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Office Hours: Fall 2009; Tuesdays 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment
Office: (202) 885-1544
E-mail: wanis@american.edu





Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, M.A., Ph.D.
St. John's University, School of Education and Human Services, B.S. (Magna Cum Laude)

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Biography
Anthony Wanis-St. John joined the faculty of American University’s School of International Service as Assistant Professor in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program in September 2006. Before joining AU, he was a Research Associate at the Center on International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, and was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. He is an expert on international peace negotiations, including the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations from 1993 to the present, as well as other peace process negotiations.

He earned his Ph.D. (2001) and M.A. (1996) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts' Dispute Resolution Program, Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Notre Dame University (Beirut, Lebanon) and Seton Hall University's Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations. He is completing a book with Syracuse University Press entitled: Back Channel Negotiations: Secrecy in Middle East Peacemaking.  

He has consulted with the United States Institute of Peace for their Education and Training Center, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of State, as well as civil society organizations on their peacebuilding work. He also provides negotiation training to diverse organizations, including nongovernmental organizations, global corporations and government agencies. He speaks fluent Spanish and French as well as basic Arabic. In collaboration with Dr. Anton Grizold, Dean of Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, he co-mentors doctoral students researching international conflict resolution and security topics.


Courses Taught for SIS/IPCR

• Negotiation Analysis & Skills (Spring 2010 version)
• Comparative Peace Processes
  
• International Negotiation
• Culture, Peace, & Conflict Resolution
• Art of Negotiation (co-taught with Prof. Gary Weaver)
• Addressing Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict (co-taught with Prof. Ron Fisher)

Research Interests

• Civil Society and Peace Processes
  
• Ceasefire Negotiation and Mediation, Georgia-Russia
• Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process and Negotiations
• Conflict Prevention
• Cyprus and the Green Line
• Implementation Problems in Peace Processes
  
• Culture and Negotiation
• Complex Adaptive Systems
  
• Labor Relations and Mediation
• Alternate Dispute Resolution Systems and Judicial Reform
• Post Conflict Justice and Rule of Law

Publications (Selected)

• Conflict Prevention in the New Security Context: The Case of Macedonia (with Anton Grizold, Marina Mitrevska, Vlado Buchkovski), Open Society Institute of Macedonia, 2009)

• "Comparative Peace Processes," in T. McElwee, B.W. Hall, J. Liechty, J. Garber, eds., Peace, Justice and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide 7th ed. (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009)

• "Peace Processes, Secret Negotiations and Civil Society: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion," International Negotiation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2008) (guest editor for issue no. 1 within vol. 13)

• "Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Confronting Exclusion," (with Darren Kew) International Negotiation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2008)

• “Back Channel Negotiation: International Bargaining in the Shadows,” Negotiation Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (2006)

• "Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Why, Whether and How They Could Be Involved" (with Thania Pfaffenholz and Darren Kew), Paper prepared for Oslo Forum: Global Forum for Senior Conflict Mediators, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, June 26-28, 2006. 

• “Cultural Pathways in Negotiation and Conflict Management,” in Moffitt and Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005)

• International Practices in Intervention in the Culture of Drugs and Violence (with contributions from R. Harrison, S. Berger, L. Shelley and M. Candamil), United States Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, July 2005

• “Thinking Globally and Acting Locally,” Review Essay of Negotiating Globally, by J. Brett and Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution, by F. Dukes, M. Piscolish and J. Stephens Negotiation Journal, vol. 19, no. 3 (2003)

• “Implementing ADR in Transitioning States,” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Vol. 5 (2000)

• “The National Security Council: Tool of Presidential Crisis Management” Journal of Public and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998)

• “Third Party Mediation Over Kashmir: A Modest Proposal,” International Peacekeeping, vol. 4, no. 4 (1997).

Professional Practice

• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), Washington, DC Project design and post-implementation evaluation for judicial modernization loan projects financed by the World Bank in Latin America and Asia (1997 to present):
• Mexico: Advisory Group for design of Mexico’s state court reform program, work on project appraisal loan document for Board approval; participation in negotiations with Mexican government client agency BANOBRAS Venezuela: initial field research for project design; participation in negotiation of Aide-Memoire for project terms of reference
  
• Guatemala: monitoring and evaluation missions for court-annexed mediation programs for Guatemala’s Mayan indigenous and other populations; monitor and report on progress of entire judicial modernization project 
  
• El Salvador: facilitator and analyst at strategic planning workshop for El Salvador’s Supreme Court judicial reform program
  
• Honduras: development of project concepts and strategies for upcoming judicial modernization project 
  
• World Health Organization, United Nations Promotion and analysis of “Health as a Bridge for Peace”: public health projects sponsored jointly by warring parties in armed conflicts, participation at February 2005 conference at United Nations; planning and facilitation of September 2005 workshop in Finland (2004-2005)
  
• Israel Palestine Negotiation Partners & Vienna CM Partners, Vienna Track II conflict resolution for Palestinian and Israeli negotiation staff, civil society leaders and government officials  (2003-2004)
• University of San Diego, Department of Political Science and International Relations Conduct external review of two bachelors and two masters programs, assess curricular design, faculty lines, programs and future directions (2003)
• Conflict Management Group, Cambridge Conduct research on Latin American ADR practices and program impact, conduct field research in Bolivia on USAID-funded ADR programs, contribute annex to USAID’s project management guide for ADR; conduct training for Inter-American Development Bank in Dominican Republic; USAID proposal development; Israel-Palestine Negotiations workshop  (1997-2002)
  

Awards

• Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, Conflict Resolution, 2007-2009 (Award completed July 2009 with University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Palestinian-American Research Council, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2005-2006
• Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1999-2000
• Boren Fellow, National Security Education Program, Language Study Fellowship, 1998-1999
• Arthur Vining Davis Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship, 1996-1997
• W. H. Donner Foundation Fellowship for research into Middle East peace process, 1995-1996
• Gibran Kahlil Gibran Scholarship, 1995

Works in Progress (Selected)

• "Nuclear Negotiations: Iran, the EU (and the US)," Chapter submitted to the Failed Negotiations Book Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Project on International Negotiations, 2009 (In press).