Guide to Specialists

Jeffrey Helsing
Deputy Director, Education and Training Center/Domestic

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Phone: (202) 429-3858

E-mail: jhelsing@usip.org

Jeffrey Helsing is the deputy director of the Institute's Education and Training Center/Domestic, where he focuses on education in international relations, conflict resolution, human rights, and peace studies. He has been responsible for many of the Institute’s faculty and teacher workshops as well as curriculum development in the United States and in conflict zones abroad, particularly in the Middle East. Helsing has worked for the past five years with groups in Israel and the Palestinian Authority training educators, non-governmental organization workers, university students, and young leaders in developing conflict resolution, nonviolence, human rights, and communication and facilitation skills.

He has twenty years of experience as an educator, having served as an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo and taught at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Over the years, he has taught a broad range of international relations subjects, including conflict resolution, human rights, comparative foreign policies, American foreign policy, and international relations theory.

Helsing holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

Publications:

• Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links between Rights, Law and Peacebuilding, co-edited with Julie Mertus (USIP Press, December 2006).
• "Young People's Activism and the Transition to Peace: Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Israel," in Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Youth and Post-Accord Peacebuilding, edited by Siobhán McEvoy-Levy, co-authored with Namik Kirlic, Neil McMaster, and Nir Sonnenschein (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
• "Palestinian-Israeli Education Efforts: Opportunities and Challenges," Common Ground News Service (May 2005).
• "The Regionalization, Internationalization, and Perpetuation of Conflict in the Middle East," Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: Explaining Diffusion and Escalation (2004).
• "The American Shadow: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East," The International Relations of the Middle East in the 21st Century: Patterns of Continuity and Change (2001).
• Johnson's War/Johnson's Great Society: The Guns and Butter Trap (2000).