Guide to Specialists

Lawrence Woocher
Senior Program Officer, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention

Download print-quality image

Phone: 202-429-3807

E-mail: lwoocher@usip.org

Lawrence Woocher is a senior program officer in the Institute’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where he focuses on early warning, conflict prevention, and the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities.

Before joining the Institute in November 2006, Woocher was a research fellow at Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution and, concurrently, a consultant on early warning to the Office of the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. From 2004 to 2006 he served as program manager of Global Policy Programs at the United Nations Association of the USA.

From 2001 to 2003 he was a research associate/special projects manager at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Woocher received a master’s in public policy with a focus on international security and political economy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Publications:

• "Peace Operations and the Prevention of Genocide," Human Rights Review (2007).
• "Peacebuilding and Prevention," WFUNA Reform Forum (2006).
• "Deconstructing 'Political Will': Explaining the Failure to Prevent Deadly Conflict and Mass Atrocities," Journal of Public and International Affairs (2001).
• "The Casamance question: an examination of the legitimacy of self-determination in southern Senegal," International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2000).