Civilians and Soldiers: Increasing National Participation in Security and Defense
October 29, 2008 to October 31, 2008
Alumni Lounge | 6:00pm12:00pm
2008 ALLIES Intellectual Roundtable Participants outside of Paige Hall; 10/31/2008
ALLIES 2008 Intellectual Roundtable
Civilians and Soldiers: Increasing National Participation in Security and Defense
October 29th-31st, 2008
Event Locations: Alumnae Lounge, the Rabb Room, and Tisch 316
The 2008 Intellectual Roundtable: Civilians and Soldiers: Increasing National Participation in Security and Defense, seeks to explore the increasing need to combine intellectual and technical competencies that have, until now, largely been relegated into separate civilian or military spheres. The Intellectual Roundtable, ALLIES' capstone event, brings together practitioners from the military, civilian government, civil society, and private sector with the academic community—from professors to civilian and military students. Together, through the use of guided, small-group discussions in conjunction with panel presentations, these disparate groups come together to discuss issues surrounding civil-military relations, relevant to all parts of society. The 2008 Intellectual Roundtable will address how to involve a more diverse set of actors in national security by engaging with future leaders in the formative stages of their education, giving them a head start and an adequate base of knowledge for addressing the foremost issues of our age. Event Schedule | Participant Bios
| 18:00-1830 | Opening Remarks |
| 1830-1915 | Keynote Address Dr. Antonia Chayes, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy |
| 1930-2115 | Panel: Strange Bedfellows? The DOD and the Social Sciences |
| 0815-0945 | Joint Research Project Presentation | view here |
| 1015-1145 | Discussion Segment 1: Increasing Participation in National Security |
| 1315-1445 | Discussion Segment 2: Obstacles to Civil Military Cooperation |
| 1500-1600 | Discussion Segment 3: The Meaning of Citizenship |
| 1730-1900 | Panel: Security Sector Reform in Stability and Reconstruction |
| 2030-2200 | Film Screening: "Hidden Wounds" Film Accompanied by Iris Adler, Director |
| 0830-0945 | Discussion Segment 4: ALLIES, The Way Forward |
| 1000-1130 | Keynote Address Dr. Andrew Bacevich, Boston University |
Participant Biographies
Dr. Donald Abenheim ALLIES Members | National Security Affairs Department, Center for Contemporary Conflict Naval Postgraduate School Donald Abenheim joined the NPS faculty in 1985. He is Academic Associate for Strategic Studies and an Associate Professor of National Security Affairs. Since 1987, he has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in European history in 1985. He helped to create the Center for Civil Military Relations (CCMR) in 1993, and led its successful Expanded International Education and Training (E-IMET) European programs until 2000. The author of the monograph, Reforging the Iron Cross: The Search for Tradition in the German Armed Forces (Princeton, 1988), his most recent publications have appeared in the Oxford Companion to Military History (2000) (NATO and German military history) as well as in Orbis (Vol. 46, 1, Winter 2002) and the Hoover Institution Digest(Winter/Spring, 2003) on the evolution of NATO policy and strategy from a historical perspective. Prior to his role in the advent of CCMR, he consulted with the strategic directorates of the army and navy staffs, as well as with the Office of Net Assessment. He lectures widely in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and has been interviewed by such international media as the International Herald Tribune, Die Zeit, and the Los Angeles Times on questions of contemporary policy and strategy.
Biology Department, Tufts University Astier M. Almedom is the Henry R. Luce Professor in Science and Humanitarianism at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy as well as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University. She holds a D.Phil. in Biological Anthropology, Oxford University. Her research interests include applied anthropology in biological and medical anthropology; psychosocial well-being in settings of complex emergency; public health policy; forced migration and health; environmental health; health promotion program planning, monitoring and evaluations.
Department of International Relations, Boston University Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bacevich is the author of The Limits of Power: American Exceptionalism (2008). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy(2002), The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003) (editor),The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005), and The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II (2007) (editor). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic . His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers. In 2004, Dr. Bacevich was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has also been a fellow of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
National Security Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Lieutenant Colonel Andy Backus is the US Army's Leadership and Management Fellow in the National Security Program at Harvard University. He is an Army engineer officer who recently worked as a Colonels Human Resource Manager, Senior Leader Development Office in the Office of the Chief of Staff, Army at the Pentagon. Previously, LTC Backus commanded the 249th Engineer Battalion (Prime Power)—the Army's only prime power engineer unit—at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His unit conducted continuous operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan to support electrical power for coalition base camps, and deployed to the US Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina as part of the US Army Corps of Engineers role in the nation's emergency response plan. LTC Backus also commanded an engineer unit with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta based at Fort Bragg and served on a joint task force to restore electrical power to Baghdad following the Iraq invasion in 2003. A graduate of the US Army's Command and General Staff College, LTC Backus holds a bachelor's degree in management from the United States Military Academy and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Washington. Research interests include senior leader development and management. top
Sierra Vista Group Jeffrey Blum is managing partner of Sierra Vista Group. He is a highly talented business leader with extensive expertise guiding organizations in their quest to achieving maximum value. Jeff has over twenty-five years of management and advisory experience, both domestic and international, with proven results in assisting companies through next stage growth opportunities as well as underperforming situations. Prior to joining SVG, Jeff held CEO and executive positions for both publicly traded and private companies across multiple industries. He founded two companies, The Devon Group and The Deerfield Group, which provided both strategic advisory and investment/buy out services. Additionally, Jeff worked for XTRA Corporation, First Winthrop Corporation, The Henley Group and Allied Signal. Jeff received his graduate degree from Hahnemann Medical College and B.A. from the University of Maine.top
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Peace and Justice Studies Program, Tufts University Dale Bryan, M.A., is Assistant Director for Peace and Justice Studies (PJS) and Experiential Learning Coordinator for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS), at Tufts University. In 2003 he was the recipient of the Experiential Education Higher Education Leader of the Year offered by the National Society for Experiential Education for his direction of the Institute in Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence: An Experiential Inquiry into Social Change, which spanned the years 1991-2003. He is a member of the 2004-2005 Ella Baker Fellowship Program sponsored by Antioch New England Graduate School, which “seeks to challenge both left and right to seek a greater understanding of the good society, and a greater ability of the most capable men and women to help make that good society a reality.” In 1987 he helped co-found The Peace Studies Association, a professional organization for faculty and academic programs in the United States and Canada (now reorganized as the Peace and Justice Studies Association). Subsequently he helped co-found the New England Peace Studies Association. He serves as a workshop trainer for the US EPA Environmental Justice Training Collaborative, and has conducted similar training and workshop projects for peace studies programs nationwide. His teaching and publications address social movements, nonviolent social change, experiential learning, and civic engagement.top Comparative Politics Program, United States Military Academy MAJ Tania Chacho is a cadet instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she teaches – from experience – courses in advanced international relations and national security. MAJ Chacho is also Executive Officer to U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey. She has served in Military Intelligence units supporting U.S. peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, training and deploying troops and equipment from U.S. bases in Germany. As Brigade Personnel Officer during a 1998-1999 tour with the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade in Wiesbaden, Germany, MAJ Chacho was responsible for managing all personnel requirements for 690 soldiers. She also coordinated casualty and trauma response operations. In 1995-96, she trained and led the deployment of a platoon to Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor. Previously, supporting U.S. operations in Haiti, she developed materials for counterintelligence, counter-terrorism and force protection. A Ph.D. candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, MAJ Chacho's dissertation deals with the motivation of infantry soldiers during World War Two. She earned her master's degree in American Foreign Policy and International Economics in 1993 from Johns Hopkins, and graduated from the University with a bachelor's in International Relations in 1992. MAJ Chacho has won medals for her service in Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Haiti. She has also received the Military Intelligence Corps Association Knowlton Award for her service.top
International Security Studies Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Lieutenant Colonel Marilyn S. Chiafullo has been selected by the United States Army as a Senior Service College Fellow and will receive her senior fellowship education at the Fletcher School. She is an attorney and has been a member of the Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps since 1993. Her most recent assignment prior to her fellowship selection was with the Office of The Judge Advocate General (OTJAG), Personnel, Plans and Training Office, in Arlington, Virginia where she spent the past 4 years. Prior to her assignment at OTJAG, she was mobilized by the Army Reserve and assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division and Bagram Airfield Afghanistan as a Senior Defense Counsel for one year. LTC Chiafullo received her Juris Doctorate in 1993 from Duquesne University School of Law and immediately accepted a position with the Army JAG Corps. She received her Bachelors of Science in Education from the University of Slippery Rock in 1983 and spent three years as a junior high school teacher and coach. She was also an entrepreneur and small business owner of a silk-screening company, Splatters, Inc., inspired by her late father who was a painting contractor for over 50 years.top
International Security Studies Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy COL Timothy Collins is a career Army officer with over 25 years of service who is spending this year as a Senior Army Fellow at the Fletcher School. He began his military career as a graduate of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Arizona State University in 1984. Over the years, he has commanded units varying in size from 40 to over 1,700 Soldiers in many stateside locations as well as global deployments to Korea, Japan, Panama, Kuwait and Iraq. He specializes in multi-modal transportation (air, sea, road and rail) and in recent years has expanded to include a wider range of logistics specialties including general supply and maintenance. Prior to coming to Tufts, he spent two years as the Director of Logistics for a Joint Task Force providing Defense Support to Civil Authorities. Over the next year, he would like to learn more about international conflict resolution and diplomacy.top
Peace Operations Policy Program, George Mason University Dave Davis retired from 20 years of service with the US Army's Corps of Engineers in October 1992 and moved to Virginia to work at the George Mason Center for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, part of George Mason University's School of Information and Technology Engineering. His past research and practice focused on application of operations research analytic modeling techniques to these interventions, particularly the Conceptual Model for Peace Operations (CMPO). The Program on Peacekeeping Policy was established under the Public Policy umbrella at George Mason University in 1994 and Davis started a master's degree for peace operations in 1997. He assumed the director's position in 1999 and changed the name of the program in 2001 to the Peace Operations Policy Program (POPP). Over the years Davis has conducted work or research in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Moldova, and most recently, risk and conflict analysis for the Coalition Provisional Authority and planning for the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office in Baghdad, Iraq (2004). Davis holds a M.Sc. Operations Research (Honors), M.Sc. Applied Mathematics from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a B.Sc. Mineral Engineering Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines.top
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Political Science Department, United States Air Force Academy Capt James D. "Pidge" Fielder, USAF is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy. Capt Fielder was enlisted in the US Army from 1994-1999 and commissioned through the USAF Officer Training school in July 1999. His notable positions and assignments include Squad Leader, 502 MI Co, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; C2 Intelligence Officer, Electronic Systems Center; Chief of Intelligence Operations, 28 OSS, 28th Bomb Wing; and Intelligence Flight Commander, 40 EOSS, 40th Air Expeditionary Group. Capt Fielder is a career intelligence specialist and also moonlights as a Middle East Foreign Area Officer. Capt Fielder holds a BA in History from UNC-Greensboro, a Graduate Certificate in Political Psychology from Stanford University, and a MA in National Security Studies from American Military University. Capt Fielder has also been selected for a USAFA-sponsored PhD beginning in Fall 2009. Over the past two years Capt Fielder has been researching the development of Tocquevillian associations within virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft and presented a paper on his research at the International Society for Political Psychology annual conference in Paris, France this past July. Capt Fielder also recently completed a research design on the international security implications of virtual world platforms. Finally, Capt Fielder earned the callsign "Pidge" during his Army days from having pet pigeons. top
American Forces Information Service, Department of Defense New Media Directorate Jamie Findlater is a New Media Specialist for the Department of Defense New Media Directorate. Jamie manages and executes new media initiatives for the Department of Defense, most notably for the America Supports You Program. Jamie is the host of ASY Live, America Supports You's BlogTalkRadio show, which helps get out the message about service member support around the Nation. Jamie also works for the Department of Defense internal communications team, providing Armed Forces Press Service stories and marketing support for DoD department-wide programs, as well as the Blogger's Roundtable Program. Prior to her work with the Department of Defense, Jamie worked for the White House, specializing in regional and new media press. She also worked on Capital Hill for Congressman Duncan Hunter and for a number of small public affairs and marketing firms. Jamie holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She hails from San Diego, California. top
Cebrowski Institute for Innovation, Naval Postgraduate School Dr. Karen Guttieri is a stability operations and civil affairs specialist at the Cebrowski Institute for Innovation at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Her research and teaching objectives are to build knowledge and skills for American and international participants in Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction. Recent publication titles include the following: Interim Governments, “Unlearning War: U.S. Military Experience with Stability Operations,” (in Organizational Learning in the Global Context, 2006); and “Professional Military Education in Democracies,” (in Who Guards the Guardians and How?, 2006). Strategic Insights on Humanitarian Space in Insecure Environments: A Shifting Paradigm (Nov. 2005); Elections in Iraq: Managing Expectations (Feb. 2005); Homeland Security and US Civil-Military Relations (Aug. 2003); and Post-Conflict Iraq: Prospects and Problems (Feb. 2003). Dr. Guttieri has organized conferences including “The Civil Dimension of Military Operations,” in Washington DC and “Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy,” in Monterey, CA. A native of California, Dr. Guttieri earned her doctorate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She joined the Naval Postgraduate School in 2001 after conducting post-doctoral research at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). top
Army Reserve Officers Training Corp, Massachusetts Institute Technology Lieutenant Colonel Hall holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering (Operations Research) from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received a Regular Army Commission in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in June 1991. His military education includes the Engineer Officer Basic Course, Engineer Officer Advanced Course, Combined Arms Services and Staff School, and the Command and General Staff College. He has performed in a wide variety of command, staff, and training positions holds several military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. top
Center for Citizen Leadership Kenneth Harbaugh is a former Navy pilot and holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Duke University in 1996 and attended Navy Officer Candidate School immediately following. Upon graduating at the top of his class, he attended flight school where he was the top-ranked Navy pilot. He chose to fly long range intelligence aircraft and was sent to Electronic Warfare School where he finished as the Class Honor Graduate. From 1998 to 2002, Kenneth served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander leading classified combat reconnaissance missions in hostile environments. He was selected to attend “Top Gun” for intelligence pilots and was awarded two U.S. Naval Institute Silver Medals for his writing on civil-military relations. In 2002, Kenneth left flying to serve as an Assistant Professor of Naval Science at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. From 2002 to 2005, he taught Naval History and advised the largest Freshman Naval ROTC class in the nation. He served on the Citadel Faculty Council, and contributed commentaries to National Public Radio and Marketplace. Following his tour at the Citadel, Kenneth entered Yale Law School in 2005. In 2006, he traveled to Afghanistan as a consultant for the International Center for Transitional Justice. As a member of Yale's Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic, Kenneth assisted in drafting legislation empowering Connecticut's treasurer to divest state pension funds from Sudan in response to the ongoing genocide in Darfur. Kenneth continues to write for NPR and other print publications and is Executive Producer and co-host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio feature Your Military Today. He currently holds an appointment as Guest Fellow at Yale University and lives in Hamden, Connecticut with his wife and daughter. top
Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School Prior to becoming the Director of the Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) in November of 2004, Richard J. (Rich) Hoffman served as Executive Director of the Center from 1996 to 2004. As Director, he oversees the development and coordination of the Center's global education programs in Civil-Military Relations; Policy and Strategy development in a Democracy; Combating Terrorism; and Stability and Reconstruction Operations. Under Rich's direction, CCMR recently produced a volume edited by Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson on civil-military relations entitled Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations, published by University of Texas Press, 2006. As an NPS Senior Lecturer, he teaches graduate courses in civil-military relations, policy and strategy development, military history, and joint and combined operations in the NPS Department of National Security Affairs. Before joining CCMR in 1996, Rich served for more than 24 years in the U.S. Army. His last assignments include duty as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Sixth U.S. Army and duty as a strategic plans officer in the U.S. Mission to NATO from 1989 to 1993. Richard Hoffman holds a bachelor's degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Military Academy, and masters degrees in history and political science from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he served as a graduate teaching assistant and assisted in the preparation of Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time by Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George, published by Oxford University Press in 1983. top
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Political Science Department, United States Naval Academy LT John Hoy is the Officer Representative of ALLIES and Instructor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. As ALLIES Officer Representative, LT Hoy has participated in numerous formative ALLIES activities, most notably serving as co-faculty advisor on the Jordan '08 JRP. Most recently, LT Hoy served aboard USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71) in Reactor Department as a Machinery Division Officer. While aboard TR, LT Hoy deployed in support of Operation Iraqi freedom and helped to oversee a $28 million overhaul of Reactor equipment, as well as receiving his Nuclear Engineering Officer qualification. LT Hoy's previous duty stations include NUCLEAR POWER TRAINING UNIT, Ballston Spa, NY, Naval Nuclear Power School, Charleston, SC, USS LASALLE (AGF-3) and SWOSCOLCOM, Newport, RI. LT Hoy's received his undergraduate and masters degrees from Georgetown Universities' School of Foreign Service. top
Peace and Justice Studies Program, Tufts University Paul Joseph is a political sociologist specializing in the influence of domestic politics on foreign and defense policy. He is especially interested in the impact of social movements and other forms of public opinion on policy-making but also pays attention to business and military interests as well. He traces these different types of influence within government, especially the federal branch and the Pentagon, which creates an additional layer of organizational interests and bureaucratic tensions. He has written books on the Vietnam War, nuclear policy, and the security debate after the end of the Cold War. His current book, “Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful?” examines the public's relationship to the changing social organization of the way that Washington conducts war. He has also has an interest in the memory politics surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He served as guest curator for an Aidekman Art Gallery exhibition based on the materials provided by the peace museums of those two cities and have made three lecture trips to Japan. He is particularly interested in the ways that different institutional forces and citizen politics, in both Japan and the U.S., have influenced the specific displays and memories of the A-bomb attacks in August 1945. He is the Director of the Peace and Studies Program at Tufts University. top
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International Security Studies Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lawlor is a Judge Advocate General Officer with the Massachusetts Army National Guard. He currently serves as the Brigade Judge Advocate for the 26th Brigade Combat Team. LTC Lawlor recently returned from a 16 month deployment to Kosovo, where he served as the Chief of Military Justice for the Kosovo Forces 8 rotation. A practicing attorney for nineteen years, LTC Lawlor is a Partner in the law firm of Fedele and Murray, P.C. Before entering private practice, he served as a local and state prosecutor, last prosecuting public corruption and white collar crime cases as an Assistant Attorney General. LTC Lawlor is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, with a B.A. degree in political Science. He also holds a J.D. from Suffolk University where he also graduated cum laude, and was a member of the Law Review. His current research interests include the applicability of Constitutional protections to civilians prosecuted under the Uniform Code of military justice, and the adequacy of state militia laws to authorize military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies during domestic emergencies. top
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Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Evan Maher is a second-year Master in Public Policy candidate at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Research Assistant with the Preventive Defense Project. His coursework focuses on U.S. foreign policy and international security policy. Before coming to Harvard, Evan worked for the U.S. Justice Department as a paralegal and foreign liaison for the Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. and the Regime Crimes Liaison's Office in Baghdad. Evan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2003, with a degree in Great Books and Economics. In his free time, Evan enjoys traveling and reading fiction. top
Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University Pete Maher is the newly appointed Program Manager for the Regional Network of Strategic Studies Centers at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. In this capacity he is responsible for managing outreach activities, overseeing logistics and organization of plenary and working group meetings, and developing institutional relationships with 30 other centers for strategic studies in the Near East and South Asia region. Pete graduated from Tufts University in 2007 with a BA in International Relations. He is co-founder of the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) and is currently pursuing his MA in Strategic Security Studies at the National Defense University. top
United States Institute for Peace Greg Maly is a Course Curriculum Developer with the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) Education and Training Center, Domestic Program. Before joining the Education and Training Center, Greg spent 2 years with for the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, working specifically on measuring progress in conflict environments, civil-military relations, and the Institute's efforts in Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans. Other work with the Institute has included supporting the efforts of the Consortium for Complex Operations as a member of the USIP study team. Before joining the institute, Greg worked for the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, and the Center for the Study of Democracy. Greg earned his B.A. in Policy, Ethics & Conflict at St. Mary's College of Maryland. He has also studied alternative dispute resolution at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. top Georgetown University Matthew Melton is a graduate student at Georgetown University. He will graduate with a Master of Arts Degree in Security Studies in December. Matthew is a recent graduate of the Naval Academy, and in January he will begin Navy Nuclear Power School in Charleston, SC to pursue a career as a Submarine Officer. He is currently working on his master's thesis on tracing operational civil-military cooperation in stability operations. top
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Kent Park is a Captain in the U.S. Army and a second year Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Upon graduation, he will return to the United States Military Academy at West Point to teach American Politics at the Social Science Department. Kent's most recent assignment was as a Commander of a Stryker equipped Infantry Company with the 1-24 Infantry Battalion, 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team stationed at FT. Wainwright, AK. Previous to that assignment, he was Commander of Charlie Company, 2-1 Infantry Battalion, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom IV (2005-2006) in Mosul and Baghdad. Research interest include: Civil-Military Affairs, Professional Military Ethics, North Korea, ROK-US Alliance, and National Service. top
Center for Naval Analysis Kathryn Roth-Douquet is a writer, lawyer, political activist and Marine Corps wife. She writes on issues of patriotism, engagement, and the military in society. Her current book is How Free People Move Mountains. Her recent book, AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from the Military and How it Hurts Our Country, is co-authored by Frank Schaeffer. Roth-Douquet is a practicing attorney, serving on the panel for the Court of Appeals in California, and as Senior Legal Advisor to the Center for Naval Analysis. Roth-Douquet is an advisor to the Obama campaign and has served in the Clinton White House and the Department of Defense. At the Pentagon, she served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense primarily on defense-reform issues. Her final title was acting Principal Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Industrial Affairs and Installations). For her work there she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Roth-Douquet is a member of the Democratic Leadership Council, a Fellow with the Truman Project, and a strategist and fundraiser within the Democratic Party. She was a weekly commentator on a current-affairs television show in Japan and has taught American Government for the University of Maryland's University College in Japan. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Roth-Douquet holds a masters in public and international affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, and holds a law degree, graduating magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of San Diego. top
Building International Capacity for Security Sector Reform Project Center on International Cooperation Jake Sherman is the Project Coordinator for CIC's Building International Capacity for Security Sector Reform project. He also contributes to state-building and conflict prevention work at CIC. Earlier this year, Mr. Sherman was seconded to the secretariat of the International Panel on Safety and Security of UN Personnel and Premises. From 2005 - 2007, he was a consultant on peacebuilding issues in Cambodia for Oxfam GB, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Alliance for Conflict Transformation, a local NGO. Previously, he worked for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the International Peace Academy. Mr. Sherman has published several articles on Afghanistan, and on natural resources in conflict. He holds a Masters in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and a Bachelors from Tufts University (A'95), where he participated in EPIIC ('95-96). top
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Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Harvard Medical School Richard Sobel explores the relationships between citizens and governments as a Senior Research Associate in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Research Fellow and Policy Director at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in Storrs, CT. His work includes the policy analysis of privacy and confidentiality issues, particularly on constitutional and political questions about governmental databanks and identification schemes. It also explores the influence of public opinion on foreign policy in the U.S. and abroad. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Berkman Center on Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. In teaching at Princeton University, Smith College, the University of Connecticut, and Harvard University, his courses include public policy analysis, the social consequences of technology, social movements, and public opinion in foreign policy. Dr. Sobel has published four books, with another forthcoming. The most recent are International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis (with Eric Shiraev; Lexington, 2003) and The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam: Constraining the Colossus (Oxford, 2001). His previous books are Public Opinion in U.S. Central America Policy: The Controversy over Contra Aid(Rowman & Littlefield, 1993) and The White Collar Working Class (Praeger, 1989). People and Their Opinions: Thinking Critically about Public Opinion, with Eric Shiraev, is forthcoming (Longman, 2004). A native of Chicago, Dr. Sobel received a bachelor degree from Princeton University and a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. top
Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University Sherman Teichman is the inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. The programs under his direction include Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC), a rigorous interdisciplinary program for analysis of global issues and active citizenship; the Tufts Initiative for Leadership and International Perspective centered in Hong Kong and Beijing; [EXPOSURE], a photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights initiative and a range of global immersive education student initiated research projects. A lecturer in the arts and social sciences at Tufts since 1984, Mr. Teichman was a former fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a faculty member at Boston University and Emerson College. As a journalist, he was a Peabody Award-winning foreign policy analyst for National Public Radio, WBUR, in Boston and a social science editor of the Boston Review. An adviser on counterterrorism and long-range strategic planning for the Israeli government, Mr. Teichman was also active with Amnesty International in the former Soviet Union and Central America. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy, The Johns Hopkins University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago's Committees on International Relations and Social Thought. An Olympic saber fencer, Mr. Teichman is currently the Tufts University saber fencing coach. He previously coached fencing at Boston University, the University of Chicago and Harvard University. top
International Security Studies Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Paul Treat is the first civilian to be accepted into the Army War College Senior Service College Fellows Program, where he is currently providing Army strategic communication for international security studies at Tufts-Fletcher University. Prior to this, he assumed the position of Acting Director for Internal Logistics at the Army Materiel Command Headquarters where he established new command functions for stationing and logistics. Before assuming his role as an Army Senior Fellow, Mr. Treat served as the Office Chief for Strategic Planning and Lean Six Sigma at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, where he oversaw the daytoday execution of business transformation for a major test and evaluation facility. He also led special studies and initiatives in privatization, community outreach, information assurance, range scheduling, executive development, and instrumentation development. top
Assistant Professor of Economics, United States Air Force Academy Mike is the director of the Geospatial Technology Center and currently teaches the economics of development course at USAFA. He is also the project officer for the establishment of the Center for Peace, Prosperity, and Security. He is a certified joint staff officer who served in the Strategic Effects (CJ9) directorate of the Multi-National Forces-Iraq during the summer of 2008 and the Operations directorate of the United Nations Command from June 1996 to June 1998. His current research is in the inter-agency use of economics for conflict prevention and conflict termination. He flew 2000+ hours in the F-16 which included combat time over Iraq and Serbia. He lived six years in Germany and two years in Korea. Prior to returning to active duty, he worked three years in the Transportation Office for the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. His wonderful wife, Debbie, and he shepherd four energetic children age 15, 17, 20, and 22. top
Maj. (ret) John Powell Williams Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law, United States Naval Academy John Williams is a 1988 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. He holds a Masters of Arts degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in National Security Affairs and was recently a Fellow with the MIT Seminar XXI program. While on active duty, John served as an infantry officer, an intelligence officer and as a Foreign Area Officer with a focus on the Balkans. His operational tours include service in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His last position on active duty was as the Associate Chair of the Political Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy where he also taught a course on Irregular Warfare. Since retiring in July 2008, John works as an independent consultant and also teaches in the Leadership, Ethics and Law Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. top
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Tufts University '09, ALLIES Co-Chair Nancy Henry is a senior at Tufts University, where she is majoring in Political Science and Sociocultural Anthropology. She is co-chair of ALLIES and co-leader of the 2008 Joint Research Project in Amman, Jordan. Nancy was also a member of the 2006-2007 EPIIC colloquium. In Jordan, Nancy worked with students from Tufts and the US Naval Academy to write a policy memo on US assistance for Iraqi refugees living in Amman; in 2007, she traveled to Lebanon with the IGL's New Initiative for Middle East Peace to conduct research on the Lebanese Armed Forces as a national institution. Additionally, Nancy lived and studied Arabic in Yemen in the summer of 2007. Last semester, she presented a paper on the ethics of Human Terrain Teams at the 2008 Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium. Nancy is an Air Force ROTC cadet and will be commissioning in May of 2009. top
Tufts University '09, ALLIES Co-Chair Jesse Sloman is the co-chair of ALLIES and a senior majoring in Political Science. During Spring 2007 he co-taught a full-credit class through the Tufts Experimental College entitled, “The US Military: History, Roles, and Current Dilemmas.” He was a member of the Institute for Global Leadership's 2006-07 EPIIC program. He has worked two seasons on a professional trail crew in the Adirondack Mountains and spent seven months teaching English in China. Last summer, Jesse attended US Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and he will commission into the Corps upon graduation. Jesse is a proud native of Brooklyn, New York. top
Tufts University ‘09 James Nadel is a senior at Tufts University, majoring in International Relations and French. His experience includes work for a U.S. Senate campaign, an issue advocacy campaign, and an internship at the Foreign Policy Association in New York City. Most significantly, membership in ALLIES prepared James for his recent internship in the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, where he supported the office's Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team planning process, and developed short options papers for a proposed Interagency lessons learned system for reconstruction and stabilization operations. He received the Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship, one of three awards given annually to support State Department interns, and plans to pursue government service after graduation. At Tufts, James is a member of the International Relations Program's Director's Leadership Council, studies kempo karate and small circle jiu-jitsu, and enjoys dancing ballroom. top
Tufts University ‘09 Alexandra Taylor is a senior studying international relations at Tufts University originally from northern California. Alex first became involved with ALLIES as a sophomore prior to participating in the 2007 Joint Research Project on Jordanian counterterrorism strategy. At Tufts, Alex has been involved with many programs of the Institute for Global Leadership including the 2006-2007 EPIIC Colloquium on Global Governance: Crises and Intervention and is a member of the IGL's Synaptic Scholar's program. Additionally, Alex has interned on a number of projects studying terrorism and the process of radicalization at the Fletcher School's Jebsen Center for Counterterrorism Studies and at the Harvard Health and Psychophysiology Lab. Alex studied abroad in Madrid, Spain during the spring 2008 semester. She was co-leader of the 2008 Joint Research Project to Amman, Jordan. top
Tufts University, ‘10 Tim Fitzsimons is a third year International Relations major from Brookfield, Connecticut. He is interested in the workings of global migrant labor flows, and particularly the flow of undocumented labor in and out of the developed world and the Middle East. He is a member of the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP), and EXPOSURE, the IGL's organization for photojournalism, documentary studies, and human rights. He recently returned from a workshop in Kashmir, and has conducted research in Lebanon with NIMEP, where he created a media project about Hezbollah. After concluding his research with ALLIES in Jordan in summer 2008, he pursued an internship at the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut. He is interested in making pictures work. top
Tufts University, ‘10 Piyali Kundu is a sophomore at Tufts University, where she studies International Relations and Arabic. Piyali was a member of the 2007-2008 Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship colloquium at the Institute for Global Leadership. Through that program, she conducted research in India in winter 2008. Piyali spent the summer of 2007 in Sana'a, Yemen, where she studied Arabic and volunteered at the Health and Culture Center. She hopes to return to Yemen after Jordan to continue her Arabic study and work as an intern at the Health and Culture Center. top
Tufts University, ‘10 Margaret O'Connor is a junior political science and community health major. Her driving interest is in comparative health systems, particularly the ways in which culture, politics, philosophy and history shape the ways in which nations administer to sick populations. Her regional interest lie in the Middle East and its neighboring regions (North and East Africa, Eastern Europe and Western Asia); she is in her third year of Arabic at Tufts. Margaret is a member of Synaptic Scholars, a program through Tufts Institute for Global Leadership geared towards stimulating intellectual discussion on campus and supporting individual intellectual pursuits. She also sits on the editorial board for TuftScope, Tufts' interdisciplinary student journal of health, ethics and policy. She has a growing interest in civil military relations that stems from the changing nature of war and peacekeeping and concern over a dissociation she believes many Americans harbor towards the services. Margaret participated in the 2008 Joint Research Project in Amman, Jordan. top
Tufts University ‘11 Jeremy is a sophomore International Relations major, Arabic minor, from Bethesda, Maryland. He has been a member of ALLIES since last year, when he presented on civil-military relations in security, stabilization, transition and reconstruction operations at the 2007 Intellectual Roundtable: Renaissance of the Citizen-Soldier. This past summer, Jeremy had the opportunity to work at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He is very excited to participate again in this year's Roundtable, and would like to thank all of the participants for taking the time to come to Tufts to discuss issues he sees to be increasingly important in global affairs. Jeremy is a member of this year's EPIIC colloquium on Global Cities. top
Tufts University ‘11 Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ian Hainline is currently a sophomore at Tufts. Majoring in Political Science, Ian is interested in foreign policy, American constitutional law, and both healthcare and education policy. He hopes to pursue a career in politics, criminal law, civil rights law, or some combination of the three. Ian is member the ALLIES program in civil-military relations at the IGL, as well as a Tufts tour guide, freshman orientation leader, and sometime sabre fencer. In his spare time, he is an avid reader and basketball fan. Ian is a member of this year's EPIIC colloquium, Global Cities. top
Tufts University, ‘11 Chas Morrison is a sophomore at Tufts University who plans on majoring in International Relations with a concentration in International Security. Through his participation in ALLIES, Chas attended the Student Conference on United States Affairs at West Point and researched the effects of the Iraq War on Jordanian society in Amman, Jordan last summer along with other students from Tufts and cadets and midshipmen from the Service Academies. Chas is also a member of the Tufts Community Union Senate and currently serves as Bi-Partisan Outreach Coordinator of the Tufts Republicans. top
Tufts University ‘12 Eileen Guo, a freshman at Tufts University, was born in China and raised mainly outside of Princeton, New Jersey. Before coming to Tufts, Eileen took a gap year that brought her back to her native Sichuan, China. It was in Sichuan that her interest in civil-military relations began; after surviving the May 12th earthquake, she became involved with relief efforts, experiencing firsthand the importance of cooperation between the military and civil society. Eileen's academic interests include identity politics, migration studies, and international relations. She is a member of this year's EPIIC colloquium. In her spare time, she loves to travel, write, and practice Capoeira. top
Tufts University ‘12 Guktae An is a freshman at Tufts University planning on majoring in International Relations and Religion. He was born in Kwang Ju, South Korea and lived in various states across the US. He speaks Korean and is learning Arabic. Before entering college, he devoted a year to a leadership training program to raise the culture of our youth through numerous service projects and workshops. His passion lies in culture, ideologies and religion, where he hopes to bring reconciliation and cooperation across the world. Currently at Tufts, he is actively involved in Allies(a civil-military relations club), New Initiative for Middle East Peace, and Poverty Power Research Initiative. top
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