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Welcome to peacefare.net!  This blog is dedicated to building peace worldwide.  It focuses on the concepts, analysis, policies, institutions, people, experience, lessons learned and tools needed to prevent and resolve violent international conflict.  It is open to military and civilian contributions, to third country and host country nationals, to national government officials, civil society and international organizations.

Peacefare.net is published by Daniel Serwer, LLC.  The blogger in chief is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and director of its Conflict Management and American Foreign Policy Programs, as well as a Scholar at the Middle East Institute.  Formerly Vice President of the Centers of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, he oversaw the Institute’s work in rule of law, religion and peacemaking, sustainable economies, media and conflict, and science, technology and peacebuilding, as well as security sector governance and gender.

As USIP Vice President for Peace and Stability Operations, Serwer worked on preventing interethnic and sectarian conflict in Iraq and served as the executive director of the Iraq Study Group.  He facilitated dialogue between Serbs and Albanians in the Balkans. He came to USIP as a senior fellow working on Balkan regional security in 1998-1999. Before that, he was a minister-counselor at the Department of State, where he won six performance awards. As State Department director of European and Canadian analysis in 1996-1997, he supervised the analysts who tracked Bosnia and Dayton implementation as well as the deterioration of the security situation in Albania and Kosovo.

Serwer served from 1994 to 1996 as U.S. special envoy and coordinator for the Bosnian Federation, mediating between Croats and Muslims and negotiating the first agreement reached at the Dayton peace talks. From 1990 to 1993, he was deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, where he led a major diplomatic mission through the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War.

Daniel Serwer, without the body armor
Daniel Serwer, without the body armor

Peacefare has had a number of assistants in recent years who have edited and maintained the blog, done research and performed any number of other tasks, sublime and menial. Prospective employers can find some  resumes linked below, along with samples of their work published on peacefare. Their efforts are enormously appreciated and their company enjoyed.   These are among the very best!

NameEducationDates workedSample posts
Emily OlssonColgate9/10 – 4/11
Adam LewisHaverford5/11 – 10/118/10/11
Geoffrey CurfmanColgate, LSE10/11 – 12/111/6/12
Eric ShuBrown1/12 – 5/125/8/12
Gregor NazarianYale, Georgetown6/12 – 8/126/6/12
Ilona GerbakherUCLA, Harvard6/12 – 8/126/21/12
Allison StueweSwarthmore9/12 – 12/1210/10/12
Laurentina CizzaUMBC1/13 – 4/134/2/13
Lindsay HoganUrsinus College4/13 – 6/135/23/13
Ala’ Alrababa’hDartmouth6/13 – 8/137/26/13
Idon NatanzonColumbia, Johns Hopkins SAIS6/13 – 8/137/24/13
Sidney BalmanCornell9/13 – 12/1312/5/13
Sarah SaleebUniversity of Virginia9/13 – 12/1312/11/13
Marcela SchaeferSOAS1/14 – 5/142/23/14
Jennifer FendrickGeorge Mason6/14 – 8/147/18/14
Caroline ZulloUNC Chapel Hill6/14 – 8/147/23/14
Crispin SmithOxford, Harvard9/14 – 12/1410/10/14
Jacqueline FulghamConnecticut College9/14 – 12/149/25/14
Yael Mizrahi-ArnaudIDC Herzliyah, Johns Hopkins SAIS1/15-6/154/28/1510/04/15
Svenn WroldsenLSE, Georgetown1/15 – 5/153/30/15
Maithili BagariaRice6/9-7/307/15/15; 7/24/15
Eddie GrovePrinceton6/15 – 8/158/31/15
Bridget GillOxford, Columbia & LSE8/15-12/15 11/11/201511/5/2015
Heidi LiedtkeAmerican University8/15 – 12/15 10/19/2015
Katie PrestonMiddlebury College5/16 – 8/168/12/2016
Rebecca AschUniversity of California, San Diego9/16 – 12/1611/16/2016
Miriam LakeUniversity of Melbourne9/16 – 12/1611/30/2016
Sarah TimreckSwarthmore, George Washington University1/17 – 5/175/23/2017
Sebastian Thomas GerlachUniversity of St. Gallen, Johns Hopkins SAIS1/18 – 5/183/12/2018; 3/16/2015
Marc-Andrea FiorinaOxford, Johns Hopkins SAIS6/18 – 8/187/18/2018
Nicolas Reeves The George Washington University5/18 – 8/187/20/2018
Tal MaromUniversity of California, San Diego9/18 – 12/18
Bouela LehbibEastern Mennonite University1\19- 5\1904\08\2019
Zakaria
Imessaoudene
Colgate University,
Graduate Institute – Geneva (IHEID)
06/19 –
08/19
Nicholas
Wade
Yale University06/18 –
08/19
Colin TaitCarnegie Mellon University09/19 – 12/1911/05/2019
Yuanyi LiuSyracuse University1/20 – 4/204/25/2020
Amanda TaheriYale University1/20-4/20
Josie KouryLafayette College5/20–8/20
Jordanna YochaiUniversity of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies6/20–9/20See Here.
Martin PimentelGeorgetown University9/20-5/21See Here
Elisa CherryUniversity of Kent9/20-5/21See Here
Koen van WijkLeiden University5/17-9/6See here
Matison MillerScripps College5-21-9/21See here

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