James Ron has performed advisory and research services for multiple entities, including the Canadian and Swiss governments, non-governmental organizations, a market research firm, and philanthropic foundations. Please visit James' publications page to see the relevant reports. Some of these advisory experiences include: 

1. Survey Design

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In addition to designing surveys for his academic research in Colombia, India, Mexico, Morocco, and Nigeria, James has designed nationally representative surveys of the US adult population for the Center for Victims of Torture and Human Rights Watch, and of the adult populations in Mexico City and Bogotá for the Open Society Foundations.  

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2. Data Analysis  
 

In addition to extensive qualitative and quantitative data analysis for his own academic research, James has done quantitative analysis for Engage Health, a Minneapolis-based market research firm specializing in rare diseases. 

 

3.  Investigations of Violations of the Laws of War and Human Rights   
 

James has done extensive field research for Human Rights Watch over several decades, including hundreds of witness interviews in Albania, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Palestine, Turkey, and Russia. ​These projects focused chiefly on events occurring during armed conflict. 

 

4. Program Evaluation   

James has evaluated Swiss government support to human rights organizations in Israel/Palestine; refugee aid programs run by CARE, a US-based humanitarian agency, in the Democratic Republic of Congo; forensic and civilian protection programs of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Bosnia and Mexico; international insulin supply efforts by Life for a Child, an NGO affiliated with the International Diabetes Federation, in India, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Morocco, and Uzbekistan; and research on the status of women by the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civic Equality in Israel. 

 

5. Policy Advisory    

 

James has completed policy advisory projects for Global Affairs Canada, focusing on civil war, conflict research methods, and transitional justice; and for the Fetzer Institute, on potential modalities of support to social movements worldwide. 

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