Dr. Dana Eyre will discuss the U.S. strategy of democratization in Iraq focusing on how understanding of this strategy evolved over time as well as the effects of its implementation.

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 and as the deputy head of the Economic Policy Office. He was also a faculty member at the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Center and a lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. Eyre received his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.

Speakers

• Dana Eyre
  Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace

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