Office:          Clark Hall 202
Office Hours: 3-6 Tuesday, 2:15-3:15 and 8-9pm Thursday
Phone:         (202) 885-1693
E-mail:         call@american.edu
M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University
B.A. Princeton University (cum laude)

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Biography
Charles T. Call is Assistant Professor in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, and a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, 2008-09. His publications include Building States to Build Peace (Lynne Rienner, 2008) and Constructing Justice and Security after War (US Institute of Peace Press, 2007), and peer-reviewed articles in Comparative Politics, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Global Governance. He works on post-conflict peacebuilding, state-building, democratization, human rights and policing and justice reform. Trained as a Latin Americanist, he has conducted field research in all of Central America, Colombia, Haiti, Afghanistan, West Africa, Bosnia, Kosovo and South Africa. He spent most of 2004 at the UN Department of Political Affairs as their peacebuilding consultant, and before that was on the faculty at Brown University. He has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch, the European Commission, USAID, UNDP, the US Department of Justice, and the International Peace Institute, and received grants from the US Institute of Peace, the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and his B.A. from Princeton University.

Recent Courses Taught

• Peace Process in Latin America
  
• Theory of Conflict, Violence and War
  
• Post-War Peacebuilding
  
• Human Rights in Latin America
  

Research Interest

• Peacebuilding
• Post-Conflict Governance & Reconstruction
• Latin America & the Caribbean
• Human Rights and Democratization
• Justice and Security Sector Reform Demilitarization
• International Organizations & Peace

Publications (Selected)

• “Democratization, War, and State-Building: Constructing the Rule of Law in El Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 35:4 (November 2003).
• “War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America.”  Comparative Politics, 35:1 (October 2002).
• “On Democracy and Peacebuilding,” Global Governance 9,2 (Spring 2003), co-authored with Susan Cook.
• Governance After War: Rethinking Democratization and Peacebuilding. Special issue (Vol. 9:2, Spring 2003) of Global Governance (edited with Susan Cook).
• “Competing Donor Approaches to Post-Conflict Police Reform.” Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, 2:1 (Spring 2002).
• “Protecting the People: Public Security Choices after Civil War.”  Global Governance 7:2 (Apr-Jun 2001). Principal author (co-author: William Stanley).
• "Looking for a Few Good Cops: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and the U.N. Civilian Police." International Peacekeeping. 6:4 (Winter 1999).  Principal author (co-author: Professor Michael Barnett).

Professional Practice: Consulting to the following: (Selected)

• United Nations Secretariat, New York
• United Nations Development Programme and International Peace Academy
• U.S. Agency for International Development
• United Nations UN Development Programme and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations
• Human Rights Watch, Colombia
• Human Rights Watch, Russia
• European Commission/US Agency for International Development
• Ford Foundation
• Inter-American Development Bank
• U.S. Department of Justice
• Center for the Administration of Justice of Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Co-organizer and Rapporteur: Conference on Demilitarizing Public Order: The International Community, Police Reform and Human Rights in Central America and Haiti

MEDIA (Selected)

TV Appearances on BBC World Service, ABC World News This Morning, CNN Spanish.  Numerous radio interviews.  Op-eds published in Le Monde, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Montreal Gazette, Providence Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Antonio Light, and La República (Costa Rica).  Letters in the New York Times, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others.