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Appendix B

Attendees

NA-USIP Roundtable:
Workshop on Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support
Peacebuilding

of the National Academies and United States Institute of Peace

November 20, 2012

Keck Center of the National Academies
500 5th Street NW, Room 101
Washington, DC

PARTICIPANTS

Co-Chairs

W. Peter Cherry

Independent Consultant

SAIC (retired)

Sam Worthington

President and CEO

InterAction

Steering Committee Members

Bernard Amadei

Founder, Engineers Without Borders

Mortenson Chair in Global Engineering

University of Colorado

Sharon Morris

Director of Youth and Conflict Management

Mercy Corps

Robert Ricigliano

Director, Institute of World Affairs

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

William Rouse

Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology

Expert Participants

Robin Amadei

Founder

Common Ground Mediation Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Dorina Bekoe

Research Staff Member

Africa Program

Institute for Defense Analyses

Rodney Bent

Director

United Nations Information Center

John R. Birge

Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Professor of Operations Management

Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago

Alfred Blumstein

University Professor and J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research

Heinz College

Carnegie Mellon University

Beth Cole

Director

Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation

US Agency for International Development

Paulo Cesar G. Costa

Research Director

C2 International Activities

Center of Excellence in C4I

George Mason University

Steven H. Dam

President and Founder

SPEC Innovations

David Davis

Director

Peace Operations Policy Program

George Mason University

Lance A. Davis

Executive Officer

National Academy of Engineering

Monica Davis

Foreign Service Officer

Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations

US Department of State

M. Bruce Elliott

US Army Corps of Engineers’ Liaison Officer

Office of Civilian/Military Cooperation

US Agency for International Development

Mark Epstein

Senior Vice President

Qualcomm Inc.

Melanie Greenberg

President and CEO

Alliance for Peacebuilding

Hrach Gregorian

President

Institute of World Affairs

Marvine Hamner

Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

George Washington University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Theresa Jefferson

Visiting Faculty Member

Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

Loyola University Maryland

Daniel T. Maxwell

President and Chief Scientist

KaDSci, LLC

Tim McRae

Program Analyst

Office of Food for Peace

US Agency for International Development

Bridget Moix

Cumbie Research Fellow

Genocide Prevention Program

School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

George Mason University

C.D. (Dan) Mote, Jr.

Regents Professor and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering

University of Maryland

Robert Perito

Director

Security Sector Governance Center

United States Institute of Peace

Kirby Reiling

Conflict Specialist

Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation

US Agency for International Development

Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez

Director, Engineering Management Program

System Development & Maturity Lab

Stevens Institute of Technology

Andrew W. Reynolds

Senior Advisor

Office of Space and Advanced Technologies

US Department of State

Stephen M. Robinson

Professor Emeritus

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Julie Ryan

Associate Professor

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

The George Washington University

Nicoleta Serban

Associate Professor

School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Linton Wells

Director

Center for Technology and National Security Policy

National Defense University

James D. Willis Jr.

Vice President

SPEC Innovations

Staff Participants

Geneve Bergeron

Program Assistant

US Institute of Peace

Sheldon Himelfarb

Director, Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding

US Institute of Peace

Greg Pearson

Senior Program Officer

National Academy of Engineering

Proctor Reid

Director of Programs

National Academy of Engineering

Andrew Robertson

Senior Program Officer

US Institute of Peace

Ryan Shelby

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow and J. Herbert Hollomon Fellow

National Academy of Engineering

Jon Temin

Director, Sudan and South Sudan Program

US Institute of Peace

Frederick S. Tipson

Special Advisor, Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding

US Institute of Peace

Anand Varghese

Program Specialist

US Institute of Peace

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Operational systems engineering is a methodology that identifies the important components of a complex system, analyzes the relationships among those components, and creates models of the system to explore its behavior and possible ways of changing that behavior. In this way it offers quantitative and qualitative techniques to support the design, analysis, and governance of systems of diverse scale and complexity for the delivery of products or services. Many peacebuilding interventions function essentially as the provision of services in response to demands elicited from societies in crisis. At its core, operational systems engineering attempts to understand and manage the supply of services and product in response to such demands.

Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the Roundtable on Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding of the National Academy of Engineering and the United States Institute of Peace to explore the question "When can operational systems engineering, appropriately applied, be a useful tool for improving the elicitation of need, the design, the implementation, and the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions?" The workshop convened experts in conflict prevention, conflict management, postconflict stabilization, and reconstruction along with experts in various fields of operational systems engineering to identify what additional types of nonnumerical systems methods might be available for application to peacebuilding.

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