PrintCharles "Chuck" T. Call
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow September 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Contact
Phone: (202) 429-4706
E-mail: ccall@usip.org
Languages: Spanish
Project Focus:
Making Peace "Stick": Civil War Recurrence and How to Prevent It
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An assistant professor in the Program on Peace and Conflict Resolution in American University’s School of International Service, Chuck Call is investigating why peace fails to “stick” in some cases of civil war and why it succeeds in others. His research emphasizes the strategic choices that are available to policymakers in post-conflict societies and focuses on the triple imperatives of post-conflict reconstruction: capacity-building, fence-mending among former enemies and legitimacy-enhancement of national authorities.
Trained as a Latin American specialist, Call has conducted field research in Central America, Colombia, Haiti, Afghanistan, West Africa, Bosnia, Kosovo and South Africa. In 2006, he was the senior peacebuilding adviser to the International Peace Academy in New York. He spent most of 2004 at the U.N. Department of Political Affairs as a peacebuilding consultant. Before that he was assistant professor for research at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, where he coordinated the Governance in War-Torn Societies Project. He has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch, the European Commission, USAID, UNDP, the US Department of Justice, and the Washington Office on Latin America, and received grants from USIP, the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
Call received a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Political Science.
Publications:
- "Democratization, War, and State-Building: Constructing the Rule of Law in El Salvador," Journal of Latin American Studies (Vol. 35, No. 4, 2003).
- "War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America," Comparative Politics (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2002).
- "On Democracy and Peacebuilding," co-author, Global Governance (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2003).
- "Governance After War: Rethinking Democratization and Peacebuilding," co-edited with Susan Cook, Global Governance (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2003).
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USIP has supported over 300 products, projects, and activities related to human rights and peacebuilding. From grants to fellowships, from training to education, from working groups to publications, the Institute strives to encourage more practice and scholarly work on the issue of human rights, and seeks to deepen understanding of the role human rights play in conflict and in peace. Issue Areas: Human Rights, Peacebuilding
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In Constructing Justice and Security after War, the distinguished contributors—including scholars, criminal justice practitioners, and former senior officials of international missions—examine the experiences of countries that have recently undergone transitions from conflict with significant international involvement. The volume offers generalizations based on careful comparisons of justice and security reforms in some of the most prominent and successful cases of transitions from war of the 1990s drawn from Central America, Africa, the Balkans, and East Timor. Countries: Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Timor Leste
| Issue Areas: Conflict Management and Resolution, Governance, Post-Conflict Activities, Rule of Law, Security and Strategy
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Events
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March 11, 2009
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December 4, 2008
Countries: Haiti
| Issue Areas: Humanitarian Efforts
| Programs: Grants & Fellowships, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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September 3, 2002
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