Guide to Specialists

Daniel P. Serwer
Vice President:
Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations
Centers of Innovation

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Phone: (202) 429-3840

E-mail: dserwer@usip.org

Languages: Italian, French, Portuguese

Daniel P. Serwer is vice president of the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations and the Centers of Innovation. He coordinates the Institute's efforts in societies emerging from conflict, especially Afghanistan, the Balkans, Haiti, Iraq, and Sudan. He also leads the Institute’s innovative programs in rule of law, religion and peacemaking, economics of peace and conflict, media and conflict, and diaspora contributions to peace and conflict.

Serwer has worked on preventing interethnic and interreligious conflict in Iraq, and he has been deeply engaged in facilitating dialogue between Serbs and Albanians. He came to the Institute as a senior fellow working on Balkan regional security in 1998–1999. Before that he was a minister-counselor at the Department of State, where he won six performance awards. As State Department director of European and Canadian analysis in 1996–1997, he supervised the analysts who tracked Bosnia and Dayton implementation as well as the deterioration of the security situation in Albania and Kosovo.

Serwer served from 1994 to 1996 as U.S. special envoy and coordinator for the Bosnian Federation, mediating between Croats and Muslims and negotiating the first agreement reached at the Dayton peace talks. From 1990 to 1993, he was deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, where he led a major diplomatic mission through the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War.

Publications:

• "Scenarios for the Future of Iraq and the Role of Europe: How Will Europe Engage?," Bound to Cooperate—Europe and the Middle East II, co-authored with Megan Chabalowski (published by Bertelsmann Stiftung, September 2008)
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• Iraq After the Surge: Options and Questions
  USIPeace Briefing (April 2008)
• Iraq: Politics Unfrozen, Direction Still Unclear
  USIPeace Briefing (January 2008)
• Coming Soon to a Country Near You: Kosova Sovereignty
  USIPeace Briefing (originally published by Bertelsmann Stiftung, December 2007)
• Kosovo: Breaking the Deadlock
  USIPeace Briefing (September 2007)
• Iraq: Time for a Change
  USIPeace Briefing (September 2007)
• The U.S., Iraq and the Middle East
  USIPeace Briefing (August 2007)
• Kosovo: What Can Go Wrong?
  USIPeace Briefing (March 2007)
• Civilians Can Win the Peace
  USIPeace Briefing (February 2007)
• Civilians Will Make the Difference in Iraq
  USIPeace Briefing (February 2007)
• Kosovo: Ethnic Nationalism at Its Territorial Worst
  Special Report (August 2006)
• Explaining the Yugoslav Catastrophe: The Quest for a Common Narrative
  USIPeace Briefing (January 2006)
• "How To Succeed In Kosovo," Balkans Investigative Reporting Network (December 2, 2005)
• Kosovo: Final Status in 2005?
  USIPeace Briefing (February 2005)
• "Iraq: Why We Can't Leave," (Washington Post, June 9, 2004).
• Kosovo: Status with Standards
  USIPeace Briefing (April 2004)
• Serbia Needs a Push in the Right Direction
  USIPeace Briefing (March 2004)
• Iraq and Its Neighbors: A Regional Architecture Is Needed
  USIPeace Briefing (February 2004)
• Managing Iraq's Oil Revenues
  USIPeace Briefing (February 2004)
• Iraq's Middle Class Is the Key to Unity
  USIPeace Briefing (December 2003)
• The Power To Protect: Should It Be Exercised?
  USIPeace Briefing (August 2003)
• Building Civil Society: An Overlooked Aspect of Iraq's Reconstruction?
  USIPeace Briefing (July 2003)
• Kosovo Decision Time: How and When
  Special Report (February 2003)
• Immediate Imperatives in Post-War Iraq: Public Security, Governance, Humanitarian Assistance and WMD
  USIP Newsbyte (April 18, 2003)
• "The Balkans: From American to European Leadership," Gustav Lindstrom, ed. (Shift or Rift: Assessing US-EU Relations After Iraq, 2003).
• Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Lessons from the Past, Ideas for the Future
  Special Report (May 2002)
• Albanians in the Balkans
  Special Report (November 2001 )

Congressional Testimonies:

• Kosovo Isn't the Problem, Serbia Is
  Congressional Testimony, March 4, 2008
• Kosovo: What Next?
  Congressional Testimony, February 26, 2007
• Serbia: Current Issues and Future Direction
  September 20, 2006
• Balkans Progress: Who Stands in the Way?
  June 15, 2006
• Kosovo: Current and Future Status
  May 18, 2005
• The Current Situation in Serbia and Montenegro
  March 17, 2004
• Progress and Challenges: The Successor States to Pre-1991 Yugoslavia
  June 25, 2003
• The Future of Kosovo
  May 21, 2003
• The Balkans: From War to Peace, From American to European Leadership
  April 10, 2003

Available on usip.org:

• Kosovo/Serbia
  On the Issues, February 13, 2008