Guide to Specialists

Joyce Neu
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2006-July 2007

Project Focus:
Pursuing Justice During Armed Conflict

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Joyce Neu is the executive director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego and a professor in the graduate program in Peace and Justice Studies. She has conducted conflict assessments and/or facilitated talks in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Republic of Congo, Estonia, Georgia/Abkhazia, Madagascar, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda. Neu served as a senior associate director (1996–2000) and associate director (1992–1996) of the Conflict Resolution Program at The Carter Center.

Neu is the recipient of the Samuel Weiner Distinguished Visitor award of the University of Manitoba (2006) and the National Peace Foundation’s Peacemaker/Peacebuilder award (2000). She serves on numerous nonprofit boards, was a founding member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a senior Fulbright Professor in Poland, and a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California.

Publications:

• "Restoring Relations between Uganda and Sudan: The Carter Center Process Leading to the 1999 Nairobi Agreement," (ACCORD, No. 11, 2002).
• "Interpersonal Dynamics in International Conflict Resolution," in Natural Conflict Resolution, edited by F. Aureli and F. de Waal (University of California Press, 2000).
• "A Methodology for Conflict Prevention: The Case of Estonia," with W. Volkan (The Carter Center, 1999).
• "Eminent Third-Party Mediation: The Carter Center Intervention in Bosnia," with S. Shewfelt (The Carter Center, 1998).

Available on usip.org:

• Pursuing Justice in the Midst of War: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Beyond
  Senior Fellow Project Report, July 5, 2007