Michael Dziedzic
Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-Conflict Peace
and Stability Operations
Balkans | Peace Operations | Latin American Regional Security | International
Security | Civil?Military Relations | U.S. Military | Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Phone: (202) 429-3880
E-mail: mdziedzic@usip.org
Languages: Spanish
Michael J. Dziedzic joined the USIP as a program officer in the Research and Studies program and is
a senior program officer in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations. Before
coming to the Institute, Dziedzic, a retired United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, was a senior
military fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, where
he focused on peace operations, Latin American regional security affairs and transnational security
threats.
During his 30 career with the USAF, he served in a variety of capacities, including professor in
the Department of Political Science at the USAF Academy, professor of national security studies at
the National War College, strategic military planner for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo,
political-military planner at the Pentagon, air attaché at the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador and
visiting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
A graduate of the USAF Academy, Dziedzic received his Ph.D. in government from the University of
Texas at Austin.
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