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ICCCR Visitors and Speakers
Ashley D. Benner, 2009 Winner of the Deutsch Award for Social Justice, Student Paper Competition
On Thursday, April 2nd Ashley D. Benner, a master's student at The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University won the student award for her paper titled, Turning Promise into Practice: The Challenges of and Next Steps for Implementing the Responsibility to Protect. Ashley Benner delivered a PowerPoint presentation about Responsibility to Protect at the 2009 ceremony. Ashley is a second-year Master of International Affairs student at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. At SIPA, she studies Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, UN Studies, and Humanitarian Affairs. She is currently interning with the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, a new coalition of civil society groups around the world formed in January 2009. After graduating this May, she would like to work to end mass atrocities at an NGO, a think tank, in academia or at the UN. She has worked at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service, an agency created under the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prevent and resolve racial and ethnic community conflicts, and has lived in Northern Ireland, Ghana and Honduras. Ashley graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, majoring in Peace and Justice Studies and minoring in Economics.
Please click here to read Ms. Benner's paper, or here to view the PowerPoint presentation she gave at the Deutsch Awards Ceremony.
Ambassador John E. Herbst
On Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 the ICCCR and the new Master's Program in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution hosted a talk by Ambassador John E. Herbst, who currently serves as the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He holds the rank of Career-Minister.
As Coordinator, Ambassador Herbst is leading the development of U.S. Government civilian capacity to promote the stabilization and reconstruction of societies in transition from conflict or civil strife, and to provide support to countries at risk of instability. In 2007, the Ambassador led the government-wide effort to institutionalize the Interagency Management System (IMS), a whole-of-government system for planning and managing crisis response. The Coordinator is overseeing the establishment of the Civilian Response Corps of the United States. The Corps’s Active, Standby, and Reserve components will span eight federal government agencies, local governments, and the private sector. The Corps is the U.S. civilian rapid response force for reconstruction and stabilization operations overseas.
