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- President Sentenced to 20 Years for Corruption
Bloomberg interviewed Congo Research Group's Fred Bauma about the sentencing of President Felix Tshisekedi's former chief of staff Vital Kamerhe on corruption charges.
"The verdict gives hope to Congolese who continue to decry the theft of their resources by political elites and the impunity they've enjoyed until now," Bauma said. "However, Vital isn't the only guilty one and justice will be incomplete if he's the sole person prosecuted and convicted."
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Resident Fellow at New York University 's Center
Alex Evans is a Non-Resident Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation (CIC), where he works on issues including international development, climate change, and global risks.
He has a particular focus on the post-2015 international development agenda, and has undertaken work on it with the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the Brookings Institution, Unilever, the World Resources Institute, and the Prince of Wales's International Sustainability Unit. His recent publications in this area including Delivering the Post-2015 Development Agenda and What Happens Now? - Taking the Post-2015 Agenda to the Next Stage (with David Steven).
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- Program Associate
- Associate at the Center
Alice Viollet is a Program Associate at the Center on International Cooperation, working with the Congo Research Group team.
Prior to joining CIC, Alice worked for the "Leading International Vaccinology Education" program funded by the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual, and Culture Executive Agency. She also has experience in project management in the private sector, with Estée Lauder and Louis Vuitton among others.
Alice holds a Master's degree in public administration from Columbia University, where she focused on International Economic Policy and Global Policy Studies, and a Master's degree in Business and Management from the Neoma Business School in Reims, France.
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- Appointed Former CIC Senior Fellow
Ben Oppenheim, PhD, is a Non-Resident Fellow at CIC. His research focuses on armed conflict, governance, global health, and development assistance. Current areas of focus including post-conflict reconstruction, the impact of aid in conflict areas, rumors and misinformation in unstable areas, and epidemic risk and preparedness.
Oppenheim's research has been published in journals spanning a range of disciplines, including political science, public health and medicine, social science, and law. His work is informed by over a decade of engagement with aid and development organizations on program strategy, design, and evaluation, and he has served as a lead author on several flagship reports on international aid to fragile states and conflict-affected areas. His research has been supported by the World Bank, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Asian Development Bank, Open Society Foundations, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Oppenheim received his Ph.D and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and his B.A. from Wesleyan University. He has held academic fellowships at Stanford, Cambridge, and Uppsala Universities.
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- Senior Program Officer
- Senior Program Officer at New York University 's Center
- Social Development Specialist
Betty Nyambura Wainaina-Maina is a Senior Program Officer at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, working on the Prevention and Peacebuilding and Multilateral Reform programs.
Betty is a social development specialist, with 18+ years of diverse experience in the development sector, working in several countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Malawi, and Ghana, amongst others. She has designed programs aimed at promoting institutional strengthening and deepening governance arrangements including working with executive branches of government, legislatures, local authorities, as well as civil society.
Her previous roles have been with the World Bank as an economist in the Kenya, Somalia, and Comoros country programmes respectively. She later joined the Global Centre for Conflict Security and Development, which sought to deepen and advance the community of practice within the World Bank on issues affecting fragile and conflict affected states. In this role, she supported the engagement of the World Bank at both global and country level with the g7+ Secretariat and the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and State Building, in operationalizing the New Deal for engagement in fragile states. She has also worked for the Heinrich Boell Stiftung and has served as a consultant for various United Nations agencies and other international development organisations.
Betty has a passion for governance issues and addressing institutional arrangements and capacities that compromise development. In addition, she is a champion for gender equality and particularly the advancement of women and girls.
She possesses a Masters degree in Environmental Economics from the University of Kent in the UK, and a first degree in Environmental Planning and Management from Kenyatta University in Kenya.
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- Program Officer
- Member of Carnegie New Leaders Program at Carnegie Council for Ethics
- Program Officer at the Center
Bojan Francuz is a Program Officer at the Center on International Cooperation on the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies team. In that role, Bojan supports the work of a high-level political Task Force working to find practical solutions to global violence reduction, and assists in management of two international networks - Peace in Our Cities, and Gender Equality Network on Small Arms Control.
Previously, Bojan served in various policy positions advising governments at the United Nations on political and security issues. He also co-founded a social-impact organization leveraging technology to bring greater inclusion in cities, and served as a Futurist-in-Residence at the Institute for Urban Futures at Concordia University in Montréal,Canada. He got his career start as a community organizer working with immigrant and undocumented communities Chicago.
Bojan is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow and Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Fellow. Bojan is also a member of Carnegie New Leaders program at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and member of UN Association of the USA.
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- Founder and Executive Director of AI for Peace
- Scientist, Expert
- Visiting Scholar
Branka is the Founder and Executive Director of AI for Peace, a nonprofit ensuring artificial intelligence benefits peace, security, and sustainable development and where diverse voices influence the creation of AI and related technologies. She is a co-founder and Board Member of the Center for Exponential Technologies, connecting policy and the tech world and a member of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, Working Group on Power and Technology.
Céline Monnier is a Senior Program Officer at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, working on Prevention and Peacebuilding.
Céline joins CIC from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York, where she worked in the Policy Branch to support principled and effective humanitarian response, particularly for internally displaced persons and migrants. She also prepared briefings and policy recommendations for Security Council members to strengthen the protection of civilians in peacekeeping and political missions. Previously, she spent over three years working on violence and crime prevention with a focus on Latin America with the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime. She advised international organizations, local and national governments on effective crime prevention strategies, including on the prevention of radicalization leading to violence. Prior to that, she worked for almost two years in Colombia and Mexico on human rights and in the diplomatic sector on security and conflict analysis.
She has a Masters in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva with a Master's Thesis on the "Legal Involvement of Non-State Armed Groups in the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons."
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- Program Head for the Halving Global Violence Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful
- Program Head, Halving Global Violence
Daniel Mack is the Program Head for the Halving Global Violence Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. He has fifteen years of experience working on issues of armed violence reduction and international arms control. For the past five years as an independent consultant, Daniel provided research, policy or strategic advice for several United Nations agencies (UNIDIR, UNLIREC, UNODA, UNODC) and international NGOs, including Save the Children Norway, Small Arms Survey, Control Arms, Conectas Direitos Humanos (Brazil), PAX (Netherlands), and Asociación para Políticas Públicas (Argentina).
Previously, Daniel worked for nine years at the NGO Instituto Sou da Paz in São Paulo, Brazil, spearheading its policy and advocacy arms control efforts both at the national level and at global fora. Moreover, he was co-chair of the Control Arms civil society coalition that pushed for the UN Arms Trade Treaty, among other leadership roles. Daniel has published numerous policy and research papers, press and journal articles on armed violence reduction, small arms and ammunition control, human rights and the international arms trade.
Daniel holds a master's degree in International Relations from Georgetown University, speaks fluent English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
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- Senior Advisor
- Senior Fellow
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- Senior Fellow
- CIC Associate Director
- CIC Director
- CIC Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow at CIC
At the most recent Arria-formula meeting on Afghanistan on November 27, 2017, Barnett Rubin spoke on the importance of regional approaches in fostering development and peace. In his talk, Partners for Afghanistan: Linking Security, Development and Peace in the Central Asian Region.
CIC senior fellow Barnett Rubin recounts the failures of the US-led mission in Afghanistan in this War on the Rocks op-ed.
CIC Associate Director Barnett Rubin spoke on November 24 at the Carnegie Council along with Ahmed Rashid on Af-Pak, Taliban and Daesh.
Dr. Barnett R. Rubin is a Senior Fellow at CIC, where he previously directed the Afghanistan Pakistan Regional Program. He worked at CIC from 2000 to 2020. During 1994-2000 he was Director of the Center for Preventive Action, and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Rubin was Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University from 1990 to 1996. Previously, he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
From April 2009 until October 2013, Dr. Rubin was the Senior Adviser to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in the U.S. Department of State. In November-December 2001 Rubin served as special advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, during the negotiations that produced the Bonn Agreement. He subsequently advised the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on the drafting of the constitution of Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Compact, and the Afghanistan National Development Strategy.
Dr. Rubin received a Ph.D. (1982) and M.A. (1976) from the University of Chicago and a B.A. (1972) from Yale University. He also received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1977-1978. He is founder and chair of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (a program of the Social Science Research Council). He was a founding member of the Executive Board of Asia Watch, now Human Rights Watch/Asia. During 1996-98 he served on the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. Rubin conceived the idea of developing production of essential oils in Afghanistan. With both Afghan and French investors, he founded Gulestan Ariana LLC, which established this industry in Jalalabad. A successor company, Orzala LLC, continues to expand the industry.
Dr. Rubin is the author of Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror (2013), Blood on the Doorstep: the Politics of Preventing Violent Conflict (2002). He is also the author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System (2002; first edition 1995), Calming the Ferghana Valley: Development and Dialogue in the Heart of Central Asia (1999), Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society (1998); Post-Soviet Political Order: Conflict and State Building (1998); Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action (1998); Toward Comprehensive Peace in Southeast Europe: Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans (1996), and The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State (1995). Dr. Rubin has written numerous articles and book reviews on Afghanistan, South and Central Asia, U.S. foreign policy, conflict prevention, state formation, and human rights. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Survival, International Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books, as well as academic journals.
Job Titles:
- Director Emeritus
- Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy Expert
- Senior Fellow at New York University 's Center
Dr. Bruce Jones is a Senior Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation (CIC) and former CIC director. Bruce is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He served as the Senior External Advisor for the World Bank's World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development, and in March 2010 was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as a member of the Senior Advisory Group to guide the Review of International Civilian Capacities.
Dr. Jones' research focuses on US policy on global order and transnational threats; on multilateral institutions in peace and security issues; on the role of the United Nations in conflict management and international security; and on global peacekeeping, post-conflict operations and fragile state engagements.
Prior to assuming the Directorship of the Center, Dr. Jones served in several capacities at the United Nations. He was Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General during the UN reform effort leading up to the World Summit 2005, and in the same period was Acting Secretary of the Secretary-General's Policy Committee. In 2004-2005, he was Deputy Research Director of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. From 2000-2002 he was Special Assistant to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process; and held assignments in the UN Interim Mission in Kosovo, and in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Dr. Jones has been interviewed by or cited in US and international media, including the New York Times, LA Times, Globe and Mail, BBC, CNN, Fox, NPR, and Al Jazeera.
Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics; and was Hamburg Fellow in Conflict Prevention at Stanford University. He is co-author with Carlos Pascual and Stephen Stedman of Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Brookings Press, 2009); co-editor with Shepard Forman of Cooperating for Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press, 2009); author of Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failures; series editor of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (Lynne Reinner) and author of several book chapters and journal articles on US strategy, global order, the Middle East, peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, and strategic coordination.
He is Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Adjunct Faculty at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and Professor by Courtesy at the NYU Department of Politics.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- CIC Deputy Director
- CIC Deputy Director and Senior Fellow
- CIC Senior Fellow
- CIC Senior Fellow and Member
CIC deputy director Hanny Megally co-wrote this op-ed in Al Jazeera, along with other commissioners from the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria. In it, the experts discuss avenues to legal justice for victims of acrocities in Syria.
Hanny Megally, CIC senior fellow and member of the Commissioner on the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, co-authored this op-ed in Le Monde explaining why the international community must commit to repatriating children detained in Syrian camps.
CIC senior fellow Hanny Megally co-authors an article with Chris Sidoti and Yasmin Sooka to call upon the U.N. Human Rights Council to establish an independent international investigation into human rights atrocities in Afghanistan.
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- Member of the Management Team
- Director for Finance and Operations
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Head of the UN
Jago Salmon is currently the head of the UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a non-resident fellow with the Center on International Cooperation. Until September 2019, Jago served as a senior advisor on partnerships with the World Bank Group in the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and
was the co-author of the joint UN-World Bank flagship report Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict. In May 2020, Jago was the lead convenor of the Stockholm Peace and Development Forum with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
With 15 years' experience at the nexus of humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding operations in conflict-affected countries, Jago has supported UN operations in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, East Timor, Lebanon, Liberia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen, among others, and has led UN-EU-WB integrated recovery and peacebuilding planning and assessment teams in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Liberia, and Zimbabwe. Jago was a co-author of the joint UN-WB study on (Re)Building Core Government Functions in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings, and in 2014 managed UNDP's programme guaranteeing payments to 36,000 Ebola Response Workers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola epidemic.
Prior to joining the UN, Jago worked as an analyst on the Middle East, with a focus on Sudan. Jago has a doctorate in political science from Humboldt University in Berlin, and speaks English, French, Italian, and Arabic.
Job Titles:
- President
- Senior Fellow
- CIC Senior Fellow
CIC senior fellow James Traub writes about Robert Malley, President Biden's nominee as special envoy to Iran, in his latest column for Foreign Policy.
CIC senior fellow James Traub wrote about the difficulties that the Biden administration will face in dealing with India, which he calls "a democracy in decline."
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- CIC Senior Fellow, Chaired a Human Rights Workshop Titled, "Congo past and Present
- Senior Fellow CRG Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board
Jason Stearns, CIC Senior Fellow, chaired a Human Rights Workshop titled, "Congo Past and Present: Reflections on Rights-Based Advocacy After Twenty Years of Conflict" on Thursday September 28 at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale University School of Law.
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- Member of the Management Team
- Director of Programs, Congo Research Group
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- CIC 's Humanitarian Crises Program Lead, Spoke With Voice of America about the Unfolding Refugee Crisis in Ukraine
- Program Lead, Humanitarian Crises
Leah Zamore, CIC's Humanitarian Crises Program Lead, spoke with Voice of America about the unfolding refugee crisis in Ukraine.
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Pathfinders Director
Pathfinders director Liv Tørres spoke to Business Insider about the volatile social and economic scenarios in South Africa over the past decade, which culminated in the arrest of former president Zuma.
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Independent Expert
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- Manager of Administration
Ms. Alischa Kugel was a Senior Program Officer at CIC. Prior to joining CIC, Alischa worked as a Policy Analyst for Peace and Security Issues at the UN liaison office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. As part of her work, she closely followed UN and international efforts in peacekeeping and peacebuilding as well as UN Security Council reform.
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- Research and Policy Officer
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- Fellow
- Resident
- CIC Deputy Director
CIC deputy director Paige Arthur spoke with TechMonitor about new, automated strategies to monitor conflict zones for humanitarian purposes.
CIC senior fellow Rina Amiri spoke with The Independent about the difficulties that Afghan refugees are facing.
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- Member of the Management Team
- CIC Director
- CIC Director, Was Quoted in This Foreign Policy Brief about the Role That President Biden Played in This Year 's UN General Assembly
- Director of NYU Center
Sarah Cliffe, CIC director, was quoted in this Foreign Policy brief about the role that President Biden played in this year's UN General Assembly.
Sarah Cliffe, director of NYU Center on International Cooperation, discusses Pres. Biden's remarks to the UN General Assembly. "He first of all talked a lot about partnership, but he also talked about action, and that's what people wanted to see."
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- Director Emeritus
- Senior Fellow
Join NYU CIC, Omdena, and DreamSpace Academy Sri Lanka for an exciting demonstration of their recent collaboration project where they convened machine learning and natural language processing experts to develop a new AI tool to accurately detect hate speech in Tamil language. Speakers will discuss the project's inception and development, along with showcasing how the tool will work.