U.S. Institute of Peace PeaceWatch

Institute People

In Memory of . . .

William R. Kintner
U.S. Institute of Peace
Founding Board Member
(1985-1995)

Pamela Aall, deputy director of the Education and Training Program, discussed teaching about conflict analysis and management on a panel March 20 at the annual International Studies Association meeting in Toronto.

The Federal Republic of Germany has awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Marine, First Class, to board member Dennis Bark for his contributions to German-American relations. The Consul-General of Germany in San Francisco--representing Germany's president--presented the award at a ceremony on March 12.

Patricia Carley, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, discussed "Central Asia: Out from Behind the Iron Curtain" at the Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning in Florida March 13. On March 17 she discussed "Turkey's Place in the World" at a meeting of the St. Louis Committee on Foreign Relations.

Board member Seymour Martin Lipset discussed the comparative social values of Canada, Mexico, and the United States and their impact on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at a conference at the University of the Americas in Mexico in February. In March, he discussed the cultural and political differences of anglophone North America and Latin America at a conference at Notre Dame University. An article discussing the reasons for the work he has chosen to do during his academic career--"Steady Work: An Academic Memoir"--appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology for 1997.

Scott Snyder, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, was one of two U.S. representatives at a February meeting in Vancouver of the North Pacific Working Group of the Committee on Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a group that provides ideas for consideration at the annual meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum. Also in February, he discussed patterns in North Korean negotiating behavior at Columbia University and the College of William and Mary.

Snyder has been interviewed about recent developments on the Korean Peninsula by USA Today, the Chicago-Tribune, National Public Radio, and the Christian Science Monitor radio program.

Institute president Richard Solomon conducted a seminar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on March 5 on the significance after a quarter-century of the Nixon administration's "opening" to China and publication of the Shanghai Communiqué. The seminar was based on Solomon's article, "Is the Door to China that Nixon Opened Going to Close?" which appeared in the "Outlook" section of the Washington Post February 16.

New Fellows

Heinrich Klebes, a longtime international civil servant in European institutions, joined the Institute in February for a six-month fellowship. After two five-year mandates, he recently retired from his post as deputy secretary general of the Council of Europe, where his duties permitted him to follow closely the reform process in Central and Eastern Europe. Klebes teaches European law, human rights, and minority rights at Strasbourg and Grenoble universities in France. While at the Institute, he will continue work on his project on "The Quest for Democratic Security in Europe."

The Institute welcomed John Menzies, former U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, as a senior fellow in March. Before his assignment to Bosnia, he served as a foreign service officer in Bulgaria, Hungary, and East Germany. Menzies has a doctorate in German studies from the University of California at Berkeley and has received numerous awards for his public service. Menzies's fellowship project will focus on the consequences of the Dayton peace agreements for regional stability, and he will participate in the Institute's Bosnia Working Group.

Chan Bong Park joined the Institute as a guest scholar for three months in March. Park, who served on the National Unification Board of South Korea, was most recently division director of the Intra-Korean Interchange and Cooperation Bureau and assistant to the deputy prime minister. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of Georgia and is a graduate of Sung Kyun Kwan University (B.A.) and Seoul National University (M.A.) in Seoul.

While at the Institute, Park is examining issues of transitional justice in post-reunification Korea, specifically how to properly deal with former North Korean officials in the event that a collapse of North Korea leads to Korean reunification.

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