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Michael S Lund
Consulting Program Manager
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Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity
Email: mslund@verizon.net
Biography
Michael S. Lund, consulting program manager to the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity and senior specialist for conflict and peacebuilding at Management Systems International, Inc. (MSI), is a leading world specialist on the sources of violent intra-state conflicts; effective diplomatic, development, and military policies and strategies for preventing conflicts before they start; and consolidating peace in post-conflict countries.
Author of Preventing Violent Conflicts: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy (USIP Press, 1996) and numerous book chapters and articles, Lund’s work combines independent research and consulting, focusing principally on Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. At the Wilson Center, he designed and helped to direct an inter-disciplinary, inter-agency working group that assessed the impacts of systematic conflict transformation training with key political leaders in six countries, the findings of which will be published as a book in 2008 co-edited with Howard Wolpe. Other recent writing includes “Conflict Prevention: Policy and Practice in Search of Theory,” in William Zartman, Jacob Berkovitch, and Viktor Kremenyk, eds. Handbook of Conflict Resolution (Sage Publications, forthcoming in 2008); “Human Rights: Source of Conflict, State-Making and State-Breaking,” in Jeff Helsing, ed. Human Rights and Conflict (US Institute of Peace Press, 2006); and “Greed and Grievance Diverted: Why Macedonia Has Avoided Inter-Ethnic Civil War,” in Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis, eds., Understanding Civil War (World Bank, 2005).
Lund is also co-editing and writing analytical chapters for a volume of country case-studies on the respective roles of security and development programs in achieving sustainable peace (International Peace Academy, forthcoming 2008). For contracted studies, he pioneered the formulation of systematic methods to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-sectoral programs in reducing conflict and has applied these methods to a wide range of policies at the program and multi-program levels. He has provided country conflict assessments (e.g., Burundi, Georgia, Guatemala, Kosovo, Macedonia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe), policy analysis and strategic advice, professional training and practical manuals, and evaluations of early warning systems and diverse conflict policies for organizations such as U.S. Department of State, U.S. National Intelligence Council, USAID, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Commission for Preventing Deadly Conflicts, Carter Center, World Bank, United Nations (UNDP and the interagency Framework Team of UNDPA), European Union (European Commission), OSCE, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), OECD-DAC, DFID (UK), CIDA (Canada), IPA, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (Canada), Conflict Prevention Network (Berlin), Netherlands Institute for International Relations (Clingendael, the Hague), Forum for Early Warning and Early Response (London), European Center for Conflict Prevention (Utrecht), International Development Research Centre (Ottawa), and Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Stockholm).
Earlier, Lund worked in the U.S. Congress, several federal agencies and the Urban Institute, and he was the founding director of the Jennings Randolph Fellows Program and a senior scholar at the US Institute of Peace. He has a B.D. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and he taught at Cornell, UCLA, the University of Maryland, George Mason University, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Affairs.
| Record updated: 11/15/2007 |
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