Guide to Specialists

Keith Bowen
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International

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Phone: (202) 429-4169

E-mail: kbowen@usip.org

Keith Bowen is a senior program officer in the Institute’s Education and Training Center/International. In this capacity, he manages programs and conducts live training in conflict-resolution skills, while developing and writing courses for the Institute’s online training program. He is currently writing a series of online courses on conflict analysis, negotiation, mediation, and cross-cultural communication.

His previous experience includes writing and directing over eighteen documentaries, interactive programs, and distance-learning Web sites. In the field of international relations, his experience includes writing and directing The Torn Iron Curtain, a four-part documentary series produced in Central and Eastern Europe, and The Last Days of Apartheid, a two-part documentary and CD-ROM produced in South Africa. This work has earned several national distinctions, including awards from CINE, the Columbus International Film Festival, Technology and Learning magazine, the National Educational Media Network, and Compaq Computers. He served as executive producer of USIP’s Iraq Experience DVD, which won a Communicator Award, two Aegis Awards, and a Telly Award.

Bowen holds a master’s from the University of Edinburgh. He has taught writing and political science at Southern Oregon University and Hunter College.

Selected Filmography:

• The Iraq Experience (USIP, 2004).
• The Last Days of Apartheid (Meridian Films, 1996).
• The Torn Iron Curtain (Meridian Films, 1993).