PrintMichael Dziedzic
Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations
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Michael J. Dziedzic joined the USIP as a program officer in the Research and Studies program and is a senior program officer in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations. Before coming to the Institute, Dziedzic, a retired United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, was a senior military fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, where he focused on peace operations, Latin American regional security affairs and transnational security threats.
During his 30 career with the USAF, he served in a variety of capacities, including professor in the Department of Political Science at the USAF Academy, professor of national security studies at the National War College, strategic military planner for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, political-military planner at the Pentagon, air attaché at the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador and visiting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
A graduate of the USAF Academy, Dziedzic received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Resources & Tools
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As ethnic tensions heat up in Bosnia, USIP assesses several policy prescriptions and the areas of disagreement and agreement of how the international community and the region itself should address the problems in the struggling country. Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Europe, United States
| Issue Areas: Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Post-Conflict Activities
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The looting of Iraq’s museums and archaeological sites is an overlooked consequence of the 2003 invasion. The loss of such precious history would be tragic for any nation or culture. As Iraqis struggle to redefine a sense of nationhood after five years of war, they will need to draw on that common heritage to reconstruct their communities. |
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The UN mission in Haiti's successful campaign against the country's gangs set a precedent for future missions. Based on field research, authors Michael Dziedzic and Robert Perito explore the conduct of military and police operations, Haitians' overwhelmingly positive views of the UN intervention and lessons learned. Countries: Haiti
| Issue Areas: International and Regional Organizations, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Activities, Rule of Law, Weapons & Arms Control
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Developed in concert with the Department of Defense and Interaction (the umbrella organization for major American humanitarian non-governmental organizations), these guidelines address how the US military and US non-governmental organizations should behave towards each other in non-permissive environments like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Issue Areas: Civil-Military Relations
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In the State of the Union address this year, President Bush joined calls for a U.S. civilian reserve corps. In mid-2006, USIP convened federal law enforcement officials and chiefs of police from across the United States to examine the range of choices for creating the police component of a civilian reserve corps that could rapidly deploy to states emerging from conflict. |
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This USIPeace Briefing explores the impetus behind the dramatic growth in the use of stability police and the central role of the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) in meeting international demand for this essential public security capability. Issue Areas: Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Activities
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Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Civil-Military Relations, Humanitarian Efforts, Nongovernmental Organizations, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Activities
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As the editors of this groundbreaking volume explain, viable peace is achieved when the capacity of domestic institutions to resolve disputes peacefully overtakes the powerful motives and means for continued violent conflict. |
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USIPeace Briefing analyzes the potential impact of the Global Peace Operations Initiative on African peacekeeping forces. |
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Establishing public order in the aftermath of an international military intervention is "job one." The success of all other activities hinges on getting this job done. Military combat units, however, are neither trained nor equipped for riot control and law enforcement functions. No rapidly deployable U.S. civilian capacity exists to provide the full spectrum of rule of law functions—from intelligence to incarceration—needed to support military forces engaged in peace and stability operations. Countries: United States
| Issue Areas: Civil-Military Relations, Post-Conflict Activities, Rule of Law
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Events
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July 17, 2009
The second annual meeting of the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law (INPROL) took place on Friday, July 17 at the United States Institute of Peace. The focus this year was on a discussion of preliminary lessons learned from the experience of the UN Mission in Kosovo in establishing the justice and corrections systems in Kosovo. Countries: Kosovo
| Issue Areas: International and Regional Organizations, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Activities, Rule of Law
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September 8, 2008
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May 20, 2008
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November 28, 2007
Haiti Working Group Public Event Countries: Haiti
| Issue Areas: International and Regional Organizations, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Activities, Rule of Law
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November 20, 2006
Countries: Kosovo
| Issue Areas: Security and Strategy
| Programs: Grants & Fellowships, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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June 1, 2005
Editors of the Quest for Viable Peace discussed its core ideas. Issue Areas: Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Activities
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Additional Selected Works
Publications:
- Kosovo Brief: Information Management Offers A New Opportunity for Cooperation Between Civilian and Military Entities
Virtual Diplomacy Report (August 2000) - Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security, co-edited with Robert Oakley (1998).
- Mexico: Converging Challenges (Adelphi Series, Vol. 29, Issue 242, Autumn 1989).