Experience

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fellow

  • May 2022 - Present

  Center for Peacemaking Practice Focus on the former Soviet Union, in particular the South Caucasus Center for Peacemaking Practice Focus on the former Soviet Union, in particular the South Caucasus



Independent consultant

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • 2013 - Present

  -Ministry of Defense Advising (MoDA) program. developed and delivered Governance program, 17 August 2017; 16 February, 17 August 2018; 16 May 2019. Developed and delivered program on Corruption and on Governance, 17 May 2019. -Doha Forum, Shaping Policy in an Interconnected World, “UN Peacekeeping Operations: Progress toward UN Res 1325 Goals” on The Role of Women in Conflict Resolution panel, Doha, Qatar, 15-16 December 2018 • Embassy lectures: o “The 2018 US Stabilization Assistance Review: Lessons from the Past Agenda for the Future”, Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) Berlin 19 November 2018 o “Increasing Stability and Reducing Violence in Conflict-Affected Areas” Frankfurt Roundtable, US Consulate General, 21 November 2018 • “Peacekeeping Missions and Military Intervention” presentation at BICC conference on Stabilization—For Whom and to What Ends, Bonn, 20 November 2018 • Europe as a Peace Project –2040. Scenario Mapping Exercise, participant, PAX, Utrecht, Netherlands, 21-23 November 2018 Show less



US Institute of Peace

• Senior Advisor South Caucasus Project

  • Jan 2020 - May 2022

• Senior Advisor, Civilian-Military Relations Program

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2019

  Inter-organizational Exercises• USIP-Joint Staff, J-7 Inter-organizational Table Top Exercise on Cross-Regional Challenges in the Red Sea. Background paper, exercise and scenario development; organize experts’ panels, develop themes for plenary and working group discussions, moderate one experts panel and one working group; draft final report. January-October 2019 • USIP-Joint Staff, J-7 Inter-organizational Table Top Exercise on Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism in the southern Philippines. Background paper, exercise and scenario development; organize expert host country panels, develop themes for plenary and working group discussions, moderated two panels and facilitated a working group; drafted final report. January-October 2018.Civilian-Military Relations 101, co-developed and co-taught at USMA West Point, Spring Semester 2019. • US Military Academy, West Point. Co-developed and delivered simulation on peace prospects in Afghanistan, 25 April 2019• US Military Academy, West Point, Developed and delivered simulation on a peace negotiation in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, 7 May 2018. Show less



Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• Public Policy Scholar

  • May 2012 - Apr 2013

  • “Programmed to Fail: US Stabilization-Reconstruction Missions” WWIC presentation 19 February 2013 • “Africa: Testing Ground for the new U.S. Defense Guidance for the 21st Century” africaupclose.com, Wilson Center on line publication • “The Search for Antiseptic War: The Prospects and Perils of Drones for the United States, the Sahel and Beyond” Wilson Center Policy Brief April 2013. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-search-for-antiseptic-war-the-prospects-and-perils-drones-for-the-united-states-the Show less



George Washington University

• United States
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professor

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2012

  Graduate seminar on Stabilization and Peacebuilding Graduate seminar on Stabilization and Peacebuilding



George C. Marshall Center

• Germany
• Government Relations Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director and Professor

  • Sep 2007 - Aug 2011

  Former Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction Professor of International Security Studies Former Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction Professor of International Security Studies



USAID

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Political Economist

  • Sep 2001 - Aug 2007

  Policy Bureau: worked on Fragile States Strategy, Muslim world issues, democracy and governance issues, White Paper on restructuring foreign assistance. Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance at US Department of State--June 2006-Aug 2007. Responsible for unified State-USAID strategies and budgets for over 20 countries in CEE, FSU; Africa and the Middle East during that period. Policy Bureau: worked on Fragile States Strategy, Muslim world issues, democracy and governance issues, White Paper on restructuring foreign assistance. Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance at US Department of State--June 2006-Aug 2007. Responsible for unified State-USAID strategies and budgets for over 20 countries in CEE, FSU; Africa and the Middle East during that period.