About the Stability InstituteOur core duty is to answer questions. When anyone in the stabilization field has a query, our nonprofit reaches out to the right experts to provide actionable and practical recommended solutions. As a professional association, most networking, connections, and answers are all voluntary in the spirit of making our world a safer place.We also orchestrate training events for executives, diplomats, development practitioners, and our armed forces. In two years, the Institute and its partnered organizations have trained and/or advised over 20,000 law enforcement, special operators, and conventional troops as well as diplomatic, economic and development officers/staff on stabilization and community policing.Stability InstituteSI3_bdef9a26-5103-11e6-8307-04cdd9f7de5aWe are a professional syndicate that answers queries from stability professionals. The core nonprofit comprises volunteer officers and advisors and is quite small. We have over 1,000 members on six continents that include experts and professionals in the stabilization fields such as governance, information, security, and development. We have a conservatively estimated reach / readership of over 10,000.Stability ProfessionalsOfficers of the Stability InstituteHoward Gambrill Clark, Ph.D.CEO -- Howard Gambrill Clark, Ph.D. has served over 17 years in counterterrorism / counter-violent-extremism throughout four continents. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in international relations focusing on the Middle East. While a student, Dr. Clark was a writer for U.S. Information Agency’s Washington File, Middle East / South Asia division; served on the staff of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee; and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo via a Department of Defense grant. After Yale, Dr. Clark served as policy analyst in the Executive Office of the President for the President’s Chief Economic Adviser, focusing on counterterrorism. Following the White House, Dr. Clark served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an intelligence officer and multi-national / small-unit commander with multiple deployments to Iraq as well as Afghanistan and the Philippines. After military service, Dr. Clark was presidentially appointed as Department of Homeland Security Chief Intelligence Officer’s Special Assistant. Then, as Senior Intelligence Analyst for Homeland Security Counter-Radicalization, Dr. Clark helped lead the Intelligence Community in intelligence support to countering violent extremism. He was then promoted to Senior Intelligence Officer for Homeland Security Operations before acting as consultant (contracted Senior Intelligence Analyst) to Special Operations Command’s Counter-Radicalization Branch. While earning his Ph.D. from King’s College London War Studies, he served as senior counter-violent-extremism advisor and trainer for USAID, USSOCOM, USDA, DOS, Special Forces teams, USMC, NATO, and other partner governments in Southwest Asia and the Homeland and Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. Currently Dr. Clark serves as: – CEO (unpaid), nonprofit Stability Institute – training and advising special operators as well as development professionals on defeating radical cells on five continents – Advisor, UAE General Headquarters – mentoring on internal and external counterterrorism strategies as part of a U.S. Government program – Assistant Professor for Strategic Security Studies UAE National Defense College – focusing research on countering extremism, sponsored by the U.S. National Defense University – Editor-in-Chief (unpaid), CVE Journal – monthly publication for counterterrorism operators and professionals with practical and actionable solutions His publications include books Kill Al Qaeda (2009), Revolt Against Al-Qa`ida (2010), Narrative Analyses: Taliban, AQAP (coauthor 2010), and Village Stability Operations (coauthor 2015), as well as articles for the CVE Journal, Jane's Terrorism and Security Monitor, Competing Networks & Narratives Weekly, American Interest, and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation's Free Radicals. His publications have been covered and reviewed by international media to include U.S. News & World Report, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and al-Hurra.Zack BaddorfDirector of Visual Media -- Zack Baddorf is a military veteran with more than 10 years of video, radio, print, photo and web reporting in about 30 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Crimea, the West Bank, Kashmir, and Iraq, as well as rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka and Burma. Most recently, Baddorf spent a year working as a civilian videographer for the U.S. special forces command in Afghanistan, capturing video of U.S. special forces and Afghan security forces at rural, remote locations. Based in Brooklyn, Baddorf has produced award-winning radio, video, photo, print and web content for NPR, BBC, AP, the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and other international publications. He won a 2011 National Headliner Award for his half-hour radio documentary on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He also served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania and worked for a year for an international non-governmental organization in South Sudan doing media development. Previously, he served in the U.S. military for five years as a journalist, reporting from across Asia and the Middle East. He won the U.S. military’s top photojournalism award. He has a master’s degree in international relations, another master’s in public relations, and a bachelor’s in journalism.David JacobsonVice President -- Dr. David Jacobson is the founding director of the Citizenship Initiative, and Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. He is a Fellow at the Exeter Center of Ethno-Political Studies at the University of Exeter. He is also a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po, Paris. Born in South Africa, he received his graduate training at the London School of Economics and Princeton University. A political sociologist, he works in the areas of immigration and citizenship, international institutions and law, human rights, religion and conflict, and woman’s status in global conflict. His book, “Of Virgins and Martyrs: Woman’s Status in Global Conflict,” Johns Hopkins University Press, has just been released. He is one of the senior principal investigators on a project researching Muslim communities and their responses to different challenges in Western Europe, West Africa and Southeast Asia. He is also leading a new project, which will examine tribes and ethnic groups in Mali and Nigeria, and the sociological changes they are facing in the context of political, economic and security challenges in West and Sahelian Africa. The project will include extensive fieldwork. He directs surveys across three continents. He also directs research teams in Europe and the United States, with a team in development for West Africa. Professor Jacobson is the author of, among other works, Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship and Place and Belonging in America. He presented the Haar Lecture in International Sociology at Princeton University. He has had visiting appointments at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Sciences Po and the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations. At invitation, he has also made presentations at, inter alia, CERI-Sciences Po (Paris), UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Geneva, Columbia University, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Hebrew University, New School of Social Research, University of Florida, European University Institute, NYU, UC San Diego, University of Bath, University of Heidelberg, University of Neuchatel, NMSU, University of Munich, UC Irvine, and others. He also co-founded the Global Resolve Initiative, which helps villagers in developing countries develop alternative energy technologies, with a pilot project in Ghana. Global Resolve received the 2009 Creasman Award for Excellence.Utsav YadavFellow -- Utsav Yadav is a PMO Analyst at Totalis Consulting Group, Inc. He recruits U.S. army veterans to train and instruct soldiers for current and future conflicts. He also helps write proposals. Prior to that, Mr. Yadav has worked as an intern at a small nonprofit group in Montana, produced weekend newscasts at a small TV market in Kearney, Nebraska, and went abroad briefly to work at a 24-hour English language news channel in India. Mr. Yadav has a BA from the University of Georgia in broadcast news. He is fluent in Hindi and he is currently learning Turkish.Stability Institute Board of AdvisorsThe Stability Institute Board of Advisors represents the highest standard of stability excellence coupled with passion and dedication to advocate for the operator and stability practitioner. Our Advisors, in addition to unmatched experience and skill, collectively represent the diverse nature of stability in strategic, at-risk, under-governed countries. Our Board comprises expertise in information, security, economic development, and governance within both formal and informal civil society. Our Board also understands the public and private sector writ large along with the stability needs of each. The diverse nature of our stability network, combined with the wicked complexity of today’s stability challenges, requires a stringent selection process for our Board of Advisors. While rigorous, these criteria ensure the Stability Institute establishes and maintains the highest possible credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of the entire stability network. This ultimately benefits the public and private stability practitioner along with long-term stability in challenging areas. * Advisors embody and supports all The Stability Institute Core Values * Advisors are passionate and driven to expand the reach of The Stability Institute * Advisors are relevant to global complex stability problems. They have a rare combination of specific technical knowledge, a pre-existing network, and a holistic understanding of the larger stability problem sets. * Advisors are dedicated to achieving stability through giving back through network collaboration * Advisors are practitioner-focused but with strategic breadth and experience * Advisors have unmatched access to resources, authorities, knowledge, or key people/organizations that they willingly and openly leverage to expand SI contributions * Advisors have excellent placement within an existing network to advance stability institute contributions throughout the stability community.D. Scott MannFounder/Chairman -- D. Scott Mann, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), U.S. Army Special Forces -- D. Scott Mann, has spent his twenty-three year Army Special Forces Career involved in Foreign Internal Defense, Counter-insurgency, and Stability Missions all over the world. Scott graduated from the University of Central Arkansas with a degree in Political Science. He has a Master’s Degree in Operational Art and Science from the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College. Scott has served in the Special Operations Community for over 18 years and has been a Green Beret for over 15 years. During that time Scott spent over 10 years in 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) where he served in a variety of Foreign Internal Defense and combat deployments in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In addition to commanding at a several levels, Scott was a three-time select for Battalion Command. Additionally, Scott was an architect and original implementer of the Special Operations Village Stability and Afghan Local Police Program in Afghanistan. He authored the authoritative VSO methodology document known as VSO 101 in the SOCOM Donovan Report. Scott also wrote the only strategic narrative document to date, on VSO in Afghanistan for Small Wars Journal. From 2010-2011 Scott singularly designed and implemented all four iterations of the renowned USSOCOM Joint SOF Academic Week which trained over 4,000 SOF and Afghan bound personnel. This training was highlighted in Linda Robinson’s highly acclaimed book 100 Victories. Scott’s specialties include complex stability operations, collaboration across organizational networks, and full-spectrum training in stability tradecraft. He currently advises Senior SOF Commanders in Afghanistan and the US and Federal Law Enforcement on bottom-up operations in outlying communities. Since retirement, Scott founded and was the first Chief Executive Officer of the Stability Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to brokering knowledge and connecting stability professionals on complex stability issues around the globe. Scott is also a real-estate entrepreneur of a multi-million dollar portfolio and Founder/CEO of Patriot Families, A non-profit organization committed to helping military families and wounded veterans at a grass-roots level cope with the rigors of military deployments and family stress. Scott lives in Riverview, Florida with his wife Monty and their children Cody, Cooper, and Brayden. He writes and designs content full time as the Director of the Stability Institute.Martin R. SteeleLieutenant General Martin R. Steele, USMC (Ret.) -- Martin Steele was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Fayetteville, AR. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1965. During his initial tour at Camp Pendleton, he was deployed to the Republic of Vietnam. Subsequently assigned as a corporal to Officer Candidates School, General Steele was commissioned a second lieutenant in January 1967. He rose steadily in the ranks, holding positions as platoon commander, executive officer, and tank company commander. This was followed by a second tour of duty in Southeast Asia and an assignment as Officer-in-Charge of Sea School in Portsmouth, VA. Martin SteeleIn 1973, General Steele returned to Camp Pendleton and served as a tank company commander, battalion operations officer and aide-de-camp to the Commanding General, 1st Marine Division. An assignment as an assault amphibian vehicle company commander was followed by duty as the Marine Corps liaison officer to the Project Manager, M60/M1A1 Tank Program at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command in Warren, MI. He then served at Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC) in Washington, DC as the tank acquisition project officer. From August 1985 through 1988, General Steele was the commanding officer of both 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion and 1st Tank Battalion. In July 1988, he transferred overseas where he was assigned as Operations Officer, Combined Forces Command, Republic of Korea. Upon his return in August 1990, he assumed the duties as the Deputy Director, Marine Air-Ground Task Force Warfighting Center, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, VA. After serving in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, General Steele took over as Director, Warfighting Development Integration Division at Quantico. In 1993, he was promoted to brigadier general and assigned duty as Commanding General, Marine Corps Base, Quantico in June of that year. In November 1994, he was selected for promotion to major general. He served as the Director of Strategic Planning and Policy, U.S. Forces Pacific, from 1995 to 1997. He was then promoted to lieutenant general and assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Policies and Operations at HQMC. Upon retirement in 1999, General Steele became president and CEO, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, the largest naval museum in the world. Currently, General Steele is the chairman and founder of Steele Partners, Inc. a strategic advisory and leadership consulting company. Additionally, he serves as the Executive Director, Military Partnerships at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. General Steele’s personal decorations include: Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Distinguished Service Medal; Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit; Meritorious Service Medal; Navy Commendation Medal with gold star; and Combat Action Ribbon. Equally notable are his academic achievements: a BA degree from the University of Arkansas, MA degrees from Central Michigan University, Salve Regina College and the Naval War College. He is a distinguished graduate of the Armor Officer Advanced Course, an honor graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and graduate of the Naval War College.Joanne King HerringJulia Roberts played her in "Charlie Wilson’s War," but the real-life Texan is far more interesting than any movie could capture. The international socialite, global political activist and former Texas television anchor, Joanne King Herring is known for her improbable fight with the Mujahedeen against the former Soviet Union. But her full story is even more remarkable. Born in a man's world at a time when women had limited choices, Joanne King Herring blazed a trail with allies as unlikely as Charlie Wilson, Pierre Cardin and President Ronald Reagan, and in so doing forged new paths for women in Pakistan, Afghanistan and America. Now she is doing it again – this time without guns. Joanne has a plan to rebuild Afghanistan one village at a time through food, water and education. Currently, her Marshall Plan Charities group is building a model village in Northern Afghanistan to prove that an entire village of 10,000 people can be structured for the cost of keeping one soldier in the field for a year. She is determined to bring American troops home and equip Afghanistan to stand on its own. Joanne hosted the Joanne King Show on television for 15 years, was made roaming Ambassador of Pakistan and received the Quaid-e-Azam award, the highest honor given by the nation of Pakistan. She was made Dame by the Order of St. Francis and has been knighted by the King of Belgium. She is also the recipient of the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Award and co-chaired the Special Olympics in New York City with Henry Kissinger. She tells her fascinating continuing story in her own words with charm and delight in her extraordinary new memoir, Diplomacy and Diamonds: My Wars from the Ballroom to the Battlefield. Joanne lives in Houston, as do her two sons. Joanne has appeared as a guest on Fox News Channel programs "Fox & Friends", "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren", "Hannity", "Lou Dobbs Tonight," and "Huckabee". She has also appeared on Bloomberg Business News and is a reappearing guest on CNN's "American morning with Ali Velshi." Her book, Diplomacy and Diamonds was also featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Observer, the New York Social Diary and PW Weekly. You can read more about her work in Afghanistan and her book at www.joanneherring.com.Jim HakeJim is a technology and media entrepreneur. He founded Spirit of America in 2003. At the request, and in support of U.S. military personnel, Spirit of America has provided millions of dollars of aid – medical supplies, clothing, tools, economic development assistance and more – to the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the world. The Wall Street Journal says, "Jim Hake’s organizational insight is to deploy the best practices of the modern U.S. economy – efficiency and speed" and "his operation in Los Angeles is wholly New Economy." Senator John McCain calls Spirit of America "America at our very best." Jim is the author of 101 Ways to Help the Cause in Afghanistan -- a book featuring 65 organizations that are supporting our troops and helping the Afghan people in innovative ways. Currently, he serves as Spirit of America's Chief Executive Officer. In 2005, along with the founder of Central European Media Enterprises Jim was a co-founder and CEO of SignalOne Media Corporation. A venture created to establish independent,commercial satellite TV channels in the Middle East. In 2000 and 2001, as the founder and CEO of BigButtons, Jim was named a "Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum at its annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland. BigButtons technology was a predecessor to today’s mobile phone and tablet apps. Jim was a founding partner and president of Access Media Inc. -- an Internet media company. At Access Media Jim created the high-tech industry's first Internet-focused media and marketing programs. Vice President Al Gore called Jim's work to advance the Internet "important to our country's future." In 1996 Jim sold Access Media’s Internet-related operations to a business unit of SOFTBANK, then the world's biggest investor in the Internet. Access Media's Internet business subsequently became a business unit of Ziff Davis -- another SOFTBANK company. Before founding Access Media, Jim was a marketing executive at Rational Software where, beginning as the company’s first marketing employee, he was responsible for the launch of the company's first hardware and software products. Rational became a publicly traded company and was later acquired by IBM. Among his public sector activities, Jim participated in the historic Presidents' Summit for America's Future where he served as an advisor on the use of the Internet and led a session on the Role of Technology for the Summit's delegates. Jim is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an Honorary Member of the US Army Civil Affairs Regiment. He has lectured on entrepreneurship at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, the SMU Cox School of Business and USC's Annenberg School for Communication. He has given talks at the TED Conference, the Aspen Institute, the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M and the Fletcher School at Tufts University... Jim received a BA and graduated with distinction in Economics from Dartmouth College. He earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.David JacobsonDr. David Jacobson is the founding director of the Citizenship Initiative, and Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. He is a Fellow at the Exeter Center of Ethno-Political Studies at the University of Exeter. He is also a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po, Paris. Born in South Africa, he received his graduate training at the London School of Economics and Princeton University. A political sociologist, he works in the areas of immigration and citizenship, international institutions and law, human rights, religion and conflict, and woman’s status in global conflict. His book, "Of Virgins and Martyrs: Woman’s Status in Global Conflict," Johns Hopkins University Press, has just been released. He is one of the senior principal investigators on a project researching Muslim communities and their responses to different challenges in Western Europe, West Africa and Southeast Asia. He is also leading a new project, which will examine tribes and ethnic groups in Mali and Nigeria, and the sociological changes they are facing in the context of political, economic and security challenges in West and Sahelian Africa. The project will include extensive fieldwork. He directs surveys across three continents. He also directs research teams in Europe and the United States, with a team in development for West Africa. Professor Jacobson is the author of, among other works, Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship and Place and Belonging in America. He presented the Haar Lecture in International Sociology at Princeton University. He has had visiting appointments at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Sciences Po and the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations. At invitation, he has also made presentations at, inter alia, CERI-Sciences Po (Paris), UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Geneva, Columbia University, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Hebrew University, New School of Social Research, University of Florida, European University Institute, NYU, UC San Diego, University of Bath, University of Heidelberg, University of Neuchatel, NMSU, University of Munich, UC Irvine, and others. He also co-founded the Global Resolve Initiative, which helps villagers in developing countries develop alternative energy technologies, with a pilot project in Ghana. Global Resolve received the 2009 Creasman Award for Excellence.Derek HarveyDerek Harvey is an analyst of social, cultural, political and conflict issues from the University of South Florida’s Citizenship Initiative (CI) where he serves as Professor of Practice and Director of Research and Strategy. His current focus is on civil society and conflict. Previously he set up and led the Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence (COE) after his appointment to Director by the Central Command Commander, General Patraeus, in 2009. Mr. Harvey developed and implemented creative, change oriented practices to redesign, re-orient, and re-tool analytical approaches to leverage applications, technology and databases, to improve the capacity to exploit open domain knowledge, and collaborate with academia and think tanks. Mr. Harvey’s experience and skills go well beyond that which has been written about in media and books. He has extensive experience in policy development, strategic planning, designing analytical studies and writing estimates and key policy papers for inter-agency planning and national-level decision-makers. He has engaged US Congress and Executive Branch on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a range of Middle East, North African and Central Asian issues and briefed the President and NSC principals. Mr. Harvey provided analytical and policy counsel to both the Multi-National Forces-Iraq and to Commanders and Staffs in 2003/04 and from late 2006 to mid-2009. He routinely participated in senior level consultative discussions, assisted in shaping strategy, provided threat and political assessments, prescriptive analysis, options and policy advice. He represented the Commander in engagements/liaison with a range of Iraqi officials and civilian leaders to include tribal, ethnic and sectarian leaders, business leaders and insurgents. He retired from the U.S. Army as a colonel in 2006 after serving primarily as a Middle East Foreign Area Officer and intelligence officer. Prior to joining the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2006, he was the Iraq Senior Analyst, Joint Staff, Pentagon, in late 2004 to early 2006. Previously, he was Chief, Commander’s Assessments and Initiatives Group, Senior Intelligence Analyst for the Intelligence Fusion Center, and “Red Cell” Team Chief for Combined Joint Task Force-7 and Multi-National Force-Iraq. While assigned to the United States Forces Korea from 1992-1996, he worked in a number of positions to include Chief, Combined Intelligence Operations Center; Chief, Ground Force Analysis Division, and Chief, Estimates and Plans Branch. While assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency and Joint Staff J2 from 1989 to 1993, he worked in the Iraq Task Force and the Middle East Branch. Previously, he served in the Army Defense Attache Office, U.S. Embassy, Rabat, Morocco. Mr. Harvey undertook doctoral level work in Middle East studies at the University of Utah. Mr. Harvey was the Army Senior Fellow to the U.S. State Department, and also attended the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Intelligence & Policy Program. He is a graduate of the L’Ecole d’Etat Majeur, the Moroccan Staff College. His U.S. Military education includes the Military Attache Course, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Foreign Area Officer Course-Middle East/North Africa, Armor Advance Course, Infantry Officer Basic Course and Airborne/Ranger Schools. Mr. Harvey has been a presenter at symposiums and academic oriented panels to include Council of Foreign Relations, Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Center Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Rand, Institute for the Study of War, Center for New American Security and other organizations. He was born in Elmhurst, Illinois.David L. PhillipsDavid L. Phillips is the founder of the Tribal Analysis Center. He holds a B.S. degree in Biology West Virginia Institute of Technology and an M.A. in International Relations, University of Southern California and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He has conducted documentary research on the Afghan Pashtun tribes in United Kingdom archives, to include the British Library, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, and the archive of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). The results of this research can be seen in various publications posted on this website, to include: Afghanistan: a History of Utilization of Tribal Auxiliaries, Pashtun Cultural Factors Limiting Warlord Development, The Panjpai Relationship with the Other Durranis, and The Hindustani Fanatics: Indian Pashtuns and Deobandism. His vantage point on tribal peoples is not just from library research. Serving in the US Special Forces during the Vietnam War, Phillips trained Sedang Montagnards and fought with them in their tribal territory along the Laotian border. Subsequently, Phillips worked in a variety of federal agencies until retirement in 1997. He did not slow down at all in retirement, however. He participated in an expedition featured in National Geographic to SE Tibet to undertake the first kayak descent of the Tsangpo River Gorge. During this arduous trek into a remote wilderness rarely seen by outsiders, he had extensive interaction with Mompa tribesmen who served as the expedition guides and porters. Today he is employed as an independent contractor at Courage Services, a consulting firm which specializes in tribal studies, mainly for government clients. Besides his work on behalf of the Tribal Analysis Center, Phillips also is an accomplished US Civil War historian, with 8 books on the Civil War published, some of them on sale at visitors’ centers at civil war battle sites. These publications include, Maps of the Civil War: The Roads They Took, War Diaries: The 1861 Kanawha Valley Campaign, Tiger John: The Rebel Who Burned Chambersburg, Daring Raiders and Crucial Land Battles of the Civil War.David C. EllisDr. David C. Ellis is currently the lead analyst in GbHawk's Socio-Cultural Analysis (SCA) Division. He holds a doctorate in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Florida ('05), a Master's degree in International Development with a specialization in International Marketing from The George Washington University ('97), and Bachelor's degrees in International Studies and Spanish from Jacksonville University '95). Dr. Ellis's research on democratization and development in identity conflict spans over two decades. His interests in peacekeeping, conflict resolution, development, and atrocity in ethnic conflict focused his doctoral research on identity, social movements, organization and social learning theory, and economic growth theory. He has written about ethnic and religious dynamics in the Balkans, Iraq, Rwanda/Burundi, and Afghanistan, while his peacekeeping background has kept him topically engaged on operations in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. Dr. Ellis approaches SCA with a combination of academic rigor and real world application with nearly four years of military intelligence and deployment experience. Most recently Dr. Ellis served as USSOCOM JICSOC’s lead of the Socio-Cultural Awareness Section. He was responsible for founding the section, developing its SCA intelligence frameworks and products, and representing the JICSOC at the national level. Dr. Ellis deployed to Afghanistan in August 2010 for 8 months where he worked in the CFSOCC-A J2 in Kabul and in the SOTF-S S9 in Kandahar. Drawing upon his expertise, Dr. Ellis helped design and implement the SOTF-S Civil-Military Operations plan with the SOTF-S S9, and he worked closely with US Special Forces, Regional Command-South, TF Raider, and the Regional Platform on development and governance planning. As a result of his work, Dr. Ellis was invited to present on Afghan socio-cultural dynamics at five SOF-sponsored Village Stability Operations (VSO) Academic Week events, the 1st Armored Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, and other academic conferences. He has also presented his socio-cultural approaches at numerous national level intelligence conferences, and co-authored "Left of Bang: The Value of Socio-Cultural Analysis in Today’s Environment" with DIA Director LTG Michael Flynn and LCDR (ret.) James Sisco.Mark S. WeinerDr. Weiner received his A.B. from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, where he was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from New York University School of Law, and a dissertation fellowship from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. 

Professor Weiner is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which was selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the American Bar Association. Professor Weiner also received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Black Trials. His latest book, Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (NYU Press, 2006), was awarded the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. 

Professor Weiner has been named the 2009/2010 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Scholar at Rutgers University, Newark. In the fall of 2009, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. Recent publications include: The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Can Teach Us About Modern Law and Culture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013). Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (New York University Press, 2006; paperback, 2009). Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004; Vintage Paperback, 2006). "A History of the Common Law," Rethinking History 16 (1) (2012) (Special Issue: History as Creative Writing 3). "Die Amerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung und die Kulturgeschichte des Rechts" (The American Civil Rights Movement and the Cultural History of Law) (Johanna Timm, trans.), forthcoming in Michael Anderheiden and Stephen Kirste, Interdisziplinarität in den Rechtswissenschaften -- Innen- und Außenperspektiven (Interdisciplinary in Legal Studies: Inside and Outside Perspectives). "Domingo Sarmiento and the Cultural History of Law in the Americas," Rutgers Law Review 63(3), 101-115 (festschrift volume for Prof. John Payne).Bill ErysianDr. Bill Erysian serves as Director of Grants and International Projects for the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at Fresno State University. Concurrently, he holds the position of Director of the California State University Consortium for International Development, which he helped to establish in 2002. Bill has also serves as Executive Director of the Armenian Agribusiness Education Fund. Bill has been involved in international agricultural development initiatives for more than 20 years and remains committed to the importance of international education and cultural diversity. He is a key architect and the director of the successful “Agricultural Development for Afghanistan Pre-deployment Training (ADAPT) program that is designed to provide practical training on essential food security information to US government personal deploying to Afghanistan. The ADAPT model stresses the importance of food security as a prerequisite to stability in under-governed countries and Bill remains a leading proponent of the concept that agriculture can be used as an entry point for stability and development in conflict/post conflict regions. Some of his other achievements include the creation of one of the first Sino-American Dual Degree Programs offered within the California State University system of higher education as well as the establishment of the Bernard Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on the campus of Fresno State University. Bill is also author of the book, “The USDA Story: 12 Years of Partnership with Armenia,” where he has worked extensively in agrarian reform since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Prior to his career in higher education, Bill was a trained journalist who served in the London Bureau of ABC News and as an occasional correspondent for the Economist magazine. Later, he worked as Director of Corporate Public Affairs for the McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Group. He continues to be a tireless advocate of the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In addition to his undergraduate degree in journalism, Bill holds Post-Graduate degrees from the National University of Armenia and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his focus of study was post-WWII international and comparative politics. He is married with two children.Stuart DiamondStuart Diamond has taught and advised on negotiation and cultural diversity to corporate and government leaders in more than 40 countries, including in Eastern Europe, former Soviet Republics, China, Latin America, the Middle East, Canada, South Africa and the United States. He holds an M.B.A. with honors from Wharton Business School, ranked #1 globally by The Financial Times where he is currently a professor from practice. For more than 90% of the semesters over the past 15 years his negotiation course has been the most popular in the school based on the course auction, and he has won multiple teaching awards. He has taught negotiation at Harvard Law School, from which he holds a law degree and is a former Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He has directed a negotiation consulting firm in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Diamond is president of Global Strategy Group, which advises companies and governments on negotiating foreign investment and devising strategies, structures and marketing to compete effectively on an international scale: essentially the skills of planning and persuasion. He advises senior corporate and government officials on building internal coalitions and harmony to be more effective and competitive in an environment of constant change. He has analyzed competitive and persuasive strategies for organizations as different as Merck, Citibank, General Electric, BASF, Prudential, the Government of Colombia, a $16 billion petrochemical company in China and scientists in Ukraine. He advises U.S. and foreign companies on developing more effective communications and media relations, strategic focus, problem-solving, creative options, and persuading vendors and customers. He is an expert in cross-cultural negotiation and has advised on the subject to executives of some of the world’s leading companies. He has consulted extensively for the United Nations. In a prior career Mr. Diamond, who also holds a B.A. in English from Rutgers University, was a journalist. He wrote extensively, including at Newsday and The New York Times, where he won the Pulitzer Prize as a part of a team investigating the crash of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. He covered many major crises including the Bhopal chemical leak in India, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania and the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union. He has written two books, two documentary films and more than 2,000 published articles, dozens on page one of The New York Times. He has appeared on Today and Good Morning America and lectured widely about the problems and prospects of emerging markets, and international business challenges in an environment of change. His new book on negotiation, Getting More, was published by Random House in December 2010, and became a New York Times Bestseller in January 2011. Mr. Diamond was an executive of a Wall Street energy futures brokerage firm, for which he negotiated a multimillion dollar sale. He has worked at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and the investment bank of Morgan Stanley. He founded or directed entrepreneurial ventures in medical services and wireless technologies. He has advised on environmental regulations, privatization and intellectual property protection in emerging markets from Chile to Kuwait. He advised the President’s office in Bolivia, Colombia and Nicaragua. He persuaded 3,000 people in the jungles of Bolivia to stop growing illicit coca and to start growing bananas exported to Argentina. He advises a variety of high technology companies and in 2000 played a lead role in putting together a $300 million merger of two high-tech companies that had been on the verge of litigation. He became the first chairman of the merged companies, Summus, Inc., listed on OTC. In 2004 he represented the borrower in completing the largest foreign-sourced commercial financing in the history of Ukraine, a $107.5 million Eurobond issue to finance commercial space ventures. In June, 2005, he became Chairman and CEO of Four Star Aviation of St. Thomas, in which he is a 50% owner. In 2006 he represented The N.Y Commodities Exchange in the successful negotiation of electronic trading rights with the N.Y. Mercantile Exchange. In 2008, he provided the process that enabled the Writer’s Guild to settle their strike with the studios in Hollywood. Diamond has taught negotiation at the business schools of Columbia, NYU, USC, UCal/Berkeley, and at Oxford and Penn Law School, where he is an Adjunct Professor. Participants have included managers and executives from 51 of the Global 100 companies and 124 of the Global 500, including IBM, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Exxon, Honda, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, G.E., Lucent, Japan Airlines, SAP, Prudential, and leaders from a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, law, high technology, manufacturing, energy, chemicals, politics, information, biotechnology, sales, mergers & acquisitions. He has taught extensively in executive programs at Wharton and elsewhere to very high ratings.Ashley HeacockAshley Heacock has a background in international conflict resolution, politics, development, and business. She has worked for the Fund for Peace, composing a report on the stability of Iraq, contributing to the Failed States Index, and leading the Lebanon case study as part of the United Nations’ Genocide Prevention program. She also prepared a class on Mali in cooperation with the Stability Institute, and published an e-book explaining the factors that led to the 2012 conflict. Ms. Heacock was the campaign coordinator for a local state senator in South Dakota, and worked for three federal senators and representatives in SD and Washington, DC. Ms. Heacock also worked with Qamari Management Solutions in Amman, Jordan, consulting companies on branding, operations management, and marketing. Later, she worked with Agro-Industry Development in Mali to help develop their company brand and strategize their operations. She facilitated trade negotiations in Morocco and researched the country’s identity politics. She also was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa, advising small businesses and carrying out community resource and education projects. Currently, Ms. Heacock is the President of A.M. International, LLC, leading efforts to build partnerships and connections around the world in order to facilitate understanding, cooperation, and collaboration. Ms. Heacock studied at The George Washington University, double majoring in Economics and International Affairs, with concentrations in International Economics and the Middle East. She speaks English, French, Bambara/Malinke, Arabic, and Spanish.Stability Institute Associate FellowsArthur KarellArthur Karell is a native of Arlington, Virginia, and is currently the operations executive for FiscalNote Inc., a technology company pioneering legislative analytics. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2001 with a B.A. in Government, and then from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D. in 2005. Arthur worked as an international compliance lawyer with a major corporate law firm in Washington DC before commissioning as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps in 2006. Arthur served as a rifle platoon commander and company executive officer in 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, leading infantry units on deployments to Helmand Province in 2008 and the western Pacific in 2010. Promoted to Captain, he volunteered for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands Program and served as the lead governance and development advisor for Special Operations Task Force – Southeast. During his tour in Zabul Province, Arthur forged innovative relationships with GIRoA and tribal leadership in support of Village Stability Operations, fostered the extension of Afghan-led services to the district level, and coordinated local stability efforts across Conventional, SOF, USG, and NGO organizations. Arthur is a graduate of Infantry Officer Course, USMC Special Operations Training Group, Joint Fires Course, Civil-Military Operations Planners Course, Foreign Weapons Instructor Course, and the Defense Language Institute. His personal awards include the Bronze Star Medal (with Combat Distinguishing Device), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon. He has published articles for the Marine Corps Gazette and the Marine Corps University.Jacob ZennJacob Zenn is a contract analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for the Foreign Military Studies Office and consultant on countering violent extremism, international law of freedom of association, and socio-cultural analysis for geospatial visualization, and he also provides expert testimony on Nigeria in terrorism-related court trials. Mr. Zenn has written on international law and security for numerous publications, to include: Terrorism Monitor, Militant Leadership Monitor, and Eurasia Daily Monitor; Jane’s Intelligence Review-China Watch; Johns Hopkins SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst; and the International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law. He is the author of “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” which was published by The Jamestown Foundation in 2012, and is a frequent contributor on Boko Haram for the West Point CTC Sentinel. In November 2013, Mr. Zenn provided testimony to U.S. Congress on "The Continuing Threat of Boko Haram and Ansaru" on the day both groups were designated foreign terrorist organizations, and in February 2013 he testified before U.S. Congress on "Islamist Militant Threats to Eurasia." He has been cited by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Washington Post, al-Jazeera, CNN, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, South China Morning Post, and Toronto Star. Mr. Zenn received a J.D. from Georgetown Law, with the commendation of a Global Law Scholar, and earned a graduate certificate in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS campus in Nanjing, China. Mr. Zenn speaks Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, French, Spanish, and Russian.Rega S. JabarRega S. Jabar has worked within the intelligence community and academia for the past seven years, examining the Middle East and Afghanistan. He currently serves as a Counter Insurgency Targeting Analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center. Prior to that, Rega served as a Military Intelligence Officer and deployed with a Special Operations Task Force to Afghanistan. In 2007, Rega was awarded the National Security Education Program’s Boren Fellowship, which enabled him to conduct research and further his Arabic for the duration of one year in Amman, Damascus, and Beirut. He obtained his Masters Degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution, with a focus on the Middle East and National Security.John BrittinghamJohn Brittingham is a skilled analyst and researcher specializing in nuclear issues, such as nuclear energy, radiation, and the nuclear fuel cycle. John graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in physics in 2001. Following Yale, John served on active duty in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer until 2008. His assignments included a tour aboard the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS PITTSBURGH (SSN 720) and a posting to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) as U.S. Naval Forces Central Command liaison. While assigned to PITTSBURGH, John’s work included the operation and maintenance of the ship’s nuclear reactor as well as coordination of tactical missions. His work at CJTF-HOA involved primarily planning and the development of long-term strategy. During his last active duty assignment in the Navy, he completed an M.B.A. at Webster University. John left active service with the U.S. Navy in 2008 and continues to serve in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Following his active duty time in the Navy, John attended law school at the University of Memphis, graduating in 2010. He also pursued doctoral research in nuclear engineering, graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2014, where his research included the design of a mobile food irradiation facility, an examination of the behavior of a neutron detection system, and the computer simulation of space radiation. Currently, John practices law with Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. His practice concentrates on the regulation of nuclear energy, and he represents the operators of nuclear power plants, nuclear equipment vendors, and nuclear fuel cycle facilities in a wide range of matters arising before state and federal regulatory authorities.Christopher ArgyrisChristopher Argyris is an analyst and researcher specializing in Middle East politics and policy. Mr. Argyris has more than 10 years of project management experience, including four years of in-country experience in Iraq and Lebanon managing State Department-funded Rule of Law and Governance projects. In addition, he has worked and traveled widely throughout the region, including in Egypt, Jordan and Turkey. His research interests include counterterrorism, counterinsurgency and counterproliferation, tribalism and political movements in the Arab Awakening, the politics of identity and Kurdish nationalism. Mr. Argyris holds a MA in International Affairs from the American University School of International Service, and a BS in Journalism and Political Science from Northwestern University.Chris RawleyChris Rawley is a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve with over twenty years of military and corporate leadership experience. He previously worked at USSOCOM’s Interagency Task Force as a counter-terrorism planner focused on Africa. Most recently he served as Deputy Commander for Special Operations Forward Command East Africa. Mr. Rawley holds a masters degree from George Washington University, a bachelors from Texas A&M University, and is a graduate of the Naval War College. In his civilian career, Chris runs a real estate development and investment firm. 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