Senior Fellow Activities

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The Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows participate in a great number of activities during their time at the Institute- from publishing Op-eds and academic articles to speaking at conferences and providing testimony on the Hill.

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The Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows participate in a great number of activities during their time at the Institute- from publishing op-eds and academic articles to speaking at conferences and providing testimony on the Hill.

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The 2009-2010 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows

Imtiaz Ali [3] | Independent Journalist | Emergence of the Tribal Belt as a Fault Line in the War on Terror: The Growing Influence of Homegrown Pakistani Taliban and its Implications for Regional and Global Security
Judith Asuni [4] | Johns Hopkins University | Niger Delta 'Militants': Victims or Perpetrators?; Conflict and Violence in the Niger Delta
William Long [5] | Georgia Institute of Technology | Cross-Border Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict: Deriving Lessons for Improving Regional Stability and Global Security
George Lopez [6] | University of Notre Dame | Can Sanctions be Saved?
Andries Odendaal [7] | Conflict Transformation Support Services | Local Peacebuilding Forums: Methodological Considerations
Jeremiah S. Pam [8] | Guest Scholar | Strengthening Weak States in the Post-Nationbuilding Era
Sammy Smooha [9] | University of Haifa | The Challenge of National Minorities to Ethnic Majority Hegemony: Comparative Study of Ethnic Democracies in Israel, Estonia, Slovakia, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland
Marc Sommers [10]| Tufts University | Youth, Popular Culture and Terror Warfare: Insights from Sierra Leone
Emmanuel Teitelbaum [11] | George Washington University | Putting Identity in Perspective: Economic Reform and Political Stability in the World's Largest Democracy
Patricia Vasquez [12] | Energy Intelligence | Untold Conflicts: Local Resistance to Oil and Gas Development in Latin America
Col. J.M. "Matt" Venhaus [13] | Army Fellow | Before They Cross the Threshold: The Use of a Dissolution Strategy in Persuasive Media Campaigns to Reduce the Pool of Potential Recruits to Violent Extremeism in the Middle East
Andreas Wimmer [14] | University of California, Los Angeles | Understanding Ethnic Conflict
Robin Wright [15] | Independent Journalist | The Future of Islam

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Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow William "Bill" Long [5] (pictured above) is a Professor at and Chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. His project examines ongoing regional cooperation and response in infectious disease control among traditional adversaries including the Middle East, the Mekong Basin and East Africa. The study explores why cooperation is occurring in difficult regions and how state actors, international Organizations, NGOs, and private companies work together in this promising area of transnational problem solving. For his project, Long recently traveled to Jordan to meet with members of the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS). MECIDS is an informal organization that brings together the public health directors of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. The three entities have worked together closely for several years on sensitive matters of public health, including pandemic influenza prevention during the avian flu outbreak in 2005 and, more recently, on swine flu. In November, Long also ran a workshop for the National Science Foundation on designing graduate programs for post-9/11 service personnel under the new GI Bill.
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Senior Fellow Bill Long (Credit Steve Barrett)

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[1] http://www.usip.org/programs/projects/2009-2010-senior-fellow-activities
[2] http://www.usip.org/programs/projects/2008-2009-senior-fellow-activities
[3] http://www.usip.org/specialists/imtiaz-ali
[4] http://www.usip.org/specialists/judith-asuni
[5] http://www.usip.org/specialists/william-bill-long
[6] http://www.usip.org/specialists/george-lopez
[7] http://www.usip.org/specialists/andries-odendaal
[8] http://www.usip.org/specialists/jeremiah-s-pam
[9] http://www.usip.org/specialists/sammy-smooha
[10] http://www.usip.org/specialists/marc-sommers
[11] http://www.usip.org/specialists/emmanuel-teitelbaum
[12] http://www.usip.org/specialists/patricia-i-vasquez
[13] http://www.usip.org/specialists/colonel-jm-matt-venhaus-0
[14] http://www.usip.org/specialists/andreas-wimmer
[15] http://www.usip.org/specialists/robin-wright