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- Organization / Affiliation
- United States Institute of Peace
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- http://usip.org
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- mlevinger@usip.org
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- conflict analysis, conflict prevention, genocide prevention
- Bio
- Matthew Levinger is a Senior Program Officer in the Education and Training Center at the United States Institute of Peace, where he teaches courses on conflict analysis and prevention for foreign policy professionals. He has more than twenty years’ experience doing research, analysis, and teaching on nationalism and violent conflict in the modern world. Before joining the U.S. Institute of Peace, he was founding director of the Academy for Genocide Prevention at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2005 to 2007. At the Holocaust Museum he played a key role in launching the Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. The Task Force’s report Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers was released in December 2008. Previously, Matthew was associate professor of History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon; he has also taught at Stanford University. His research and teaching have focused on the history of nationalism and revolutionary political theory in modern Europe, as well as the history of genocide during the twentieth century. He is the author of Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848 (Oxford, 2000) and coauthor of The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850 (Norton, 2002). He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. From January 2003 to January 2004 he was a William C. Foster Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked on initiatives for atrocities early warning and prevention in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
- Project(s)
- "Crisis in Darfur" (partnership between U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth); USHMM Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, 2005-2007.
Teach "Foundations of Conflict Analysis" and "Preventing Deadly Conflict" for U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) Education and Training Center.
Developing USIP's online "Advanced Conflict Analysis" course.
Working on development of interactive global peace and conflict map for Public Education Center in new USIP headquarters building.
Matthew Levinger's Blog
GIS Technology as a Tool for Genocide Prevention
Thanks to Patrick for his thoughtful taxonomy of the field of Crisis Mapping. Another way to organize our conversations about this field is according to the various potential goals of interactive mapping projects, e.g. stimulating public awareness and activism, providing policymakers with early warning of emerging crises, or enabling civilian populations in conflict zones to defend themselves against impending attacks.
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Posted on August 10, 2009 at 1:44pm —
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