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Paul Fishstein Paul Fishstein (MS, Agricultural and
Resource Economics; BA, English Literature) served as Director of the Afghanistan Research and
Evaluation Unit (AREU), a Kabul-based, policy research institution, from 2005 to 2008. Before
joining AREU as Deputy Director in 2004, Paul worked in Kabul and at provincial levels on
USAID-funded initiatives to strengthen the management of health care delivery, and from
1989-93 managed refugee assistance and “cross-border” reconstruction activities in Quetta
and Islamabad, Pakistan. Paul first worked in Afghanistan during 1977-79 as a teacher
trainer in Kabul and northern Afghanistan. Paul has also worked as a Researcher at the
World Bank in Washington, focusing on agricultural policies and food security in India
and Africa, and provided assistance on financial analysis, organizational development,
and sustainability planning to health organizations in developing countries, including
Bangladesh, Nepal, Romania, and Tanzania. Paul is currently involved in a research project
looking at the relationship between aid and stabilization in Afghanistan.
Paul Fishstein's fellowship is co-sponsored with the Harvard Kennedy School's
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Gerald Knaus is founding chairman of the European Stability
Initiative (ESI) since 1999. ESI, with 24 staff based in 10 cities from London to Baku, is
today the largest think tank focusing on the Balkans, Turkey and the South Caucasus. Gerald
studied in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna. He taught economics at the University of Chernivtsi (Ukraine)
and worked for five years in Bulgaria and Bosnia for NGOs and international organizations, including
the OHR in Sarajevo and as analyst for ICG. He was director of the Lessons Learned Unit of the EU Pillar
of the UN Mission in Kosovo (from 2001 to 2004). Some of Gerald’s articles have triggered wide public
debates, including "Travails of the European Raj" on Bosnia (2003)
and "Member State Building and the Helsinki Moment" (2004). He
co-authored more than 60 ESI reports as well as scripts for award-winning TV documentaries on South
East Europe. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a
2007/2008 Open Society Fellow. In 2004 he moved to Istanbul. He regularly writes for
the Rumeli Observer.
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David Mansfield has been doing
fieldwork in rural Afghanistan since June 1997. The evidence base he has produced has
been at the forefront of policy development in drugs and development in Afghanistan
and represents an important source of primary data for many policy analysts and academics.
By examining the different factors that influence opium poppy cultivation, David's work
has also documented the diversity in socioeconomic, political and environmental
conditions across rural Afghanistan.
David has worked for a variety of different organizations in Afghanistan including
the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, the Aga Khan Development Network and the
United Kingdom's Afghan Drugs Inter Departmental Unit and Department for International
Development. He has also supported the World Bank, Asia Development Bank and the
European Commission in integrating the drugs issue into their rural development
programmers in Afghanistan, including their support to National Priority Programmes.
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Gerard Russell was a diplomat with the British Foreign Office
for 14 years, working in Jerusalem, Baghdad and as head of the British mission in western Saudi
Arabia. Between 2001 and 2003 he designed and headed up the UK effort to reach out to opinion in
the Arab and broader Islamic world. In 2005 he was adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister. Between 2007
and 2008 he headed the political team at the British Embassy in Kabul. He then returned to Kabul with
the United Nations in 2009, serving as a senior political adviser to Ambassador Peter Galbraith and
heading the United Nations Elections Center until his resignation in autumn 2009. He speaks Arabic
and Dari.
Mr. Russell is presently in Kabul and will come to Harvard in January 2010. His particular focus
at the Carr Center will be on the future of humanitarian intervention.
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Michael Semple has worked for more than
twenty years in Afghanistan in international development. Semple was most recently
served as head of the political section of the European Union.
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Matt Waldman was formerly Head of Policy and
Advocacy for Oxfam International in Afghanistan, where he has worked for the past two
and half years, and is the author of a number of reports on the country, including
on peace-building, protection of civilians, civil-military affairs, development and
aid effectiveness.
From 2004-2006 he was the Liberal Democrats Foreign Affairs and Defence Adviser based
in the UK Parliament, with responsibility for formulating party policy on
international affairs, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and human rights issues.
Matt has also worked as a foreign affairs adviser in the European Parliament, and
was deputy director of overseas operations for a UK children's charity, which included
work in post-conflict countries in Eastern Europe and Africa.
Prior to this he trained and practised as a lawyer with the London-based, international
law firm, Norton Rose, which involved work in Europe and Russia. He holds a Masters
Degree in Human Rights from London School of Economics. His current research focuses on
the conflict in Afghanistan, in particular, the implications of reconciliation and
negotiations with insurgents.
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Jasteena Dhillon Jasteena Dhillon is an international lawyer who has
worked in international development and conflict environments since 1994. Over her years working in places
like South Africa in the mid 90s, through the Balkans, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Iraq and Sudan, she has been
confronted with the reality of how justice is done on the ground and who the local actors in this system
really are, many times contrary to what the international community develops it’s policy around. As a
result of her work in Afghanistan as a legal advisor and advocate, she has a deep contextual understanding
of the complex and pluralistic justice landscape, the capacity needs and limitations as well as the
personalities, institutional rivalries and political agendas of the various stakeholders in the Afghan
justice sector. Her work in Afghanistan, as it has been in Sudan and Somalia, is aimed at cultivating local
systems of customary justice and building a state system that gives due regard to local values and conceptions
of justice. Her nuanced and pragmatic perspective is rare to find in a field dominated by those more
comfortable working with formal systems in the image of western institutions. In her most recent position
with NATO, she worked as an advisor on justice and reconciliation in Afghanistan and Sudan as a way to
facilitate civil-military interaction. More on this link:
www.zolazen.org.
Jasteena Dhillon discusses her experiences managing legal aid programs for returnees and people who
have experienced human rights violations in Afghanistan. Three short videos.
Go to Videos >
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Andrew Wilder Wilder joined the Tuft's University Feinstein Center
in January 2007 to lead the Center's research on Politics and Policy in countries affected by
conflict. Andrew's areas of interest include state-building, governance, and aid-effectiveness,
with a specialization on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to joining the Center he worked in
Afghanistan where he established and was the Director of Afghanistan's first independent policy
research institution, the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). Between 1986 and 2001,
Andrew worked for several different international NGOs managing humanitarian and development
programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including for six years as the Director of the Pakistan/Afghanistan
program of Save the Children (US).
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Maleeha Lodhi Dr. Maleeha Lodhi is among Pakistan's top
political commentators, with extensive experience in diplomacy, media and teaching.
Her diplomatic experience spans eleven years, representing Pakistan as Ambassador
in the US (1993 - 1996, 1999 - 2002) and Britain (2003 - 2008).Most recently she
was a Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School from September to December 2008.
She is the recipient of the President's award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz for Public Service in
Pakistan. Lodhi also received an Honorary Fellowship from the London School of
Economics in 2004 and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from London's
Metropolitan University in 2005. She served as a member of the UN Secretary
General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs from 2001 to 2005.
Lodhi has been the editor of Pakistan's leading English daily, The News. She
taught Politics and Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and
Political Science from 1980-85. She has also been a Visiting Faculty member
at the National Defence University in Islamabad. Lodhi is the author of two
books: Pakistan's Encounter with Democracy and The External Challenge. She
received her Ph.D in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political
Science, and also did her B.Sc (Econ) there.
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Sima Samar is Chairperson of the Afghanistan
Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and United Nations Special Rapporteur
on the situation of human rights in Sudan.
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Afghanistan
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Noah Coburn is a student of anthropology
currently working in Afghanistan. Coburn began his Afghan tenure as a resident
of the AIAS Center and is now a representative of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation
both participating in and observing the revitalization of a local industry destroyed
by the Taliban.
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Mariam Chughtai Mariam Chughtai is a doctoral
student at Harvard. Originally from Pakistan, she is currently at Harvard's Graduate
School of Education, studying the politics of education in Pakistan's context. This
summer, she has returned to Pakistan to explore partnerships and to look for mentors
who can aid her in moving her research forward.
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Anna Knutzen
Anna's professional background includes the implementation of a national
State-Department funded civic education program on “Human Rights in the
Context of Islam” in Afghanistan. Her research focuses on the role of Islamic
organizations in human rights and state-building initiatives. She has worked
with a variety of NGOs and UN agencies.
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Nadia Naviwala
is a 2008-09 Belfer Center International Global Affairs Fellow. Naviwala served
as Legislative Aide on National Security for a member of the U.S. Senate Committees
on Foreign Relations and Armed Services. Her professional experience includes
work with the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Committee for
UNDP, and a prominent government relations firm.
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Mir Ibrahim Rahman Mir Ibrahim Rahman is founder and CEO of GEO TV
Network, one of Pakistan's fastest growing and most popular media brands. According to Raham, GEO's mission
is "to create an enabling platform for thinking and questioning in Pakistan." The New York Times has noted
that "GEO has changed the media landscape" of Pakistan. Mir graduated Suma Cum Laude from Babson
College in Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship. He currently taking a leave
from his CEO duties, to pursue a Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nick Rizzo Nick Rizzo is a 2009-2010
Rockefeller Fellow of Harvard University. Nick completed his undergraduate
work in social anthropology, and will spend the upcoming year in
northwestern India. He has worked in Rwanda and Uganda for the American
Refugee Committee, and his current work focuses on religion and disaster
response.
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Mallika Sarkaria Mallika Sarkaria (MPP/JD)
is pursuing a joint degree at Harvard kennedy School and UC Berkeley School of Law. She focuses on
South Asian human rights issues, particularly gender justice and protection of
religious and ethnic minorities.
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Program
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Rory Stewart, the
Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, is the Director of the Carr Center
for Human Rights Policy. Stewart is the founder and Chief Executive of the
Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated
to the regeneration of the historic commercial center of Kabul, Afghanistan. Rory earned
his BA and MA in Modern History and Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Balliol
College, Oxford University, served as an officer in the British Army, and worked for
the British Diplomatic Service in Indonesia, Montenegro and elsewhere, before taking
two years to walk from Turkey to Bangladesh. He covered 6,000 miles on foot
across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal - a journey which he describes
in his critically acclaimed book entitled The Places in Between. In 2003 he started
working for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq as Deputy Governorate
Coordinator (Amara/Maysan) and Senior Adviser and Deputy Governorate Coordinator
(Nasiriyah/Dhi Qar). In recognition of his service in Iraq, he was awarded the
Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the British Government in 2004. He wrote
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq, published in the United States
under the title The Prince of the Marshes, describing his experiences with the
CPA. Rory spent the 2004-05 academic year at HKS as a Fellow at the Carr Center.
He has also written for the New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books,
among other publications.
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Rory Stewart's Personal Web site
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Tyler Moselle is the Carr Center's Acting Executive Director. A former project manager for both the National Security and Human Rights and the Sate Building and Human Rights projects, Mr. Moselle continues to do research and assist with these programs in addition to his current responsibilities. He holds a bachelor's in Middle Eastern and African
history from BYU and a master's in politics from Harvard.
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Nigel Pont is the Program Director for the State Building program. Nigel has recently completed two and
a half years as Mercy Corps' Afghanistan Country Director, focusing primarily on rural
agricultural development in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, natural resource management
in the north east of the country and microfinance in Kabul and Jalalabad. He has
extensive Afghanistan experience having managed a wide range of relief and development
programs during the civil war, the Taliban era and post 9/11. Born in Iran and growing
up in Pakistan he has in-depth knowledge of the region and speaks good Dari and Urdu.
Between 1997 and 2008 Nigel played a leadership role for Mercy Corps in many of the
major humanitarian crises of the past decade including Kosovo, Iraq, Pakistan and
post Tsunami Aceh.
Nigel Pont's fellowship is co-sponsored with the Harvard Kennedy School's
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Aurthur Applbaum Arthur Isak Applbaum is Professor of Ethics and
Public Policy and Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard.
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Leila Ahmed Leila Ahmed is the Victor Thomas Professor of Divinity
at Harvard Divinity School where she focuses on Islam and women's studies.
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R. Nicholas Burns Burns was previously the highest-ranking career
diplomat at the U.S. Department of State, appointed Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International
Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Sugata Bose Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History
and Affairs in Harvard University History Department. Bose's field of specialization is modern
South Asian and Indian Ocean history.
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Antonia Chayes Antonia Chayes is currently Visiting Professor of
International Politics and Law at Tufts University's Fletcher School of International Affairs.
She has taught at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard university, and the Harvard
Law School. She chairs the Project on International Institutions and Conflict Management at the
Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School.
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Fotini Christia Fotini Christia joined the MIT faculty in the fall of
2008 as Assistant Professor in Political Science. She recently completed her PhD in Public Policy
at Harvard University, where she was a recipient of research fellowships from the Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs.
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Richard Clarke Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard, Clark
served the last three presidents as a senior White House Advisor. He has held the titles of Special
Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism,
and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security.
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Noah Feldman Noah Feldman is Bemis Professor of law at Harvard Law School, he
is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations where Professor Feldman specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on
the relationship between law and religion.
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Archon Fung Archon Fung is Professor of Public Policy at the
Harvard Kennedy School, Fung's research examines the impacts of civic participation, public
deliberation, and transparency upon public and private governance.
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Thomas Hegghammer Thomas Hegghammer is a Research Fellow at Harvard
Kennedy School's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Hegghammer has written on jihadism
and al-Qaida and is preparing a book about the jihadi ideologue Abdallah Azzam and the first Arab Afghans.
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Stanley Hoffman Stanley Hoffman is the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser
University Professor at Harvard University.
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Zahra Jamal Dr. Zahra Jamal is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology
and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Minna Jarvenpaa is Senior Coordinator at UNAMA.
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Baber Johansen Baber Johansen is Professor of Islamic Religious
Studies at Harvard Divinity School. He is also an Affiliated Professor in International Legal
Studies and Acting Director of Islamic Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
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Alex Keyssar Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr.
Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the
excavation of issues that have contemporary policy implications.
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Jennifer Leaning Dr. Leaning is Professor of International Health at
the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research and policy interests include problems of
international human rights and humanitarian law, humanitarian crises, and medical ethics in practical
settings of disasters and emergencies.
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Stephen Marks Dr. Stephen Marks is François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor
of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Tarek Masoud Tarek Masoud is an assistant professor of public
policy at Harvard Kennedy School where his research focuses on the politics of religion in the
Islamic world, particularly the ways in which Islamist movements like Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
shape, and are shaped by, their political environments.
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Timothy Patrick McCarthy Timothy McCarthy is Lecturer on History
and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Faculty Affiliate at the Carr Center. He
also serves on the tutorial board for the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and
Sexuality in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Meghan O'Sullivan Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School
of Government's Belfer Center, O'Sullivan was Special Assistant to the President and
Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan prior to joining the Belfer Center.
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Roger Owen Roger Owen is the A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East
History in the Harvard University History Department.
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Lant Pritchett Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of Economic
Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik is the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International
Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and has published widely in the areas of economic development.
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Eric Rosenbach Eric Rosenbach is Executive Director for Research, the
Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. He is also a Member of the Board at the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs.
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Andrea Rossi Andrea Rossi is Director at Harvard Kennedy School's
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy's Measurement and Human Rights Program.
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Robert Rotberg Robert Rotberg is Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict
and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, and President of the World Peace Foundation.
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Barnett Rubin Professor Barnett R. Rubin is
Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Cooperation,
New York University. In November-December 2001 he served as special advisor to the
UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, Lakhdar
Brahimi, during the negotiations that produced the Bonn Agreement.
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John S. Schoeberlein Schoeberlein is Lecturer on Central Asian
Studies, Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Director of the Project on
Islam and Politics in Eurasia at Harvard University.
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Sarah Sewall Sarah Sewell is a Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy
School and is Program Director for Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) and National Security &
Human Rights where she focuses on U.S. national security strategy, civil-military relations, and
the ethics of fighting insurgencies and terrorism.
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Emad Shahin Dr. Shahin is the Visiting Associate Professor in the
Department of Government at Harvard University; faculty affiliate at the Kennedy School of
Government, the Dubai Initiative; and Associate Professor at the Political science Department,
the American University in Cairo where he specializes in politics and Islam.
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Ganesh Sitaraman is the Public Law Fellow and Lecturer
on Law at Harvard Law School,
where he focuses on constitutional law, international law, and national security. His recent work is
on law and counterinsurgency, and he was a research fellow at the Counterinsurgency Training Center -
Afghanistan during the summer of 2009.
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Moshik Temkin Moshik Temkin is Harvard Kennedy School faculty and
previously he taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at
Columbia University.
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Monica Toft Monica Toft is an Associate Professor of Public Policy
at the harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests include international relations, nationalism
and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national
security, and military and strategic planning.
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Martine van Bijlert Martine van Bijlert
is co-director of the recently established Afghanistan Analysts Network, a think
tank based in Kabul, Afghanistan. She has been involved in Afghanistan since the
early 1990s and has, among others, worked as Political Adviser to the European
Union's Special Representative for Afghanistan (from 2004 to the end of 2008) and
as an independent adviser with a specific focus on the realities involved in state
building efforts in (post-) conflict societies.
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Moeed Yusuf Moeed Yusuf is a PhD student and Teaching Fellow at
Boston University's Political Science Department and a Research Fellow at the Boston University
Pardee Center. He is also a Research Fellow at Strategic and Economic Policy Research, Pakistan
and a Visiting Associate at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan.
Most recently, he was based at the Brookings Institution as a Special Guest researcher.
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Richard Zeckhauser Richard Zeckhauser is the Frank Plumpton
Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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