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Lise Morjé Howard is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. During 2022-23, she served as Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Institute of Peace. Her interdisciplinary research spans international relations, comparative politics, and conflict resolution, with fieldwork conducted in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, and Namibia.
Howard earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and A.B. from Barnard College, Columbia University. She completed fellowships at Stanford and Harvard and is fluent in French and Russian with proficiency in several other languages. Prior to academia, she served as Acting Director of UN Affairs for New York City.
Her research focuses on:
- Peacekeeping effectiveness and power dynamics
- Civil war duration and termination
- UN reform and future security challenges
- US-UN relations and foreign policy
Publications analyze peace operation mechanics, civil war resolution, and international norms. Recent work examines Ukrainian security alternatives and China's growing role in peacekeeping. Her books 'UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars' (2008) and 'Power in Peacekeeping' (2019) received prestigious awards from ACUNS and ISA.
