Guide to Specialists

Michael Dziedzic
Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations

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Phone: (202) 429-3880

E-mail: mdziedzic@usip.org

Languages: Spanish

Michael J. Dziedzic joined the U.S. Institute of Peace as a program officer in the Research and Studies program and is currently a senior program officer in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations. Before coming to the Institute, Dziedzic, a retired United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, was a senior military fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, where he focused on peace operations, Latin American regional security affairs, and transnational security threats.

During his thirty-year career with the USAF, he served in a variety of capacities, including professor in the Department of Political Science at the USAF Academy, professor of national security studies at the National War College, strategic military planner for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, political–military planner at the Pentagon, air attaché at the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador, and visiting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

A graduate of the USAF Academy, Dziedzic received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Texas at Austin.

Publications:

• Haiti: Confronting the Gangs of Port-au-Prince
  Special Report, September 2008
• Options for Police in a U.S. Civilian Reserve Corps
  USIPeace Briefing, May 2007
• Bridging the Public Security Gap: The Role of the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units in Contemporary Peace Operations
  USIPeace Briefing, June 2006
• Provincial Reconstruction Teams: Military Relations with International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Afghanistan
  Special Report, August 2005
• The Quest for Viable Peace: International Intervention and Strategies for Conflict Transformation, co-edited with Jock Covery and Len Hawley
  USIP Press (May 2005).
• Global Peace Operations Initiative: Future Prospects
  USIPeace Briefing (October 2004)
• Building Civilian Capacity for U.S. Stability Operations: The Rule of Law Component
  Special Report (April 2004)
• Lawless Rule Versus Rule of Law in the Balkans
  Special Report (December 2002)
• Kosovo Brief: Information Management Offers A New Opportunity for Cooperation Between Civilian and Military Entities
  Virtual Diplomacy Report (August 2000)
• Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security, co-edited with Robert Oakley (1998).
• Mexico: Converging Challenges (1989).