NECLA TSCHIRGI, Ph.D. Professor of Practice, Human Security and Peacebuilding Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492 neclatschirgi@sandiego.edu Tel. 619-260-7912 EDUCATION 1980: Ph.D., Political Economy, University of Toronto 1970: M.A., Political Science, American University of Beirut 1968: B.A., Political Science, American University of Beirut Languages: Turkish, English, Spanish, French (reading & comprehension) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE September 2010-present: Professor of Practice, Human Security and Peacebuilding, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego April 2009-August 2010: Research Associate, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa & Independent Researcher/Policy Analyst, New York City January 2007- March 2009: Senior Policy Advisor/Consultant, Peacebuilding Support Office, the United Nations Secretariat, NYC September 2001 December 2005: Vice President, International Peace Academy (IPA), NYC April 1997-September 2001: Team Leader and Senior Specialist, Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Program Initiative, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa May 1992-April 1997: Senior Program Officer, Social Sciences Division, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa April 1986-December 1991: Coordinator, Middle East Research Competition (MERC), the Ford Foundation, Cairo, Egypt January 1985-September 1991: Adjunct Professor of Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt January 1982-July 1984: Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico 1
RECENT EXPERT AND ADVISORY FUNCTIONS 2013-present, Member, Governing Council, InterPeace, the International Peace Alliance, Geneva 2013-present, Co-Convenor, Training and Education Affinity Group, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington DC 2012-present: Executive Editor, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 2012-present: Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of Peacebuilding 2010: Guest Editor, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (Winter 2010) 2009: Member, Fast Talk process, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada 2007- present: Member of Expert Panel, Shared Societies Project, Club of Madrid, Spain 2007-2009: Member, Development Policy Council, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm 2007-2009: Member, Core Advisory Board, Harvard University Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) Peacebuilding Initiative portal (www.peacebuildinginitiative.org) 2008-2009: Advisory Board, United Nations Peacebuilding Community of Practice October 2008: Member, External Review Panel of the Masters Program on Coexistence and Conflict, Brandeis University 2007-2008: Advisor, Capstone Project on Regional Approaches to Peacebuilding at the Centre d etudes et de recherchés internationales at l Institut d Études Politiques in Paris 2007-2008: Senior Advisor, Arab Council for the Social Sciences project PUBLICATIONS A. BOOKS Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections, edited volume, with Michael Lund and Francesco Mancini (Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010) Reforming Social Policy: Changing Perspectives on Sustainable Human Development, co-editor with D.Morales-Gomez and Jennifer Moher (Ottawa: IDRC Books, 2000) Sources of Study: A Manual for Political Science Students (American University in Cairo, 1988) 2
B. CHAPTERS & ARTICLES The Dynamics that Shaped the UN s Peacebuilding Architecture in the Early Years, with Richard Ponzio, in The Impact of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, edited by Cedric de Coning and Eli Stamnes (NUPI, forthcoming) Ensuring sustainable peace: Strengthening global security and justice through the UN Peacebuilding Architecture, with Cedric de Coning, The Hague Institute for Global Justice for the Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance (2015), available at http://www.globalsecurityjusticegovernance.org/publication/ensuring-sustainable-peace-strengtheningglobal-security-and-justice-through-the-un-peacebuilding-architecture/ Bridging the Chasm between Domestic and International Approaches to Peacebuilding: Conceptual and Institutional Tools, in RCCS Annual Review, available at https://rccsar.revues.org/605 (2015) Rebuilding War-torn Societies: A Critical Review of International Approaches in Managing Conflict in a World Adrift, edited by Chester Crocker, Pamela Aall and Fen Hampson (USIP, 2015) Construcao da paz: A interface entre abordagens nacionais e internacionais in Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 104, Setembro 2014: 21-44 Securitization and Peacebuilding in Routledge Handbook on Peacebuilding, edited by Roger Mac Ginty (Routledge, 2013) Strategic Policy Frameworks and Peacebuilding in PBC and non-pbc countries: Emerging Lessons, with Erin McCandless, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (Vol 5:2, 2010) Constructing the Modern Turkish State: 1918-1938, Lessons for Contemporary State Building (chapter awaiting publication, Washington D.C., Institute on State Effectiveness) The Security-Politics-Development Nexus: The Lessons of Statebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa (European Report on Development: web publication, 2009) Strengthening Social Science Research in the Region: the Case for Establishing and Arab Social Science Research Council in Developing Research and Rethinking Development (Tunis: Cahiers de CERES, 2008) The Security-Development Nexus: From Rhetoric to Complex Causal Dynamics in the Swiss Yearbook of Development Policy Vol2/06 (Fall 2006) Security and Development: Untangling the Relationship in Stephan Klingebiel (ed.), New Interfaces between Security and Development: Changing Concepts and Approaches (Bonn: 3
German Development Institute, 2006) Political Economy of Armed Conflicts and Peace Building in Conflict, Security and Development (Vol. 4, no. 3, December 2004) A Regional Conflict Approach to Peacebuilding in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (Vol 1, no 1, 2002) The Role of Research and Policy Analysis, with Maureen O Neil, in From Reaction to Conflict Prevention: Opportunities for the UN System, edited by Fen Osler Hamspon and David M. Malone (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002) C. POLICY BRIEFS & WORKING PAPERS Escaping Path Dependency: A Proposed Multi-tiered Approach for the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (University of Ottawa and NUPI, 2010) Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Revisited: Achievements, Limitations, Challenges (IPA Policy Report, October 2004) Peacebuilding as the Link between Security and Development: Is the Window of Opportunity Closing? (IPA Policy Report, December 2003) The War-torn Societies Project and Third Party Neutral Models of Conflict Management, with Fen Osler Hampson (IDRC: PBR PI Working Paper No.3, May 1999) Defining Peacebuilding in Briefing Book for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade-NGO Consultations on Peacebuilding (Ottawa: DFAIT, February 1997) D. BOOK REVIEWS The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations, edited by Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk (London: Routledge, 2009) for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Institute (available on its website) Building Peace: Practical Reflections from the Field, edited by Craig Zelizer and Robert A. Rubinstein (Kumarian Press, 2009) for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Institute (available on its website) Transitions from War to Peace: Issues, Challenges and Policy Lessons, Literature Review Essay, Canadian Journal of Development Studies (XVII, 3, 1996) 4
SELECTED CONSULTANCY REPORTS External Review of the Governance, Security and Justice Program of the International Development Research Centre of Canada, prepared with Paige Arthur and Anna Paterson (in progress, 2015) Peacebuilding Mapping Survey, prepared with Elena McCollim and Jill Covert (IPJ, 2012) Democracy, Peace and Security: UN Policies and Practices (International IDEA, 2010) Review of UNDP s local governance programming in Yemen, with Heba elkholy (2010) Review of UNDP s local governance programming in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with Heba elkholy (2010) UNDP Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund (DGTTF) Overview Report: Local Governance Projects in Complex Environments in the Arab Region (2010) Analyzing the Ford Foundation s Peace, Conflict and Security Work, 2001-2006 (November, 2006) The Middle East under Pressure: What Role for Regional Social Sciences? A Final Report presented to the International Development Research Centre of Canada, February 2007 SELECTED LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS ON PEACEBUILDING "Global Governance and Contested Authorities in the 21st Century presented at the conference on "Religion, Authority and the State" in Belgrade, Serbia from 18-23 June 2013 The Interface between domestic and international approaches to peacebuilding: Learning from Research and Practice presented at the Joint CISS/KEYNOTE Conference on Between the Global and the Local: Actors, Institutions and Processes, Prague, 24-26 June 2012 Investigating Top-Down Statebuilding in Turkey: 1923-1938 at the International Studies Association meeting in San Diego, 2-4 April 2012. The Gap between Local and International Approaches to Conflict Management and Peacebuilding presented at the International Association of Conflict Management Meeting in Istanbul on 3-6 July 2011 The UN s Peacebuilding Architecture: Going Beyond Institutional Reform. Paper presented at the University of Ottawa, 24 September 2009 Two Decades of United Nations Peacebuilding: Lessons Learned/Lessons Spurned. Presentation at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey on 29 April 2009 5
The Security-Politics-Development Nexus: Lessons from Statebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the European University Institute, Florence, 16-17 April 2009. The PBC s Integrated Peacebuilding Strategic Frameworks in Sierra Leone and Burundi. Presentation at the International Studies Association annual meeting in New York, 15 February 2009 Working Together as Champions of Shared Societies National Leaders, Inter- Governmental Organization and Non-Governmental Organizations. Presentation at the Fortyseventh session of the Commission for Social Development, 5 February 2009 The Role of the UN s new Peacebuilding Architecture. Presentation at the seminar on From Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Santiago, Chile 9-12 March 2008 The Security-Development Nexus: The Challenge of Integrated Approaches. Prepared for the International Colloquium on Canada s Mission in Afghanistan, Montréal, 21 September 2007 Strengthening Social Science Research in the Middle East/Arab Region: Exploring the Feasibility of an Arab Social Science Research Council. Presentation at Experts Workshop in Dubai, 26-27 November 2006 Security and Development: Untangling the Relationship. Presentation at the European Association for Development Research Institutes (EADI) Annual Conference in Bonn, 22 September, 2005 Re-Thinking Conflicts in the Developing World: Policy Implications of the Security-Development Nexus. Paper presented at the First Global International Studies Conference on Bringing International Studies Together, Bilgi University, Istanbul, 24-27 August, 2005 Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Conflict Contexts. Presentation at the Luncheon Meeting of the High Level Segment of ECOSOC, United Nations, 29 June 2005 Justice and Reconciliation: Connecting Peace, Security & Development. Keynote speech at the Dutch Chapter of the Society for International Development, Amsterdam, 9 May 2005 The Development-Security Nexus: Global Concerns and Regional Realities, with Kevin Clements. Paper prepared for the Conference on Justice, Peace, and Reconciliation in the Asia- Pacific Region, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1-3 April 2005 Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Presentation at the Inter Parliamentary Union Parliamentary Hearings at the United Nations, New York, October 19, 2004 Post Conflict Peacebuilding: Lessons Learned. Presentation at the IPA/WSP-International 6
Peacebuilding Forum Conference, New York, 7 October 2004 Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Revisited: Assessing International Efforts since the 1990s. WSP- International Peacebuilding Forum Meeting Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, 24-27 May 2004 Root Causes of Peace and Challenges to Peacebuilding. Paper presented at the UN Foundation meeting in New York, 1 December 2003 7