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Osgood Center for International
Studies
700 12th Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202)
642-4485
www.osgoodcenter.org
 Shelton
Williams, President
Email:
swilliams@osgoodcenter.org
Dr. Williams is a leader in the field of
experiential education and an expert on the issue of nuclear
nonproliferation policy. In his over 35 years as a professor at
Austin College in Sherman, Texas he created and supervised the
college's Model United Nations team, winning numerous awards at
national competitions and transforming a generation of young people
into caring, capable, and globally conscious professionals. He has
contributed greatly to the field of experiential education through
numerous articles and years of faculty training seminars. In
addition, he has garnered several major teaching awards for his
classes in International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and
Comparative Politics.
Dr. Williams has also worked in
government, including a tour of duty in the Department of State
under Secretary of State Madeline Albright in which he worked
extensively on the permanent extension of the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty. He also served the Office of International
Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Additionally, Dr. Williams is an
accomplished writer. His first
non-fiction, Washed in the Blood
has received wide critical acclaim and he has several others
in progress.
Dr. Williams enjoys spending time
with his family, specifically his grandchildren, and seeing several
movies each weekend if possible.
See the
Latest by Shelly Williams!
Considering Nuclear Earth Penetrators
The US and the UN: A Realist's Perspective
(2002)
Where Globalization Meets Localization
Addressing
Limitations in the Wake of Catastrophe
My Role in the Gulf
War
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 Gayane
Manukyan,
Vice President
for Program Development
Email:
gmanukyan@osgoodcenter.org
Gayane has been working in the field of International Relations for
most of her life. She has extensive experience in the non-profit and
International Development sector. Before taking the Vice President’s
position at Osgood, she was a Project Manager for an overseas cancer
research center with the Armenian American Cultural Association,
Inc.
As an adjunct professor of Global Politics at Troy University,
Gayane has taught in subject areas of Foreign Aid, Global Conflict,
International Development, and Human Rights.
Ms. Manukyan speaks Armenian, Russian, English, Spanish and Turkish,
and is currently studying French. She holds a Masters Degree in
International Relations & Public Administration and BA in
Communications from Troy University, and Foreign
Languages/Linguistics from Linguistic University of Armenia. You can
reach her by email at
gmanukyan@osgoodcenter.org or at 202-663-5872.
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 Patrick
Mendis,
Senior Fellow
Email: patrickmendis@osgoodcenter.org
Dr. Patrick Mendis is a Senior
Fellow at the Osgood Center, where he previously served as the
Vice President of Academic Affairs. A Visiting Scholar in
Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Dr. Mendis also teaches
as an Adjunct Professor of Diplomacy at Norwich University. He
recently authored another book, TRADE for PEACE, with a foreword
by Professor J. Brian Atwood, Dean of the University of
Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and former
Administrator of USAID (see
www.patrickmendis.com).
A Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Professor
Mendis is an alumnus of the Harvard Executive Leadership Program
at the Kennedy School of Government and the University of
Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He served as
an American diplomat at the US Department of State and a
military professor in the NATO and Pacific Commands through the
University of Maryland. He has traveled to and worked in more
than 75 countries and visited all 50 states.
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 Michael
Aguilar, Director of Simulations
Email:
maguilar@osgoodcenter.org
Michael is a recent graduate from
the School of International Service at American University,
receiving his Master’s in International Peace & Conflict
Resolution. His research focused on conflict prevention, Africa
and the United Nations, with a particular interest in civilian
protection in conflict zones. Michael’s previous experiences
have included interning with the Bureau of Legislative and
Public Affairs at the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID), the Future of Peace Operations programs at The Henry L.
Stimson Center, and the Bureau of Management and Reform at the
U.S. Mission to the United Nations (USUN). During the 62nd
General Assembly session, Michael was involved in the
negotiations with the financing of the U.N – African Union
hybrid mission to Darfur (UNAMID).
In the summer of 2008, Michael
was awarded the inaugural Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship by
the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Michael spent three
months in Central America, working with the U.S. Embassies in
Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City to
investigate how a “Culture of Peace” can enhance peace and
development in communities plagued by youth gangs and drug
trafficking.
Michael recently returned from
West Africa after finishing a fellowship with the Foreign
Agriculture Service (FAS) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Based in Dakar, Senegal, Michael assisted with USDA’s
Food-for-Progress and Food-for-Education programs throughout
Francophone West Africa.
Michael also has a keen interest
in Model United Nations. He has served as a volunteer and
delegate for more than eight years to conferences in Montreal,
New York and Washington, DC. Michael speaks Spanish, French and
English and is currently studying Wolof – the language spoken in
Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia.
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 Raphaël
Zaffran, Program Associate
Email:
rzaffran@osgoodcenter.org
Raphaël is a Graduate student and a
Teaching Assistant at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His
research has been focused on international security, asymmetric
warfare and counterinsurgency with a particular interest in the
recent applications of counterinsurgency measures in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Raphael recently interned at the Geneva Center For
Security Policy (GCSP), researching security issues in Central Asia.
Raphaël also has a keen interest in
international development and Africa, more specifically. He worked
in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention in Arusha, Tanzania, where he
took part in prevention programs in schools and local communities.
Raphael subsequently interned at UNICEF headquarters in Geneva where
he undertook research on Public - Private Partnerships.
Raphaël has been a keen supporter and
participant to Osgood Center Programs, attending the Summer
Symposium on Foreign Policy several times. He is also a strong
advocate of Model United Nations, having headed his college’s
delegation to the National Model United Nations in New York City.
Mr. Zaffran graduated
with honors
from Royal Holloway University of London, with a BA in Politics and
International Relations. He is currently completing his MA in
Political Science at McGill University. Raphael speaks French,
English, Spanish and is currently studying Swahili and Pashto.
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 Senay
Ozdemir,
Senior Fellow
Email:
senay@osgoodcenter.org
Şenay Özdemir
is a Dutch-Turkish journalist and women's rights
advocate. She has published op-eds in newspapers
around the world on topics ranging from feminist
politics to virginity among older brides. In
Europe, she's a familiar face on television and
magazines.
Özdemir, the
first Turkish tv-host and tv-producer in Europe,
founded the monthly woman's magazine
SEN
(demographic: Mediterranean women aged 20-35
living in the Netherlands). The magazine aimed
at young women in the Netherlands who, like
herself, have mediterranean backgrounds and must
find their place in a liberal, post-religious
European world. As editor-in-chief, she wrote an
advice column, addressing women's questions on
topics from birth control to how to ask their
boss for a raise.
SEN
was elected “Best New Magazine of 2004” by the
leading Dutch newspaper
De Volkskrant.
Şenay Özdemir
and her work have been profiled in many Dutch
and European magazines, but also in the
International Herald Tribune,
the
New York
Times, Foreign Policy and Austin American
Statesman.
She was guest editor in chief of other magazines
such as
Viva and
Intermediair.
In 2007 she
participated to the International Visitor
Leadership Program and traveled throughout the
USA. The same year she spoke at the
International Women's Conference in Bangalore,
India. In 2008 she participated at the
SAVE-platform in Vienna, as women against
terrorism. In October 2009 she was one of the
participants of the Apeldoorn Conference in
Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was organized
by The British Council. The central theme of the
conference was "Trust, social cohesion,
citizenship and the state in an economic down
turn" with four sub themes: Trust, leadership
and the role of the state, Globalisation,
migration and the labour market, Solidarity and
supporting the vulnerable in modern societies,
Human rights and communities.
She
interviewed many distinguished and famous people
among whom were the Dutch prime minister
Balkenende, former Miss World Azra Akin,
topmodel Frederique van der Wal, Dutch
parliamentarian Geert Wilders, publicist Paul
Scheffer, scholar Marion van San and worlds
youngest CEO Suhas Gopinath.
From December
2008 she worked for The University of Texas at
Austin where she was invited as a visiting
lecturer at the School for Journalism.
In June, 2009
her first novel,
De Harsclub
(The Waxclub), is published which is the first
Turkish chicklit in Europe. The novel is being
touted as the Mediterranean version of "Sex and
the City."
She is
currently working on her second English novel.
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