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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../part2stratml.xsl"?><StrategicPlan><id/><Name>About Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies</Name><Description/><OtherInformation/><StrategicPlanCore><Organization><Name>Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies</Name><Acronym>RBIIS</Acronym><Identifier>_de5a84bb-a40d-11e3-a9e2-236bd566cd33</Identifier><Description>Founded in 1973 as the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, it was renamed in 2001 and given a broader interdisciplinary scope with the mandate to support and further strengthen international studies at The Graduate Center. Under the directorship of John Torpey, professor of sociology, the institute provides a congenial setting for the activities by faculty and visiting scholars with international portfolios and research; and it facilitates the mentoring of graduate students. </Description><Stakeholder><Name>Ralph Bunche</Name><Description>Ralph Bunche left a rich legacy of achievement wherever his career took him -- UCLA, Harvard University, Howard University, field research in Africa, the Office of Strategic Services, the US State Department, and the United Nations. He was propelled into the international limelight in 1950 when awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his successful role as UN mediator in the negotiations that led to the armistice between Israel and its four Arab neighbors -- Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Bunche had already made his mark as a scholar-activist in the struggle for civil rights in the United States and against colonialism in Africa. He became the chief troubleshooter for peace, called upon by Secretaries-General Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld, and U Thant. The centenary of the birth of the institute’s namesake in 2003-2004 was celebrated worldwide. The institute continues to honor the legacy of Ralph Bunche by encouraging scholarship about international institutions and excellence in public service.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>The City University of New York</Name><Description>Located minutes from UN headquarters in mid-town Manhattan, the institute draws not only on a distinguished faculty across The City University of New York and other universities and colleges in the metropolitan area and worldwide but also on analysts, policymakers, and practitioners. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Manhattan</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>UN</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>New York City</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>People at the Ralph Bunche Institute at the Graduate Center at CUNY</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Simon Adams</Name><Description>Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect --Dr. Adams has worked with NGOs, governments and community organizations in South Africa, East Timor, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and elsewhere. He is a former anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress. Dr. Adams is the author of four books and numerous academic articles with a focus on international conflict. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Kuwait Times, The Australian, Huffington Post, New York Times and many other publications. He studied at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa and at the University of New South Wales in Australia, where he received his Ph.D. He is also a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Adams served as Pro Vice Chancellor (International Engagement) at Monash University and as Vice President of its South African campus between 2008-2010.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Paul Alois</Name><Description>Research Associate, RBI, Ph.D. student, Political Science --Paul Alois is a PhD candidate in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center and an adjunct professor at Baruch College. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Paul has formerly worked for the World Bank, the US State Department, and Amnesty International. His research interests include international political economy, labor rights, and global governance.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Stephen Browne</Name><Description>Research Fellow, RBI, Co-Director, Future UN Development System --Stephen Browne is Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute and Director of the FUNDS project. He worked for more than 30 years in different organisations of the UN development system. More recently he was convenor of the UN system poverty task-force, and focal point in UNDP, New York, for poverty and social policy, finance for development and capacity development. His last UN job was Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre in Geneva. He was trained as an economist at Cambridge and Paris Universities and worked as an economic consultant in London before joining the UN. He has researched, written and published books and articles on aid and development throughout his career. His latest books include The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Routledge, 2012), The UN Development Programme and System (Routledge, 2011), and The International Trade Centre (Routledge, 2011).</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Martin J. Burke</Name><Description>Editorial Associate, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science -- Martin J. Burke has an MSc in European Politics from the University of London, and is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Graduate Center. His dissertation applies to international law an approach from twentieth-century American jurisprudence to argue that certain distinctly legal processes through which the international criminal justice regime has developed since Nuremberg have generated significant legitimacy for its underlying criminal law—war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Martin is also a researcher and Editorial Associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute. He is the author of “Legitimacy, Identity and Climate Change,” a 2011 article in Third World Quarterly which examines the social implications of climate change for state interaction; and a chapter on the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals in The Security Council as Global Legislator (Routledge, forthcoming). Martin also teaches international relations at Fordham University. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Beng Yong Chew</Name><Description>Senior Fellow</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Evan Cinq-Mars</Name><Description>Research Analyst, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect -- Evan Cinq-Mars is involved in the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect's advocacy and research efforts to advance the R2P. He recently completed an MA in Global Governance, specializing in Conflict and Security, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, and holds a Bachelor's of Public Affairs and Policy Management from Carleton University. Evan has six years of combined career and academic experience working on R2P and related issues, and has been previously employed by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Ruth Cowan</Name><Description>Senior Fellow -- Ruth Cowan has had an extensive career in higher education as a faculty member and administrator, and at the same time has been an advocate for human rights. She chaired New York City’s Commission on the Status of Women; is the Founding President of Pro Mujer, an organization using micro-loans, training, health education and health services to empower women in five Latin American countries; and serves on the board of directors of the Global Partnership for Afghanistan and the Council of Women World Leaders, whose members are current and former women heads of state. She completed studies at Cornell University, the University of Illinois, New York University and Harvard University. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Barbara Crossette</Name><Description>Fellow, RBI; Contributing writer and consulting editor, PassBlue -- Barbara Crossette is a fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY and the United Nations correspondent for The Nation. She was the UN bureau chief for The New York Times from 1994 to 2001 and earlier its chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia. She is the author of "So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas"; "The Great Hill Stations of Asia"; and a Foreign Policy Association study, "India: Old Civilizations in a New World." Crossette won the George Polk award for her coverage in India of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and the 2010 Shorenstein Prize for her writing on Asia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in Foreign Affairs. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Alvaro de Soto</Name><Description>Senior Fellow --Álvaro de Soto is a Peruvian diplomat and renowned international mediator. He led the negotiations which brought an end to the war in El Salvador; he has also served as the political advisor to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Special Envoy for Myanmar, the Special Advisor on Cyprus, and the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Ryan D'Souza</Name><Description>Research Analyst, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect --Ryan X. D'Souza is the lead researcher on Sudan and South Sudan and is also involved in broader advocacy work. Prior to joining the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Ryan interned as a constituency caseworker for a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom and more recently for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations. Ryan has a keen interest in Middle Eastern affairs having worked and travelled in various countries across the region. He holds a B.A. from the University of Edinburgh and a M.A. in International Relations from New York University. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Louis Emmerij</Name><Description>Senior Fellow, RBI -- Louis Emmerij is a Senior Research Fellow at the RBIIS, and was a Co-Director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project from 1999-2011. He has served as Director of the World Employment Programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Rector of the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague and Professor of Development Economics, President of the OECD Development Center, and Special Advisor to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Emmerij has published more than 130 articles in the fields of the economics of education, labour market questions, economic and social policy, and development studies. Among his more recent books are UN Voices: The Struggle for Economic Development and Social Justice (with Tom Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis and Richard Jolly), Indiana University Press, 2005. The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First 60 Years (with Richard Jolly and Tom Weiss), United Nations Intellectual History Project, 2005. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Carol Gould</Name><Description>Director, Center of Global Ethics and Politics; Professor, Political Science and Philosophy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center --Carol C. Gould is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and Professor in the Doctoral Programs in Philosophy and Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Ethics &amp; Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Gould is the author of Marx’s Social Ontology (MIT, 1978), Rethinking Democracy (Cambridge, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge, 2004), which won the 2009 David Easton Award from the American Political Science Association. She has edited or co-edited seven books, and has published numerous articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of law, and applied ethics. She has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Woodrow Wilson International Centers for Scholars. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Peter J. Hoffman</Name><Description>Research Fellow, RBI; Assistant Professor, International Affairs, The New School -- Peter J. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School and Research Fellow at the RBIIS. His research and writing focus on the dynamics of war and global responses, concentrating primarily on the international humanitarian system. Other major areas of his work encompass the private military and security sector; the United Nations; human rights; U.S. foreign policy; and, global commodity chains. His publications include numerous policy reports for organizations such as the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Médecins Sans Frontières. Hoffman’s first book, Sword &amp; Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises (co-author, Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2006), was a political history of the interaction between security and humanitarianism. His current project examines changing beliefs of humanitarian agencies regarding the use of private security contractors to protect aid workers and scrutinizes the consequences of the increasing use of hired guns by relief organizations, and will be published as Mercy and Mercenaries: The Politics of Private Security Companies Protecting Humanitarian Agencies (Routledge, forthcoming). </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Richard Jolly</Name><Description>Senior Fellow, RBI -- Sir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and from 2000 to 2010 was Senior Research Fellow and co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before this, Richard Jolly was for nearly 15 years an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and from 1996 to 2000, Principal Coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report. He has co-authored some 20 books and over 100 articles on development and on UN history, including UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice and UN Ideas That Changed the World. His most recent book is UNICEF: Global Governance that Works (Routledge, 2014). </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>James O.C. Jonah</Name><Description>Senior Fellow -- James O.C. Jonah retired as under-secretary-general for political affairs (1992-94) after more than three decades in the UN secretariat, including as political adviser in the Office of the Secretary-General (1970-79), assistant secretary-general for personnel services (1979-82), of the Office for Field Operations and External Activities (1982-87), and for special political questions (1991-2). After leaving the UN, he became Sierra Leone’s permanent representative to the UN (1996-98) and minister of finance, development and economic planning (1998-2001). He was born in Sierra Leone and educated at Lincoln University, Boston University, Harvard Law School, and MIT. He is currently a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute. His publications include his autobiography, What Price the Survival of the United Nations? Memoirs of a Veteran International Civil Servant.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Tapio Kanninen</Name><Description>Senior Fellow --Tapio Kanninen is senior fellow and co-director of the project on sustainable global governance at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Dr. Kanninen was chief of the Policy Planning Unit in the UN Department of Political Affairs and head of the secretariat of Kofi Annan’s five summits with regional organizations. He was also secretary and research focal point of the high-level drafting group of Boutros-Boutros Ghali’s An Agenda for Peace, convener of the interdepartmental task force to implement its recommendations, as well as secretary of many General Assembly working groups on UN reform. Earlier, Dr. Kanninen also worked in a UNEP-funded project at the UN Statistical Office on establishing a global framework for environmental statistics and in Finland on environmental data and analysis of living conditions of various population groups. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Eli Karetny</Name><Description>Program Administrator and Research Fellow, RBI;Ph.D. candidate, Political Science --Eli Karetny is a PhD candidate in Political Science writing his dissertation on the counterrevolutionary conceptions of freedom and democracy in the work of Leo Strauss. In addition to serving as Programs Administrator, Eli does research on the wartime history of the United Nations. Eli also teaches political theory and international relations at Baruch College. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Thomas G. Karis</Name><Description>Senior Fellow, and Professor Emeritus</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Casey Karr</Name><Description>Research Analyst, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect -- Casey Karr does research on populations at risk of mass atrocities in Syria and Burma/Myanmar, and coordinates the Centre's social media. She holds a B.A. from New York University and is currently completing her M.A. in International Affairs at The New School, concentrating in Governance and Rights. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Nadira Khudayberdieva</Name><Description>Research Analyst, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect -- Nadira Khudayberdieva conducts research on 'populations at risk' and her current focus is the situation in Guinea. She is also involved in fundraising and development activities of the Global Centre. Nadira holds an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford, where her thesis was on prevention of ethnic conflict, and a B.A. in International Studies from Earlham College. Previously, she worked as a Program Assistant at the Quaker United Nations Office. Nadira is fluent in English and Russian and has a working knowledge of Spanish. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Naomi Kikoler</Name><Description>Director of Policy &amp; Advocacy, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect --Naomi Kikoler leads the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect's work on populations at risk and efforts to advance R2P globally. She is also a Lecturer at the New School University. Naomi is the author of numerous publications, including the 2013 NEXUS Fund series on the emerging powers and mass atrocity prevention and the 2011 report "Risk Factors and Legal Norms Associated With Genocide Prevention" for the UN Office on the Prevention of Genocide and the Jacob Blaustein Institute. Prior to joining the Global Centre in 2008, she worked on national security and refugee law and policy for Amnesty International Canada. She has also clerked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, served as a legal consultant to the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings Institution and worked as an election monitor in Kenya with the Carter Center. Naomi holds common law and civil law degrees from McGill University, and an MSc. in Forced Migration from Oxford University. Naomi is an adviser to the NEXUS Fund, a Board Member of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and a member of the Bar of Upper Canada. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Dulcie Leimbach</Name><Description>Fellow, RBI; Founder and editor, PassBlue -- Dulcie Leimbach is a fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute. From 2008 to 2011, she was the publications director for the United Nations Association of the USA, where she edited its flagship magazine, The InterDependent, and migrated it online in 2010. She was also the senior editor of UNA's annual book, "A Global Agenda: Issues Before the UN." Before UNA, Leimbach was an editor at The New York Times for more than 20 years, where she worked on most news desks and wrote for many sections of the paper, including the Magazine, Book Review and Op-Ed. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and taught news reporting at Hofstra University. She is an editorial consultant for UNICEF and has worked as a freelance editor for the UN Population Fund. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Rama Mani</Name><Description>Senior Fellow, RBI --Rama Mani directs the project on “Ending Mass Atrocities: Echoes in Southern Cultures.” She is a Senior Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford and a councilor of the World Future Council, Hamburg. She previously was Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Director of the New Issues in Security Course at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and a policy advisor and strategy manager on conflict in Africa to Oxfam (GB), with postings in Ethiopia and Uganda. She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Beyond Retribution: Seeking Justice in the Shadows of War (2002 and 2007), and several journal articles and book chapters. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Nick Micinski</Name><Description>Graduate Assistant, and Ph.D. student, Political Science -- Nick Micinski is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, he worked in the NGO sector in London for five years on refugee and social enterprise issues. He holds a B.A. from Michigan State University in International Relations and Political Theory with a specialization in Muslim Studies. Nick’s research interests include immigration and refugee policy, Muslim communities, civil society, and human rights. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Satoshi Miura</Name><Description>Senior Fellow</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Nancy Okada</Name><Description>Administrative Director</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Savita Pawnday</Name><Description>Senior Manager, Major Projects, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect --Savita Pawnday oversees fundraising and development activities and acts as a lead on all of the projects of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, including the Focal Points Initiative, Regional Policy Forums, and ministerial level meetings at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Prior to joining the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, she was a research associate at the Program on States and Security at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Savita has worked in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi with Catholic Relief Services, in New York with Trickle Up, a microfinance NGO, and in India at Akanksha. She holds a M.A. from Fordham University in political economy and development, with a specialization in political economy of civil wars and a B.A. in Economics from St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Francesco Petrone</Name><Description>Visiting Research Fellow, RBI -- Francesco Petrone is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona and Visiting Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute. His research fields are: Global Governance, International Relations, Democracy, NGOs, Social Movements, Human Rights and Political Philosophy. He holds a degree in Philosophy and History (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) a Master in Political Science (Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) and a MA in Global Ethics and Politics, specializing in theories of International Relations and Global Governance, from the University of Barcelona (Spain). Francesco is also the Coordinator of Political Philosophy Seminar at the University of Barcelona and a member of the group Crisis of Practical Reason. His publications include a book, Quando la onlus diventa un guadagno. Tecniche per arricchirsi salvando i bambini (2012), and several articles including "El humanitarismo es la continuación del capitalismo con otros medios" (2012) and "Comunismo hermenéutico: una alternativa para los debiles?" (2012).</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Benjamin Rivlin</Name><Description>Director Emeritus and Professor Emeritus</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Peter Romaniuk</Name><Description>Assistant Director, RBIIS; Associate Professor of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice -- Peter Romaniuk is Assistant Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of Multilateral Counter-Terrorism: The Global Politics of Cooperation and Contestation (Routledge, 2010), as well as several articles, chapters, and reports on counterterrorism, terrorist financing and multilateral sanctions. He is Associate Director of the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College and is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (www.globalct.org). He holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and an AM and PhD in Political Science from Brown University. </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Mónica Serrano</Name><Description>Senior Fellow -- Mónica Serrano is Professor of International Relations at El Colegio de México, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. She was the founding Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (2008-11), Research and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (1990-97), Research Associate at the IISS (1996), and a MacArthur Research Fellow at Oxford University´s Centre for International Studies (1999-2002). She has written extensively on international security and Latin America, with particular reference to international institutions, security, human rights, transnational crime, and civil-military relations. Her recent books include: Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (2009); Mexico’s Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence (2012); Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Eastern Europe and Latin America (forthcoming); and The Responsibility to Protect in Latin America: The New Map (forthcoming).</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall</Name><Description>Research &amp; Publications Officer, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect --Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall has editorial oversight for the R2P Monitor and all of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect's major publications. She also does research on populations at risk of mass atrocities in West Africa and Central Africa. Prior to joining the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, she was a Research Assistant at the Cline Center for Democracy and taught International Relations and Comparative Politics courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She received a B.A. in Political Science and English from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an M.A. in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations from the University of Illinois. She is currently a Doctoral student at the University of Illinois studying International Organizations.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>John Torpey</Name><Description>Director, RBIIS; Professor, Sociology --John Torpey is Professor of Sociology and History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and (from January 2014) Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of eight books: Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy (1995); The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State (2000); Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (edited with Jane Caplan; Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001); Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (2004); Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (2005), Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (2006); The Post-Secular in Question (2012); and, with Christian Joppke, Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison (2013). He is on the editorial board of Theory and Society and the Journal of Human Rights, and edits a series for Temple University Press titled "Politics, History, and Social Change." </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Herbert F. Weiss</Name><Description>Senior Fellow, and Professor Emeritus</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Thomas G. Weiss</Name><Description>Director Emeritus, RBIIS; Presidential Professor, Political Science --Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He directed the United Nations Intellectual History Project (1999-2010) and was President of the International Studies Association (2009-10), Chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (2006-9), editor of Global Governance, Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, Executive Director of the Academic Council on the UN System and of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UN secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. He has authored or edited some 45 books and 200 articles and book chapters about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. Recent authored volumes include: Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? (2013); Humanitarian Business (2013); Humanitarianism Intervention: Ideas in Action (2012); What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2012); Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and Ideas Matter (2011); Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread (2011); Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (2010); and UN Ideas That Changed the World (2009). </Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Jennifer S. Whitaker</Name><Description>Senior Fellow, RBI</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Danielle Zach</Name><Description>Senior Editorial Associate and Research Fellow --Danielle A. Zach is Senior Editorial Associate and Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where her work focuses on global governance, humanitarianism and the responsbility to protect, and the UN. She earned her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2013 upon completion of her dissertation on diasporas, social networks, and armed conflict. Her research interests include civil wars and violence, ethnicity and nationalism, social movements, and migration.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder><Name>Bree Zuckerman</Name><Description>Research Associate and Webmaster, RBIIS; Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science --Bree Zuckerman is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Webmaster for the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. In addition to her work at the RBIIS, she is also an instructional technology fellow for the OpenLab at the New York City College of Technology. She was previously a writing fellow and educational technology fellow at Queens College, and a research associate for the UN Intellectual History Project and the Program on States and Security. 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