Tatiana Carayannis is associate director of the Social Science Research Council's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, having recently moved from The City University of New York's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where she directed the research of the United Nations Intellectual History Project.
Tatiana Carayannis
Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Tel: 212-377-2700 Fax: 212-377-2727
Email:
carayannis@ssrc.org
Until 2000 she was an adjunct
instructor in international relations at CUNY and before that a researcher
at the Carnegie Corporation of NY. In 1998, she served as rapporteur
for the UN Secretary-General's Resource Group on the DRC, and between
1989 and 1995 as program officer at the Institute for International
Education, where she worked on democratic transitions and security
sector reform in West and southern Africa. She is co-author of
UN
Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Indiana
University Press, 2005). Her second book, on the first UN peacekeeping
mission in the Congo, is under contract for 2007. Her research interests
include wars and peacebuilding efforts in Central Africa, global-local
conflict linkages, irregular armed groups, and the agenda-setting
role of UN ideas. Her work has appeared in a number of books and academic
journals, including the
Journal of International Affairs,
Journal of Asian and African Studies,
Journal of Global
Social Policy, and
Forum for Development Studies. She
has also consulted for a variety of multilateral and non-governmental
actors, including UN DPKO, UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and the International
Peace Academy. Tatiana has been a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar
and is currently completing a Ph.D. dissertation on conflict networks
and hybrid wars in Central Africa. She holds an M.Phil. from The CUNY
Graduate Center, an M.A. from New York University, and a B.A. from
Adelphi University. She received a Cértificat Pratique de francais
commercial et économique from the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie
de Paris and training in elite interview methods from Columbia University.