J. Lewis Rasmussen
Program Officer, Training Program
(December 1991-December 2000)

Areas of Specialization
Conflict Resolution Techniques and Skills Training • Cross-Cultural Communication • Peace Negotiations • Peace Operations • Civilian Police and Peacekeeping • Ethnic Conflict • Peacebuilding and reconciliation

Background
Lewis Rasmussen is a program officer in the Institute's Training Program. Over the past seven years he played a principal role in developing the Institute's international conflict management and resolution skills training program. He continues to serve as a coordinator and faculty member for training seminars (held in the United States and abroad) for representatives of the U.S. government, foreign governments, regional organizations, and international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. His responsibilities include a variety of activities related to the interaction of political, military, and humanitarian actors in the prevention, management, and resolution of violent conflict. Rasmussen also is engaged in a public security project based on an innovative approach toward democratic and community policing, and is a member of the Institute's cross-cultural negotiation project. Rasmussen is the principal author of a monograph written with Ambassador Robert Oakley, Simulating a Diplomatic Negotiation: Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, and is a contributing co-editor with William Zartman of Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques (1997), which received the prestigious 1998 Choice Award for outstanding scholarship. He holds an M.A. in international communication and a Ph.D. in international relations from the American University's School of International Service.

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