Linda Bishai
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training
Center/International
Sudan | Education | Ethnic and Territorial Conflict | Human Rights |
International Law | War Crimes
Phone: (202) 429-4712
E-mail: lbishai@usip.org
Linda Bishai is a senior program officer in the Education and Training Center/International, where
she focuses on secondary and university education in international relations, conflict resolution,
human rights and peace studies. She is responsible for curriculum development and developing
faculty and teacher workshops throughout the United States and in conflict zones, especially the
Sudan.
Before coming to USIP, Bishai was an assistant professor of political science at Towson University,
where she taught courses in international relations, international law, the use of force and human
rights. Her research interests include identity politics, international human rights law in
domestic courts and the development of international law after the Nuremberg trials. During
2003-2004, Bishai served as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center, where she worked
on an introduction to international human rights law for the federal judiciary. She has also taught
at Brunel University, the London School of Economics and the University of Stockholm.
Bishai holds a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University, a J.D. from Georgetown
University Law Center and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics.
Publications:
- "Leaving Nuremberg: America's love/hate relationship with international law," Review of
International Studies (Vol. 34, 2008).
- Sudanese Universities as Sites of Social
Transformation
Special Report, February 2008
- Public Health and Conflict
in Iraq: Rebuilding a Nation?s Health
USIPeace Briefing, July 2007
- Armed Conflict as a Public
Health Problem: Current Realities and Future Directions
USIPeace Briefing, May 2007
- "Forgetting Ourselves: Secession and the (Im)possibility of Territory Identity" (2004).
- "Liberal Empire," Journal of International Relations and Development (Vol. 7, No. 1,
2004).
- "Intervention in Law & Politics," Cooperation and Conflict (Vol. 36, No. 4,
2001).
- "Secession and Security: The Politics of Ethno-Cultural Identity," Security and
Identity in Europe: Exploring the New Agenda (2000).
- "Sovereignty and Minority
Rights," Global Governance; A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
(1998).
- "Altered States: Secession and the Problems of Liberal Theory," Theories of
Secession (1998).