Guide to Specialists

Dana Eyre
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2005 – July 2006

ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Project Focus
Re-Inventing Iraq: Understanding Iraqi Society and the Evolution of Coalition Democratization Efforts in Iraq

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Dana Eyre was a senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)–Iraq, serving in both Iraq and Washington. While in Iraq, he served as the USAID representative in the Coalition Provisional Authority’s Office of Policy Planning and Analysis, and managed Iraq-wide civic education and civil society development efforts.

Prior to his work in Iraq, he served at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo as the senior policy adviser to the deputy special representative of the secretary general (2001–03) and the deputy head of the Economic Policy Office (2000–01). He was a faculty member at the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Center (1996–2002) and a lecturer in the department of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School (1992–2000). From 1997 to 1998, Eyre was the plans officer for the Joint Civil–Military Task Force, Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Eyre received his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.

He also received a master’s from Stanford University and an M.Sc. in organizational behavior from Chapman University in California.

Available on usip.org:

• Re-Inventing Iraq: Understanding Iraqi Society and Coalition Democratization Efforts
  Senior Fellow Project Report Summary, July 17, 2006

Publications:

• "Developing the Political Economy of Durable Peace," The Quest for Viable Peace: Strategies for Transforming Internal Conflict, co-authored with Stephanie Blair, Bernard Salome, and James Wasserstrom; Michael Dziedzic and Len Hawley, eds. (USIP Press, 2005).
• "Privatization in Kosovo: The Political Economy of Property Rights and Stability in a Peace-Building Mission," Sü;dostEuropa Mitteilungen, co-authored with Andreas Witkowsky (April 2002).
• "Problem or Potential? Revitalizing Trepca and Building the Peace in Kosovo," South-East Europe Review (December 2001).