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'''Sarah Mendelson''' | |||
At CSIS, she manages several projects that explore the links between security and human rights. Her current research includes collaborative work with large-scale, random sample surveys on how Russians think about democracy, human rights, Chechnya and the military. She works closely with Russia’s leading human rights activists using data and social marketing techniques to mount public awareness campaigns in the regions on a variety of issues. She is also working on a study of US, NATO and UN attitudes toward trafficking in women and girls and the involvement of peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. She will begin research in 2004 on the international response to the wars in Chechnya. | |||
From 1997 to 2000, she directed a collaborative study, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, evaluating the impact of Western democracy assistance to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 1994 and 1995, she served on the staff of the National Democratic Institute’s Moscow office, where she worked with Russian political activists. From 1995 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Albany. From 1997 to 1998, she was a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also been a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and Princeton University’s Center of International Studies. | |||
Dr. Mendelson serves on the steering committee for the Europe and Central Asia program of Human Rights Watch, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center, and a member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security. Dr. Mendelson has testified before Congress and appeared on National Public Radio, the BBC World Service, and CNN. She has published in the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail (Canada), Foreign Affairs, and Survival, in addition to numerous scholarly journals. | |||
==Education== | |||
*B.A., history, [[Yale University]], 1984 | |||
* Ph.D., political science, [[Columbia University]], 1993 | |||
*Certificate from the Harriman Institute. | |||
Revision as of 04:04, 23 January 2010
Sarah Mendelson
At CSIS, she manages several projects that explore the links between security and human rights. Her current research includes collaborative work with large-scale, random sample surveys on how Russians think about democracy, human rights, Chechnya and the military. She works closely with Russia’s leading human rights activists using data and social marketing techniques to mount public awareness campaigns in the regions on a variety of issues. She is also working on a study of US, NATO and UN attitudes toward trafficking in women and girls and the involvement of peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. She will begin research in 2004 on the international response to the wars in Chechnya.
From 1997 to 2000, she directed a collaborative study, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, evaluating the impact of Western democracy assistance to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 1994 and 1995, she served on the staff of the National Democratic Institute’s Moscow office, where she worked with Russian political activists. From 1995 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Albany. From 1997 to 1998, she was a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also been a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and Princeton University’s Center of International Studies.
Dr. Mendelson serves on the steering committee for the Europe and Central Asia program of Human Rights Watch, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center, and a member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security. Dr. Mendelson has testified before Congress and appeared on National Public Radio, the BBC World Service, and CNN. She has published in the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail (Canada), Foreign Affairs, and Survival, in addition to numerous scholarly journals.
Education
- B.A., history, Yale University, 1984
- Ph.D., political science, Columbia University, 1993
- Certificate from the Harriman Institute.