IWA Board of Directors
Ms. Geraldine S. Kunstadter, Acting Chairman
Chairman & President, Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation
Ms. Clare M. Lopez, Secretary
Vice President, The Intelligence Summit
Ms. Melanie Greenberg, Esq
President, Cypress Fund for Peace and Security
Maj Gen (Ret) Carl H. Freeman
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bradford P. Johnson, Esq.
Attorney at Law, Washington, DC
Ms. Judith Kipper
Director, Middle East Programs, IWA
Ambassador Mark Entwistle
President, Chibas Consulting, Inc.
Fellow, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
Dr. Hrach Gregorian (ex officio)
President, Institute of World Affairs, Washington, DC
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Dr. Hrach Gregorian, President
hgregorian@iwa.org
Dr. Hrach Gregorian has served as President of the Institute of World Affairs for almost 15
years. Gregorian was a founding director of International Dispute Resolution Associates (IDR).
Before founding IDR, he served as director of the Education and Training Program at the United
States Institute of Peace (USIP). During his seven-year tenure at USIP, Gregorian also directed
the Institute’s Grant Program. In 1999, Gregorian co-founded the Alliance for Peacebuilding
(AfP), an international network of applied conflict prevention and resolution organizations. He
serves on the boards of the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, Ltd. (advisor); The Cypress Fund
(advisory board); and Psychology Without Borders (International Advisory Board).
From 1980 until 1985 Gregorian was on the faculty of Simmons College in Boston. He was
acting chairman of the political science department immediately prior to his departure for
government service. In 1985-88, he held several positions at the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Gregorian is an adjunct faculty member in the School of International Service at the
American University in Washington, D.C., an Associate Professor in the Conflict Management
Programs Division at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada, and co-director of the
Peacebuilding, Development and Security (PDS) program at the University of Calgary.
Gregorian’s field experience in conflict management and peace-building has taken him to over
twenty countries. He regularly provides professional skills training seminars and workshops for
UN agency and mission staff, U.S. and Latin American military personnel, senior civilian
officials, and academic and corporate leaders in the U.S. and throughout the world. Gregorian’s
work has been published in scholarly and popular journals. He has made numerous presentations
before professional societies, academic institutions and government agencies. He has appeared
on CNN, National Public Radio, USIA Worldnet, Voice of America, the CBC, BBC and local
radio and television stations in the United States and abroad.
Ms Judith Kipper, Director, Middle East Program
jkipper@iwa.org
Judith Kipper, an internationally recognized Middle East specialist, is director of Middle East
Programs at the Institute of World Affairs. She established and directed the Council on Foreign
Relations Middle East Forum (1985-2007) and she was also the director of the Middle East
Studies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Kipper consults to the
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private sector on Middle East issues. She was an international affairs consultant to ABC News
(1985-2007). Previously, she was a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution and a resident
fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She travels frequently to the Middle East ,
particularly to the Gulf states including Saudi Arabia. She also meets regularly with government
and business leaders, and others in the region..
Kipper is the co-editor of The Middle East in Global Perspective (Westview Press, 1991); and
supervised The West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel's Policies, and The Arab-Israeli
Military Balance and the Art of Operations. She contributes to publications such as The New
York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post and comments on television and
radio in the United States, Europe, Japan, China and the Middle East. She speaks frequently to
university, business, economic, and banking groups on Middle Eastern and international affairs.
She has briefed The Brookings Institution Board of Trustees, Council on Foreign Relations
Corporate Program, Chase Manhattan Bank Board, Institutional Investor Council, Lockheed
Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Shell Oil Company, ExxonMobil, Bear Stearns, World
Trade Institute and many other institutions in the United States and internationally.
During the Gulf crisis, Kipper testified as an expert witness before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and
the House Appropriations Committee. She was with Peter Jennings of ABC News in Baghdad,
Iraq for an extensive interview with President Saddam Hussein (November, 1990). She arrived
with Ted Koppel of ABC News in Kuwait just after its liberation. She also went to Saudi
Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza during the Gulf Crisis. Kipper was
in Moscow for an ABC News interview with President Gorbachev in July, 1991 which she
negotiated and again right after the August coup for the ABC News Town Meeting with
Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Kipper has broad based experience in international relations. She was the international affairs
advisor to the publisher and editor at the French newsweekly L'Express in Paris. With a special
interest in emerging countries. she drove from Paris to India for six months and then spent a year
in Israel and Egypt before returning to the United States. She served on the board of Middle East
Watch, a human rights organization; is a member of the advisory board of Search for Common
Ground in the Middle East and serves on the board of the Institute of World Affairs.
James Mitchell, Chief Information Officer
iwainformation@iwa.org
James Mitchell has spent the last two decades working to address community based conflicts,
focussing primarily on the systemic conflicts experienced by groups marginalized within
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Canadian society. James obtained his first two degrees, an honours BA in Psychology and an
honours BA in Sociology, from York University in 1987 and in 2004 he was awarded a Masters
Degree in Conflict Analysis and Management from Royal Roads University. James specialized
in Social, Political and Ethnic conflicts and returned to community based conflicts as the
Executive Director of the South Island Dispute Resolution Centre Society and a faculty team
member at Royal Roads University.
At the South Island Dispute Resolution Centre, James re-evaluated and reorganized the Society
to have a community focus and was responsible for developing many successful community
based programs and partnerships. As the Executive Director of the Housing Affordability
Partnership of BC’s Capital Region, James was successfully developed and organized a region
wide conference on Housing Affordability that was attended by politicians, developers, funders
and neighbourhood associations.
In his career, James has been involved in issues of mental retardation and physical disability,
homelessness in a large urban setting, juvenile and youth criminal behaviours, the legal and
political system in Ontario and British Columbia as well as issues of Affordable Housing. James
was also instrumental in designing, setting up and running two youth based recreational
programs in the Victoria region and sits on the Board of Directors for the View Royal Youth
Drop In Society. Along with his work with the Institute of World Affairs, James is also the
CIO for the de novo group and a founding partner for Reflective Community Partnerships in
Victoria B.C. Work to recover failing non profits
Michael S. Lund, Director Peaceful Transitions Programs
Senior Specialist, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Management Systems International Inc. (MSI)
specializes in the sources of intra-state conflicts and fragile states, conflict prevention and
statebuilding, and avoiding post-war relapses into conflicts. He is author of Preventing Violent
Conflicts (United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Press, 1996) and co-editor/contributor in five
books, including Engaging Fragile States (Wilson Press, 2010), Security and Development:
Searching for Critical Connections (Lynne Rienner, 2009) and Talking Through Transitions:
Engaging Leaders to Build Peace (Wilson Press, forthcoming 2011). In 2011-12, he will be a
Senior Fellow at USIP doing research on how certain authoritarian regimes have transitioned to
stable democracy peacefully. Lund has done field-level analyses of the drivers of conflicts, and
has evaluated the effectiveness of development, diplomacy, political, and military interventions
in reducing conflicts and building peace in sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus,
Central Asia, and East Asia. In 2010, he led a multi-national team in southern Sudan in
evaluating the effectiveness of all major donors’ development programs in advancing the post2005 peace process. In 2008, Lund led a American/Filipino team in Mindanao, Philippines that
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evaluated the effectiveness for counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism of USAID assistance
programs.
Lund’s fieldwork and desktop studies have been commissioned by the U.S. State Department,
the Political Instability Task Force (C.I.A.), USAID, United Nations (UNDP, UNDPA),
European Union, World Bank, OSCE, OECD-DAC, Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD), DFID (UK), CIDA (Canada), the Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie
Commission for Preventing Deadly Conflicts, International Peace Academy/Institute, Carter
Center, Conflict Prevention Network (Berlin), Clingendael Institute (the Hague), Forum for
Early Warning and Early Response (London), European Center for Conflict Prevention
(Utrecht), International Development Research Centre (Ottawa), Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
(Canada), and Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Stockholm). Lund was
founding Director of the Jennings Randolph Fellows Program and Senior Scholar for Preventive
Diplomacy at the U.S. Institute of Peace and has worked in the U.S. Senate, federal agencies and
the Urban Institute. He has taught at Cornell, UCLA, the University of Maryland, George
Mason University, and Johns Hopkins SAIS. Lund has a M.Th. from Yale University and a
Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where he concentrated on comparative
political development, African politics, and public policy and administration.
Gregory A. Pirio, Director Africa Programs
Gregory Alonso Pirio is a well-recognized “Africanist”. He earned an M.A. in African Studies
and a Ph.D. in African History from UCLA. He is author of The African Jihad: Bin Laden’s
Quest for the Horn of Africa (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2008). Dr. Pirio is also the editor of
Rebuilding Shattered Nations and Lives: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development in
Africa (UNHCR, 2009), for which he wrote the introduction, “African Conflicts in Historical
Perspective.” He has published and produced studies on numerous topics, including on media
issues, Pan-Africanism, global health, African conflicts and terrorism. Dr. Pirio is a frequent
guest on BBC Network Africa and CNN International.
In addition, Dr. Pirio possesses over 20 years of experience in international media. From 1985 to
1994, he consecutively held the positions of Chief of the Portuguese-to-Africa and Chief of the
English-to-Africa Services of the Voice of America (VOA). At VOA he oversaw extensive
coverage of conflicts in Angola, Mozambique, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan
and Somalia. At the International Broadcasting Bureau/Voice of America, he served as Director
of Development and Associate Director of Business Development, where he mobilized public
and private sector resources for special radio, TV and media training initiatives in Africa, Asia,
the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America dealing primarily with issues of conflict resolution and
global health. He also managed the implementation of many health and conflict resolution
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media projects, and has been executive producer of several award-winning radio and TV
documentaries. He is currently a Research Professor at the School of Conflict Analyst and
Research, George Mason, University.
Dr. Pirio has conducted research, reported from and managed projects in 22 African countries.
He is fluent in English, French and Portuguese.
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IWA Senior Associates
Dr. George Irani
Peacebuilding Programs
Dr. Joyce P. Kaufman
E Learning Programs
Ms. Julia Pitner
Middle East Programs
Dr. Gary Ryan
E Learning Programs
Dr. David Ratnavale
South Asia Programs
Mr. Claude Salhani
Media Programs
Judge Hugh F. Landerkin, Q.C
International Law
Ms. Lara Olsen
Peacebuilding, Development and Security Program
Mr. Amos Davidowitz
Middle East Reconciliation Project
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