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 The Middle East and Human Rights: Mass Violence, Refugees, and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism
Keith Watenpaugh, Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights and Peace at the University of California, Davis, is completing a book that will bring the Middle East into the larger history of human rights. His book will shed light on how the international community has conceptualized minority-majority relationships in Muslim societies and sectarian and ethnic differences in the Arab world. It will focus on the multiple intersections of the modern international human rights regime, genocide and Islam in the twentieth-century Middle East.
 A Model from Complementarity: The ICTY and the Bosnian State Court
Former Deputy Prosecutor for the ICTY and U.N. assistant secretary-general and special advisor to the U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) David Tolbert's project aims to fill a significant knowledge gap in terms of what impact international tribunals have on the peace and security of the countries over which they have jurisdiction, and also to assess how well or poorly these courts have performed in terms of meeting the goals of providing a basis for reconciliation and peace in those societies. This study will also look closely at how the relationships between the ICTY and the Bosnian State Court may address the issue of complementarity, which lies at the heart of the ICC Statute. Mr. Tolbert intends to write a guide for practitioners for use by prosecutors and outreach officers and a scholarly assessment that eventually would become part of a book.
The JR Senior Fellows and JR Peace Scholars for 2008-2009.
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 Current Senior Fellow Michael Gordon:
Michael Gordon published a military analysis, “Afghan Strategy Poses Stiff Challenge for Obama” in the New York Times on December 2.
 Current Senior Fellow Robert Maguire:
Bob Maguire published a December 5 OpEd in the Haitian Times, “Haiti’s Youth: A Simmering Storm,” on the idea of creating a national service corps to employ Haitian youth while rebuilding Haiti in the wake of the recent hurricanes.
Current Senior Fellow Asieh Mir:
On October 2, 2008, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Asieh Mir presented preliminary research findings on her project Leadership, Political Elites and the Promotion of Democracy: The Case of Iran at a meeting at USIP on December 8.
 Current Senior Fellow Leonard Rubenstein:
Leonard Rubenstein co-wrote, with Mona Younis, Director of the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an OpEd on Science and Human Rights, which was published in the November issue of Science Magazine.
Current Senior Fellow David Tolbert:
David Tolbert, former Deputy Prosecutor for the ICTY, was appointed to the American Society of International Law Task Force on the US and the ICC (other members include Justice O'Connor, Harold Koh, Judge Pat Wald, Will Taft, Judge Steve Schwebel, Ruth Wedgewood, and Mickey Edwards.)
 Francis M. Deng, Senior Fellow, 2002–2003:
On October 2, 2008, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Francis M. Deng latest book, Identity, Diversity and Constitutionalism in Africa, the result of his fellowship at USIP, was published by USIP Press in Fall 2008. In the book, Deng, the UN Secretary General’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide, outlines a new relationship between governments and societies—a relationship informed by Western concepts but based on traditional African values such as respect for human dignity, equality, and self-rule. The book is available for purchase from the USIP Bookstore.
JR Staff:
 On December 2, 2008, Virginia M. Bouvier moderated a day-long event, "Promoting Peace in Colombia: Ideas for the New Administration," at USIP, with the participation of 70 representatives of civil society, government and international organizations. Bouvier also worked with American University's Peacebuilding and Development Institute (PDI) from November 9-14 on conflict resolution for a dozen Colombian journalists and editors. She moderated the culminating public session, at A.U., "Colombian Conflict: Perspectives from War Correspondents."
 Lili Cole gave a presentation on “History Textbook Reform and Transitional Justice” at the Second International Symposium on Human Rights, Education and Textbook Research in Istanbul on November 29 and 30, organized by the History Foundation of Turkey and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
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