Sierra Leone (2005-06), and a consultant for the UNHCR.