Jan 2002 Seminar

"Security and Development: How Security Sector Reform Can Provide a Setting
for Stability and Economic Growth."

Tulane Institute for International Development (TIID) invites you to its January Seminar under the Tulane International Development 2002 Seminar Series.

Speaker: Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman

Security sector reform has been part of US military diplomacy since the end of World War II. Military diplomacy has not been matched by an equivalent foreign policy approach to the reform of the security sector by civilian US government agencies. Creating a civil-military approach to good governance requires support of programs that encourage not only military to military contact and reforms, but also requires synchronization of democratic reforms which empower civilians in the developing world to manage security affairs, encourage democratic policing and take hold of the use of force in developing states. This discussion is based on a forthcoming work by the same title, to be published in 2002.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior fellow at the Association of the United States Army's project on the Role of American Military Power in the 21st Century (RAMP). For the last eight years she has held senior positions at the United States Agency for International Development, most recently as Senior Policy Advisor for the Bureau for Humanitarian Response, where she managed the Agency's policy on post-conflict reconstruction, security and governance. From 1998-1999 she served as Senior Social Scientist and Attorney at the World Bank's newly created Post Conflict Unit, on assignment from the United States Agency for International Development. In 1994 she was appointed as a Senior Advisor to the newly created Office of Transition
Initiatives, Bureau for Humanitarian Response, She also was one of the founder of the Conflict Prevention Network in 1997, a coalition of donor nations, working together to coordinate and support the reconstruction of war-torn societies.

Dr. Mendelson also holds a faculty appointment at The American University's School of International Service in Washington, D.C. and at Georgetown University's Center for National Security Studies. For over a decade, she has worked to develop a network of organizations in Latin America concerned with improving civil-military relations and good governance. Dr. Mendelson is also a regular lecturer at the US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, the National Defense University and the Inter-American Defense College.