Welcome to peacefare.net! This blog is dedicated to building peace worldwide. It focuses on the concepts, analysis, policies, institutions, people, experience, lessons learned and tools needed to prevent and resolve violent international conflict. It is open to military and civilian contributions, to third country and host country nationals, to national government officials, civil society and international organizations.
Peacefare.net is published by Daniel Serwer, LLC. The blogger in chief is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and director of its Conflict Management and American Foreign Policy Programs, as well as a Scholar at the Middle East Institute. Formerly Vice President of the Centers of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, he oversaw the Institute’s work in rule of law, religion and peacemaking, sustainable economies, media and conflict, and science, technology and peacebuilding, as well as security sector governance and gender.
As USIP Vice President for Peace and Stability Operations, Serwer worked on preventing interethnic and sectarian conflict in Iraq and served as the executive director of the Iraq Study Group. He facilitated dialogue between Serbs and Albanians in the Balkans. He came to USIP as a senior fellow working on Balkan regional security in 1998-1999. Before that, he was a minister-counselor at the Department of State, where he won six performance awards. As State Department director of European and Canadian analysis in 1996-1997, he supervised the analysts who tracked Bosnia and Dayton implementation as well as the deterioration of the security situation in Albania and Kosovo.
Serwer served from 1994 to 1996 as U.S. special envoy and coordinator for the Bosnian Federation, mediating between Croats and Muslims and negotiating the first agreement reached at the Dayton peace talks. From 1990 to 1993, he was deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, where he led a major diplomatic mission through the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War.
Peacefare has had a number of assistants in recent years who have edited and maintained the blog, done research and performed any number of other tasks, sublime and menial. Prospective employers can find some resumes linked below, along with samples of their work published on peacefare. Their efforts are enormously appreciated and their company enjoyed. These are among the very best!
| Name | Education | Dates worked | Sample posts |
| Emily Olsson | Colgate | 9/10 – 4/11 | |
| Adam Lewis | Haverford | 5/11 – 10/11 | 8/10/11 |
| Geoffrey Curfman | Colgate, LSE | 10/11 – 12/11 | 1/6/12 |
| Eric Shu | Brown | 1/12 – 5/12 | 5/8/12 |
| Gregor Nazarian | Yale, Georgetown | 6/12 – 8/12 | 6/6/12 |
| Ilona Gerbakher | UCLA, Harvard | 6/12 – 8/12 | 6/21/12 |
| Allison Stuewe | Swarthmore | 9/12 – 12/12 | 10/10/12 |
| Laurentina Cizza | UMBC | 1/13 – 4/13 | 4/2/13 |
| Lindsay Hogan | Ursinus College | 4/13 – 6/13 | 5/23/13 |
| Ala’ Alrababa’h | Dartmouth | 6/13 – 8/13 | 7/26/13 |
| Idon Natanzon | Columbia, Johns Hopkins SAIS | 6/13 – 8/13 | 7/24/13 |
| Sidney Balman | Cornell | 9/13 – 12/13 | 12/5/13 |
| Sarah Saleeb | University of Virginia | 9/13 – 12/13 | 12/11/13 |
| Marcela Schaefer | SOAS | 1/14 – 5/14 | 2/23/14 |
| Jennifer Fendrick | George Mason | 6/14 – 8/14 | 7/18/14 |
| Caroline Zullo | UNC Chapel Hill | 6/14 – 8/14 | 7/23/14 |
| Crispin Smith | Oxford, Harvard | 9/14 – 12/14 | 10/10/14 |
| Jacqueline Fulgham | Connecticut College | 9/14 – 12/14 | 9/25/14 |
| Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud | IDC Herzliyah, Johns Hopkins SAIS | 1/15-6/15 | 4/28/15; 10/04/15 |
| Svenn Wroldsen | LSE, Georgetown | 1/15 – 5/15 | 3/30/15 |
| Maithili Bagaria | Rice | 6/9-7/30 | 7/15/15; 7/24/15 |
| Eddie Grove | Princeton | 6/15 – 8/15 | 8/31/15 |
| Bridget Gill | Oxford, Columbia & LSE | 8/15-12/15 | 11/11/2015; 11/5/2015 |
| Heidi Liedtke | American University | 8/15 – 12/15 | 10/19/2015 |
| Katie Preston | Middlebury College | 5/16 – 8/16 | 8/12/2016 |
| Rebecca Asch | University of California, San Diego | 9/16 – 12/16 | 11/16/2016 |
| Miriam Lake | University of Melbourne | 9/16 – 12/16 | 11/30/2016 |
| Sarah Timreck | Swarthmore, George Washington University | 1/17 – 5/17 | 5/23/2017 |
| Sebastian Thomas Gerlach | University of St. Gallen, Johns Hopkins SAIS | 1/18 – 5/18 | 3/12/2018; 3/16/2015 |
| Marc-Andrea Fiorina | Oxford, Johns Hopkins SAIS | 6/18 – 8/18 | 7/18/2018 |
| Nicolas Reeves | The George Washington University | 5/18 – 8/18 | 7/20/2018 |
| Tal Marom | University of California, San Diego | 9/18 – 12/18 | |
| Bouela Lehbib | Eastern Mennonite University | 1\19- 5\19 | 04\08\2019 |
| Zakaria Imessaoudene | Colgate University, Graduate Institute – Geneva (IHEID) | 06/19 – 08/19 | |
| Nicholas Wade | Yale University | 06/18 – 08/19 | |
| Colin Tait | Carnegie Mellon University | 09/19 – 12/19 | 11/05/2019 |
| Yuanyi Liu | Syracuse University | 1/20 – 4/20 | 4/25/2020 |
| Amanda Taheri | Yale University | 1/20-4/20 | |
| Josie Koury | Lafayette College | 5/20–8/20 | |
| Jordanna Yochai | University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies | 6/20–9/20 | See Here. |
| Martin Pimentel | Georgetown University | 9/20-5/21 | See Here |
| Elisa Cherry | University of Kent | 9/20-5/21 | See Here |
| Koen van Wijk | Leiden University | 5/17-9/6 | See here |
| Matison Miller | Scripps College | 5-21-9/21 | See here |
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