The Fletcher School

Contact Information

Email: Susanna.Campbell(at)tufts.edu
Address: Susanna Campbell
160 Packard Avenue
Medford, MA 02155

Biography

Susanna Campbell has been investigating the capacity of international intervention to prevent violent conflict and build peace for thirteen years, including with: the Center for Preventive Action of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York, 1996-1999); the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER) (London/Kenya, 1999-2000); UNICEF Burundi (2000-2002); and, since 2003, as an independent consultant for the International Crisis Group, International Alert, The World Bank Post-Conflict Fund, the National Defense University, Catholic Relief Services, UK Department for International Development (DfID), the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the World Bank Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Group. She has published numerous reports and articles on peacebuilding and statebuilding effectiveness, including those published by the Council on Foreign Relations, International Alert, International Crisis Group, International Peacekeeping, and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and has contributed to several United Nations publications. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, a United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009), and is currently completing her dissertation with The Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Research Interests

Africa, Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Conflict Prevention, International Organizations, Organizational and Institutional Theory, Causes of intra-state war and peace, International Relations.

Faculty Advisors

• Peter Uvin
• Antonia Handler Chayes
• Karen Jacobsen
• Barnett Rubin

Curriculum Vitae

Susanna P. Campbell CV

Fellowships

Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace (2008-2009)

Tufts University Provost’s Fellowship (2007-2008)

Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Campbell, Susanna P. (2008), “When Process Matters: the potential implications of organizational learning for peacebuilding success,” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 4, no. 2.
• Campbell, Susanna P. (2008), “(Dis)integration, Incoherence and Complexity in UN Post-conflict Interventions,” International Peacekeeping 15, no. 4:556-569.
• Campbell, Susanna P. and Anja Kaspersen (2008), “Confronting Integration Barriers,” International Peacekeeping 15, no. 4:470-485.

Book Chapters

• Uvin, Peter and Susanna P. Campbell (2008), “The Burundi Leadership Training Program,” in Michael S. Lund and Howard Wolpe eds., Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States, Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, forthcoming.
• “Institutional Capacity Building for Conflict Sensitivity” (2004), in the Conflict Sensitive Approaches to Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding: A Resource Pack (London: International Alert, Saferworld and FEWER).
• Rubin, Barnett with Susanna P. Campbell (1998), “Introduction: Experiences in Prevention,” in Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action (New York: Twentieth Century Fund/ Council on Foreign Relations) p. 1-21.

Reports

• Campbell, Susanna P. and Kelly M. Hannum (2009), The Challenge of Governance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries: Supporting Leadership Development – A Global Review of Eight Leadership Development Interventions funded by the LICUS TF and PCF (Washington, DC: The World Bank).
• Campbell, Susanna P., Anja Kaspersen, and Erin Weir (2007), Integrated Missions Revisited: Synthesis of Findings (Oslo: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
• Campbell, Susanna P. (2007), Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Trends and Challenges – Seminar Proceedings, Addis Ababa (Oslo: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
• Campbell, Susanna P. and Patrick Meier (2006), Deciding to Prevent Violent Conflict: Early Warning and Decision Making within the United Nations, CIAAN News (Ottawa: Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation).
• Campbell, Susanna P. and Patrick Meier (2006), “Early Warning and Response Reconsidered,” a research report that informed the Report of the Secretary-General: Progress Report on the Prevention of Armed Conflict (United Nations General Assembly, A/60/891).
• Campbell, Susanna P. and Michael Hartnett (2005), A Framework for Improved Coordination: Lessons Learned from the International Development, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian, and Conflict Resolution Communities. (National Defense University, The Fletcher School, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services).
• Campbell, Susanna P. (2004), “Connecting Actors and Ideas: A Conference Report,” in Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of International Development, vol. 19, p. 77-85.
• A Framework for Responsible Aid to Burundi (2003), International Crisis Group Africa Report No. 57.

Conference Papers

• International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2010, New Orleans, LA, USA Organizational Barriers to Peace: International Bureaucratic Routines and Modern State Formation.
• The Future of Statebuilding: Ethics, Power and Responsibility in International Relations 2009, London, UK Organizational Barriers to Peace? Intervening between statebuilding institutions and institutions of the state.
• Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2009, Toronto, ON, Canada Organizational Barriers to Peace? Understanding the interaction between international peacebuilding and the countries it aims to influence & Confronting Complexity: How peacebuilding organizations adapt to dynamic post-conflict environments.
• International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2009, New York, NY, USA Muddling Through: in search of peacebuilding success & Organizational Learning for Peace.
• International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA Peacebuilding Organizations: explaining the gap between intention and outcome & Integration’s challenge: incoherence and (dis)integration in UN Post-conflict Intervention.
• International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2007, Chicago, IL, USA Organizational Learning: The gateway to peacebuilding success? & Deciding to Prevent Violent Conflict: Early Warning and Decision Making within the United Nations.