Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Experts
Former Senior Research Associate and Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland and the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. King is the author or editor of six books, including Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (Norton, 2011), The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford, 2008),...
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University
Irfan Nooruddin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. His current research centers on questions at the intersection of comparative and international political economy. Just as with institutions and economic development, the principal problem of violent domestic conflict is understanding how to design state institutions that will constrain...
PhD Candidate, Dept of Political Science, Boston University
Erzen Oncel is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at Boston University. She received her BA degrees in History and International Relations & Political Science from Bogazici University, Istanbul. Her major field of study is Comparative Politics with a special interest in political elite, descriptive representation, and ethnic politics in the Middle East. From September 2008...
Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute
Ambassador Richard Schifter has had a distinguished career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. and in government. Since 2005 he has served as chairman of the board of directors of American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI).After receiving his L.L.B. from the Yale School of Law in 1951, he practiced law in Washington, DC with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, 1951-1984, and i...
Lawyer
Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serve...
Stephen R. Weissman is the author of American Foreign Policy in the Congo 1960–1964 (1974) and A Culture of Deference: Congress’s Failure of Leadership in Foreign Policy (1961). He has been a political science professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Fordham University, and the Université Libre du Congo. He served on the staff of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa from 1979...
Associate Professor, Long Island University
I am an associate professor of history at Long Island University in New York and a guest professor at the Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University in Shanghai. I am a native Chinese with U.S. education, fluent in both Chinese and English languages. I obtained a Ph. D. in modern diplomatic history at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2003. Prior to m...