# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-f-walter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:17:53.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-f-walter"
name: "Barbara F. Walter"
slug: "barbara-f-walter"
description: "Barbara F. Walter is a political scientist who has researched and written about civil wars, including why they start, how they escalate, and how they can be prevented. She is the Rohr Professor of International Affairs at the University of California, San Diego and the author of How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them (2022)."
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country:
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birthDate: "1964-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "bfwalter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump