Guide to Specialists

Keith Bowen
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International

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Phone: (202) 429-4169

E-mail: kbowen@usip.org

Keith Bowen is a senior program officer in the Institute’s Education and Training Center/International. In this capacity, he manages programs and conducts live training in conflict-resolution skills, while developing and writing courses for the Institute’s online training program. He is writing a series of online courses on conflict analysis, negotiation, mediation, and interfaith conflict resolution while conducting live training in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict overseas. In Rwanda, he has trained peacekeepers for UNAMID, the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

His previous experience includes writing and directing more than eighteen documentaries, interactive programs and distance-learning websites. In international relations, his experience includes writing and directing The Torn Iron Curtain, a four-part documentary series produced in Central and Eastern Europe and The Last Days of Apartheid, a two-part documentary and CD-ROM produced in South Africa. This work earned several national distinctions, including awards from CINE, the Columbus International Film Festival, Technology and Learning Magazine, the National Educational Media Network and Compaq Computers. He served as executive producer of USIP's Iraq Experience DVD, which won a Communicator Award, two Aegis Awards and a Telly Award.

Bowen holds a master’s from the University of Edinburgh. He has taught writing and political science at Southern Oregon University and Hunter College.

Selected Publications:

• Online Course in Interfaith Conflict Resolution (with Religion and Peacemaking Program) (USIP, 2008).
• Online Course in Conflict Analysis (USIP, 2005).
• The Iraq Experience (USIP, 2004).
• The Last Days of Apartheid, 2-Part Video Series (Discovery Communications, 1996).
• The Torn Iron Curtain, 4-Part Video Series (Discovery Communications, 1993).