WASHINGTON—The U.S. Institute of Peace is working to advance post-conflict stabilization and peace building efforts in Iraq thanks to a $10 million appropriation from Congress in late 2003. Institute experts, including Amatzia Baram, a preeminent scholar on Iraqi religion and the state, and Faleh Jabar, a world-renowned Iraqi sociologist, are available to respond to questions and provide commentary and analysis on the range of issues confronting Iraq today, including:

Peace and Stability Operations

• Ray Jennings—Chief of Party in Iraq; specialist on Iraq, Afghanistan, Balkans, post-conflict reconstruction, nation-building, community-based peacemaking and peace building, and ethnic conflict.
• Daniel Serwer—Director, Peace and Stability Operations; specialist on Iraq, post-conflict governance and reconstruction, inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflict, comparison with experience in Balkans, and U.S. government commitment to nation building.
• George Ward—Director, Professional Training Program; specialist on peace and stability operations, post-conflict reconstruction, and conflict prevention, management, and resolution.
• Harriet Hentges—Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and head of Institute's post-conflict stabilization work; specialist in post-conflict stabilization, conflict resolution, and economics and international conflict.
• Sloan Mann—Program Officer, just returned from seven months in Iraq with USAID.

Iraqi Constitution

• Neil Kritz—Director, Rule of Law Program; specialist on constitutional and legal reforms, transitional justice, war crimes and international standards on the rule of law.

Religious Conflict

• Faleh Jabar—Institute Senior Fellow and research fellow at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birbeck College, University of London; specialist on the Middle East, religious conflict, political Islam, rule of law, democratization, and civil society.

Post-Conflict Security and Policing

• Robert Perito—head of Iraq Experience Project in Institute's Professional Training Program; specialist on police and international peacekeeping operations, transitional justice, Haiti, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

Iraqi Politics

• Amatzia Baram—Institute Fellow and professor of history at the University of Haifa; specialist on the Middle East, Iraq, political Islam, civil-military relations, territorial and low-intensity conflict, and civil society.

For availability and additional information, please contact Kay King, director of congressional and public affairs, at (202) 429-3824 or kking@usip.org or visit the Institute's Guide to Specialists online.