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June 2003
Vol. IX, No. 4
Institute People
Fellows program officer John Crist visited New Delhi in May to meet with individuals interested in the fellows program and with representatives from India's top foreign policy think tanks, including the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and Centre for Policy Research.
Tim Docking, Research and Studies program officer, made a presentation on the Horn of Africa at "Terrorism's New Front Lines: Adapting U.S. Counter-Terrorism Strategy to Regions of Concern," an Institute conference organized with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University on May 8–9. He participated in a workshop on AIDS in Africa sponsored by the Program on African Studies at Northwestern University on June 10.
Research and Studies Program officer Bill Drennan made a presentation on "U.S.-ROK Approaches to North Korea" at a conference in Albuquerque hosted by the Sandia National Laboratories in April. In late May he spoke at the Asia Society in New York City as part of a program on "Pre-emptive Foreign Policy: Implications/Applications for Asia's Hot Spots," and at Northwestern University on "Asymmetric Warfare and the Korean Peninsula." Drennan was interviewed on developments in Korea by Newsweek, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Korea Broadcasting Service, Channel News Asia, and KVRX (Austin).
Ted Feifer and Anne Henderson of the Training Program conducted a workshop on "Advanced Negotiating Skills for Multilateral Diplomacy" for officials of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Secretariat and delegations to the OSCE in Vienna, May 21–23. They also led two seminars in negotiation and diplomatic skills for staff of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, Macedonia, the last week of May.
Executive vice president Harriet Hentges gave the commencement address at the College of St. Catherine (Minn.), the nation's second largest women's college, on May l8. Her topic was "The Changing Face of Peacemaking."
Fellowship Program director Joseph Klaits delivered the May 4 commencement address at Salem International University (W. Va.), the alma mater of Sen. Jennings Randolph, who sponsored the legislation establishing the Institute. Randolph also served on Salem's board of trustees for many years.
Program officer Deepa Ollapally's article, "South Asia's Politics of Paranoia," was published in The World & I in May.
On April 10, Daniel Serwer, director of the Balkans Initiative, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations' Subcommittee on Europe about U.S. involvement in the Balkans over the last decade. He again testified before the House Committee on International Relations on May 21 at a hearing on the future of
Kosovo.
Grant program officer Taylor Seybolt gave a talk, "Humanitarian Military Intervention and the Quest for Legitimacy," at a May 9–10 workshop on "International Intervention and State Sovereignty" at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs in Vienna.
Senior fellow Marie Smyth coordinated a workshop at the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University in May on militarized youth in the Middle East, South Africa, and Northern Ireland. She also delivered the opening address.
Col. Garland Williams, senior fellow, participated in an hour-long radio interview on National Public Radio's The Connection around issues of post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq. Williams also spoke on post-conflict reconstruction to the Society of American Military Engineers in Washington on May 27.
