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February 2003
Vol. IX, No. 2
Institute People
Senior fellow Dipankar Bannerjee published an article "On the Prospects of a Second Gulf War," in South Asia Politics and another on the "Costs of the Next Gulf War" in the Financial Express (Delhi, India).
On February 11 and 12, Virtual Diplomacy Initiative co-directors Sheryl Brown and Margarita Studemeister delivered presentations about concepts and case studies related to the impact of global connectivity on world politics to graduate students at two local universities. The students were enrolled in a international negotiations course at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University, and in a new course entitled "Information Engagement and National Power" at the National Defense University.
Tim Docking, Research and Studies program officer, testified on February 12 before the House of Representative's International Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs about "Prospects for Peace in Ivory Coast." In December, Docking presented a paper, "International Influence on Civil Society in Africa," at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, and contributed to a roundtable discussion on "Human Security and Democracy: Assessing the Impact of HIV/AIDS" at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Research and Studies program officer Mike Dziedzic took part in the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) conference December 4–5 on four strategies for a durable peace in Kosovo. On January 27, Dziedzic spoke to the Louisville (Ky.) Committee on Foreign Relations on "Building Durable Peace in the Balkans: Have We Learned Anything?" On January 30, the mission implementation plan Dziedzic prepared for the high representative on Bosnia was adopted by the Peace Implementation Council.
Training Program officers Ted Feifer and Anne Henderson traveled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan to conduct a negotiations and dip-lomatic skills training for OSCE staff. Feifer and Henderson also led a civil society capacity-building workshop with nongovernmental participants from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
David Smock, director of the Institute's Religion and Peacemaking Initiative, traveled to Israel and the West Bank in early January to meet with religious leaders and advance the implementation of the Alexandria Declaration signed by religious leaders from the Middle East a year ago to promote peace.
Senior fellow Marie Smyth met with the World Bank's Sabine Cornelius and later Ambassador Richard Haass and other State Department staff regarding Northern Ireland in December. Smyth traveled to Bogotö, Colombia the first week of February to participate in a seminar at the University of the Andes on "Youth in Violently Divided Societies."
Institute president Richard Solomon spoke at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies' regional Outlook Forum in Singapore on January 7. He provided "The View from Washington" in a session on "Asian Geostrategic Trends." Following the conference, Solomon traveled to India and Pakistan to meet with senior officials.
George Ward
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Training program director George Ward is being detailed to the Department of State for a period of four months to work on the coordination of relief and humanitarian assistance in the Persian Gulf region. During his absence, program officer Ray Caldwell will be acting director of the training program.
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