PrintElizabeth A. "Lili" Cole
Senior Program Officer, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
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Languages: Chinese, French, Russian
Lili Cole is a senior program officer in the Jennings Randolph Fellowships program. For the past two years, she was assistant director of the Teach Asia Program in the Asia Society’s Education division, with responsibilities for curriculum creation and professional development. From 2000-2005, she was senior program officer in Studies and Education at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. While there, she developed an international research program called History and the Politics of Reconciliation, which studied how societies reckon with difficult pasts. Prior to joining Carnegie Council, she was coordinator of the Religion, Human Rights and Religious Freedom Program at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights; director of the Internship Program at the National Forum Foundation (Washington, D.C.); and assistant program officer for Asia, focusing on China, Cambodia, Indonesia and Central Asia, at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Cole holds a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University and a B.A. in English literature with a concentration in Asian studies from Swarthmore College. She has studied in Poland, Russia and Germany and lived and worked in China, in both Wuhan and Beijing.
Publications:
- "Transitional Justice and the Reform of History Education," The International Journal of Transitional Justice, (Spring, 2007).
- Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation (editor) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
- Common History-Contentious Memories. Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Soviet Occupied Territories of Poland, September 1939 ? July 1941 (co-editor) (University of Leipzig Press, 2007).
- Interweaving Cultures: Islam in Southeast Asia. A Guide for Teachers and Students (Asia Society, 2007).
- "Unite or Divide? The Challenges of Teaching History in Societies Emerging from Violent Conflict" (co-author) (USIP Special Report 163, June 2006).
- "After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, Eva Hoffman," Ethics and International Affairs (Vol. 18, # 2, 2004).
- Human Rights Dialogue (guest editor) (No. 10, Fall 2003 ? "Violence Against Women").
- Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe, co-edited with Peter Danchin (Columbia University Press, 2002).
- "Shop of Horrors," The New York Times, October 21, 2003.
- "'To Little Brightness, From Rainbow'-China's New Era," The Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 1992.
- "Dissent Within the Great Wall," The Christian Science Monitoru, June 3, 1992.
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USIP has supported over 300 products, projects, and activities related to human rights and peacebuilding. From grants to fellowships, from training to education, from working groups to publications, the Institute strives to encourage more practice and scholarly work on the issue of human rights, and seeks to deepen understanding of the role human rights play in conflict and in peace. Issue Areas: Human Rights
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In deeply divided societies, contending groups' historical narratives are intimately connected to their identities and sense of victimization. How can they teach history to avoid future cycles of violence? Issue Areas: Education, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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Events
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October 18, 2012
In May 2012, Education Above All, a Doha-based education group, commissioned papers from practitioners and thematic experts that map and analyze the most widely used of different curricula, collectively designated as “education for global citizenship,” and the policies that have accompanied their implementation. To explore the findings of this research, the project director, technical adviser and expert on conflict and education, Margaret Sinclair, discuss these research findings with experts from USIP and the Brookings Institution. |
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May 18, 2011
"Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies" (Cambridge University Press, 2011) is the first book project to look systematically at identity and transitional justice mechanisms. Please join the book editor, former project director at the International Center for Transitional Justice, Paige Arthur, and two of the authors, USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Cecile Aptel and Senior Program Office Lili Cole, for a roundtable discussion of the project. Issue Areas: Human Rights, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
| Programs: Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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January 25, 2011
The U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program and Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution in partnership with the Washington Network on Children in Armed Conflict (WNCAC) will co-host a public event exploring what has been achieved by transitional justice mechanisms over the last few years in terms of promoting and protecting the rights of children affected by armed conflict and widespread violence, and discuss what else could be done. Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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July 31, 2009
Since the internal armed conflict in Guatemala ended in 1996, millions of dollars have been spent on transitional justice, but the state's efforts to create an effective justice system have largely failed -- obliging many Guatemalans to create their own coping mechanisms for war-time atrocities, and severely limiting the effectiveness of ongoing transitional justice efforts. Countries: Guatemala
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
| Programs: Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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February 23, 2009
Countries: Serbia
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
| Programs: Grants & Fellowships, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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