Jonas Claes is senior program specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace's Center for Conflict Management, focusing on conflict prevention and the prevention of mass atrocities. Claes is a reviewer for the Global R2P Journal, and has written extensively on the Responsibility to Protect, including a chapter on 'Leadership and R2P' in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on The Responsibility to Protect, edited by Andy Knight and Frazer Egerton, and a chapter on "Responsibility to Protect and Peacemaking" in the forthcoming Praeger Volume on Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory.
In 2008, Claes worked as executive assistant at the Ludwig von Mises Institute-Europe in Brussels, where he represented the Institute at the European Parliament. He holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, an M.A. in International Relations from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and a B.A. in Political Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel. His personal research interests include the political challenges posed by R2P opponents and European conflict prevention strategies.
