Colette Rausch
Deputy Director, Rule of Law Center of
Innovation
Human Rights | Peacekeeping | Post-Conflict Activities | Rule of Law |
Security and Strategy | Training: Professional | Balkans | Southeast Asia
Phone: (202) 429-3860
E-mail: crausch@usip.org
Colette Rausch is the deputy director of the Institute's Rule of Law Center of Innovation. Her
focus is on criminal justice and police reform initiatives that have included missions and projects
in Afghanistan, Liberia and Nepal. Before joining the Institute, she worked at the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission in Kosovo, serving first as head of the Rule of Law
Division and then as director of the Department of Human Rights and Rule of Law.
Previously, Rausch was with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as the DOJ’s resident
legal adviser in Hungary and later in Bosnia. In Hungary, she worked on the development of a crime
task force. She also served as the DOJ program manager for Central and East Europe, establishing
criminal justice development and training projects in Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and
Macedonia.
In addition to her international assignments, Rausch was a federal prosecutor with the DOJ in Las
Vegas, Nevada, working in both the white collar and violent crime units. Before joining DOJ, she
was with the state of Nevada’s Attorney General’s Office, where she was instrumental in creating
the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud Unit. She also served as an assistant federal public defender
in Nevada.
A recipient of numerous DOJ performance and special achievement awards, Rausch received a B.A. from
the University of Nevada, Reno and a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Publications:
- "Model Codes: Laying the Foundations of the Rule of Law," Civil War and the Rule of Law:
Security, Development, Human Rights, co-authored with Vivienne O'Connor, Agnès Hurwitz, with
Reyko Huang, eds. (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008).
- Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice: Volumes I-III, co-editor (USIP Press, 2007-2008).
- Constituent Assembly
Elections and Security in Nepal
USIPeace Briefing (July 2007)
- Nepal in Transition:
Developing Security and Rule of Law Strategies
USIPeace Briefing (May 2007)
- "Justice and Police Reforms in Kosovo," in Constructing Justice and
Security after War, edited by Charles T. Call (USIP Press, 2007).
- Combating Serious
Crimes in Postconflict Societies: A Handbook for Practitioners and Policymakers, co-author,
(USIP Press, 2006).
- "Foreign Assistance, Human Rights and Post-Conflict Societies," Australian Journal of Human
Rights (Vol. 11(2), 2006).
- "A Toolbox to Tackle Law Reform Challenges in Postconflict Countries: The Model Codes for
Postconflict Criminal Justice," International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace
Operations, co-authored with Vivienne O'Connor (Volume 10, 2006).
- Nepal: Rule of Law and Human Rights
Challenges
USIPeace Briefing (August 2005)
- "The Assumption of Authority in Kosovo and East Timor: Legal and Practical Implications,"
Executive Policing: Enforcing the Law in Peace Operations, Renata Dawn, ed. (Oxford
University Press, 2002).
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