Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Experts
Professor of History, The George Washington University
For the past generation, I have specialized as a scholar in the history of race and labor in the United States. Much of my scholarly work has been in the area of African-American labor history, the history of working-class race relations, racial ideology, and the politics of civil rights. I have written, edited, or co-edited seven books. My first monograph, Waterfront Workers of New Or...
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on democratic governance, conflict resolution, citizen security and organized crime, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, th...
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
Robert Baum was born in Washington and grew up in Silver Spring. He attended Wesleyan University for his bachelor’s degree, where he first took a course on Apartheid and decided to concentrate in African history. Upon graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship, which enabled him to spend an entire year in a Diola village in southern Senegal, where he learned the language and began fie...
Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
In the course of my M.A. studies, I became interested in the subject of sovereign statehood in international relations. As I worked on my M.A. thesis, my attention gradually focused on the issues of acquisition and criteria of statehood. I had recalled witnessing the domestic debates on these issues before the dissolution of the country of my birth, Czechoslovakia, as well as following...
Professor, University of Cincinnati; Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark; Senior Research Scholar, Center for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg
Jan Marie Fritz is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and a senior research scholar with the Center for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg. Her areas of interest include clinical sociology, women’s studies, conflict intervention/analysis and mediation. As the senior representative for the International Sociological Association to the UN, she became p...
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Sarah Garding completed her doctoral degree in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. Her dissertation, which examines diaspora political incorporation policies in the postcommunist space, draws on 16 months of fieldwork in Armenia, Croatia, and Serbia, as well as short-term fieldwork in diaspora communities in Canada, the United States, and Germany. She received her...
Professor, School of Government, Policy and Diplomacy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; Darwin Professor Emerita, Hebrew University
Former Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia
Alan Goulty retired in 2008 after 40 years service in the British Diplomatic Service, including postings as Ambassador to Tunisia (2004-8) and Sudan (1995-9), and as the UK Special Representative for Sudan (2002-4) and Darfur (2005-6), when he led the UK team in the Naivasha and Abuja peace talks. He was Director (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) for the Middle East and North Africa in t...
Associate Professor, Sungshin Women's University
Hong Seuk Ryule is a Associate Professor of the Department of History at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul. Professor Hong holds a Ph.D. in Korean History from Seoul National University. He has also spent time as a visiting Researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park(1999-2000). He specialized in the modern history of Korea, and specifically, U.S.-ROK and inter-Korean relations...