Lawrence Woocher
Senior Program Officer, Center for Conflict Analysis
and Prevention
Conflict Management | Human Rights | Peacekeeping | U.S. Foreign Policy
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. He is also a lecturer at the Elliot School of International Affairs at Georgia
Washington University.
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 U.N. 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.
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