Bruce Dayton Assistant Professor, Political Science Co-Director, Transboundary Crisis Management Bruce Dayton is the Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School where he specializes in conflict studies, crisis management, and global environmental politics. He has been active in community-based advocacy work and was a practitioner with the Boston-based Center for Policy Negotiation. Dayton currently heads a project to evaluate the impact of third-party interventions on intractable identity-based conflicts, which received funding from the United States Institute of Peace. He also co-directs an initiative to train Maxwell graduate students in a comparative case-study methodology focusing on crisis management. In January of 2005 Dayton was elected to serve as the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Dayton recently published “Managing Crises in the Twenty First Century”. He has also authored “Policy Frames, Policy Making and the Global Climate Discourse,” and is the associate editor of Social Conflict and Collective Identity. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University and an MA in Political Science from the University of Nebraska.   Harry Lambright Professor, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Adminsitration, Political Science and Public Administration Co-Director, Transboundary Crisis Management W. Henry Lambright is professor of political science and public administration and director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Administration. His research interests include federal decisionmaking on space technology, environmental policy, transboundary issues, national security, the integration of science with policy, ecosystem management, biotechnology, technology transfer, and leadership issues. Lambright has written scores of articles and has written or edited six books, including Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA (Johns Hopkins, 1995). He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966. More Info...     Caroline (Haiyan) Tong Director of Asia Projects, Executive Education Program Committee Member, Transboundary Crisis Management Caroline Tong received both her M.A. (International Relations) and Ph.D. (Political Science) from the Maxwell School. She works with the Director of Executive Education Program and the leadership of the Maxwell School to develop and maintain partnerships with governments and educational institutions in Asia, promote the field of public administration and government reforms in that region. She acts as chief liaison and organizer for many of Maxwell’s training programs with Asian countries. Through her collaboration with scholars, government officials, business leaders from both the United States and Asian countries, she hopes to improve mutual understanding between people and governments. She also teaches China Seminar for Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA) and advises Masters thesis for Executive Education students.     C. Esra Cuhadar Gurkaynak Ph.D. Candidate, International Relations Participant, Transboundary Crisis Management Ms. Cuhadar's research focuses on the evaluation of track-two diplomacy and how its impact is transferred to official policymaking and official negotiations. In her research, she will specifically deal with unoffical efforts concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the pre-negotiation stage. Her major goal is to develop an evaluation guideline for the assessment of track two efforts to be used by practitioners and funding agencies in the field. She will conduct a 'structured-focused comparative case study' of three unofficial diplomacy cases. Ms. Cuhadar will gather evidence through a combination of document research and interviews with people who participated in unofficial meetings, key people who have information on the processes and the unofficial third parties who organized the meetings. She will take a field trip to Israel to conduct interviews there with the participants as well as gather unpublished documents from the local sources. She will also conduct interviews with Palestinians.   Agnes Gereban Schaefer Doctoral Student, Political Science Participant, Transboundary Crisis Management Research Summary: “Global Civic Engagement: The Role of Women’s Civic Groups in Post-World War II International Relations” (written collaboratively with A. Lanethea Mathews) The project explores the post-war role of US and international women’s civic organizations, such as the World YWCA, the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, and the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations. These organizations all had US chapters or branches and were embedded in dense networks of women’s organizations throughout the world. Women’s groups in the post-war era helped shape the character of the emerging United Nations, were primarily responsible for the establishment of the UN Commission on Women and, within the United States, strategically drew on post-war international visibility to shape social and foreign policy. The project highlights the role of non-governmental women’s organizations in international relations while exploring the connections between American politics and international politics. Uncovering the political influence of women’s voluntary associations, the project also unsettles conventional wisdom about the supposedly minor post-war status of women. Although women’s political influence was largely confined to that which they exercised through voluntary groups, nevertheless, women were able to shape institutions in the international arena and, in turn, to strengthen their political leverage within the US.   Stella Samillan Aguilar Graduate Student, International Relations Participant, Transboundary Crisis Management Stella M. Samillan is studying international relations with a focus on Global Markets and Latin America at the Maxwell School. Her research interests include international economics, trade, and development. Before coming to Maxwell, Stella earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from the Agrarian University, La Molina (in Lima, Peru) and certification as a specialist in international trade. After graduating from La Molina, Stella collaborated on several projects related to international affairs. Her first entailed extensive research into the Peru-Ecuador border conflict of 1941 and resulted in the publication of a book on the subject. The next explored the effects of regional economic integration and explained its implications for the Peruvian agribusiness sector. Within two years, the General Secretariat of the Andean Community, a sub-regional, intergovernmental organization comprising Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, appointed Stella a member of its international trade negotiations team. Throughout her yearlong stint, she participated in negotiations over trade preferences with Mercosur and the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala). Currently, as a De Sardon Glass Fellow in The Moynihan Institute, Stella is taking part in the Transboundary Crisis Management project and conducting research on the 1998 settlement of the Peru-Ecuador border conflict. Stella was a part of the E.U. Internship program in the fall of 2002, she interned with the Luxembourg Income Study in Luxembourg. Stella also received a summer research grant from the E.U. center to do research on "Assessing the E.U. Trade Relations with Latin America".   Lina Svedin Graduate Student, Political Science Participant, Transboundary Crisis Management Lina has an undergraduate degree in English and International Relations from Stockholm University. She also received a Masters Degree in International Relations from the same University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in political science at Maxwell. Lina has worked for seven years as an analyst at CRISMART National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish National Defence College. She has taught and trained senior officers and civilians at the college in crisis management and political science and has worked as a consultant for various Swedish Ministries. Lina has also co-edited two books on crisis management in Russia and Iceland respectively, co-authored a journal article, and a book on a power-outage in Auckland New Zealand, and recently wrote the concluding chapter to a conference report on the implications of September 11 for the study of international relations. Currently she is running a course for students in the Executive Education program at Maxwell, who are writing their Masters projects on crisis cases. Her dissertation is geared toward public and private sector cooperation in crises. Lina received a summer research grant from the EU center for the summer of 2003 to do research on "Developing a Case Bank of 100 European Transboundary Crisis Management Incidents".