Governing Board

Eileen Babbitt, PhD – Board Chair

Professor of International Conflict Management Practice
Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program – The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University

    team_eileenEileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice, Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Her research interests include identity-based conflicts; coexistence and trust-building in the aftermath of civil war; and the interface between human rights concerns and peacebuilding. Her practice as a facilitator and trainer has included work in the Middle East, the Balkans, and with the United Nations, U.S. government agencies, regional inter-governmental organizations, and international and local NGOs.

    Before joining the Fletcher faculty, Professor Babbitt was Director of Education and Training at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. and Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Professor Babbitt’s latest publications include the forthcoming book, Principled Peace: Conflict Resolution and Human Rights in Intrastate Conflict, University of Michigan Press; and Negotiating Self-Determination, co-edited with Hurst Hannum and published by Lexington Books.

    Professor Babbitt holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from MIT.

Emmanuel Bombande

Executive Director, West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)

    Bio and photo forthcoming

Barbara Haering, PhD

President, Board of Foundation of Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining

    barbara_haering_redBarbara Haering has twenty-five years of experience in national and international science and security politics and environment issues. She is Director of a private think tank specializing in strategic planning, econcept, Inc. Dr. Haering also Chairs the Board of Foundation of the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and is Vice-President of the swisspeace Board of Directors. She Chairs the Board of Foundation of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Public Administration in Lausanne (IDHEAP), is member of the European Research Area Board of the European Commission (EC) as well as a member of the ETH Domain Board of Directors.

    She was a member of the National Parliament of Switzerland from 1990 until 2007. In this capacity she chaired the Defense Committee as well as the Committee on Science, Education and Culture and was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

    Dr. Haering studied at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and has a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences. She received an Honorary Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Lausanne.

Milt Lauenstein, MBA

Retired Corporate Executive & Philanthropist

    team_miltMilton C. Lauenstein is the former president of Lauenstein & Associates, Inc. and adjunct professor in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. He taught business policy at the University of Chicago, wrote What’s Your Game Plan, a book on corporate strategy published by Dow-Jones Erwin, and numerous articles on strategy and is a contributing editor for the Journal of Business Strategy. Mr. Lauenstein served as president and CEO for Ventron Corporation for 14 years during which time the company experienced outstanding earnings growth per share. He has been a director for more than a dozen companies and has sat on more than fifteen boards of directors. His community involvement includes being President of International Business Center of New England, Director of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Chairman of Democratic Town Committee, Wenham, Mass., Executive Committee of Japan Society of Boston, Chairman of Parish Committee, First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Beverly, Mass., and Trustee of Vermont Studio Center. Mr. Lauenstein received his undergraduate degree from Purdue and his MBA for the University of Chicago.

Michael Lund, PhD

Senior Specialist – Conflict and Peacebuilding, Management Systems International
Consulting Program Manager – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

    team_lundMichael Lund is a Senior Specialist for Conflict and Peacebuilding Management Systems International Inc. (MSI) and Consulting Program Manager, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWIC), is the author of Preventing Violent Conflicts (USIP Press, 1996) and co-editor of five books, including Critical Connections: Security and Development, (Lynne Rienner, forthcoming, 2009) and Talking Through Transitions (tentative title, WWIC Press, forthcoming 2009). He has written numerous chapters and reports that assess conflicts, conflict interventions, and peacebuilding issues, including “Conflict Prevention: Theory in Pursuit of Policy and Practice” in Zartman, Berkovitch, and Kremenyck, eds. Handbook of Conflict Resolution (Sage, forthcoming 2009). Since the late 1990s, Dr. Lund has done independent research and consulting for governments and international organizations on the sources of violent intra-state conflicts and on development, diplomacy, and military policies for preventing conflicts and post-conflict peacebuilding, focusing on countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, East Asia and the Caucasus. In early 2008, he led a 7-person team in evaluating the impacts of U.S. aid in Mindanao, Philippines since 2000 on terrorism, conflict and peace. His work has been commissioned by the U.S. Department of State, the Political Instability Task Force of the C.I.A., USAID, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Commission for Preventing Deadly Conflicts, World Bank, United Nations (UNDP, UNDPA), European Commission, OSCE, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), OECD-DAC, DFID (UK), CIDA (Canada), International Peace Academy/Institute, Carter Center, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (Canada), Conflict Prevention Network (Berlin), Clingendael Institute (the Hague), Forum for Early Warning and Early Response (London), European Center for Conflict Prevention (Utrecht), International Development Research Centre (Ottawa), and Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Stockholm).

    Earlier, Dr. Lund worked in the U.S. Congress, federal agencies and the Urban Institute; and was founding Director of the Jennings Randolph Fellows Program and Senior Scholar for Preventive Diplomacy at the U.S. Institute of Peace and has taught at Cornell, UCLA, the University of Maryland, George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Affairs. He has a B.D. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Laurie Nathan, PhD

Research Associate – University of Cape Town
Visiting Fellow – Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics

    Dr. Laurie Nathan is a Research Associate at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a Visiting Fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics. He co-ordinates the Centre’s program on regional and international axes of conflict. Between 1992 and 2003 he headed the UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution. He served on the Cameron Commission of Inquiry into Arms Trade (1994-1997); was an advisor on security and defence to several cabinet ministers and parliamentary committees in Southern Africa (1994-2002); and served on the Ministerial Review Commission on Intelligence in South Africa (2006-2008). He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, the Carter Center’s International Council for Conflict Resolution, the Expert Advisory Group of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Democratic Governance Practice Network and the African Union’s mediation team for Darfur. In 2009 he was appointed to the UN’s Roster of Security Sector Reform (SSR) Experts.

    Dr. Nathan drafted South Africa’s White Paper on Defense in 1996 and the South African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Politics, Defense and Security Cooperation in 2001. He has written extensively on the Darfur mediation and is the author, most recently, of No Ownership, No Commitment: A Guide to Local Ownership of Security Sector Reform, University of Birmingham, 2007. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town.

Peter Woodrow, MPA

Partner/Co-Director – Reflecting on Peace Practice Project

    team_peterPeter Woodrow is Co-Director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) project at CDA-Collaborative Learning Projects, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. As Co-Director of RPP, he has been concentrating on RPP’s engagement with governments and NGOs in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, particularly Burundi, Rwanda and eastern DRC. His work with RPP has also included work in West Africa, the Balkans, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

    Mr. Woodrow is an experienced mediator, facilitator, trainer, and consultant, skilled in negotiation, collaborative problem solving, and dispute resolution systems design. He has mediated and facilitated issue resolution within organizations, as well as multiparty environmental and public policy disputes. He has also developed and implemented international programs in consensus building, problem solving, decision making and inter-ethnic conflict resolution in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. He holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a B.A. in Government from Oberlin College.

Chic Dambach, MBA

President & CEO – Alliance for Peacebuilding

    team_chicCharles F. (Chic) Dambach became President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding in November 2005. AfP is a network of private and public organizations dedicated to build sustainable peace and security worldwide. The organization facilitates collaboration and coordination among conflict prevention and resolution professionals, civil society, international organizations, and government agencies.
    Previous national CEO positions include the National Peace Corps Association, Operation Respect, and National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (now Americans for the Arts). He is also a writer, lecturer and consultant on nonprofit governance. He is the North American representative to the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, board chair for the Coalition for American Leadership Abroad (COLEAD), and a member of the board of the J. William and Harriet Fulbright Center. In addition, he serves on the board of CityLit Project in Baltimore.

    In 1998 Mr. Dambach helped form and lead a team of returned Peace Corps Volunteers to work informally with the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia to help end their border war. The team also facilitated joint meetings among the leaders of the combatants in the Congo civil war and participated in the Inter-Congolese Dialogue leading to the formation of a coalition government and the election of the official government. In addition, he served as an official in the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. He was named the Distinguished Alumnus in 2004 by the Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences, and he received the International Platform Association’s Global Coalition Peace Award in 2001. He was inducted into the Worthington (Ohio) Schools Hall of Fame in 2007.

Heinz Krummenacher, PhD – ex officio

CEO – BEFORE

    team_heinzHeinz Krummenacher received his MA (1982) and PhD (1985) in political science from the University of Zurich. He started his professional career with the Swiss Defense Department where he directed a study group dealing with the re-definition of Swiss security policy (1985-1989). Between 1990 and 1992 he served as foreign editor with the Swiss daily newspaper “Der Bund”. Before joining swisspeace in 1998 he was head of the social research department at IHA-GfK, a leading market research institute (1992-1998). At swisspeace he is the managing director and head of the early warning program and the CEO of BEFORE. In addition, he is a member of the UN staff college’s Early Warning Preventive Measures training unit.