Charles “Chuck” T. Call
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
September 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009
Project Focus:
Making Peace ‘Stick’: Civil War Recurrence and How to Prevent It
Caribbean | Latin America | Human Rights | Peacekeeping | Policing | Post-Conflict Reconstruction | Rule of Law
Phone: (202) 429-4706
E-mail: ccall@usip.org
Languages: Spanish
An assistant professor in the Program on Peace and Conflict Resolution in American University’s School of International Service, Chuck Call is investigating why peace fails to “stick” in some cases of civil war and why it succeeds in others. His research emphasizes the strategic choices that are available to policymakers in post-conflict societies and focuses on the triple imperatives of post-conflict reconstruction: capacity-building, fence-mending among former enemies and legitimacy-enhancement of national authorities.
Trained as a Latin Americanist, Call has conducted field research in all of Central America, Colombia, Haiti, Afghanistan, West Africa, Bosnia, Kosovo and South Africa. In 2006, he was the senior peacebuilding Advisor to the International Peace Academy in New York. He spent most of 2004 at the U.N. Department of Political Affairs as a peacebuilding consultant, and before that was assistant professor for research at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, where he coordinated the Governance in War-Torn Societies Project. He has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch, the European Commission, USAID, UNDP, the US Department of Justice, and the Washington Office on Latin America, and received grants from the USIP, the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
Call received a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in the Department of Political Science.
Publications:
- “Democratization, War, and State-Building: Constructing the Rule of Law in El Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies (Vol. 35, No. 4, 2003).
- “War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America,” Comparative Politics (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2002).
- “On Democracy and Peacebuilding,” co-author, Global Governance (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2003).
- “Governance After War: Rethinking Democratization and Peacebuilding,” co-edited with Susan Cook, Global Governance (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2003).
