PrintPamela Aall
Vice President for Domestic Programs, Education and Training Center
Pamela R. Aall is vice president for domestic programs, Education and Training Center. She directs the education program, which focuses on strengthening teaching, learning, and research on conflict prevention, management, and resolution. Her research interests include mediation in inter- and intrastate conflicts, the role of nonofficial organizations in conflict management and resolution and the role of education in exacerbating conflict or promoting reconciliation.
Before joining the Institute in 1993, she was a consultant to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and to the Institute of International Education. She also held a number of positions at the Rockefeller Foundation and has worked for the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam and Brussels), the International Council for Educational Development (New York) and the New York Botanical Garden. She is also a past president of Women in International Security.
Aall holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a master’s from Columbia University and attended the London School of Economics, where she conducted research on political and economic integration in Scandinavia and Europe.
Publications:
- Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, co-edited with Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (USIP Press, 2007).
- Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict, co-edited with Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (USIP Press, 2005).
- Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases, co-authored with Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (USIP Press, 2004).
- Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict, co-edited with Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (USIP Press, 2001).
- "Making Peace; Making It Stick," in Passing the Baton: Challenges of Statecraft for the New Administration (Peaceworks, 2001).
- Guide to IGOs, NGOs, and the Military in Peace and Relief Operations, co-authored with Thomas G. Weiss and Lt. Col. Daniel Miltenberger (USIP Press, 2000).
- Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World, co-edited with Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (USIP Press, 1999).
- Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict, co-edited with Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (USIP Press, 1996).
Available on usip.org
- Leashing the Dogs of War: USIP Releases Latest Text in Seminal Series on Conflict Resolution
Online Press Kit, January 2007 - USIP Releases Latest Text in Seminal Series on Conflict Resolution
News Release, February 21, 2007
Resources & Tools
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USIP released the latest volume in its ongoing series on contemporary conflict.Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall is a follow up to their landmark 2001 work Turbulent Peace, which has become a leading classroom text in the study of conflict resolution. Issue Areas: Conflict Management and Resolution
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Among the unwelcome legacies of the past century are a group of conflicts, both intrastate and interstate, that seem destined never to end. Unyielding conflicts offer numerous insights—not only about the sources of intractability but also about such facets of mediation and conflict management as how to gain leverage, when to engage and disengage, how to balance competing goals, and who to enlist to play supporting roles Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Management and Resolution
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Written from the mediator's point of view, Taming Intractable Conflicts lays out the steps involved in tackling the most stubborn of conflicts. It first puts mediation in a larger context, exploring why mediators choose or decline to become involved, what happens when they get involved for the wrong reasons, and the impact of the mediator's institutional and political environment. |
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Please see the new, replacement volume: Leashing the Dogs of War |
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Please see the newest replacement volume: Guide for Participants in Peace, Stability, and Relief Operations |
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Not only will these cases illustrate how multiparty mediation works or does not work, but they should also stimulate further work on the special requirements and best practices of the field, promote a dialogue among practitioners themselves as well as between academics and practitioners, and lead to unique insights, new understandings, and alternative approaches that can be applied to future mediations. |
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Sources of and Responses to International Conflict |
Events
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November 13, 2009
While conflict management professionals understand the contributions that women make in peacebuilding efforts, promoting this idea in conflict societies and effectively engaging women in a wide range of peacebuilding activities requires knowledge and awareness. This first Gender and Peacebuilding Seminar will explore the role women can play in peace negotiations. Issue Areas: Negotiation and Diplomacy, Women
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June 17, 2002
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