Guide to Specialists

Astrid Tuminez
Senior Research Associate, Philippine Facilitation Project, Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution

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Languages: French, Ilongo, Russian, Tagalog, some Spanish

Astrid S. Tuminez is a senior research associate with USIP’s Philippine Facilitation Project, where she works with representatives of the Philippine government, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, mass media, and civil society to strengthen support for a robust settlement of the conflict in Mindanao. Her research covers negotiations on ancestral domain; self-determination and governance; Moro history, unity, and leadership; and terrorism. Tuminez is also a senior fellow at the Southeast Asian Research Center of the City University of Hong Kong.

Prior to June 2003, Tuminez was director of research for alternative investments at American International Group (AIG) Global Investment Corporation. She also worked as a consultant to The World Bank and was senior advisor for the Salzburg Seminar, a U.S. educational institution based in Salzburg, Austria. From 1992 to 1998, she was a program officer at Carnegie Corporation of New York, working on conflict prevention and the former Soviet Union. In the early 1990's, Tuminez was director of the Moscow office of the Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions, where she worked with Soviet and Russian officials on democratization, economic reform, and non-proliferation. In 1998, Tuminez helped launch the Project on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS). In 1999-2001, she was an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she is a life member.

Tuminez holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University; a master's degree from Harvard University; and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Publications:

• Toward Peace in the Southern Philippines: A Summary and Assessment of the USIP Philippine Facilitation Project, 2003-2007
  Special Report, February 2008.
• Ancestral Domain in Comparative Perspective
  Special Report, September 2005.
• Letter from Mindanao
  Peace Watch, April/May 2005.
• "Preventive Action: Responding to the Grievances of Muslims in the Philippines," Asia Society, Asian Social Issues Program (April 2005).
• "The Key to Permanent Peace in Mindanao," Newsbreak (Philippines, March 2005).
• "Time for Leadership in Mindanao," co-authored with Frank G. Wisner, Manila Bulletin (March 14, 2005).
• Ancestral Domain: The Key to a More Permanent Peace in Muslim Mindanao
  Current Issues Briefing Summary, February 2005
• "Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the USSR," Journal of Cold War Studies V, No. 2 (Winter 2003).
• "Russian Private Equity: An Opportunity Whose Time Has Not Yet Come," Project on New Approaches to Russian Security (October 2002).
• "Beyond Revival: Building a More Competitive Russia in the Long-Term," The Twain Shall Meet: The Prospects for Russia-West Relations (The Atlantic Council of the United States, September 2002).
• "Russian Nationalism Since 1856," Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy (2000).
• "Still Hobbling Along: An Update on Russian Banking Reform," Project on New Approaches to Russian Security (May 2000).