Dr. Kevin P. Clements was appointed Secretary General of International Alert in January 1999.
He is also the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis at the George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia and was Director of the Institute from 1994-1999.
Kevin was President of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) from 1994-1998 and has been President of the IPRA Foundation from 1995.
In addition to his academic career Dr. Clements has worked with and in a variety of NGO’s, governmental and inter-governmental organisations. He was formerly Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra. In this latter position he served as consultant to the Hon Gareth Evans, Foreign Minister of Australia during the preparation of Evan’s book Co-operating for Peace which focused on reform of the United Nations. He has been a regular consultant to a variety of organisations on disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development and regional security issues.
His numerous academic and constancy posts have included: Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford University; Lecturer in Sociology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand; Visiting Fellow ISEAS, Singapore; Visiting Lecturer, School of Development Studies University of East Anglia; Visiting Professor in Sociology University of Colorado at Boulder. Work with the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, Membership of the New Zealand Government Defence Committee of Enquiry and Member of the New Zealand Delegation to the Third NPT Review Conference Geneva. He is an active participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and International Affairs and a former Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association.
Dr. Clements is the author of over 125 articles and chapters on conflict transformation, peace, preventive diplomacy and development: His books include: (1) From Right to Left in Development Theory, (2) Back from the Brink: The Creation of a Nuclear Free New Zealand, (3) with Elise Boulding and Clovis Brigagao, The Future of Peace Research: Transnational Perspectives (4) Peace and Security in the Asia Pacific Region (5) with Christine Wilson, UN Peacekeeping at the Crossroads (6) with R Wards Building International Community: Cooperating for Peace Case Studies.
Dr. Clements career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. His primary areas of regional focus have been East and South East Asia and the Caucuses. In his new position he is looking forward to applying his experience to Africa as well.
Esther Brimmer joined the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict as a senior associate in June 1995. From 1993-1995, she served as special assistant to the under secretary of state for Political Affairs. From 1991-1993, she was the foreign affairs and defense analyst with the Democratic Study Group (DSG) in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was an
associate with the New York office of the global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, from 1989-1991. While completing her doctorate, she worked as a researcher/writer for the 21st Century Trust in London. She received her master's and Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Oxford in 1985 and 1989 respectively. She received her B.A. in international relations from Pomona College in 1983.
Paul Collier is currently Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He is on leave from the University of Oxford where he is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. For four years he held a joint appointment with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He has published around 80 articles and books with a predominant focus on Africa. His current research interests include (1) the causes and consequences of violent conflict; (2) growth in newly stabilized low-income economies, and (3) African economic growth.
David Hamburg is President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, after having been President from 1983-1997. He received his A.B. (1944) and his M.D. (1947) degrees from Indiana University. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 1961-72 and Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972-76; President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as President, then Chairman of the Board (1985-86) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984-86). Dr. Hamburg also serves on the boards of: The Rockefeller University; The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York; The American Museum of Natural History; The Johann Jacobs Foundation, Zurich. He served as a trustee and vice chairman of the board of Stanford University, and as a trustee and deputy chairman on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has served on many policy advisory boards, including the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and the Advisory Committee on Medical Research of the World Health Organization. He is presently a member of the Defense Policy Board, United States Department of Defense. In September, 1994, Dr. Hamburg was chosen to serve on the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 1997 he was appointed Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School's Department of Social Medicine. He is Co-chair (with Cyrus Vance) of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hamburg received the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award in 991. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in September 1996, the International Peace Academy's 25th Anniversary Special Award in December 1996, the Achievement in Children and Public Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 1997, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal in April 1998. He was awarded an Honorary Degree from Duke University and the Bank Street College of Education.
Colonel Karl Farris, U.S. Army (Ret) served in various command and staff assignments during his 30 years of service, culminating with service on The Joint Staff in The Pentagon and as Commander of the U.S. Army’s maneuver training center in Germany. In 1993 he established the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and served as its first Director from 1993-1996. His experience in peacekeeping includes service with the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC); Chief, Civil-Military Cooperation for Joint Task Force Support Hope in Rwanda; and assisting in planning and preparing Civil-Military operations in Haiti for both the U.S. led Multi-National Force and the UN Mission in Haiti (UNMIH). Colonel Farris remains engaged in developing procedures for improving multi-component coordination and cooperation in complex emergencies.
Johanna Mendelson Forman is a member of the World Bank’s Post Conflict Unit. She was formerly a senior advisor at USAID, where she served in the Office of Transition Initiatives. She also holds the position of Scholar in Residence at the American University’s School of International Service. Dr. Mendelson-Forman is an expert on civil-military relations, and directed the Democracy Projects, a program which supported improved civil-military relations in Latin America. She authored numerous articles and books on this subject. Dr. Mendelson Forman holds a Doctorate from Washington University, St. Louis, and a JD degree from the American University Washington College of Law. She serves on the board of the Institute for World Affairs, and Women in International Security.
Mary B. Geske is an Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Her research interests lie broadly in the area of US foreign economic policy. She has published on the domestic debate within the United States surrounding the NAFTA and currently is working on a manuscript contrasting NAFTA, the Uruguay Round and peso crisis. She also is working on a project analyzing the sex tourism industry in Cuba. As a participant in the Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, Geske is particularly interested in pedagogical issues in international and security studies.
Michael Klare, Five College professor of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (P.A.W.S.S.), holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D.from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. He is the author or co-author of several books, including American Arms Supermarket (1984), Low-IntensityWarfare (1988), Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide (1994), and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws (1995). His articles on international relations and military affairs have appeared in many journals, including Arms Control Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, The Nation, and Technology Review. He serves on the board of the Arms Control Association and the Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, and is a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Mack is the Director of the Strategic Planning Unit, in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York. The first report by the new Unit examined the utility of sanctions.
He is a former Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University (ANU). Previously Director of the Peace Research Centre (1985-91) and Senior Research Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU (1984-85), he also taught international politics at Flinders University in South Australia between 1975 and 1984.
Leaving Essex University (UK) in 1969, Professor Mack went on to work at the Copenhagen Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (Research Associate), the London School of Economics (Lecturer), the British Broadcasting Corporation (current affairs programme producer), and the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (Research Director). He has also held visiting professorships/fellowships at the University of California (UC), Berkley (1979); the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC (1983); the School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine (1988); the East-West Center, Hawaii (1991); the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University (1995) and the Graduate School of International Relations, Pacific Studies, UC San Diego (1995) and the International University of Japan (1997).
Mr. Mack's pre-university career included six years in the Royal Air Force (engineer and pilot); two and a half years in Antarctica as meteorologist and Deputy Base Commander, and a year working as a development prospector and diamond mining engineer in Sierra Leone.
Mr. Mack has written or edited some eleven monographs and books on topics that cover a wide range of security issues. They include: Asia-Pacific Security: the Politics-Economics Nexus (1997); Proliferation in Northeast Asia (1996); Nuclear Policies in Northeast Asia (1995); Pacific Cooperation: Building Economic and Security Regimes in the Asia-Pacific Region (1994); A Peaceful Ocean? Maritime Security in the Asia-Pacific in the 1990s (1993); Asian Flashpoint: Security and the Korean Peninsula (1993); Security and Arms Control in the North Pacific (1989); The Future of Arms Control (1985); Peace Research in the 1980s (1985) and War without Weapons: Non-Violence in National Defence (1975). His scholarly articles have appeared in a wide variety of books and journals including: World Politics, Washington Quarterly, British Journal of International Studies, World Policy, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics , Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics, Arms Control, Disarmament, Asian Survey , Australian Journal of International Affairs, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Pacific Review, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Journal of East Asian Affairs and Journal of Northeast Asian Studies.
Mr. Mack has also published many articles in other journals and in newspapers including: International Herald Tribune, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Le Monde Diplomatique, Independent, New Scientist, Financial Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, Nikkei Weekly, Far Eastern Economic Review, Newsday, Financial Review, Asian Defence Journal, Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter, Science, Bulletin, Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Corriere Della Sera, Straits Times, New Society, National Times, Age (Melbourne), Newsday, Quadrant, Journal of Defence and Diplomacy and Asia-Pacific Magazine.
He is a regular commentator for radio and TV programmes in Australia and overseas.
Mr. Mack has received major research grants from the MacArthur, Ford, Rockefeller and Alton Jones Foundations. He serves on the editorial board of six international scholarly journals, has been consultant to former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, to the United Nations, and to the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, as well as a number of other governmental and non-governmental organizations in Australia and overseas.
William L. Nash (Major General, US Army, Retired) is the Director, Civil-Military Programs for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, DC. In 1998, he was a Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Major General Nash was commanding general of the United States Army’s 1st Armored Division from June 1995 to May 1997. In 1996, he was the Commander of Task Force Eagle, a multinational division of 25,000 soldiers from 12 nations charged to enforce the military provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Robert I. Rotberg is President, World Peace Foundation, and Director, Program on Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution in the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was professor of political science and history, MIT; academic vice president, Tufts University; and president, Lafayette College. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign policy, Africa, and Haiti, most recently Burma Prospects for a Democratic Future (Washington, D.C., 1998), War and Peace in Southern Africa: Crime, Drugs, Armies, and Trade (Washington, D.C., 1998), Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects (Washington, D.C., 1997), Vigilance and Vengeance: NGOs Preventing Ethnic Conflict in Divided Societies (Washington, D.C., 1996) and From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy and Humanitarian Crises, (Washington, D.C. 1996).
Harold H. Saunders is Director of International Affairs at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, where he conducts non-official dialogue—a "public peace process"—among those in deep-rooted human conflict, whether for ethnic, racial or religious reasons. He served in the U.S. Government for 25 years on the National Security Council staff (1961-74); as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State when he flew on the Kissinger shuttles (1974-75); as Director of Intelligence and Research in the State Department (1975-78); and as Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs when he participated in drafting the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1975-78) and helped negotiate the release of American hostages in Iran (1980-81). He received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service—the U.S. Government’s highest award for civilian public servants—and the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. He is a trustee of Princeton University and a director of Partners for Democratic Change and Internews. He is author of The Other Walls: The Arab Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective and of A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts.
Sarah Sewall serves as Associate Director of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Committee on International Security Studies, where she directs research projects on security issues. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance at the Department of Defense from 1993 to 1996. Ms. Sewall previously served as Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's Senior Foreign Policy Advisor for six years. She has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, taught foreign policy at Stanford's Washington program, and served as a defense analyst at a variety of organizations. She graduated from Harvard College and received an M. Phil from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Ms. Sewall has published chapters and articles on peacekeeping and anti-satellite weapons, and is co-editing a forthcoming volume on the relationship of U.S. national security to the International Criminal Court. She serves on the Boards of the Council for a Livable World and Women in International Security, and is a member of the Center for Naval Analyses' Strategy, Forces and Operations Technical Advisory Committee.