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CIERP News - Summer 2007

• Congratulations! Recent Fletcher graduate, Raya Widenoya, has just started her new job as Research Associate for Biofuels at the Worldwatch Institute. She is leading and coordinating research and writing on US biofuel development and the implications for climate change, pollution, land use and economic and social development.

Patrick Verkooijen appointed Special Research Fellow at CIERP. Mr. Verkooijen currently works as Senior Negotiator for the Department of International Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Netherlands. As such, he has extensive experience in multilateral environmental negotiations and in negotiations within the European Union.

This summer CIERP is funding two interns: Douglas Carpenter and Anna Schulz

Anna Schulz is working as a lead negotiator for the North Coast Environmental Center in the Klamath Dam Relicensing negotiations. She is pulling together a scientific team to peer review the computer models used to analyze flow proposals, developing policy alternatives to the current drought proposals and analyzing the impact of framework settlement language on endangered species act and TMDL obligations.

Douglas Carpenter is collaborating with Fletcher PhD graduate Janet Sawin and Chris Flavin at the Worldwatch Institute. He is assisting them with the writing of the next ‘State of the World’ report, and in particular is working on the energy chapter — writing and creating charts and graphs.

June 13th-‘Environmental leader at the Fletcher School Honored with Switzer Foundation Fellowship. Keya Banerjee, a master’s candidate in International Environment and Resource Policy, has achieved the highest honor of being selected as a Switzer Environmental Fellow.’ For her master’s thesis, Keya is researching the cultural, political, and economic factors that determine the relative success of alternative energy policies in different countries. Congratulations Keya!

This past June in the Netherlands, Professors Moomaw and Najam, and CIERP Associate Director Mieke van der Wansem co-taught the 14th annual International Programme on the Management of Sustainability (IPMS). IPMS is a 7-day executive seminar for senior officials from the public, private and non-profit sectors from all over the world about strategies to meet the challenges of sustainability. The notion of sustainability inevitably generates conflict that only a mutual gains approach to negotiations can resolve; the main objective of IMPS is to train participants in the techniques of multilateral dialogue ‘to resolve the conflicts’ that arise in the context of implementing sustainable development.

On August 10-11, together with Fletcher’s Human Security Institute, the Feinstein International Center, The Human Systems Dynamics Institute, and CDA-Collaborative Learning Projects, CIERP is co-sponsoring a workshop entitled: ‘Applying Complexity Science to Peacebuilding and Conflict Analysis’. The workshop introduces the basic principles of human system dynamics and peace-building; as well as frames key question of theory and practice relating to complex dynamics of peace-making. The workshop is organized by Patrick Meier.