Kevin Avruch, a professor and senior fellow at POPP, traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in 2003 where he taught a seminar on “Culture and Conflict Resolution” at Sabanci University. He conducted a workshop, entitled “Culture as Context and Communication: Considerations for Humanitarian Negotiators,” for the Humanitarian Negotiators Network, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, at the Henry Dunant Centre, in Geneva. At the Harvard Program in Negotiation and School of Law, he presented “Overcoming Cultural Barriers in International Negotiations: Success in Diplomacy and International Transactions.”

Robert W. “Bill” Farrand has been serving on POPP’s Advisory Board since 2000. As a career foreign service officer, Bill had been appointed Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu in the early 1990s. In 1997, he was named Supervisor of the contested city of Brcko, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and served in this capacity through May 2000. Bill presently heads up the POPP initiative to establish a Center for Peace and Stability Operations. He just completed a manuscript detailing civilian decision-making in post-conflict peace operations based upon his Brcko experience, to be published later this year.

Dr. Alexander Woodcock, POPP professor, co-edited the recently published The Critical Infrastructure Protection Program: Workshop II Working Papers.