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CHAIR
Karin von Hippel
Co-Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and Senior Fellow,
International Security Program, CSIS
Ms. von Hippel is co-director of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
and senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program. She
is currently on the World Economic Forum?s Global Agenda Council on
Fragile States and has direct experience in over two dozen conflict
zones. Previously, she was a senior research fellow at the Centre
for Defence Studies, King?s College London, and spent several years
working for the United Nations and the European Union in Somalia and
Kosovo. In 2004 and 2005, she participated in two major studies for
the UN?one on UN peacekeeping and the second on the UN humanitarian
system. During that period, she was also part of a small team funded
by USAID to investigate the development potential of Somali
remittances. In 2002, she advised the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development on the role of development cooperation
in discovering the root causes of terrorism. She also directed a
project on European counterterrorist reforms funded by the MacArthur
Foundation and edited the volume, Europe Confronts Terrorism
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). She was a member of Project Unicorn, a
counterterrorism police advisory panel in London. Additional
publications include Democracy by Force (Cambridge, 2000).
AUTHORS
Shanthi Kalathil
Democracy and Governance Specialist, CommGAP, World Bank
Ms. Kalathil is spearheading several projects focused on democracy,
good governance and the public sphere in CommGAP at the World Bank.
Ms. Kalathil was formerly a Senior Democracy Fellow based in the
Office of Democracy and Governance at USAID, where she provided
policy and programmatic advice on issues relating to civil society,
media, fragile states, and the Near East/Asia region, and traveled
on mission to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Indonesia,
East Timor, and Cambodia. Prior to that, Ms. Kalathil was an
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where
she focused on authoritarian political transitions in the
information age. Her 2003 co-authored book, Open Networks, Closed
Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule, examined
the political effect of the Internet on eight authoritarian
countries, including China and Cuba.
Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau
Post-Conflict Governance Specialist, CommGAP, World Bank
Ms. von Kaltenborn-Stachau is a Post-Conflict Governance Specialist
for CommGAP at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms.
von Kaltenborn-Stachau worked for the United Nations' Department of
Political Affairs monitoring political developments and supporting
peace making and mediation efforts in Asia and the Middle East, as
well as contributing to the UN's peacebuilding policy agenda. Her
field postings included assignments with Timor-Leste?s Transitional
Administration where she focused on aid coordination efforts;
political rights monitoring in Cambodia; and years in the Middle
East where she served as Political and Senior Media Advisor to the
UN?s Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process.
DISCUSSANT
Ivan Sigal
Executive Director, Global Voices
Mr. Sigal is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a non-profit
online global citizens' media project founded at Harvard Law
School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Previously, he
spent ten years working in media development in the former Soviet
Union and Asia. As a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace
(USIP), Mr. Sigal focused on how increased media and information
access and participation using new technologies affect
conflict-prone areas. Prior to USIP, Mr. Sigal was the Internews
regional director for Asia, Central Asia, and Afghanistan. Mr. Sigal
has designed and implemented numerous media assistance projects,
including helping to create more than thirty Afghan-run radio
stations; a project to provide humanitarian information to victims
of the 2005 South Asian earthquake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir;
and a post-2004 tsunami humanitarian information radio program in
Sri Lanka.
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