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An Annual Publication by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies 2013 - 2014
Special Edition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the School’s Founding
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Five Decades of Training Global Leaders………2 Social Science Foundation………2 Greetings from Ambassador Hill………3 The Future of the Josef Korbel School………5 2013-2014 Public Diplomacy Speaker Series………6 Leading Global Thinkers………7 Guided by Passion: Ambassador Cindy Courville………8 Golden Alumni………10 An Event of Historic Magnitude………11 A Golden Celebration………12 50th in Washington, DC………13 Meet the 2013-2014 Marc Nathanson Fellows………13 Building Bridges: Professor Zhao and the Center for China-US Cooperation………14 Around the School………16 Welcome to the Korbel School Community………18 Helen Crossley: Public Opinion Research Pioneer………19 Ben Briese: To the Korbel School by way of the Middle East………20 New Program Launched in 2014………22 Q&A with INTS Undergraduate: Meet Christian Allen………24 Internships @ Korbel………26 A Profile in Global Health Affairs………27 Confronting the Arab Winter: Where to Start………28 Spotlight: Mimi Fowler………29 Where are they now?………31
On the Cover Front Cover: Sept. 23, 2014 - the ceremonial turning of the dirt for the Anna & John J. Sie International Relations Complex From Left to Right - Doug Scrivner, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, Dean of the Josef Korbel School; Rebecca Chopp, Chancellor; John J. Sie; Anna M. Sie; Condoleezza Rice (BA ‘74, PhD ‘81); Patricia Livingston, Trustee; Catherine Shopneck, Trustee; and Gregg Kvistad, Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor Inside Front Cover: Dec. 3, 1965 - the ceremonial turning of the dirt for Cherrington Hall From Left to Right - Ben Cherrington; Josef Korbel, Founder & First Dean of the Josef Korbel School; and Chester M. Alter, Chancellor
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Five Decades of Training Global Leaders In 1964, Czech diplomat and international studies pioneer Josef Korbel founded the school that would later bear his name. Since its founding 50 years ago, the Josef Korbel School has become a premier academic institution. Our faculty and interdisciplinary programs have launched many of our 4,700 alumni into leadership roles in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. The success and meaning they have derived from their careers is a living testament to the leadership instilled by the Josef Korbel School.
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Social Science Foundation
Dedicated to Promoting the Study of International Relations An integral piece of the School’s history is the Social Science Foundation. The Foundation traces its origins to 1923, when James H. Causey, a Denver-based investment banker and member of the University of Denver Board of Trustees, donated his equity in the Foster Building and leaseholds to the University of Denver. As a result of prudent financial management, over the next several decades, the Social Science Foundation has been able to provide scholarship funds and support for innovative
programs at the Josef Korbel School, establishing the University of Denver as a major center for international activities within the Rocky Mountain region. Today the Social Science Foundation Board manages an endowment fund that continues to support the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and to advise the University in its internationalization efforts.
Current Social Science Foundation Board
A. Edgar Benton Floyd Ciruli Robert Dean John DeBlasio Josiah Hatch Bruce Heitler Christopher R. Hill
Suki Hoagland John Korbel Tilden J. LeMelle Patricia Livingston James McGibney Krishen Mehta David A. Merkel
Editorial Team
James T. Polsfut Wanda Rapaczynski David Roberts William D. Stanfill (President) Michael Stopford Toni G. Verstandig
David Proper, Director of Communications Brent Forgues, MA Candidate, Student Communications Coordinator Philip Gassert, MA Candidate, Student Communications Coordinator Ann Irving, Director of Development Alicia Kirkeby, Director of Alumni Relations Jennifer Thompson, Associate Dean of External Relations Unless otherwise noted, photos by University of Denver Photographer, Wayne Armstrong 2
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Greetings from
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Dear Alumni and Friends: 2014 was certainly an exciting year for the Josef Korbel School. As the University’s sesquicentennial celebration came to a close, we began our 50th anniversary celebration. Since the School was founded by Josef Korbel, it has been the epicenter for the study of international affairs in the Western US. Throughout its 50-year history, some of the world’s leading global thinkers—students, faculty and renowned guests—have called our school their second home. In this issue of Global Connection you will have the opportunity to learn more about several of the individuals who make the Josef Korbel School community vibrant. Today, we continue the work of realizing Josef Korbel’s vision. Our leading programs prepare students for dynamic careers—providing the practical skills and theoretical knowledge necessary for success. Outside of the classroom, many of our students complete meaningful internships in the US and abroad, and our centers and institutes give students opportunities to work alongside our distinguished faculty, researching and tackling some of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Furthermore, as you will see in the following pages, we remain committed to bringing the world to Denver and providing our students with direct access to the foremost voices in the international arena. Standing on the strong foundation built by Josef Korbel we are poised to reach even greater heights during the next 50 years. Our trail-blazing faculty are already redefining the field of international studies with innovative and forward-looking research. Additionally, we have begun construction on a new state-of-the-art building. This building will adjoin the School’s existing facilities to form the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex—named in honor of the generous philanthropists whose leadership make the new building possible. The technologically advanced Sie Complex will be a hub for training tomorrow’s global leaders and its dazzling blue tower will be a jewel in the University of Denver’s skyline. On behalf of the students, faculty and staff at the Josef Korbel School, I Thank you for your support. Please enjoy this issue of Global Connection. Sincerely,
Ambassador Christopher R. Hill Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
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The Future of the Josef Korbel School At the peak of its 50th Anniversary, the Josef Korbel School began a new era with the ceremonial groundbreaking on the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex—made possible by a generous $17 million donation by the Anna and John J. Sie Foundation. “Ann and I are both immigrants, who had the fortune and the privilege of coming to live and thrive in this great country, America, for more than 60 years,” said John J. Sie. “Being able to give back to the community is the ultimate high.” Mr. Sie, founder and former chairman of Starz Entertainment Group LLC and former member of the University of Denver’s Board of Trustees, along with his wife Anna, previously donated $5.5 million to the Josef Korbel School to support the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy in honor of Mr. Sie’s father, a distinguished Chinese diplomat. “On behalf of the students, faculty and staff of the Korbel School, I sincerely thank Anna and John J. Sie,” said Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, dean of the Josef Korbel School. “Because of their support, the Korbel School will take an enormous leap forward. Their generosity will benefit students of
international affairs for generations to come.” “We are very excited and grateful to the Sies for this opportunity to continue building our international impact with this new complex,” said Rebecca Chopp, chancellor of the University of Denver. The new five story, 46,000 square foot addition will adjoin the Josef Korbel School’s existing facilities to form the Sie Complex, which will house the Josef Korbel School, its undergraduate and graduate programs and its 10 research centers and institutes. According to Hill, a major feature of the Sie Complex will be technology. Hill explained, “The mission of the Korbel School is to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to solve the challenges they will face in our increasingly globalized world. The Sie Complex will be equipped with state-of-the-art tools to ensure that our students have the knowledge and skills needed to excel in their careers. The Josef Korbel School will also be able to increase its ability to communicate with scholars and practitioners around the world. Once it’s complete, students and faculty will collaborate with their peers in the far reaches of the globe.”
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2013-2014 Public Diplomacy Speaker Series Engaging the Community on Today’s Most Pressing Issues Each year, the Josef Korbel School and its Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security & Diplomacy welcome leading voices in international affairs to speak to the next generation of diplomatic leaders and scholars about emerging issues in global security and diplomacy.
Journalists Stephen Kinzer & David Sanger; Topic: Current foreign policy challenges
Professor, UC Irvine School of Law, David Kaye; Topic: International treaties
Ambassador Derek Shearer; Topic: Sports diplomacy
Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Brandon Valeriano; Topic: Cyber conflict
Aspen Institute’s Charlie Firestone; Topic: Using network power to advance public diplomacy
Ambassador Kathleen Stephens; Topic: Experiences as a diplomat
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Leading Global Thinkers
Assoc. Professor Erica Chenoweth Named one of Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers of 2013
Associate professor Erica Chenoweth was named to Foreign Policy magazine’s 2013 Leading Global Thinkers list. The editors of the magazine indicated that Chenoweth received this honor, “For proving Ghandi right.” They further explain, “She uses her data to show that nonviolent campaigns over the last century were twice as likely to succeed as violent ones. She also uses them to make arguments about current events: for instance, why US strikes on Syria aren’t wise and why Egypt’s pro-government sit-ins over the summer were unlikely to work.”
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Transformational Voices: An Afternoon with Leading Global Thinkers Chenoweth invited several of her fellow Leading Global Thinkers from around the globe for a day of engaging conversations. On March 6, 2014, the Josef Korbel School and the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security & Diplomacy hosted Transformational Voices: An Afternoon with Leading Global Thinkers at Denver’s Cable Center. In addition to Chenoweth, participants included: • Economists Thomas Herndon and Michael Ash • Pakistani women’s rights activist Saba Ismail • Climate scientist Stephanie Herring • Documentary film maker Steve Elkins
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Alumni Profile
Guided by Passion Ambassador Cindy Courville (MA 1980, PhD 1988) Beginning at a young age, Ambassador Cindy Courville was guided by her passion to give back to her community—at home and on the global stage.
“My parents, Earnest and Mary Courville, instilled in me that you have to make a contribution,” she explains. As a seventh grader, Courville attended NAACP meetings with her parents. While listening at those gatherings she realized she had the responsibility to try to make the world a more equitable place and open doors for others. So, when her parents gave her the choice of whether or not to attend a newly integrated school, she chose to become one of the first African American students to attend the junior high in Opelousas, Louisiana.
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“We started off with maybe 20 or 30 [African American] kids that eighth grade year,” says Courville. These children experienced the racial prejudice of the Jim Crow South firsthand and many of them left the school. “After about the first month of school, our parents had to drive us because it was not safe on the bus. People spat on you, put gum in your hair. Many of the other students didn’t talk to us so there was a sense of isolation. We were segregated in the sense that only one African American student was in each class except for PE. There were two of us.” Courville adds, “By the end of the year, there were about six of us who stayed.”
ly to shift gears very quickly because at the end of thee day, even if you are nott the expert on the Middlee East, it’s having thosee fundamental, ideologicall understandings of the keyy concepts in international relations as well as analytical and writing skills which allow me to move from one region of the world or from onee functional issue to thee Despite the negativity she experienced, Courville next.” feels that she learned valuable lessons. “It taught me how to persevere and it taught me how to deal with Equally as beneficial,l, adversity.” Courville also formed ed ican Union lasting relationships while le Halls of the Afr Courville’s experiences also sparked a passion for at DU. She points to two wo issues like political repression and state violence. faculty members who had a particularly profound Her interest in these topics led her to the Josef Korbel impact and are still with the School today. “Dr. Tom School of International Studies (known at that time Rowe gave me the insight into the humanitarian as the Graduate School of International Studies). needs of the world and international organizations Courville explains, “When in 1976 or so, it was time which have certainly prepared me for interfacing to make a decision about whether or not I was going and working as the first ambassador to the African to go on for a PhD, I saw a flyer for the University of Union.” She adds, “Dr. Karen Feste, who was a Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies at mentor and later became a friend, also paved the way the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.” Courville in showing how a woman operates in academia and continues, “My history professor said, ‘You need to how you move onto the public sector.” apply.’ I was accepted and chose to attend because there I would have the opportunity Like the students who attend the School today, to look at the subject Courville developed a tight bond with the members matter I was most of her MA and PhD cohorts. “Condoleezza Rice interested in.” is one of the first people who welcomed me to the University. I had the pleasure of meeting her and her In addition to exploring parents who were warm and wonderful and sharp her interests, Courville people. Ahmed Samatar was a key person in my life. ggained valuable skills at Stanley James and Bessie House—to name a couple tthe Josef Korbel School more. We are still very close knit today. We may not tthat she has drawn from see each other on a regular basis but when we enter tthroughout her career. a room, the conversation has never ended and we ““There I refined my just move on from there. And I know those are all aanalytical skills. I use individuals who I could still count on today.” tthose skills every day.” SShe adds, “The flexibility “Cindy’s family, like mine, taught her that she could tthat I think the program excel and overcome any challenges she encountered,” provided, intellectual said Dr. Condoleezza Rice. “I always knew she p flexibility and diversity would go on to accomplish great things and she of subject matters, has would eventually serve our country with honor and o prepared me to be able distinction. She didn’t let us down and these many
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ye years later, I’m still proud to call her, friend.” Since leaving the Josef S Korbel School, Courville K has h enjoyed a successful career in academia as a c member of the political m science faculty at Hanover US Preparing to fly onto the College in Indiana and er aircraft carrier Eisenhow Occidental College in Los Angeles, and in varying roles with the United States Government. While some may see these two sectors as worlds apart, Courville says they complement one another. “In the public sector, those same research skills, conceptual skills, and writing skills transferred. First as a political military analyst, I was doing research that was going to have t a direct impact from theory to practice. The t paper I wrote today was p going to inform a policy g decision tomorrow. Then transitioning to the White House as special assistant to the president, at that point, you are formulating Ambassador Swearing in ceremony policy. Those same concepts now have to be translated into a real world situation that affects the direction that a nation state is going to take.”
After her time as special assistant to President George W. Bush, Courville had the opportunity to implement policy and was appointed the first Ambassador to the African Union. She feels Meeting w/Uganda Ambassador that her biggest success & Minister of Defense in this role was helping to build a better relationship with the African continent. “We [the US] were the first to recognize the African Union. And we still are, if I’m not mistaken, the only country who has a dedicated ambassador,” she explains. Today, Courville is a faculty member at the National Intelligence University located in Washington, DC where, as she says, she is teaching “military and civilian professionals to go out in the world to take their place at the table of intelligence and policy making and implementation.” Like many of the impressive alumni who once walked the halls of the Josef Korbel School over the past five decades, Courville has transformed her passion to purpose and has helped leave the Korbel footprint around the globe. She says, “It is with great pride that I can say that I am a student of the Korbel School.” We are proud of what she and many of our other alumni have accomplished and are honored to name Courville a Golden Alumna.
Golden Alumni In recognition of the Josef Korbel School’s 50th anniversary we asked members of the Korbel Community to nominate an alumna/us who has made a significant global impact as a golden alumna/alumnus. After receiving nominations from alumni, students, faculty and staff, we have selected: • Robert Perito (BA 1964) • Gen. George Casey (Ret.) (MA 1980) • Ambassador Cindy Courville (MA 1980, PhD 1988) Watch the Golden Alumni on our 50th Anniversary video online at: • Pierre Izard (MA 1996) http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/index.html • Gretchen Peters (MA 2012) 10
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An Event of Historic Magnitude Center for Middle East Studies Hosts Webcast with Iran’s Foreign Minister
On Feb. 18, 2014, the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies held an event of historic magnitude—a conversation (via live webcast) with Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif (MA ‘84, PhD ‘88), the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Islamic Republic of Iran and a Josef Korbel School alumnus.
community members. Questions for Zarif were selected from previouslywritten audience submissions. Topics of discussion ranged from the serious—such as Iranian-US relations; the crisis in Syria; internal human rights issues in Iran; and Iranian-Israeli relations—to the lighthearted, including Minister Zarif ’s favorite classes while at the University.
Prior to assuming his current post in August 2013, Dr. Zarif served as Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations (2002-2007) and Iran’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-2002). Video of the webcast can be found online at: http://bit.ly/korbel-zarif-video
The conversation was moderated by the School’s dean, Ambassador The live discussion came shortly after Christopher Hill, and was attended the first day of P5+1 negotiations in by over 200 students, faculty and Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program.
Fast Fact
Currently, two Josef Korbel School alumni serve as their countries’ foreign minister. In addition to Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the current Chilean foreign minister, Heraldo Muñoz (MA ‘76, PhD ‘79) (pictured here shaking US Secretary of State John Kerry’s hand), is a proud Josef Korbel School alumnus. Courtesy of the US State Department
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A Golden Celebration
Korbel Dinner 50th Anniversary Celebration
On Sept. 22, the Korbel community gathered at the Sheraton Denver Downtown to celebrate the Josef Korbel School’s golden anniversary and to honor three individuals who embody the School’s mission and vision.
many people and organizations here in Colorado and around the globe.”
“We believe that robust relations amongst nations, based on mutual respect, mutual understanding, and mutual trust is the cornerstone for world peace and prosperity,” said Mr. At the Dinner, the audience enjoyed Sie on his and Mrs. Sie’s behalf. “The an on-stage conversation between Korbel School, under the leadership Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, of Dean Christopher Hill, is the full dean of the Josef Korbel School, and embodiment of that.” noteworthy alumna of the School, Dr. Condoleezza Rice (BA ‘74, PhD Hill also presented Jeffrey R. Tarr, ‘81). Topics discussed included the CEO and president of Longmont, NFL, Iraq, Russia, immigration Colo.-based DigitalGlobe, with the and much more. Speaking about University of Denver International the School, Rice said, “The Korbel Bridge Builders award for his work School has trained people who building ties between Colorado matter. You have a great faculty and and the international community. a tradition of students who will go “Under Jeffrey Tarr’s leadership, DigitalGlobe’s products and on to matter.” services serve as a vital resource for A highpoint of the evening was the humanitarian aid providers, public presentation of the annual Korbel safety organizations and others in Dinner awards to three individuals making critical decisions,” said Hill. who have significantly impacted “DigitalGlobe is honored to Colorado and the world. participate in the Korbel School’s Hill presented local philanthropists 50th anniversary celebration. We Anna and John J. Sie with the Josef extend our appreciation for the Korbel Humanitarian Award for School’s commitment to educating their generous philanthropic work. future leaders dedicated to foreign Hill explained, “Anna and John are service, international commerce, truly pillars of the community. They and world peace and security,” said have used their acumen and their Tarr. passion in ways that have benefited 12
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Korbel Family Join Alumni for Anniversary Celebration
On Dec. 1, 2014, the Josef Korbel Katherine Silva, John Korbel and School celebrated its 50th anniversary 64th US Secretary of State Madeleine in Washington, DC at a special Korbel Albright. reception for over 200 alumni and The highlight of the evening was friends. an onstage conversation between Special guests at the reception Albright and Dean Christopher Hill included Josef Korbel’s children, followed by audience Q&A.
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Meet the 2013-2014 Marc Nathanson Fellows Two recent graduates of the Josef Korbel School have moved on to Washington, DC and Germany, but take with them the wealth of experience they gained through the Marc Nathanson Fellowship program. The fellowship is awarded each year to high-achieving second-year students at the Josef Korbel School. Rachel Arnold and Elizabeth Caruth were awarded the 2013/2014 Nathanson Fellowship. Through the program, Arnold and Caruth worked with the Aspen Institute to prepare the annual Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology (ADDTech) event held in Aspen and managed the logistics for other events at the Josef Korbel School. The
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ADDTech convenes leaders from the sometimes disparate worlds of diplomacy and technology to address how new technological tools can be better used for public or citizen diplomacy around the world. Past speakers at the conferences include 64th US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and executives from Facebook and Google.
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Institutes Caruth (first person, second row) and Arnold (second person, second row) with attendees at the 2014 ADDTech
“I was excited about the fellowship because it gave me a unique opportunity to research how the State Department conducts public diplomacy,” Arnold said. “The Aspen event was about bringing together some of the people working on topics related to public diplomacy and starting a conversation about what public diplomacy should look like.” Cont. on Page 25 13
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Building Bridges Professor Zhao & the Center for China-US Cooperation
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rofessor Suisheng (Sam) Zhao is in a unique position to help improve US-Chinese relations. That’s because not many people have lived for 30 years in China, and equally as many in the United States, as he has. “I have a dream that China and the US can avoid the socalled Thucydides trap with the established great power and the emerging power colliding inexorably.” Professor Zhao always starts his lectures on US-China relations with this statement. “So a person like myself is so valuable for both sides, because I understand both sides so well,” said Zhao, the director of the Center for China-US Cooperation. “And could be a true bridge to help both the China side and the US side to understand each other.”
Zhao, who joined the center and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in 2001, was born in China in 1954 and moved around the country throughout his childhood. He was among some of the first university students in China to enter the academic world following the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, which had resulted in the closure of most educational institutions across the country for nearly a decade. After earning his master degree in economics at Peking University, Zhao taught international economics and worked in the Chinese government’s Ministry of Finance to deal with the World Bank after China obtained its membership in 1980. However, China’s education system was still recovering following the aftermath of the revolution, and Zhao consequently decided to complete his education in the United States. In 1985, Zhao resumed his academic career as a graduate student, but rather than assisting the World Bank with loans for his native country, Zhao now found himself cleaning and waiting tables in order to finance his tuition in the United States. In this way, Zhao worked his way up in much the same fashion as he had earlier in China, eventually attaining another master degree, this time in sociology from the University of Missouri, and 14
Above: Professor Zhao with President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center Forum on US-China Relations Next Page: (Bottom Left) Professor Zhao speaks with students at Shanghai Ocean University (Bottom Right) Professor Zhao with Dean Hill and Boeing CEO W. James McNerney, Jr.—a speaker with the Centers 2013 Jackson/Ho China Forum (Center) Professor Zhao with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
eventually a PhD in political science from the University of California-San Diego. Yet instead of returning to China, Zhao decided to remain in the US in order to pursue his career and academic ambitions. “I’m a really fortunate person to have this opportunity to live two lives, in the US and in China,” Zhao said. Ultimately, Zhao found himself at the University of Denver, where he has been teaching and working for more than 12 years – longer than he has spent in any other place, and for good reason, too. Since 1992, Zhao has edited the Journal of Contemporary China, which was ranked the number one China studies journal in 2014 based on its impact factor (citation rate) by the news agency Thomson Reuters. Having started the
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journal when he was a graduate student in the US, Zhao has watched it climb in rankings over the years since arriving in Denver, thanks in no small part, he said, to the unending encouragement he has received from the University. “At DU, there is a right academic and supportive environment to make me successful as a professor and scholar, and as an editor of the journal,” Zhao said. “With the leadership of the University and School, and also such a high caliber of faculty members and high quality of staff members, it all makes this such a wonderful place to work in.” The University has also enabled Zhao to now capitalize on his understanding of both countries and work to dispel the misperceptions harbored by their respective populations about each other. Through the advancement of his journal, which is published six times a year now, and the continual hosting of symposia and visiting scholars from around the United States and China by the Center for China-US Cooperation, Zhao aims to further educate the public and policymakers as to how the two nations can work together instead of wrangle and confront each other.
Edited by Professor Zhao, the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is the only Englishlanguage journal edited in North America that provides exclusive information about contemporary Chinese affairs for scholars, businessmen and government policy-makers. The JCC publishes peer-reviewed articles of theoretical and policy research and research notes, as well as book reviews. The journal’s fields of interest include economics, political science, law, culture, literature, business, history, international relations, sociology and other social sciences and humanities. Learn more at http://bit.ly/korbel-jcc
“So that’s the problem I see very often,” he said. “To try to overcome those barriers and find prudent policies.” Although achieving all of this will require much time and work, Zhao said he still considers himself fortunate to do what he describes as his “hobby,” and would even do it if he weren’t paid.
“DU is such a good university, Korbel is such a good school, and running the China center here is such a big “China will have a transition, but it’s own way,” he said. privilege for me,” he said. “China has its own path of modernization.” “I’m doing everything with my whole heart, because that’s what I want to do.” “But we can work with China.” At the same time, Zhao makes many trips to China each Learn more about the Center for China-US year giving lectures and trying to combat the perception Cooperation at http://bit.ly/korbel-china-ctr among Chinese that the US wants to stem China’s rise By Brent Forgues, MA Candidate to power.
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Around the School Center for Middle East Studies Awarded a Centennial Grant
is violent action. With the support of the Carnegie Corporation, researchers at the Sié Center aim to demonstrate the conditions under which nonviolent strategies are effective, thereby building a more robust repertoire of strategies on which policymakers can draw to prevent, contain, and respond to violence such as the current conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
As part of the grant, the Sié Center currently has three post-doctoral fellows who will be in residence for a twoThe Center for Middle East Studies received a $294,200 year term, Oct. 2014-Sept. 2016. With Sié Center faculty Centennial Grant from the Carnegie Corporation and policy community mentors, fellows conduct their of New York. This grant provides fellowships to US own research and contribute to a collaborative research universities in support of social scientists from the Arab effort on nonviolent strategies in violent conflicts region. designed to inform (and be informed by) contemporary To date, the Center has welcomed two visiting scholars. policy concerns and strategies. They are: The first, Mohamad Hamas Elmasry (pictured here), is • Cassy Dorff - PhD candidate in the Political Science a mass communication scholar currently focusing on Department at Duke University Arab and Egyptian news media. The research interests • Devin Finn - PhD candidate in the Department of of the second scholar, Abdullah Al-Arian, include the Government at Georgetown University history of modern Egypt, the history of US foreign policy toward the Middle East, Islamic law, and Islamic • Steven T. Zech - PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington social movements. Sié Center Awarded $1 Million Grant to Bridge the Gap
Pardee Center Awarded $1.05 Million Dept. of Defense Grant
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures has been selected to receive a $1.05 million research grant as part of the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative. The awarded project, “Taking Development (Im)Balance Seriously: Using New Approaches to Measure and Model State Fragility,” will develop a new, more comprehensive index for measuring and Academics and policy leaders alike often imagine that monitoring state fragility in the future. the only serious, effective action against global crises
The Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy was awarded a $1 million, two-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The grant is toward a “Bridging the Academic-Policy Gap” program that will generate and disseminate policyrelevant research on pressing global issues.
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Pardee Center Associate Director Jonathan D. Moyer and Director Barry B. Hughes are the principal investigators on this project. Other co-investigators from the Josef Korbel School include faculty members Erica Chenoweth, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy Sisk. This will be the second Minerva grant awarded to both Chenoweth and Hendrix. The Humanitarian Assistance Program Launches the Humanitarian Assistance Applied Research Group
“Some humanitarian agencies have significant research and evaluation needs that cannot be fulfilled internally due to staffing and other resource and capacity challenges,” explains Courtney Welton-Mitchell, HAARG director. “The students who participate in HAARG will fill these gaps as research assistants— working remotely from the DU campus. Plus, they gain invaluable real world experience and build useful connections with influential people in humanitarian organizations.”
The Josef Korbel School’s Humanitarian Assistance Program launched the Humanitarian Assistance Applied Research Group. Through HAARG students will gain hands-on experience, while providing needed services to humanitarian organizations.
Faculty Notes Associate Professor Erica Chenoweth • Was a Featured Panelist, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 2013 • Identified as a Leading Global Thinker, Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 • Received Karl Deutsch Award, International Studies Association, 2014 • Received Outstanding Achievement in International Studies (OAIS) Blogging Award for Political Violence @ a Glance, Best Group Blog, 2014 • Received Special Achievement Award, University of Dayton Alumni Association, 2014 Professor Micheline Ishay • Took part in a high level meeting of experts concerning the future of human rights and the international criminal justice system: Global
Issues and Their Impact on the Future of Human Rights and International Criminal Justice Visiting Associate Professor Heather Roff • Was an invited expert in a meeting at the United Nations’ Convention on Conventional Weapons where she spoke about the operational considerations and challenges with lethal autonomous weapons systems • Partook in an invited workshop at the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters on the moral and legal challenges of cyberwarfare, and moderated a panel about cyber war and humanitarian challenges
Professor Joseph Szyliowicz • A group of Turkish scholars are updating his dissertation: Political Change in Rural Turkey Adjunct Professor Peter Van Arsdale • Recognized by the Mayor of Lyons, Colorado, for his work on data analysis following the devastating flood of Sept. 2013 • Recognized by the American Anthropological Association for his “five-star article” entitled “Imagining Ethiopia,” published in Anthropology News. Publication occurred Aug. 2014
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Welcome to the Korbel School Community Assistant Professor Oliver Kaplan • •
PhD, Stanford University BA, University of California, San Diego
Kaplan’s research interests include: civil war, human rights, counterinsurgency, foreign development assistance, drug-trafficking issues, civilian protection, social movements, Latin America and Colombia. Kaplan is affiliated with the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and is the Associate Director of the Human Trafficking Center
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PhD, University of California, San Diego MA, University of California, San Diego BA, Kalamazoo College
Hendrix’s primary research focus is in modeling contentious politics – ranging from urban protest to armed conflict – as the outcome of interactions between domestic political institutions, global markets and advocacy networks, and environmental degradation and climatic change. He is co-author of the recently published book Confronting the Curse: The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance. He and co-author Marcus Noland study several examples of how countries have tapped mineral and other wealth only to weaken their domestic institutions and democratic governance. All too often, such actions lead to corruption, the enriching of elites, and even devastating violence and war.
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PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London MPhil, University of Cambridge BSc, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Wedig’s research interests include: agricultural development and rural labour relations; social and solidarity economy in the context of international value chains; education and training reform, labour market regulation and employment promotion; industrialisation and labour informalisation in the context of globalisation; development policy and instruments of international aid.
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Helen Crossley: Public Opinion Research Pioneer Establishes the Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research As a pioneer in global public opinion research, Helen Crossley (MA ’48) has traveled the world — including overseas assignments in postwar Germany and South Korea. But her first trip abroad, in 1937, came about entirely by accident. “The older sister of a friend of mine had run off with a German baron, and her mother went to rescue her. I was invited along to keep my friend company,” Crossley said. “It gave me a chance at the age of 15 to see Hitler’s Europe. I was right there watching it, seeing the Hitlerjugend, the swastikas. The trip opened my eyes to the rest of the world, so that after the war, I picked up my bags and got involved internationally from there on.”
Crossley Center were presented at the international WAPOR conference in Nice, France this fall.
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I was right there watching it, seeing the Hitlerjugend, the swastikas. The trip opened my eyes to the rest of the world, so that after the war, I picked up my bags and got involved internationally from there on
Her gift brings public opinion studies back to DU following a long hiatus. As a graduate student who came to Denver after earning her BA at Radcliffe College (now merged with Harvard), Crossley worked with Professor Don Cahalan, head of the Opinion Research Center then housed at DU. They conducted the groundbreaking Denver Community Survey, which resulted in significant findings on the validity of survey responses.
Crossley’s gift to the Korbel School also honors her father, Archibald, who established the first scientific polling methods with his contemporaries George Gallup and Elmo Crossley spent much of her career working for the United Roper. “I know he would be proud of this contribution States Information Agency at the State Department, and toward educating future public opinion leaders,” said was one of the original organizers of the agency’s cross- Floyd Ciruli, director of the Crossley Center. cultural studies of the American image abroad. She also was instrumental in establishing the World Association Now 93 and living in Princeton, N.J., Crossley still keeps of Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) and served as its up with world events and is an avid reader. She recently first female president. finished Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter—a gift from the Korbel School—which recounts the Nazi Her gift establishing the Crossley Center for Public takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938. For Crossley, the Opinion Research at the Korbel School, which includes book brought strong memories of her own experience support for graduate coursework and fellowships, is the as an impressionable 15-year-old in Nazi Germany. capstone of a lifelong effort to promote the use of public opinion research in international affairs. “It was a short trip,” she said, “but it changed my life.” “I’ve been very much impressed with the growth of the Korbel School and its faculty, and I’m appreciative of what they’ve done in picking up on the whole public opinion area,” Crossley said. “It’s an important field that should get particular attention.” She was especially gratified to learn that two papers originating at the
By Sara Piccini Piccini is a freelance writer based in Virginia She is also the niece to Helen Crossley
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Student Profile
Ben Briese
To the Korbel School by way of the Middle East Ben Briese is a prime example of the high caliber student selected for the Sié Fellowship, a two-year, full-tuition scholarship to the Josef Korbel School awarded each year to ten outstanding master’s degreeseeking students. Briese brings to the Josef Korbel School and the Sié Chéou-Kang Center a wealth of experience and knowledge, enriching the intellectual enterprise of the School and Center. Briese is an MA candidate in the School’s International Security program. He earned a BA summa cum laude from Saint John’s University in Minnesota. While at St. John’s, Briese nurtured his interest in international affairs through his coursework and by participating in a study abroad program in Nepal. While overseas, he completed his undergraduate thesis on the socio-economic impacts of a road development project in the Himalayas. After leaving St. John’s, Briese became interested in conflict and post-conflict societies. He completed an internship with the UN Development Programme in Bosnia-Herzegovina and volunteered for 10 months with the Benedictine Volunteer Corps in Israel. Briese explains, “In Israel, I lived and worked with a group of Benedictine monks on a grassroots peace-building program which brought together Israelis and Palestinians to work through a process of dialogue and mutual understanding.” 20
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In 2011 Briese landed a position with the France-based nongovernmental organization Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED). He describes the organization as “an international NGO that implements a wide variety of humanitarian aid programs such as the provision of water, sanitation and shelter for refugee populations.” During his first six months with the organization he worked at the Middle East regional office in Jordan liaising with donor institutions and developing new project proposals. Then, he worked a year in war-torn Iraq doing monitoring and evaluation. “Our team worked throughout the country in five different provinces,” he says. “We implemented programs to build shelters for internallydisplaced people (IDPs) in Baghdad, vocational training projects in rural areas, and emergency aid to Syrian refugees fleeing into northern Iraq.” Briese ended his tenure with ACTED in embattled Syria. “We were providing basic humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people in Syria who could not cross the border into Turkey,” he explains. “I was part of a small assessment team which would go into new IDP settlements in Syria and assess the needs there in terms of water, food, shelter, and medicine. Then, using GIS [geographic information system] information we collected and satellite images, we would create maps with our needs-assessments integrated and layered on top. This
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provided a really useful tool for other humanitarian organizations; it allowed them to understand where the greatest unmet needs were and allowed them to coordinate with each other to provide aid quickly while avoiding duplication.”
“Ben has been a valuable member of the student team currently mapping the role of private security throughout the world,” said Deborah Avant, professor and director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center. “He is not only plowing through one of the most tumultuous regions (the Middle East) but also made important methodological While working with ACTED—especially in Iraq and suggestions to make the project more efficient. Ben Syria—Briese says that “a Pandora’s Box of questions” is a good example of the benefits of having smart and opened. He adds, “I realized that humanitarian aid serious students working on Sié Center Research.” cannot address underlying problems. It’s basically a band-aid in these situations. My experiences in Bosnia, The Private Security Monitor is a research project that Iraq and Syria challenged me with a series of basic promotes access to information concerning the worldquestions. How can societies transform from peaceful wide use and regulation of private military and security coexistence to brutal violence in such a short period services. “We are currently mapping where private of time? How should the international community security contractors work throughout the world, what respond? What should be the respective responsibilities types of activities they’re involved in as well as the of the UN and the US in such situations?” various events and incidents which have been associated with private security contractors,” says Briese. “This These questions prompted Briese to pursue a graduate will be the first comprehensive global picture of where degree and today, he’s searching for answers to these private security companies are working and what they questions at the Josef Korbel School as a MA candidate are doing. It’s quite an ambitious project and there’s a lot in the International Security program “I feel like the of information to sift through, but the goal is to create a Josef Korbel School is a rising program in international database which will enable future research of the private affairs,” he says. “Korbel is a great place to pursue unique security sector.” and interdisciplinary academic pursuits.” Recently, Briese was awarded the competitive Rosenthal At the School, Briese is a Sié Fellow working with Dr. Fellowship. The Rosenthal Fellowship provides graduate Deborah Avant’s Private Security Monitor research students in international affairs the opportunity to project. Briese, like the other Sié fellows, plays an spend a summer in Washington, DC working on foreign important role in the Center’s research projects and affairs issues at a US federal government agency or has the opportunity to work alongside its expert faculty department. Through the Fellowship he will work with members. “Dr. Avant is one of the leaders in the field Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA). Sherman is a of private security research and she’s also involved member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and us in wider conversations taking place in the policy serves as the senior Democrat on the Subcommittee on community.” International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade.
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Briese says, “I’ll be working with the Congressman’s office specifically on issues related to the Committee on Foreign Affairs including preparing background documents and policy briefs.” In 2015, Briese will complete his MA and will surely begin a fruitful career. He does not have a specific career track in mind, but is exploring the many options that lie before him. “Working in the State Department has always been a long term interest of mine. But during my time at the Korbel School, I’ve learned that there are a lot of possible career paths that interest me. I’m looking forward to exploring a lot of different avenues.”
New Program Launched in 2014
This year the Josef Korbel School launched Korbel in Geneva, a study abroad program offered in conjunction with the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies. For the inaugural group, 10 current students were selected for the program. Each of the students spent 6 months (June - December) in Geneva, Switzerland. There, they completed 2 graduate level courses at the Graduate Institute and an internship with a Genevabased organization. Letters from Geneva From Jordan Reif: I am currently interning in the Program Development & Implementation unit of the HIV & Global Hepatitis department at the World Health Organization headquarters. My experience here has shown me how much goes on behind the scenes to ensure that HIV programs worldwide are successful. I work as a Communications Intern, meaning that I focus on making sure that all of the HIV and Hepatitis 22
information produced by WHO is easily accessible to those who need it, including governments, donors, patients, scientists, and the general public. This internship has helped me apply what I have learned in my Development and Global Health classes in a realworld setting in an organization that is considered one of the leading actors in the public health sphere. This experience has given me amazing insight into the amount of detail and planning that goes into activities developed at the headquarters level, and how the work done in Geneva impacts people on the ground. Outside of my classes at the Graduate Institute, I am also participating in a program called Collaborate for Social Impact. This program teams up with local organizations to come up with innovative ideas to solve some of the world’s problems. My team was given a challenge by UNFPA to come up with a project that will link pregnant women in rural Sudan with emergency transportation. We are designing a project centered around the use of electric bicycle ambulances and text messaging software that can help to map their locations. We will present our idea to UNFPA on December 1, and if chosen as the most innovative idea, we will receive mentoring and
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workshops to further elaborate on the project. From Afton Tyler: Spending six months living and working in Geneva is an excellent next step in fulfilling my personal and career goals. As a speaker of French, and having lived and worked in France before I came to DU, I was thrilled to learn of the opportunity to return to Europe via the Korbel in Geneva program. At the Josef Korbel School, I am pursuing a degree in International Studies, with concentrations in Europe and Environmental Policy. Here in Geneva, I was very fortunate to be offered an internship with the United Nations in the Environment Division of the Economic Commission for Europe; a perfect match for my studies and interests!
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Jimmie Braley interned in the Health in Detention Unit at the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Grace Brown worked in the Economic Security Unit of the International Committee for the Red Cross.
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Kate Castenson worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross in their Water and Habitat Unit
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Christopher Gum worked at the Office of the US Trade Representative-Geneva/US Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization, working directly with Michael Punke, US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization.
I am so grateful to have this experience, and I am thoroughly enjoying my work with the UN. The combination of classes, the internship, and navigating • life in Geneva is a thrilling challenge. With the chance to travel as well, both in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe, this really is an absolutely wonderful experience. I look forward to the opportunities and • places where these six months might wind up leading me after graduation! In addition to Reif and Tyler, the following students took part in the program: •
Kristi Matsunaka interned in the Private Security Governance division of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Nicole Stauch worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Security and Stress Unit Photos Courtesy of Afton Tyler and Jordan Rief
Camden Bowman worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Healthcare in Danger campaign.
Congratulations . . . to the Josef Korbel School students awarded prestigious fellowships during the 2013-2014 academic year.
Harold Rosenthal Fellow Benjamin Briese
Boren Fellowship Chad Bringhurst; Allen Grouse; Shela Rivera Kevin Neighbors
Presidential Management Fellows Program Sonny Nathan Libero; Julie Messersmith
Critical Language Scholarship Christian Allen; Michael Buckley; William Mateo Kevin Neighbors; Porscha Stiger Emerging Market Development Adviser Program W. Ryan Talmage; Autumn Gorman Fulbright Scholarship Christian Allen; Elizabeth Caruth; Amanda Peskin
Grameen Foundation Fellowship Laura Burns USAID/Global Health Fellow Kendra Allen Laihua Scholarship From the Chinese Ministry of Education Stephanie Elizabeth Nelson Japan Travel Program for US Future Leaders Rebecca Hostetler 23
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Q&A with INTS Undergraduate Meet Christian Allen
Please describe the undergraduate international studies (INTS) program. The INTS program here is very open. It gives you such a broad base to really dive in and tailor your degree to your own interests. More than anything else, INTS has exposed me to a lot of different interesting ideas, concepts and issues that we [as a country] face. The experience I’ve had at Korbel has really inspired me to go and work on some of these issues and try and face some of these problems. Is there one INTS class that sticks out in your mind? I’ve taken many phenomenal and challenging classes in the program. One that I always think about is the class I took with Dean Hill. It was spring of 2012. There were 75 graduates and 25 undergraduates in the class and I was lucky enough to get one of the undergraduate spots. The class was about diplomacy – not just broadly but we also learned about some the techniques diplomats use when they are negotiating. We did this really cool simulation and that was a class that really opened my eyes to the type of work diplomats do and the types of challenges they might face. The following summer I did an internship with the State Department. I know I wouldn’t have been interested in doing it before I took that class.
While I was in DC I also completed a fellowship for State Department interns called the Council for American Ambassadors Fellowship. Through this program, I was set up with a former ambassador as a mentor. I worked with G. Philip Hughes. He had been the ambassador to Barbados in the early 90’s and did a lot of work with the Reagan administration. Sitting down with him and picking his brain about what it was like to be ambassador was a phenomenal experience. You mentioned that you are able to tailor your degree to your own interests. What areas are you interested in? I am interested in democratization and China. I just turned in my thesis which was on the politics of Singapore which is a one party state that in some ways is similar to China.
My interest in China stems from my first year in college when I learned about ancient writings from the region, something I hadn’t really been exposed to before that. I really didn’t know much about the cultures of that region – from there I just learned more and more about the region and specifically China. What I find most interesting is the rapid level of change in the past 20 or 30 or even 10 years frankly. Being able to watch the Please tell us more about the internship. The internship was with the Bureau of International country really move is definitely interesting. Information Programs in the Office of Innovative Engagement. That office focuses mostly on digital media So, when I studied abroad I chose China. I was in Beijing and the more effective use of social and digital media in at the China Studies Institute, which is located at Peking reaching foreign audiences. I worked on a few projects University and they helped arrange an internship at an there and reports on social media practices. I got to do English language magazine that’s about Chinese culture some outreach with foreign embassies in DC and met and Chinese language. It’s called The World of Chinese. with some of their social media teams. It was a really I had the opportunity to write interesting pieces, some of which were included in the print magazine. I got to valuable internship. 24
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report on an inaugural triathlon that Beijing was hosting and interviewed athletes from around the world. I’m going back there [China] this summer and to Taiwan. What will you do While you are in China? I’m graduating this June [June 2014] and I am going to China to do more language study as part of the State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship Program. I will be there for 2 months and I recently found out that I also received a Fulbright scholarship for Taiwan. So, after China I will be going to Taiwan as part of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program.
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Nathanson Fellows are also responsible for the planning and logistics of the Public Diplomacy Speaker Series. This annual series of events is a partnership with the Sié Chéou-Kang Center through which the School welcomes prominent policy leaders from around the world to speak with students.
those discussions were mirrored in the classes that I had taken. Plus, after completing the fellowship, I was able to speak directly to how I have a background in public diplomacy.”
Caruth and Arnold graduated in June 2014. Arnold now works at an international advocacy Caruth & Arnold with Ambassador Kathleen Stephens organization. Caruth “It definitely supplemented my education,” Caruth received a Fulbright scholarship and currently teaches said. “I got a lot of practical experience, both with the English at a high school in Germany. research and the event planning. Also, just going to By Philip Gassert, MA Candidate listen to all those speakers was great, along with the fact that I was so involved and I was able to reflect on how
The Nathanson Fellowship was established thanks to the generosity and support of DU alumnus Marc Nathanson
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175 students registered 190 internships spanning 25 countries. 49% of internships were completed outside of the Denver area. Students completed 47 international internships. Oceania: 1% South America: 2%
Internships @ Korbel Students at the Josef Korbel School take a wide variety of classes to earn their master degrees. For many, a wide range of interests can make it difficult to decide on a specific career. Along with help from the Office of Career and Professional Development, many students are learning what they most want to do through the internships they complete during their graduate studies. Rae Ann Bories-Easley is the Director of the Josef Korbel School’s Office of Career and Professional Development and works alongside Associate Directors Melissa Martin and Mira Morton Luna, and Assistant Director Diane Witonsky to help students transform their passion for international affairs into purposeful careers.
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Students interned at 135 organizations: 4% of internships were with nonprofit organizations, 28% with public institutions, 14% with private companies, and 4% with multilateral agencies. The Josef Korbel School awarded $57,975 to eligible students to offset the costs of internship experiences. - $14,975 supported domestic internships outside of the Denver area. - $43,000 supported international internships.
said Nicol. “The internships I’ve had have created really great professional connections that have already given me some good leads for job opportunities, which I’m in the process of applying to right now.” Bories-Easley explained, “Internships are way for students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom. Also, through internships, students get a real sense for what they like, including types of work environments and culture. It’s also a great networking opportunity. A lot of students get their jobs because of their internships, either directly or indirectly through the contacts they made. And they’re a resume builder and a way to show future employers that students are gaining skills along with knowledge.”
Furthermore, the Office of Career Deborah Nicol, a recent alumna, and Professional Development was one of these students. “The seeks to maximize every student’s Office of Career and Professional experience and ensure that it is Development has been fantastic. directly related to their education It was actually one of the things and career goals. that drew me to the Josef Korbel School,” explained Nicol. “It was “It’s an opportunity to get advising reassuring to see that the school through our office,” Bories-Easley isn’t just educating us on theory and added. “Automatically, internship throwing us out into the world. The gets reviewed by Melissa, our career center is very good at helping Associate Director for Internships. fine tune how to express yourself, If she finds that the internship is and in the process it may provide a not degree-relevant she usually has better realization of career focus.” a conversation with the student to find out what they hope to gain.” Nicol, who was in the international development program, completed “Students get not only the experience two internships with UNICEF— but the advising around it. It really the first in Manila, Philippines and forces them to think, ‘What am I another in Geneva, Switzerland. trying to do with this? How does “My goal is to become a child this fit into my career goals?’ We protection officer in the field and don’t want students to get to the end eventually become a coordinator,” of their two years and realize that
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their degree doesn’t match their career goals.”
Deborah Nicol during her internship in Manila, Philippines
In addition to the Office of Career and Professional Development, the School’s faculty is also committed to student success. “Chen Reis, director of the Humanitarian Assistance Program, really offered me great advice. The Humanitarian Assistance Program overall is fantastic. The courses are amazing. The faculty is not only teaching, but they have experience in humanitarian assistance. It helps to
get their perspective rather than just reading theory from a book,” said Nicol. Students at the Josef Korbel School participate in a wide variety of internships, locally, nationally and internationally, and many students complete more than one internship. Students have worked in the field with multilateral organizations, completed policy briefs and research, event planning and some have even done various work for the UN.
A Profile in Global Health Affairs Founded in 2003, Global Health Affairs (GHA)certificate program prepares students to address the key role of health in increasingly multisectoral approaches to development, security, diplomacy, human rights and other areas of focus in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. This year we had the opportunity to speak with one of GHA’s students who is taking the skills he gained in the program to truly create change. Meet Jordan Howard Young, a dual BA/MA student who graduated in June 2014. Howard-Young began his time at DU as an undergraduate after gaining significant work experience. He said, “I majored in international studies and integrated sciences in the biology department. And before that I had done a variety of things. After leaving high school I worked at a church for about a year and a half as a graphic designer and then after that I traveled to Zimbabwe and did some HIV/AIDS education work—in rural Zimbabwe.” As an undergraduate, Howard-Young spent about 6 months doing field research on health access in Palestinian refugee camps. During that time he developed an interest in the Middle East and in infectious disease and access to care. He explained, “In the Middle East infectious disease is a problem and on the social determinant side it’s an even larger problem in some ways because you have some people who won’t even admit that HIV exists in their country. So you have extremely massive stigmas surrounding these things—if you have something in the neighborhood called an HIV clinic then anyone in that neighborhood can see that this person is going to that clinic—and then in some of these places you have health care professionals who just aren’t trained to handle infectious diseases, especially STIs. So, those with sexually transmitted issues struggle with getting health care professionals to act professionally toward them which creates a lot of barriers as well.” After leaving DU, Howard-Young began medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He credits the faculty of the GHA program with providing him with the base knowledge he will need to pursue a career working in an humanitarian assistance setting. He points to one class in particular, “[Dr. Michael Young] invited a panel of HIV infected individuals to come and talk with us. The panel was made up of a number of different people. There were straight white males and African American women and gay males—it was a really broad mix of people to show the HIV epidemic in a cross section. And he opened up the floor and told us that he had spoken to each of them and that we could ask them anything that we wanted.” This experience made such an impression, he adds, “That is the one class that I think I will take with me for the rest of my life.”
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Confronting the Arab Winter Where to Start By Robert Perito (BA, 1964)
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In an arc from Pakistan to Mauritania, the international community is confronted by a region in turmoil as peaceful democratic transitions have stalled and authoritarian regimes and violent extremists have gone on the offensive. In the wake of the Arab Spring revolt, a new military leader has risen to power in Egypt after a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood; Syria’s civil war appears headed toward a showdown between the government and the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); and, Libya’s militias, tribes and cities are choosing sides for a civil war. Traumatic change has created a region with weak and dysfunctional governments, vast ungoverned spaces, porous borders, and jihadis, militias, and tribal forces.
of a caliphate is the latest development in a decadelong war between Sunni and Shiite Moslems and their patrons in the Gulf States and Iran. Concurrently, the franchising of al-Qaeda brand jihads has provided legitimacy, license and motivation to groups across northern Africa and the Sahel. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was described in a RAND study as indistinguishable from other criminal gangs engaged in kidnapping and cigarette smuggling before its leader announced his allegiance to al Qaeda.iii
The spread of religious extremism has coincided with the proliferation of weapons looted from Libyan arms depots and arms smuggled into Syria by the Gulf States. Weapons proliferation has supported the rise The emergence of a critical region rocked by violence of militias, terrorists and tribal forces in Libya where has occurred at a time of indecision in world affairs rivals have coalesced into Islamist and secular factions when previous models for foreign intervention no backing rival parliaments and supported by foreign longer apply. The United Nations will not repeat the patrons. Weapons proliferation has also fueled the rise mega-peace operations that were conducted in Bosnia of terrorist groups operating in northern Mali, Nigeria, and Kosovo during the 1990s. The United States is and other parts of the Sahel. unlikely to engage in operations on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. These operations were borne of euphoric The spread of religious extremism and armed groups confidence in the superiority of the Western democratic has been funded by the expansion of organized crime, model after the fall of the Soviet Union and were particularly trafficking in drugs, weapons and people. paid for by growing economies.i That confidence has Historically, the Sahel was vulnerable to cross border vanished in a time of recession and Russian resurgence. smuggling due to weak governance, grinding poverty At the United Nations on September 24, 2013, President and uncontrolled borders. This activity was tolerated Obama said the United States has a “hard-earned by regional governments that allowed tribes to earn a humility” about its ability to determine events in other living from smuggling as an alternative to providing development assistance. This changed after the Algerian countries.ii civil war, the proliferation of weapons from Libya and Beyond a crisis in confidence, the US is frozen in place the rise of the cocaine trafficking from West Africa. by its limited capacity to deal with the three drivers of The mix of narcotics, weapons and ideology has conflict in the region: religious extremism, weapons created a dangerous trade in high value commodities proliferation and organized crime. ISIS declaration that generates illicit wealth and provides the financial Cont. on Page 30 28
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Spotlight: Mimi Fowler
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In the spring of 2012, Mimi Fowler (MA ’71) requested an appointment to meet Dean Christopher Hill. During the course of the meeting, she decided the best way to support the school was to endow a scholarship. With the significant incentive of the dollar for dollar match by the University, Mimi established a scholarship for Josef Korbel School students from underserved countries. Furthermore, she hoped these students would take the knowledge and skills they learned at the School and apply them back in their own countries. Since establishing the initial scholarship in 2012, Mimi added to the fund in 2013 with an irrevocable bequest commitment. Mimi grew up near Philadelphia, and attended American University, then graduated from Denison University where she received a Future Teachers Fellowship. Mimi then went on to study at the Josef Korbel School, where she remembers outstanding faculty, a close cohort of students and the study carrels on the first floor where many of the students could be found, especially leading up to finals week. Mimi joined the Peace Corps in 1975 and journeyed to the Republic of Korea where she taught middle school English and trained Korean teachers. (A member of her Peace Corps group was Kathleen
Stephens who went on to serve as the US ambassador to South Korea from 2008-2011. Ambassador Stephens visited the School in 2014.) While in Korea, Mimi created a health food cookbook which was printed by the Peace Corps. Having grown up with a mother who was a dietician and mostly fed healthy food to her family, Mimi was able to impart a collection of meals that utilized healthy ingredients that could be found in the area. After she left the Peace Corps in 1977, Mimi taught English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults, many of whom were immigrants or refugees. She was involved with the Family Literacy program at Metropolitan State University. Mimi is now retired and divides her time between Grand Lake, CO and Venice, FL. She remains engaged in the Korbel School when she is in town. In 2012, Mimi traveled to six countries in Africa, further enhancing her resolve to help bring international students to the US She proudly notes that the two things that most dramatically changed her life were the Peace Corps and the Josef Korbel School. Mimi hopes that through the Mimi Fowler Scholarship Fund, more international students might be motivated to come to the School. We are pleased to have the support of our dedicated alumni. For information about establishing a scholarship for students at the Josef Korbel School, contact Ann Irving, at ann.irving@du.edu or Jennifer Thompson at jennifer. thompson@du.edu
Thank You to both Robert Perito & Mimi Fowler who have established scholarships. And to all of the alumni, faculty, staff and community members who make it possible for Josef Korbel students to receive a world-class education.
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Confronting the Arab Winter Cont. resources to fund insurgent and terrorist activities. Against these security challenges, the preferred US tools of air strikes and Special Operations Forces have limited utility. Instead, as General Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has pointed out “It requires the application of all of the tools of national power— diplomatic, economic, information and military.”iv The first step in organizing such a broad based approach is to develop a narrative that describes our intentions in a manner that resonates with the region. The extremists have a simple message that attracts adherents: They are defending Islam and all believers should join their cause. Before going further, we need to define our purpose in language that the people we want to help will understand. We can then organize the elements of national power to accomplish our goals. About the Author Robert Perito is the Executive Director of the Perito Group, LLC, which advises the US and foreign governments on reforming security sector institutions, and a consultant to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Previously, Mr. Perito was the Director of USIP’s Center of Innovation for Security Sector Governance and the Director of the Institute’s Peacekeeping Lessons Learned Project. Recently he developed and taught a USIP Academy course on New Peacekeeping Strategies Following Violent Regime Change. Prior to joining USIP, Mr. Perito served as Director of the Justice Department’s International Criminal
Investigation Training Assistance Program, supervising police development programs during peace operations in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Mr. Perito was a United States Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State, retiring with the rank of Minister Counselor. He served as director of the Offices of International Criminal Justice, Chinese Affairs, Southern African Affairs, and Eastern European Affairs and was Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State. His diplomatic assignments included Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United Nations. Mr. Perito served in the White House as Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Staff. He was Director of the Office of Chinese and Southeast Asian Affairs at the Department of Commerce. Mr. Perito was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and a rural development Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria. He is the author of Where is the Lone Ranger? America’s Search for a Stability Force (Second Edition) and The American Experience with Police in Peace Operations; coauthor of Police at War: Fighting Insurgency, Terrorism and Violent Crime; editor of a Guide for Participants in Peace, Stability and Relief Operation; plus reports, book chapters and journal articles. Mr. Perito received an MA from George Mason University in Peace Operations Policy and a BA from the University of Denver in International Relations. He is a graduate of the State Department Foreign Service Institute School of Chinese Language and Area Studies.
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Michael Ignatieff, “Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now,” in The Syria Dilemma, Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, eds. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2013, pp. 51-52.
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“Text of Obama’s Speech at the UN” The New York Times, September 24, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/us/politics/ text-of-obamas-speech-at-the-un.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Christopher Chivvis and Andrew Liepman, “North Africa’s Menace: AQIM’s Evolution and the US Policy Response, “ RAND Corporation, 2013 http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR415.html
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Michael Gordon and Helene Cooper, “US General Says Raiding Syria is Key to Halting ISIS,” The New York Times, August 21, 2014, http://nyti.ms/1mqVjbB
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Yves Lagier: Self, Intercultural Training
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John Ambler: Recently Retired, Oxfam America, Vice President Strategy
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Nancy Girard: City Of Boston, Commissioner, Dept Of Environment
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Naeem Inayatullah: Ithaca College, Professor
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Rune Stroem: Asian Development Bank, Director, Energy Division, Central and West Asia
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Greg Cashman: Retired, Salisbury University, Professor Emeritus 1990:
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Ruth Roded: The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, • Professor Emerita
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Nadeem Siddiqui: International Finance Corporation (Ifc), World Bank Group, Head, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Paul Trivelli: University Of Miami, Visiting Professor 1991: • Pat Scholer: Medicom, Inc., National Accounts 1979: Manager • Kenneth Ellison: Retired, Senior Associate for • Julie Shipman (McMahan): Self, Business Owner; Governance and Institutional Development Travel Photographer • Joseph Gitari: Ford Foundation, Senior PT 1992: •
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Aimie Mims (Langenfeld): Hdr, Inc., Right Of Way Project Manager
Helen Lowman: Peace Corps, Associate Director/ Volunteer Recruitment and Selection • Connie Ostwald (Harris): Coaching To Authenticity, Executive Coach • Jacek Lubecki: Georgia Southern University, Director Of The Center For International Studies • Jamie Wakefield: Government, Analyst 1994: 2003: •
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Samira Rajabi: University Of Colorado, Doctoral • Marie Pierson: Goldman Sachs and Co, Associate Candidate • Garrett Schiche: Lutheran World Relief, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager Maria Van Der Maaten: Iowa State University, Research Assistant 2010:
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Arie Pals: Department Of The Interior, Legislative Affairs Specialist
Sarah Hunt: Sublette County Sexual Assault and Family Violence Task Force, Violence Prevention Coordinator
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Joel Portman: Centene Corporation, Manager, Network Development
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Hellen Kassa: Silicon Valley Tech Partners, Business Development: East Africa
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Matt Cullen-Meyer: Dsst Public Schools, Financial Analyst
Victoria Neff: The Cambridge Institute Of • International Education, Collaborative Programs Lead Consultant • Erica Rosenfield: University Of Toronto, Doctoral • Candidate
Kate Davidson: Colorado Department Of Health Care Policy and Financing, Payment Reform Analyst
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Jacob Hancock: Varienz Llc, Managing Partner
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Jody Haskin: International Organization For Adolescents (Iofa), Program Assistant
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Sara Hein: Compassion International, Program Assistant
Natalie Harden: South Metro Denver Small Business • Development Center, Assistant Director
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Christopher Estoch: US Department Of State, Foreign Service Officer
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Sajay Menon (Kattani): The Carter Center'S Guinea Worm Eradication Program, Regional Coordinator
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Julie Messersmith (Phillips): Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Director Of Foundation Relations
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Maureen Pacheco: Absio, Digital Marketing Manager
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Christi Sletten: United Nations Development Programme, Policy Analyst
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Loren Speer: Fema - Boulder County Flood Recovery, Community Outreach
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Mark Sturgeon: US Army, Foreign Area Officer
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Elizabeth Wagner (Presley): US Federal Government, Military and Political Analyst
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Hannah Wiggers (Schultz): University Of Washington, Organizational Change Management
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