2008-2009 Senior Fellow Activities

The 2008-2009 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship class officially resided at the institute from October 2008 to July 2009.  They came from a wide variey of backgrounds including international law, non-government organizations, journalism and academia.  Below is a summary of their activities, as well those of our alumni, both at the institute and in the greater- Washington area throughout their fellowship period.

August 2009

• Senior Fellow Michael Gordon (2008-2009) participated in a panel to discuss a new report from the RAND corporation, "Withdrawing from Iraq: Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies."
• Senior Fellow Asieh Mir (2008-2009) published an OpEd in the Washington Times, "A Bumpy Road for Ahmadinejad."
• Iraq Fellow Rend Al-Rahim gave the introduction to a presentation by Sheikh Dr. Khalid al-Atiya, irst Deputy Speaker, Council of Representatives of Iraq, at USIP. For more information about the event, click here.

July 2009

• Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali (2009-2010) testifed before the Senate Foreign Rleations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs on "Responding to the IDP Crisis in Pakistan."  Read his full testimony.
• Senior Fellows Imtiaz Ali (2009-2010) and Michael Gordon (2008-2009 ) spoke at the Army War College Carlisle's off-the-record Combined/Joint Force Land Component Commander (C/FLCC) Conference as part of a panel on journalism and strategic communications.  Together, they addressed 16 top US and coalition Army officers, including officers from Australia, Germany, UK, France, Singapore, Chile, and Djibouti. 
• Senior Fellow Asieh Mir (2008-2009) served as a panelist at the Brookings Institution's "Iran's Internal Politics."
• Senior Fellow Leonard Rubenstein (2008-2009) co-authored an Opinion piece in The Lancet, "Medical Ethics and Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre and the US Military: A Time for Reform."
• Senior Fellow David Tolbert (2008-2009) acted as a commentator for the American Society of International Law's screening of The Reckoning, a new documentary on the International Criminal Court and published an Expert Report on the Bosnia State Court and State Prosecutor's Office which will also be place on the Bosnia State Court's website.
• Senior Fellow Hassan Barari (2006-2007) published Israelism: Arab Scholarship on Israel, A Critical Assessment (Garnett Publishing, 2009).
• Senior Fellow Jill Shankleman (2003-2004) published a book, Going Global: Chinese Oil and Mining Companies and the Governance of Resource Wealth (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009). 
• Senior Fellow Takashi Yoshida (2006-2007) has won Western Michigan University's Emerging Scholar Award, which recognizes, "impact on the state of scholarship or advancement of knowledge in the discipline; impact beyond the discipline or on the general public; evidence of international professional recognition; and/or evidence of outstanding promise to achieve renown in continuing work.”

June 2009

• Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali (2009-2010) traveled with Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke to Pakistan on a fact-finding mission on the situation of Internally Displaced People in Pakistan.  Based on his trip, Ali testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs about "Responding to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Crisis in Pakistan." Read his testimony here.
• Senior Fellow Asieh Mir (2008-2009) served as a panelist at the USIP event, "Iran's Presidential Election: Implications for US-Iranian Engagement."  Additionally, she participated in a Facebook discussion assessing the developments and answering questions about the Iranian Election.  Read the entire discussion here.
• Senior Fellow David Tolbert (2008-2009) participated in a debate on the International Criminal Court with Col. William Lietzau at the University of Virginia Center for National Security Law and presented, "The ICC, State Cooperation and the Transfer of Cases" at the Irish Human Rights Centre, University of Ireland.

May 2009

• Senior Fellow Charles Call (2008-2009) participated in the RTI conference, "Restoring Governance in Conflict-Affected Countries," hosted at the Newseum and presented, "UN Peace Operations and State-Building: A Case Study of Haiti," to UN officials at New York University.
• Senior Fellow Asieh Mir (2008-2009) lectured on political dynamism in Iran at the Foreign Service Institute.
• Senior Fellow Leonard Rubenstein (2008-2009) served as a panelist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discussion of the violation of health rights as a crime against humanity, and participated in the Global Health Council Humanitarian Health Caucus on the protection of health workers in conflicts.
• Senior Fellow Keith Wautenpaugh (2008-2009) participated in the workshop, "Minorities in the Middle East: Mandate Humanitarianism and the Management of the Minority Refugee," at Princeton University.

April 2009

• Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali (2009-2010) participated in a conference organized by the Jamestown Foundation on "Pakistan's Troubled Frontier: The Future of FATA and the NWFP."  Ali gave the presentation, "Who's Who in the Islamic Militancy: Key Players and Recent Developments." Read the description of the conference.  
• Senior Fellow Robert Maguire (2008-2009) gave two presentations: "Situation in Haiti" for the USIP Haiti Working Group Meeting, Longworth House Office Building, US House of Representatives and "Haiti: Current Conditions and Obstacles to Development," at the National Intelligence Council.
• Senior Fellow Leonard Rubenstein (2008-2009) participated in the invitation-only Humanitarian Action Summit organized by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative as part of the working group on protection. He then met with staff on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss implications of the summit for foreign assistance reform.
• Senior Fellow David Tolbert (2008-2009) spoke on the panel, "The Khmer Rouge Trails: Boon or Bane for Cambodia?" organized by USIP's Rule of Law program and held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  In addition, Tolbert, with co-author Aleksandar Kontic, published a chapter, "The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Transitional Justice, the Transfer of Cases to National Courts, and Lessons for the ICC," in The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court.
• Senior Fellow Keith Wautenpaugh (2008-2009) presented, "The League of Nations' Eastern Mediterranean Rescue Movement and the Paradox of Interwar Humanitarianism," at a conference at Columbia University, Histories of Humanitarianism.
• Guest Scholar Francis Ricciardone departed USIP to take up a new position as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. 
• USIP published a special report by Senior Fellow Radwan Ziadeh (2007-2008) entitled, The Kurds in Syria: Fueling Separatist Movements in the Region?

March 2009

• Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali (2009-2010) appeared on the Charlie Rose Show together with Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani and journalists Steve Colle and Joe Klein.  Watch the interview.
• Senior Fellow Charles Call (2008-2009) published an article, "The Fallacy of the 'Failed State'" in Third World Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 8 (2008). 
• Senior Fellow Michael Gordon (2008-2009) moderated a session at the Council of Foreign Relations on Iraq and President Obama's troop drawdown plan.  In addition, Gordon spoke on the military campaign in Iraq at a program organized by the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
• Senior Fellow Robert Maguire (2008-2009) gave presentations, "Haiti: Climate Change and National Security Issues," at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), US Department of State and, "Social and Economic Development in Haiti: Conceiving and Managing Development Projects," (in Creole) at the Centre de Formation et de Developpement Economique Universite, Port-au-Prince.
• An interview with Senior Fellow David Tolbert (2008-2009) was published by the Oxford Transitional Justice Project as part of its ICC Observers series.  Additionally, Tolbert spoke on the release of the final report by the ASIL Task Force on the US and the ICC at a press conference at the National Press Club, and also at a panel presentation of the report at the American Society of International Law annual meeting.
• Senior Fellow Keith Wautenpaugh (2008-2009) gave the presentation "The League of Nations and the Origins of Armenian Genocide Denial" at the Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties conference hosted by the University of Michigan.
• Senior Fellow Stephen Farry (2005-2006), currently a member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, gave an internal breifing at USIP on the current state of the peace accord and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, particularly in light of recent attacks on the policy and army by dissident factions of the IRA.
• Senior Fellow Carol Giacomo (1999-2000), currently a journalist with the New York Times, received a special citation for her career contribution in international and national security reporting on March 24, at the 34th award ceremony of the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting, sponsored by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD).
• Senior Fellow Donald Steinberg (2004-2005) addressed the OSCE Round Table on Gender and Security in Vienna, Austria, speaking on "Peace Missions and Gender Equality: Ten Lessons from the Ground."

February 2009

• Senior Fellow Keith Wautenpaugh (2008-2009) participated in the USIP event, "Doing History, Doing Peace? Contested History, the Work of Historians and the Search for Reconciliation in the Balkans"
• Senior Fellow Yoram Peri (2001-2002) took part in a USIP panel entitled, "Options for U.S. Mediation of an Israel-Syria Peace Process." He spoke with Search for Common Ground's Syria Project director Tom Dine and Turkey expert Henry Barkey, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

January 2009

• Senior Fellow Robert Maguire (2008-2009) participated in a panel discussion on Capitol Hill sponsored by USIP's Haiti Working Group, on "Paul Collier's Plan for Economic Security in Haiti." 
• Senior Fellow Don Steinberg (2004-2005), Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, published a piece in The Globalist entitled, "First Lehman Brothers, Next Liberia".
• Senior Fellow Radwan Ziadeh (2007-2008) published Political Islam in Syria in Arabic by Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies in Abu Dabi.  A short summary of the book is available online.
• Senior Fellow Andrew Natsios (1998-1999) published a co-authored article, with J. Brian Atwood and M. Peter McPherson, "Arrested Development: Making Foreign Aid a More Effective Tool," in Foreign Affairs (Volume 87, No. 6).

December 2008

• Senior Fellow Robert Maguire (2008-2009) published a Peace Briefing, "Toward the End of Poverty in Haiti."  It has also been published in French in the weekly newspaper, "Haiti en Marche" which has a wide readership both in Haiti and among the Haitian Diaspora in North America and Europe.  Read the English version of the briefing.  He also published an OpEd in the Haitian Times, "Haiti's Youth: A Simmering Storm," on the idea of creating a national service corps to employ Haitian youth which rebuilding Haiti in the wake of the recent hurricanes.
• Senior Fellow Elizabeth Thompson (2007-2008) published a News Analysis in the Washington Times entitled, "Iraq Strategy Takes Lessons From the Wrong War."
• Senior Fellow Michael Gordon (2008-2009) published a military analysis, "Afghan Strategy Poses Stiff Challenge for Obama," in the New York Times.

November 2008

• Senior Fellow Charles Call (2008-2009) published an OpEd in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "Obama Sure to Abandon Bush Doctrine."
• Senior Fellow Pierre Hazan (2005-2006) was awarded the Georges Dreyfuss Prize, established in 1927, for his book Juger la guerre, juger l'histoire (Judging War, Judging History) (Presses Universitaires de France, September 2007), a study of the international transitional justice movement.  This book was the product of his senior fellowship year at USIP.  

October 2008

• Former Senior Fellow Zachary Abuza (2005-2006) took part in a policy forum, co-sponsored by New America Foundation and NYU Center on Law and Security, in the U.S. Senate on Al-Qaeda, "Al-Qaeda 201."  Dr. Abuza took part in a panel entitled, "Counter-Radicalization: What Works?"

  View the forum agenda and video-streaming of panels.