Michael Dziedzic
Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations
Balkans | Peace Operations | Latin American Regional Security | International Security | Civil–Military Relations | U.S. Military | Post-Conflict Reconstruction
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.
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