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Eileen F. Babbitt

Professor of International Conflict Management Practice

Education

BA and MPH, University of California, Berkeley
MPP, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional Activities

Council on Foreign Relations; Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School; International Studies Association; International Society for Political Psychology; Women in International Security; International Association for Conflict Management; Alliance for Peacebuilding.

Biography

Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her research interests include identity-based conflicts; coexistence and trust-building in the aftermath of civil war; and the interface between human rights concerns and peacebuilding. Her practice as a facilitator and trainer has included work in the Middle East, the Balkans, and with U.S. government agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations, and international and local NGOs. Before joining the Fletcher faculty, Professor Babbitt was Director of Education and Training at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. and Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Professor Babbitt’s latest publications include the forthcoming article, “The Evolution of Internaional Conflict Resolution: From Cold War to Peacebuilding.” Negotiation Journal, 25th Anniversary Issue, and Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northen Ireland. Co-edited with Ellen Lutz and published by Syracuse University Press.

Dr. Babbitt holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from MIT.

Programs & Centers

• Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
• The Program in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• Institute for Human Security

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP D220 - Processes of International Negotiation
  
• DHP D221 - Seminar on International Mediation
  

Research Interests

Negotiation; mediation; intergroup and ethnic conflict; trust building and conflict prevention; coexistence and reconciliation, conflict resolution, international development, and human rights; Southeastern Europe and the Middle East.

Faculty Research Profile - "The mediator’s job is to help parties work toward a peaceful solution to the violence but in doing so they often find themselves challenged by human rights advocates who believe that peace without justice is not peace."

Selected Publications

• Eileen F. Babbitt (forthcoming). “The Evolution of International Conflict Resolution: From Cold War to Peacebuilding.” Negotiation Journal, 25th Anniversary Issue, Fall 2009.
• Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen Lutz (eds.) (2009) Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
• Eileen F. Babbitt and Pamela Steiner, et al. (2009). “Combining Empathy with Problem-Solving: The Tamra Model of Facilitation in Israel.” In Zelizer, Craig and Robert Rubenstein (eds). Building Peace: Practical Lessons from the Field. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press.
• Eileen F. Babbitt (2008) “Conflict Resolution and Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries.” In Zartman, I.W., et al., (eds.) The Handbook of Conflict Resolution. San Francisco: Sage Publications.
• Eileen Babbitt and Kristin Williams “Complementary Approaches to Coexistence Work: Focus on Coexistence and Human Rights” (2008).
• Eileen F. Babbitt (2006) “Mediating Rights-Based Conflicts: Making Self-Determination Negotiable.” International Negotiation.
• Hurst Hannum and Eileen F. Babbitt. (eds.) (2006) Negotiating Self-Determination. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Eileen F. Babbitt (2006) “Self-Determination as a Component of Conflict Intractability: Implications for Negotiation,” in Hurst Hannum & Eileen F. Babbitt (eds.) Negotiating Self Determination. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Eileen F. Babbitt (2006) “Negotiating Self-Determination: Is It a Viable Alternative to Violence?” in Hurst Hannum & Eileen F. Babbitt (eds.) Negotiating Self Determination. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Eileen F. Babbitt and Louis Aucoin (2006) Improving Transitional Justice: An Assessment of Progress in the Former Yugoslav States. United Nations Development Program, Belgrade, Serbia.
• Eileen F. Babbitt (2006) “What Do We Know About Peacebuilding?” in Borer, Tristan A., John Darby and Siobhan McEvoy-Levy. Peacebuilding After Peace Accords: The Challenges of Violence, Truth, and Youth. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
• Eileen F. Babbitt (2003) "Evaluating Coexistence: Insights and Challenges." In Antonia Handler Chayes and Martha Minow (eds.) Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers.
• Ellen Lutz, Eileen F. Babbitt, and Hurst Hannum (2003) “Human Rights and Conflict Resolution from the Practitioners' Perspective.” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. Winter/Spring 2003.
• "Imagine Coexistence: A Research Study for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees." (2002).
• "Challenges of International Diplomatic Agents," Negotiating on Behalf of Others: Agents in Negotiation (Mnookin and Susskind, Eds) (1999).
• "How NATO can Redefine Victory in Kosovo," The Boston Globe (May 8, 1999).
• "Ethnic Conflict in the Pivotal States," The Pivotal States (Chase, Hill and Kennedy, Eds.) (1999).
• "Women and the Art of Peacemaking: Data from Israeli-Palestinian Interactive Problem-Solving Workshops," (co-author) Political Psychology (1998).
• "The Contribution of Training to Conflict Resolution," Peacemaking in International Conflict (Zartmen and Rasmussen) (1997).
• "Mediation Practice on the Home Front: Implications for Global Conflict Resolution," (co-author) Beyond Confrontation: Learning Conflict Resolution in the Post Cold War Era (Vasquez, John A., et al.) (1995).
• "The Power of Moral Suasion in International Mediation: A Profile of Jimmy Carter," When Talk Works (Kolb, D., et al.) (1994).
• "Gulf War Mediation Efforts Offered Too Little, Too Late," Negotiation Journal (vol. 9, no. 1) (1993).