(Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is pleased to welcome its 2010-2011 class of Jennings Randolph senior fellows to Washington. The 10 month-long fellowship provides scholars, practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to closely examine a wide variety of international peace and security issues.

"Each year the senior fellows bring a diverse set of experience and ideas to USIP that complements our peacebuilding work," commented Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, associate vice president for the Fellowship Program. "The 2010-2011 Jennings Randolph senior fellows are leaders in the field and we are excited to have them at the Institute."

While at USIP, senior fellows are available for media interviews and background briefings. This year's fellows and projects are:

Kamoludin Abdullaev, historian from Tajikistan

Project Focus: The Afghanistan-Pakistan Conflict and its Impact on Central Asia
Phone:             202/429-4720
E-mail:              kabdullaev@usip.org

Cecile Aptel, international lawyer

Project Focus: Bringing the Children Back: Reintegrating Children Who Have Participated in Mass Atrocities
Phone:             202/429-1977
E-mail:              captel@usip.org

Michael Bratton, professor of political science at Michigan State University

Project Focus:  Paradoxes of Power Sharing: Zimbabwe's Protracted Transition
Phone:              202/429-3881
E-mail:               mbratton@usip.org

Patricia Weiss Fagen, senior associate at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University

Project Focus:  Reintegration: A Challenge for Building Peace and Restoring National Integrity
Phone:              202/429-7164
E-mail:               pfagen@usip.org

Caroline Hartzell, professor of political science at Gettysburg College

Project Focus:  Civil War Settlements and Post-Conflict Economic Growth
Phone:              202/429-4706
E-mail:               chartzell@usip.org

Jok Madut Jok, professor of African studies at Loyola Marymount University

Project Focus:  A Crumbling Political Landscape in Southern Sudan: How Insecurity Threatens the 2005 Accord
Phone:              202/429-3808
E-mail:               jjok@usip.org

Colonel John Maraia, U.S. Army

Project Focus:  Reinforcing Success – the U.S. and Indonesia after 9/11
Phone:              202/429-1978
E-mail:               jmaraia@usip.org

Phillipe Peycam, director of the International Institute of Asian Studies

Project Focus:  Social Cohesion through Creative Knowledge in Post-Conflict Societies: Lessons from Cambodia
Phone:              202/429-7163
E-mail:               ppeycam@usip.org

Andrew Pierre, most recently with the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Valerie Rosoux, senior research associate at the Belgian National Fund

Project Focus:  Scope and Limits of Reconciliations as a Peacebuilding Process
Phone:              202/429-4711
E-mail:               vrosoux@usip.org

Stein Tønnesson, research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo

Project Focus:  The East Asian Peace
Phone:              202/429-4744
E-mail:               stonnesson@usip.org

Zheng Wang, assistant professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University

Project Focus:  Introducing the Field of Conflict Resolution into China
Phone:              202/429-4763
E-mail:               zwang@usip.org

Robin Wright, journalist

Project Focus:  The Future of Islam
E-mail:               rwright@usip.org
                         wrightrb@gmail.com

Additional Resources

• Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
  The program's Web page offers information on current and past fellows and details on the application process.

• Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Program
  The dissertation program provides scholarships to students at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations on topics related to peace, conflict and international security.

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