Guide to Specialists

Linda Bishai
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International

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Phone: (202) 429-4712

E-mail: lbishai@usip.org

Linda Bishai is a senior program officer in the Education and Training Center/International, where she focuses on secondary and university education in international relations, conflict resolution, human rights, and peace studies. She is responsible for curriculum development and developing faculty and teacher workshops throughout the United States and in conflict zones, especially the Sudan.

Before coming to USIP, Bishai was an assistant professor of political science at Towson University, where she taught courses in international relations, international law, the use of force, and human rights. Her research interests include identity politics, international human rights law in domestic courts, and the development of international law after the Nuremberg trials. During 2003–2004, Bishai served as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center, where she worked on an introduction to international human rights law for the federal judiciary. She has also taught at Brunel University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Stockholm.

Bishai holds a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics.

Publications:

• Sudanese Universities as Sites of Social Transformation
  Special Report, February 2008
• Public Health and Conflict in Iraq: Rebuilding a Nation’s Health
  USIPeace Briefing, July 2007
• Armed Conflict as a Public Health Problem: Current Realities and Future Directions
  USIPeace Briefing, May 2007
• "Forgetting Ourselves: Secession and the (Im)possibility of Territory Identity" (2004).
• "Liberal Empire," Journal of International Relations and Development (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2004).
• "Intervention in Law & Politics," Cooperation and Conflict (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2001).
• "Secession and Security: The Politics of Ethno-Cultural Identity," Security and Identity in Europe: Exploring the New Agenda (2000).
• "Sovereignty and Minority Rights," Global Governance; A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (1998).
• "Altered States: Secession and the Problems of Liberal Theory," Theories of Secession (1998).