Taylor Seybolt
Senior Program Officer, Grants and Fellowships Program
Sub-Saharan Africa | Humanitarian Intervention | Peacekeeping | International Security | Ethnic Conflict
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Taylor Seybolt joined USIP in 2002 as a program officer in the Grant program. He currently is a senior program officer in the Grants and Fellowships program.
From 1999 to 2002 he was director of the Conflicts and Peace Enforcement Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Stockholm, Sweden. Seybolt received an Institute grant when he was at SIPRI to write the book Humanitarian Military Intervention.
From 1997 to 1999 he was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was awarded a dissertation fellowship funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
Seybolt has published numerous articles and book chapters on genocide, major armed conflicts, and humanitarian intervention.
He has lectured widely in Europe and the United States and is a participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
He holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT.
Publications:
- Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- "The Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project: A Precedent for the Future," in Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan, edited by Samuel Totten and Eric Markuson (Routledge, 2006).
- "Humanitarian Intervention and Communal Civil Wars: Problems and Alternative Approaches," co-authored with Daniel Byman, Security Studies, (2004).
- Humanitarian Responses to a War in Iraq
USIPeace Briefing, March 2003
- "Major Armed Conflicts" and "Measuring Violence: an Introduction to Conflict Data Sets," SIPRI Yearbook (2002).
