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Current Senior Fellow Charles Call:
On Wednesday, March 11, USIP held a launch for a book co-edited by Senior Fellow Charles Call (with Vanessa Wyeth, published by Lynne Reiner, July 2008), Building States to Build Peace. The panel was entitled "Should the International Community do Post-Conflict State-Building?" Participants, in addition to Call, included Sarah Cliffe, Director of Strategy and Operations for the East Asia and Pacific Region at the World Bank; Kenneth Menkhas, expert on Somalia and Professor of Political Science, Davidson College; and Karin von Hippel, Co-Director, Pst Conflict Reconstruction Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Daniel P. Serwer, Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, U.S. Institute of Peace, moderated. Find out more about the book.
Current Senior Fellow Robert Maguire:
Robert Maguire published a Policy Report, "Partnership With Haiti: New Policies for a New Administration" with the Center for International Policy. It is available online at the CIP website. Dr. Maguire also published a piece, “Paul Collier’s Report on Economic Security in Haiti,” in both English and French, in the online journal FOCALPoint, Canada's Spotlight on the Americas, Vol. 8 (No. 2), available on the Focal (Canadian Foundation for the Americas) website. On March 9, Dr. Maguire gave a talk entitled "Haiti in the Next Administration" at the Transafrica Forum at Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC and on February 24 led a training session for the US police joining the UNPOL police mission in Haiti.
Francis M. Deng, Senior Fellow, 2002–2003:
On October 2, 2008, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Francis M. Deng latest book, Identity, Diversity and Constitutionalism in Africa, the result of his fellowship at USIP, was published by USIP Press in Fall 2008. In the book, Deng, the UN Secretary General’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide, outlines a new relationship between governments and societies—a relationship informed by Western concepts but based on traditional African values such as respect for human dignity, equality, and self-rule. The book is available for purchase from the USIP Bookstore.
Featured Resources & Tools
In July 2006, Haitian poet and historian Jean-Claude Martineau spoke at USIP and said that Haiti is the only country in the world with a last name—“Haiti, poorest country in the western hemisphere” —as described in the media. Sadly, in the two years since, conditions have worsened. Four severe storms that struck Haiti in September 2008 only exacerbated the already critical problem of the country’s poverty.
Few events have been as studied and analyzed as the Cuban missile crisis. Drawing on previously undiscovered archival materials and interviews with Soviet and American veterans of the crisis, Michael Dobbs has taken a fresh look at the history of those fateful thirteen days.
Program Specialists
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Senior Program Officer, Grant and Fellowships Program
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Program Specialist
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Leadership
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Associate Vice President, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
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Fellow Snapshots
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Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, October 2009 - July 2010
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Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow October 1, 2008 - July 31, 2009
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The Jennings Randolph (JR) Senior Fellowship Program provides scholars, policy analysts, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to spend time in residence at the Institute, reflecting and writing on pressing international peace and security challenges.
Senior Fellowsips usually last for ten months, starting in October, but shorter-term fellowships are also available. Fellowships are open to citizens of any country.
Highlights from Senior Fellows
CURRENT
Current Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali
Imtiaz Ali participated in a conference organized by the Jamestown Foundation on April 15, 2009, on "Pakistan's Troubled Frontier: The Future of FATA and the NWFP." Ali’s topic was "Who's Who in the Islamic Militancy: Key Players and Recent Developments." Read the description of the conference. On March 18, Ali appeared on the Charlie Rose show together with Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani and journalists Steve Coll and Joe Klein. Watch the interview.
Current Senior Fellow Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon moderated a March 24 session at the Council of Foreign Relations on Iraq and President Obama's troop drawdown plan. In addition, Gordon spoke on the military campaign in Iraq at a March 27 program organized by the Elliott School of International Affairs at George University.
Current Senior Fellow Robert "Bob" Maguire
Bob Maguire gave three presentations: "Haiti: Climate Change and National Security Issues," at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), US Department of State, on March 13, 2009; "Social and Economic Development in Haiti: Conceiving and Managing Development Projects," (in Creole) at the Centre de Formation et de Developpement Economique Universite, Port-au-Prince, on March 30, 2009; "Situation in Haiti," for the USIP Haiti Working Group Meeting, Longworth House Office Building, US House of Representatives, April 2, and "Haiti: Current Conditions and Obstacles to Development," at the National Intelligence Council, on April 17.
Current Senior Fellow Leonard Rubenstein
Leonard Rubenstein participated in the invitation-only Humanitarian Action Summit organized by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative March 26-28 as part of the working group on protection. On April 2, Rubenstein met with staff at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss implications for foreign assistance reform.
Current Senior Fellow David Tolbert
A March 20, 2009 interview with David Tolbert was published by the Oxford Transitional Justice Project as part of its ICC Observers series. On March 27, Tolbert spoke on the release of the final report by the ASIL Task Force on the US and the ICC, at a press conference at the National Press Club, and also at a panel presentation of the report at the American Society of International Law annual meeting on the same day. On April 14, Tolbert spoke on a panel organized by USIP’s Rule of Law Project, on the Cambodia Tribunal (ECCC) at the Carnegie Endowment on International Peace. In addition, Tolbert, together with Aleksandar Kontic, who had worked with Tolbert as a Legal Advisor and Research Assistant at the ICTY, published a chapter, "The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Transitional Justice, the Transfer of Cases to National Courts, and Lessons for the ICC," in The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court (Edited by Carsten Stahn and Göran Sluitter, Koninklijke Brill 2009.)
Current Senior Fellow Keith Watenpaugh
Keith Watenpaugh gave presentations at two conferences: the first, on March 21, was "The League of Nations and the Origins of Armenian Genocide Denial" at Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties, Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, and the second, on April 3, was "The League of Nations’ Eastern Mediterranean Rescue Movement and the Paradox of Interwar Humanitarianism," at a conference at Columbia University, Histories of Humanitarianism.
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Former Guest Scholar Francis Ricciardone
Francis Ricciardone, a Guest Scholar since October 2008, departed USIP in April, having been appointed Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. View the Press Release.
Former Senior Fellow Radwan Ziadeh
Radwan Ziadeh (2007–2008) participated in a panel on "The Future of the Syrian Opposition Movements" at the Hudson Institute on March 26. On April 3, USIP published a special report by Ziadeh, The Kurds in Syria: Fueling Separatist Movements in the Region?.
Former Senior Fellow Stephen Farry
Stephen Farry (2005–2006), currently a member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, gave an internal briefing at USIP on March 16 on the current state of the peace accord and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, particularly in light of recent attacks on the police and army by dissident factions of the IRA.
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Senior Fellow Yoram Peri, 2001-2002
Former Senior Fellow Yoram Peri took part in a USIP panel on February 6, 2009, entitled “Options for U.S. Mediation of an Israel-Syria Peace Process.” He spoke with Search for Common Ground's Syria Project director Tom Dine and Turkey expert Henry Barkey, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Former Senior Fellow Donald Steinberg
On March 11, 2009, Donald Steinberg (2004–2005) addressed the OSCE Round Table on Gender and Security, Vienna, Austria, speaking on "Peace Missions and Gender Equality: Ten Lessons from the Ground."
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Former Senior Fellow Carol Giacomo
Carol Giacomo (1999–2000), currently a journalist with the New York Times, received a special citation for her career contribution in international and national security reporting on March 24, at the 34th award ceremony of the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting, sponsored by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD).