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Global Health Diplomacy
Workshop

March 11–13, 2007
UC San Diego


Project Background
March 2007 Conference Agenda
March 2007 Conference Participants
Working Papers and Abstracts

Conference Participants

Organizers

Vincanne Adams, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
History and Social Medicine
UC San Francisco

Thomas E. Novotny, M.D., M.P.H.
Education Coordinator
Global Health Sciences
UC San Francisco

Steven Blount, M.D.
Director
Coordinating Office for Global Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Department of Health and Human Services

Susan Shirk, Ph.D.
Director
UC Institute on Global Conflict
and Cooperation

Participants

Julia Aledort
Barbara Cohen
Peter Cowhey
Nils Daulaire
Jeff Davidow
Haile Debas
David Fidler
Laurie Garrett
Jacob Gayle
Roger Glass
Alex Greninger
Delon Human
C. William Keck


Jerry Keusch
Randall Kuhn
Theresa MacPhail
Chad Martin
Craig McIntosh
Colleen Murphy
Vinh-kim Nguyen
Mark Nichter
Ijeoma Okeigwe
Adriana Petryna
Paul Rabinow
Jaime Sepulveda
Daniel Wehrenfennig
Vincanne Adams, Ph.D.
UC San Francisco

Vincanne Adams is a professor of medical anthropology and director of the graduate program in the department of anthropology, history, and social medicine at UC San Francisco. Her research interests include the social conditions and epistemological framings of integrative medicine, international health development, women's health and health care in Tibet, and theories of modernity in relation to morality. She has worked for 22 years on medical anthropology topics such as medical pluralism, medicine and social change, and more recently on the politics of clinical trials research in the Himalayan region (Nepal and Tibet). She is also interested in global studies of science, technology, and medicine, and particularly the postcolonial exchange of scientific activities (from labs to field sites, informed consent procedures to the residual problem of spirit-caused disorders). Dr. Adams is the author of three books, including Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution and Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective.


Julia Aledort, Ph.D.
RAND Corporation

Julia E. Aledort is a policy researcher at RAND, where she applies decision analytic methods to topics in global and domestic public health prevention and infectious disease policy. Using a range of modeling methods, her work has explored the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health and medical technologies, including screening, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and the transmission of antibiotic drug resistance. Her current projects focus on modeling non-pharmaceutical public health interventions for pandemic influenza; estimating the health benefits of new diagnostic technologies for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in resource-poor settings; quantifying the cost of antiretroviral treatment scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa, and examining the cost and health implications of expanding public coverage for hepatitis treatment in the United States. Prior to joining RAND, Aledort worked as a health economist in the pharmaceutical industry where she was responsible for the design, implementation, and global communication of cost-effectiveness models and quality-of-life studies for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C compounds in development.


Barbara Cohen, Ph.D.
PLoS Publications

Barbara Cohen is the executive editor of PLoS Publications and the senior editor of PLoS Medicine. She has a Ph.D. in genetics from Munich University based on research conducted at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She was an EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg before joining the editorial staff of Nature in London in 1994. At Nature, she was responsible for the evaluation of manuscripts in genetics, development, cancer, and plant science. In 1997, Cohen moved to New York and became editor of Nature Genetics. After three years at the helm of that journal, she joined the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research to head the office of communication. Missing the world of science publishing, Cohen moved to the Journal of Clinical Investigation as its executive editor in 2001. In 2003, she joined the Public Library of Science as a senior editor and open-access advocate. She initially worked on PLoS Biology, the first PLoS journal launched. Having developed over the years a strong interest in medical research, Barbara spearheaded the development of PLoS Medicine and now spends most of her time on that journal. As the executive editor, she is also responsible for editorial policies across all PLoS publications.


Peter Cowhey, M.A., Ph.D.
UC San Diego

Peter Cowhey is the associate vice chancellor for international affairs and dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego, where he is the Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy. He is an expert on trade and technology policy. He has published extensively on comparative foreign policy and international issues involving Asia and the United States. Cowhey is currently co-leader of the IGCC project on biological threats and public policy and is a member of the board of directors of the Grameen Foundation USA, the U.S. foundation supporting the work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.


Nils Daulaire, M.D., M.P.H.
Global Health Council

Nils Daulaire is president and CEO of the Global Health Council, the world’s largest membership alliance of public health professionals and organizations working in more than 100 low-income countries, and dedicated to raising the attention, resources, and knowledge needed to improve health worldwide. He served in the 1990s as USAID’s deputy assistant administrator for policy and was the U.S. government’s senior international health policy advisor, serving as negotiator at numerous international conferences. Previously he worked for two decades on developing and managing maternal and child health services in developing countries, and on field research to identify and validate effective and high-impact health interventions to reduce child deaths. A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the National Academy of Science’s prestigious Institute of Medicine, testifies frequently before Congress, and has appeared widely in the national and international media on global health issues.


Jeffrey Davidow, M.A.
Institute of the Americas

Jeffrey Davidow assumed the presidency of the Institute of the Americas in La Jolla, California on June 1, 2003 after retiring from a 34-year career in the State Department. He holds an appointment as adjunct professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego. During his time in the Foreign Service, Ambassador Davidow focused much of his efforts on improving relations with Latin America. He served in increasingly senior positions in the U.S. embassies in Guatemala, Chile, and Venezuela, and then later returned to Venezuela as ambassador from l993 to 1996. From 1996 to 1998, he was the State Department's chief policy maker for the hemisphere, serving in the position of Assistant Secretary of State. He then served as ambassador to Mexico from 1998 to 2002. After leaving Mexico in September 2002, he returned to Harvard to become a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. His book, The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine was first published in Spanish in Mexico by Casa Editorial Grijalbo and in English by Markus Weiner Publishers in 2004.


Haile T. Debas, M.D.
UC San Francisco

Haile Debas is the executive director of Global Health Sciences at UC San Francisco as well as the Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery. A native of Eritrea, he received his M.D. from McGill University and completed his surgical training at the University of British Columbia. Prior to becoming dean he served as chair of surgery at UC San Francisco for six years. Under Dr. Debas's stewardship, the UCSF School of Medicine became a national model for medical education, an achievement for which he was recognized with the 2004 Abraham Flexner Award of the AAMC. Dr. Debas also spearheaded the formation of several interdepartmental and interdisciplinary centers of excellence and was instrumental in developing UCSF's new campus at Mission Bay. He has held leadership positions with numerous membership organizations and professional associations. One of the few surgeons to be elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a member of the Institute of Medicine. He currently serves on the United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa and on the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences.


David Fidler, M.Phil., J.D.
Indiana University School of Law

David Fidler is a professor of law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington.


Laurie Garrett
Council on Foreign Relations

Laurie Garrett is currently the senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. As a medical and science writer for Newsday, in New York City, she became the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: The Peabody, The Polk (twice), and The Pulitzer. Garrett is also the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Over the years she has also contributed chapters to numerous books, including AIDS in the World, edited by Jonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola and Thomas Netter; and Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases, edited by Mary E. Wilson. She is an expert on global health with a particular focus on newly emerging and re-emerging diseases; public health; and the effects of both on foreign policy and national security.


Jacob A. Gayle, Jr., M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
Ford Foundation

Jacob Gayle joined the Ford Foundation in 2005 as deputy vice president, to serve as focal point for the foundation's HIV/AIDS initiative. Immediately prior to arrival at the foundation, Gayle was employed for more than 16 years through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During this time, he served in Atlanta as special assistant to the HIV director on matters pertaining to racial and ethnic U.S. minority populations, as well as acting special assistant for HIV and behavior. From 1992 to 2005, Gayle completed CDC assignments to the Carter Center, USAID, UNAIDS, the World Bank, and the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations, with long-term assignments in South Africa, Barbados, Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland.


Roger I. Glass, M.D., M.P.H.
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health

Roger I. Glass is the associate director for international research and director of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH). His first position at NIH was at NIEHS, where he was the special assistant to the director, Dr. David Rall, and worked with the NIEHS collaborative program with the Soviet Union. He spent 30 years in the public health service at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the environmental hazards branch, then at the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases in Bangladesh, again at NIH in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and most recently, as chief of the Viral Gastroenteritis Unit at CDC. He holds his M.D. and M.P.H. from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from the University of Goteborg, Sweden, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.


Alex Greninger, M.Phil., M.S.
UC San Francisco

Alex Greninger is currently a second- year M.D./Ph.D. student at UC San Francisco. He has an M.Phil. in epidemiology from the University of Cambridge and M.S. in biological sciences from Stanford University, with honors in international security studies from Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Greninger has interned with the SARS team at WHO Geneva and worked on defining dangerous research for the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland’s Controlling Dangerous Pathogens project. He hopes to do his Ph.D. at UC San Francisco on virus discovery and diagnostics.


Delon Human, MBChB, MPraxMed, MFGP, DCH, MBA
Health Diplomats

Delon Human is the president of HEALTHDiplomats, a strategic consulting and advocacy firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. Comprised of a global network of experts, proven leaders, and diplomats in the field of health care, it works closely with UN agencies, global health care companies, health professional associations, patient groups, and other NGOs. It provides strategic advice to governments and companies in the field of health care policy and systems. He is also the secretary-general of the Africa Medical Association (AfMA), the continental representative voice for African physicians and the immediate past secretary-general of the World Medical Association, a global federation of national medical associations representing the millions of physicians world-wide. He serves on multiple boards and has been made a life member at the International Federation of Medical Student Associations and the Romanian Medical Association. He is a fellow of the Russian and Romanian Academies of Medical Sciences.


C. William Keck, M.D., M.P.H.
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

C. William Keck is professor and associate dean of the department of community health sciences at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, and former director of health for the city of Akron. He holds an M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University and an M.P.H. degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is past president of the American Public Health Association, the Council on Education for Public Health, the Ohio Public Health Association, the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners, the Summit County Medical Society, and currently chairs the Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice. Dr. Keck is board certified in preventive medicine/public health and is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. His career has been focused on providing quality public health services, teaching community health sciences to medical and other health professional students, and linking public health practice with its academic bases.


Gerald Keusch, M.D.
Boston University

Jerry Keusch is a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Medical School. He has been involved in academic medicine for his entire career, currently as professor of medicine and international health at Boston University where he serves as associate provost for global health for the university and associate dean for global health at the School of Public Health. His research has focused on infectious diseases relevant to developing countries, from molecular pathogenesis to field research on diarrheal disease, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS. He is the author of over 300 original publications, reviews, and book chapters, and the editor of eight scientific books. Over his career he has received the Squibb, Finland, and Bristol awards for research excellence from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Research, the Association of American Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, where he serves on the Board on Global Health and the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. Prior to his present appointment, Dr. Keusch was associate director for international research and director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.


Randall Kuhn, M.A., Ph.D.
Denver University


Randall Kuhn joined the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies in 2006 as assistant professor and director of the Global Health Affairs program. A demographer and sociologist by training, his research focuses on the impact of migration, social change, programmatic interventions, and natural catastrophes on health and well-being in disadvantaged communities throughout the world. In particular, he emphasizes the role of family and community in determining these impacts. Kuhn's current work addresses health and life impacts of migration on the left behind in Bangladesh and Indonesia, community impacts of the tsunami in Sri Lanka, and the socioeconomic consequences of HIV/AIDS for families in South Africa. Kuhn's methodological expertise is in the collection and analysis of health and migration data, qualitative/quantitative methodology, and analysis of vital registration data. He spent two years living and conducting qualitative fieldwork in Bangladesh. He has also been active in building international, interdisciplinary networks aimed at fostering research collaboration and sharing research capacity among institutions in the global North and South, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.


Theresa MacPhail, M.S.
UC Berkeley

Theresa MacPhail completed an interdisciplinary master's degree in science studies at New York University, exploring the philosophical implications of retroviral remnants in the human genome. Her thesis, "The Viral Gene," was published in the journal Science as Culture. After finishing her degree, she moved to Hong Kong, where she lived for three years studying Chinese and doing on-the-ground research on bird flu. Currently, she is in the Medical Anthropology program at UC Berkeley, focusing on the bird flu virus as a potent symbol for the intersection of international politics, global public health, and biosecurity.


Chad O. Martin, M.P.H.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chad O. Martin is entering his fourteenth year at CDC and currently serves as the deputy strategy and innovation officer for the Coordinating Office for Global Health. Specializing in U.S. and internally-based community-level HIV prevention for many years, Martin spent much of his career designing, implementing, and managing community, regional, national, and international public health programs. Some of his accomplishments at the CDC include: conducting a utilization assessment on International Public Health Human Capacity Development programs from CDC; leading a cross-discipline international team on planning and development for CDC’s international portfolio; implementing a social network analysis of high-risk populations in Belize for improved HIV testing; leading two teams that drafted a national and international strategy for HIV prevention among youth; leading an innovative transnational partnership project for USAID and CDC. As well he has served as technical advisor on HIV issues to the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, multiple ministries of health, other federal departments, and many international and local agencies providing HIV prevention and care services; and served as a principal on the team that developed and launched “Respect Yourself Protect Yourself” and “Smart Sex” (TV special with MTV), both of which won the highly acclaimed Achievement in Public Relations Award. Martin has worked extensively to implement programs in the United States, Southern Africa, Western Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Group for the African Youth Alliance and Family Health Productions and he has been awarded: The Global Advocate for Youth Award from Advocates for Youth; the Directors Distinguished Service Award from CDC; a Producers Award for Creativity; and the Director’s Special Service Award from Family Health Productions. Recently Martin was given three commendations for services with survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Martin earned his M.P.H. at Emory University and just recently completed his course work in cultural identity development, working toward a Ph.D. at Emory University.


Craig McIntosh, Ph.D.
UC San Diego

Craig McIntosh is an assistant professor of economics at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. He is a development economist whose work focuses on program evaluation. His main research interest is the design of institutions which promote the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs. He has conducted field evaluations of innovations in microfinance in Central America and East Africa, and is currently working on projects analyzing the impact of credit bureaus in Guatemala and the introduction of mobile telephony in rural Rwanda.


Colleen Murphy
International Medical Corps


Colleen Murphy is a public health professional with ten years of experience in global health research and operations. Murphy recently joined the Santa Monica-based International Medical Corps (IMC) to develop, implement, and evaluate IMC’s new domestic program initiatives. She came to IMC from Westat, where she performed research, analysis, and project management for its clinical trials area. Previously, Murphy was a senior research associate with the Global Health Council in Washington, D.C. There she conducted applied research and promoted the use of evidence-based research findings by global health decision makers. Murphy came to the Council from the United Arab Emirates where she worked as a research associate responsible for primary and secondary research projects throughout the Middle East and North Africa. She received her bachelor’s degree in international affairs from James Madison University and her postgraduate diploma in epidemiology from the University of London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Currently, she is completing a masters of science in epidemiology also from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.


Vinh Kim Nguyen, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.
University of Montreal

Vinh Kim Nguyen is an associate professor in the department of social and preventive medicine at the University of Montreal. As an HIV physician and medical anthropologist, his research concerns the biosocial dynamics of HIV epidemics and their broader political consequences. He has examined the historical context of the epidemic in Côte d'Ivoire, showing how colonial and postcolonial bio-social processes shaped subsequent HIV epidemics as well as the response to them. Dr. Nguyen’s fieldwork with community-based organizations and activists in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire has explored the cultural and political dimensions of the response to the epidemic, focusing particularly on the biosocial and political implications of therapeutic activism and the growing use of antiretrovirals in Africa. In addition to its critical engagement with public health, this research speaks to broader debates in anthropology concerning globalization, the state, and the politics of humanitarian intervention


Mark A. Nichter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of Arizona

Mark A. Nichter is Regents professor, and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, having joint appointments in the departments of family medicine and public health. Nichter is one of the most experienced medical anthropologists working in the field of global health, having conducted extensive research on child survival, infectious and vector-borne diseases, pharmaceutical practice, and tobacco control in South and South East Asia. Nichter coordinates the graduate training program in medical anthropology at the University of Arizona. He has served as an advisor to the International Network of Clinical Epidemiology for over twenty years and is past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology.


Thomas E. Novotny, M.D., M.P.H.
UC San Francisco

Tom Novotny is the education coordinator of Global Health Sciences, the director of international programs at the School of Medicine and a professor in residence in epidemiology and biostatistics at UC San Francisco. A graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the UCSF Family Practice Residency in Santa Rosa, California, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he served for 23 years in the United States Public Health Service. During that career, he was a national health service corps family physician in northern California, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC liaison to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and CDC liaison to the World Bank. He completed his government service as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Refugee Health in the Department of Health and Human Services at the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. His research now focuses on global tobacco control, HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, and health policy.


Ijeoma Okeigwe
UC Berkeley

Ijeoma Okeigwe is in the final semester of her master of public health program at UC Berkeley. As a student within the health policy and management division, her interests primarily lie in international health policy and efforts to ensure that the indigent have access to safe and affordable pharmaceuticals and care. She spent the summer of 2006 in Nigeria as a Bixby Program in Population, Family Planning & Maternal Health intern. While there, she worked with a Nigerian health system to conduct their strategic planning and the development of their clinical training program in the use of misoprostol for the management of post-partum hemorrhage. She also created their HIV/AIDS and post-partum hemorrhage monitoring and evaluation systems. She currently works as a contractor for Alameda County where she liaises with representatives from the school district, high school, the Berkeley Public Health Department, students, and parents to determine how best to reduce barriers to learning and ensure that all students have access to adequate physical and mental health support services. After graduation, her plan is to begin medical school and continue to develop her international health skills. Her long-term goal is to integrate her medical and public health background and do everything that she can to promote global health and ensure that the indigent have a better chance at life.


Adriana Petryna, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Adriana Petryna is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1999. She is a medical anthropologist specializing in the social and political dimensions of science and medicine in the United States and Eastern Europe. Her current research focuses on drug development and offshore clinical trials. Her publications include Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl and a co-edited volume, Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices.


Paul Rabinow
UC Berkeley

Paul Rabinow is a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, where he has taught since 1978. He received a Guggenheim fellowship (1980); was a visiting Fulbright professor at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1987); taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1986) as well as the École Normale Supérieure (1997), and was a visiting Fulbright professor at the University of Iceland (1999). His work has consistently centered on modernity as a problem: a problem for those seeking to live with its diverse forms, a problem for those seeking to advance or resist modern projects of power and knowledge. This work has ranged from descendants of a Moroccan saint coping with the changes wrought by colonial and post-colonial regimes, to the wide array of knowledges and power relations entailed in the great assemblage of social planning in France, to his work of the last decade on molecular biology and genomics. His current research centers on developments in post-genomics and molecular diagnostics. It seeks to invent an analytic framework to understand the issues of biopolitics and biosecurity.


Jaime Sepúlveda, M.D., Dr.Sc., M.P.H.
UC San Francisco

Jaime Sepúlveda served as the director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico from November 2003 to November 2006. In that capacity, he led twelve of the preeminent clinical and population health research institutes in the country. Prior to this, he served the government of Mexico in a variety of health-related positions, including as Director General of Epidemiology, Vice Minister of Health, and Director General of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). In these positions, he strengthened the country’s epidemiologic surveillance system and founded the National Council for the Prevention and Control of AIDS (CONASIDA), contributing to the modernization of the Mexican public health system. He has published more than 23 books, 34 book chapters, and 200 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Sepúlveda is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Chair of the IOM Committee to evaluate the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR.) He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, and currently holds the 2007 UC San Francisco Presidential Chair.


Susan Shirk, Ph.D.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Susan Shirk is director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and a professor of political science at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. A former director of IGCC (1991–1997), Shirk accepted an assignment at the U.S. Department of State in 1997, where she served as deputy assistant secretary for China in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Shirk is the author of the upcoming China: Fragile Superpower as well as How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, and editor of Power and Prosperity: Economic and Security Linkages in the Asia Pacific. Shirk returned from her three-year term at the U.S. State Department in 2000 to become an IGCC research director. She was reappointed IGCC director in July 2006.


Daniel Wehrenfennig
UC Irvine

Daniel Wehrenfennig is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in political science at UC Irvine, where he specializes in international relations. He is a board member of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and an affiliate of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. His thesis research concentrates on official and unofficial diplomacy, specifically on the role of dialogue processes for conflict management. He has conducted field research in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. Besides teaching at UC Irvine, he organized many conferences and workshops, bringing together academics, non-governmental actors, military leaders, and politicians to discuss issues such as Peacebuilding and Cooperation in “New” Conflict Scenarios—Afghanistan and Iraq in Focus, Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, and Human Rights and Human Security. His recent work has been published by Peace Review and the University of California Press. Besides his academic involvement at UC Irvine, Wehrenfennig also develops communications seminars as a consultant for major international companies such as Vodafone and Pilkington and organizes a civic education film documentary project in Malawi.

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