Terrence Hopmann, Director
Prior to assuming the position of Director of the Conflict Management Program at SAIS in July 2008, Professor Hopmann was Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he served as chair of the Political Science Department, and Research Director of the Program on Global Security of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, director of the Center for Foreign Policy Development, and director of the International Relations Program.
Hopmann received his B. A. in 1964 from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1969 from Stanford University.
Professor Hopmann's primary research and teaching interests concern international negotiation and conflict resolution, and his major book entitled The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1996. He is also the author of numerous theoretical articles on the negotiation and conflict resolution process, especially on the application of behavioral science concepts to the study and analysis of international diplomacy. He is co-author with Daniel Druckman of "Behavioral Aspects of Negotiations on Mutual Security," in Philip E. Tetlock et al. (eds.), Behavior, Society and Nuclear War, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 1991).
His substantive research focus has been primarily on issues of security in Europe, especially on negotiations on Conventional Forces in Europe and in the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. His monograph on Building Security in Post-Cold War Eurasia: The OSCE and U.S. Foreign Policy was published by the US Institute of Peace in its Peaceworks series in 1999. He also completed a major study on “The OSCE: Its Contribution to Conflict Prevention and Resolution” for the National Academy of Sciences included in their volume on International Conflict Resolution after the Cold War (National Academy Press, 2000). He is also in the process of writing a larger book exploring the full range of OSCE activities in conflict prevention, management, and resolution and post-conflict security-building since the end of the Cold War.
Hopmann's research recently focused as well on the security implications of the disintegration of the Soviet empire and of the developing relations among the semi-sovereign entities that have emerged from the former Soviet Union across a broad range of issues. He is co-author of a monograph based on this program entitled Integration and Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Regional and Global Security" published as an occasional paper by the Watson Institute, and he is currently editing a book based on this project. He is also principal investigator of a project supported by the Program on the Prevention of Deadly Conflicts of the Carnegie Corporation of New York entitled "The Management of Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Can Deadly Conflicts Be Prevented?"
Professor Hopmann’s recent articles on arms control include "From MBFR to CFE: Negotiating Conventional Arms Control in Europe," in Richard Dean Burns (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (Scribner's, 1993); "Arms Control and Arms Reductions, View I," in Victor A Kremenyuk (ed.), International Negotiations: Analysis, Approaches, Issues (Jossey-Bass, 1991); and "Mutual Security and Arms Reductions in Europe," in Richard Smoke and Andrei Kortunov (eds.), Mutual Security: A New Approach to Soviet-American Relations (St. Martin's Press, 1991).
He has been a research fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Geneva and twice has been a Fulbright-Hays fellow in Belgium. He served from 1984-92 as a frequent consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Foreign Ministries of Mexico and Brazil, and to the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.
Adjunct Faculty
John Murray
John Murray is a Senior Consultant with CMPartners, LLC, a conflict management firm based in Cambridge, MA. He retired in 2005 after six years with The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, where he held positions as Professor of Practice in International Relations and Associate Director of Maxwell’s Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. From 1982-1992, he served as a founder and then President of the Conflict Clinic, Inc., a negotiation and mediation firm established with the support of Roger Fisher at the Harvard Negotiation Project.
Mr. Murray’s teaching specialties include negotiation and mediation theory and practice, with a special focus on ethnic, community and international disputes, and interpersonal communication. In his consulting work, he helps public and non-governmental organizations and individuals deal with disputes and conflict situations, providing negotiation and mediation training, advice and mentoring, and facilitation assistance, often in situations involving natural resource and water issues. For the past nine years he has provided long-term assistance to the Palestinian Negotiation Support Unit, the legal and policy staff supporting the PLO in its preparation for permanent status negotiations with Israel.
Mr. Murray’s background includes serving as an officer in the US Marine Corps (1962-65), elective office as Iowa State Senator (1973-82), practicing lawyer in New York City (1968-70) and Ames, Iowa (1972-82), law school professor (Texas Tech Law School 1982-87), and political science professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (1993-98) teaching international law and human rights. He is co-author of several editions of a law school textbook on alternative dispute resolution and has authored numerous articles on conflict management issues.
Mr. Murray received a Bachelors Degree with Honors in Government from Cornell University (1961), a Master’s Degree in Public Law and Government from Columbia University (1962), and a J.D. Degree from the University of Iowa College of Law (1968), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Iowa Law Review.
Eliza Patterson
Eliza Patterson, an attorney, has worked on international economic law and policy for over twenty years. After graduating from Harvard Law School she entered private practice where she represented foreign corporations seeking to trade with and invest in the United States. She entered government service to work for the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service, representing the Department in the inter-agency trade policy formation process and helping to negotiate agreements with the EU and Japan. Latter she worked at the International Trade Commission as the special assistant to the Chairman and the Deputy Director of the Office of International Liaison. She has also been a resident scholar at the WTO in Geneva, the Washington Representative for international trade policy for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and an adjunct professor at several universities and law schools.
Lawrence Scheinman
Dr. Lawrence Scheinman is currently Distinguished Professor of International Policy of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University. He is the former Assistant Director (Assistant Secretary) of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency responsible for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control, a post to which he was appointed by the President in 1994 and held through late 1997. He was Professor of Government (International Law and Relations) at Cornell University from 1974-1996 and served as Director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society as well as Director and later Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program. Dr. Scheinman previously held tenured posts at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles before coming to Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, a J D. from New York University School of Law and a BA. from Brandeis University. He is admitted to practice before the bar of the State of New York.
Dr. Scheinman has been involved in international nuclear and technology related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for several decades. He served as Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the Office of International Policy Planning at the Energy Research and Development Administration (1976); as Principal Deputy to the Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary (1977, 1978 with particular responsibility for dealing with US-Japanese peaceful nuclear relations); as Special Assistant to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nonproliferation and arms control matters (1986-1988, 1992); as Counselor for Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy (late 1993-early 1994) and as Assistant Director of ACDA (1994-1997). In that capacity he was one of the US Delegation Heads at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference and subsequent PrepCom and US Head of Delegation to the NPT Depositary Meetings with the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a member of the Core Group of the Programme for the Promotion of Non-Proliferation; of the Advisory Committee of the Atlantic Council for the United States Non-Proliferation Project; of the Washington Council on Nonproliferation; and of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Scientists. He was a member of the Department of State Advisory Board on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation from 1998-2001, and from 1981-1987 served on the Department of State's Advisory Committee on Oceans, Environment and International Scientific Affairs. Dr. Scheinman has been the Visiting Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1969-70) while on leave from the University of Michigan, and Fellow of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1967-1968) on leave from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is included in American Men of Science and Who's Who in the East. In 1997 he received the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's highest tribute, the Distinguished Honor Award.
Dr. Scheinman has published extensively in the fields of non-proliferation, arms control and international nuclear and technology cooperation. His books and monographs; include Atomic Energy Policy in France Under the Fourth Republic (Princeton University Press, 1965); EURA-TOM: Nuclear Integration in Europe (Carnegie Endowment, 1967); Nuclear Safeguards, The Peaceful Atom and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Carnegie Endowment, 1969); The Non-Proliferation Role of the International Atomic Energy: A Critical Assessment (Resources for the Future, 1985); The IAEA and World Nuclear Order (Resources for the Future, 1987); Non-Proliferation and the IAEA: A US-Soviet Agenda (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1985); Assuring the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Safeguards System (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1992).
Recent articles and essays include “The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Challenge for Nonproliferation,” Disarmament Diplomacy, 76 (March/April 2004); “Shadow and Substance: Securing the Future of Atoms for Peace” IAEA Bulletin (December, 2003); “Israel, India and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime,” [with Marvin Miller] Arms Control Today (December, 2003) “Transcending Sovereignty in the Management and Control of Nuclear Materials” in IAEA Bulletin, (December,. 2001) and in Journal of Nuclear Materials Management (Winter, 2002); “U.S. Nuclear Policy, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Retrospect and Prospect,” in Disarmament in the 21st Century: Appeal from Hiroshima (Hiroshima Peace Institute Press, 2002); “The Non-Proliferation Regime and Fissile Materials”(in P. Leventhal, ed. Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Can We Have One Without The Other? Brassey Press, 2002); “Implications of the War against Terrorism for the Non-Proliferation Regime” in M. Barletta (ed) After 9/11: Preventing Mass-Destruction Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation (MIIS/CNS Occasional Paper #8, 2002); “Nuclear Weapons and Peace in the Middle East” in S. Spiegel (Ed) Dynamics of Middle East Proliferation (Mellen Press, 2002); "Arms Control Treaties and Confidence-Building Measures as Management Tools" (with M.Krepon) in Crocker et al (eds) Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing Conflict (Washington, USIP, 2001); "Regimes, Defense and Deterrence" (The CBW Conventions Bulletin, June, 2000) - a longer version appears as "Possible Responses to Chemical and Biological Weapon Attacks" in J.Goldblat (ed) Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to Banishing the Bomb ( London, I.B.Tauris; 2000); "Politics and Pragmatism: The Challenges for NPT 2000" (Arms Control Today, April 2000); "Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime," (PPNN Issue Brief 16, May, 1999); "Pragmatic Steps Toward Nuclear Disarmament" (with T.Hirsch) in M. Jawhar Hassan, A Pacific Peace: Issues and Responses (ISIS, Malaysia, 1998).; "Almost a Success Story: Non-Proliferation, Retrospect and Prospect" (Foreign Service Journal, February, 1998); "Challenges and Opportunities in the Post NPT Conference Environment" (in Beier and Mataija, eds. Verification, Compliance and Confidence Building: The Global and Regional Interface, 1996); "Modalities for Verifying a Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free Zone" (in Spiegel and Pervin, eds. Practical Peacemaking in the Middle East, 1995); "Regional Imperatives and Global Non-Proliferation: The Challenge of Reconciliation," (Pacifica Review, 1994); "Lessons from Post-War Iraq for the International Full-Scope Safeguards Regime," Arms Control Today, 1993); "The International Atomic Energy Agency and Arms Control" (in Burns, ed. Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament, 1993); "Managing the Coming Glut of Nuclear Weapons Material," Arms Control Today, 1992; and "Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation in a Changing World Order, Security Dialogue (December, 1992).
Current projects include (1) a MacArthur Foundation funded study, “Technology Sharing and Non-Proliferation: A Critical History and Roadmap for the Future,” (2) a study in conjunction with UNIDIR on the role of multilateral institutions in treaty verification in the 21st century with a focus on IAEA, OPCW, UNSCOM/UNMOVIC and regional institutions including ARF/ASEAN, OAU, OAS, OSCE; (3) regional security in Asia with a focus both on Japan, China and the US in the context of missile defense issues, and South Asia with emphasis on nuclear issues; (4) innovative strategies for dealing with the nuclear fuel cycle in the context of the NPT and (5) challenges to the effectiveness of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
Daniel Serwer
Daniel Serwer is a professorial lecturer and visiting scholar in Conflict Management, as well as a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advance International Studies. He is also a professorial lecturer at George Washington and Georgetown Universities.
Formerly vice president for centers of peacebuilding innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, he led teams there working on rule of law, religion, economics, media, technology, security sector governance and gender.
Serwer has worked on preventing interethnic and sectarian conflict in Iraq and has 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.
J.P. Singh
Dr. J.P. Singh teaches and researches international trade and negotiations, international development, qualitative research methods, and international cultural policies.
He is the author of "Negotiating the Global Information Economy" (Cambridge, 2008/forthcoming), "Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring" (SUNY, 1999) and co-editor (with James N. Rosenau) of "Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance" (SUNY, 2002). His current book project is titled "United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Creating Norms in a Complex World" (Routledge, In preparation). He was Co-Principal Investigator for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A People Looking Forward, a 300 page report submitted to the U.S. President in 2001. Refereed article publications include those in Information Technology and International Development, Journal of International Communication, Telecommunications Policy, Info, International Negotiation, Prometheus, Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, and several edited collections.
Dr. Singh holds several appointments related to his research interests. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Review of Policy Research, an official journal of the Policy Studies Organization, published by Blackwell. He is also a political consultant for Voice of America’s Hindi broadcasts and appears regularly on their radio and television shows. He was a Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organization in Geneva in 2004 and a Visiting Fellow at the New America Foundation (2002-04) in Washington, DC.
He also holds several positions in professional associations. He chairs the Science, Technology and Environmental Politics section of the American Political Science Association. He is the President of the International Communication section of the International Studies Association. He is also a Vice President of the Policy Studies Organization and Ex-President of the International Communication section of the International Studies Association.
Grants and fellowships include those from the Social Science Research Council, World Bank, World Trade Organization, Ford Foundation, White House, and The Asia Society. He was one of the lead people involved in the World Bank-CCT e-commerce development project “Cottage Industry Global Marketplace” implemented in Himachal Pradesh, India, from 2000 to 2003.
I. William Zartman,
Professor Emeritus
Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution
zartman@jhu.edu
Served as the Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution at SAIS for nearly 20 years; former director of SAIS Conflict Management and African Studies programs; former faculty member at the University of South Carolina and New York University; served as Olin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Halevy Professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and visiting professor at the American University in Cairo; was a consultant to the U.S. Department of State; president of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies; past president of the Middle East Studies Association and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies; member of the International Steering Committee of Processes of International Negotiations Program based in Europe; received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain; Ph.D., international relations, Yale University.
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