Social Science Research Council
Tatiana Carayannis is Associate Director of the Social Science Research Council’s Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. Until 2006, she was based at the City of New York University's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies where she directed a research project on the United Nations. Prior to that, she was an adjunct instructor in international relations at CUNY and before that a researcher at the Carnegie Corporation of NY. Tatiana is an experienced field researcher with resident knowledge of West and Central Africa and excellent familiarity with key state and non-state armed actors involved in the DRC wars of the last decade, particularly the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC). She has published widely on the Congo wars, UN peacekeeping, local, national and global war networks in the Great Lakes region, the recruitment and demobilization of minors in irregular armed forces, and the agenda-setting role of UN humanitarian and development ideas. She has also consulted for several multilateral agencies and NGOs on these issues. Tatiana is co-author of UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Indiana University Press, 2005) and currently working on her second book, Pioneers of Peacekeeping: ONUC 1960-1964 (Lynne Rienner Press, forthcoming). She is a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar, a recipient of two Mellon Foundation grants on Security and Humanitarian Action, and several institutional dissertation fellowships. She is currently completing a Ph.D. on conflict networks and hybrid wars in Central Africa.
Last Thursday night, we lost an outspoken and cherished activist, analyst, and friend, and a “most valuable player” of the Great Lakes family of analysts. Alison’s colleagues and friends in Africa, the United States, and in Europe cannot shake the irony that she survived war zones and patched-up Antonovs in remote locations of the globe, [...]
Read the rest of Alison Des Forges.Fifty years before Barack Obama’s historic election last November, a group of American intellectuals met in New York to begin thinking about what a new American policy toward Africa might look like at the beginning of a decade of profound global change. That informal gathering, led by Immanuel Wallerstein, David Apter, Wayne Fredericks and others—along with the “New American Policy Toward Africa” (PDF) they signed their names to—eventually became the blueprint for President John F. Kennedy’s Africa policy.
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