Suren Mohammed

PhD Student 

University of Florida 

Suren Mohammed is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Political Science and a predoctoral fellow at the Violence, Conflict, and Security Lab at the University of Florida. He also holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Missouri State University and a B.A. in International Studies from the American University of Iraq, Sulimania.

He studies comparative politics and international security with substantive research interests in political violence, civil wars, ethnic, communal, identity, and self-determination conflicts, with an empirical focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

His dissertation examines the determinants of subnational variation in communal violence. Specifically, he asks why communal violence emerges and escalates in some localities—but not in others—within divided societies.