PrintVirginia M. Bouvier
Senior Program Officer, Grant and Fellowships Program
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Bringing together the experiences and insights of more than thirty experienced and emerging authors, human rights activists, and peace practitioners from Colombia and abroad, Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia in recent years.
USIP has supported over 300 products, projects, and activities related to human rights and peacebuilding. From grants to fellowships, from training to education, from working groups to publications, the Institute strives to encourage more practice and scholarly work on the issue of human rights, and seeks to deepen understanding of the role human rights play in conflict and in peace.
Over the past 15 years, USIP has supported over 90 projects related to women, conflict, and peacebuilding. From grants to fellowships, from training to education, from working groups to publications, the Institute strives to encourage more practice and scholarly work on women, and seeks to deepen understanding of the role of women in conflict and in peace.
Countries: Colombia
Virginia M. Bouvier joined USIP in January 2003 as a program officer for the Jennings Randolph Fellowship program. She is currently a senior program officer in the Grants and Fellowships program.
For the previous seven years, she was an assistant professor of Latin American literature and culture at the University of Maryland. From 1982 to 1989, Bouvier served as senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, where she focused on Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Bouvier has also served as a consultant and research director for the Women’s Leadership Conference of the Americas, a joint project of the Inter-American Dialogue and the International Center for Research on Women, and as a consultant at the World Bank, Levi Strauss Foundation, Levi Strauss and Co. and the C.S. Fund.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Latin American studies.
Publications:
- Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War (editor) (USIP Press, forthcoming 2009).
- "Crossing the Lines: Women's Social Mobilization in Latin America," in Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform, edited by Anne Marie Goetz (Routledge, 2008).
- Colombia's Crossroads: The FARC and the Future of the Hostages
USIPeace Briefing, June 2008 - New Hopes for Negotiated Solutions in Colombia
(USIP Working Paper, September 2007). - Harbingers of Hope: Peace Initiatives in Colombia
Special Report, August 2006 - "Evaluating U.S. Policy in Colombia," a Policy Report from the IRC Americas Program (2005).
- Women and Global Leadership in the Americas (InterAmerican Dialogue and International Center for Research on Women, 2004).
- Civil Society Under Siege in Colombia
Special Report, February 2004 - U.S. Involvement Deepens As Armed Conflict Escalates In Colombia
USIPeace Briefing, May 2003 - "Colombia Quagmire: Time for U.S. Policy Overhaul," Foreign Policy in Focus (2003).
- Whose America? The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation (Praeger Press, 2002).
- The Globalization of U.S.-Latin American Relations: Democracy, Intervention, and Human Rights (Praeger Press, 2002).
- Women and the Conquest of California (University of Arizona Press, 2001, 2004).
Available on usip.org
- On the Issues: Colombia
January 25, 2008
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Countries: Colombia
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