Dr. Maciej Bartkowski is the Senior Director for Education and Research at ICNC where he works on academic programs for students, faculty, and professionals, curricular development, and global academic and educational outreach and research in the emerging field of civil resistance studies. He speaks regularly about civil resistance at different academic and policy forums, conducts research and writes on nonviolent movements and strategic nonviolent conflict. His recently co-authored articles include A Human Right to Resist and Egypt: How to Negotiate the Transition. Lessons from Poland and China. Currently, he is completing an edited book project on Rediscovering Nonviolent History. Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles and Nation-Making.

Dr. Bartkowski holds the position of Adjunct Professor at George Mason University where he teaches a course on civil resistance.

Before joining ICNC Dr. Bartkowski has worked as a lecturer, a visiting faculty and a director of academic programs at a number of academic institutions in the United States, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He taught at the Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York, the Open Society Institute Undergraduate Exchange Program, Adelphi University and at the Academy of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

He has also done research at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, a traineeship at the European Parliament, was an European Union observer of the Lebanese parliamentary elections in 2005 and the OSCE election supervisor in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University in Budapest, completed his undergraduate work at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and speaks fluent English, Polish and Russian, as well as basic Ukrainian and German.