Tatiana Carayannis

Tatiana Carayannis joined CPPF in September 2006 from the City University of New York's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where she directed the research of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Until 2000 Tatiana taught international relations at CUNY and before that was a researcher at the Carnegie Corporation of NY. In 1998, she served as rapporteur for the UN Secretary-General's Resource Group on the DRC, and between 1989 and 1995 as program officer at the Institute for International Education where she managed a project in support of the democratic transitions then underway in southern Africa and of concurrent efforts to reform the regional security architecture in West and southern Africa. An experienced field researcher, Tatiana has written widely on the networks of the Congo wars and in particular the MLC rebel movement, the role of the UN in conflict management in Africa, the recruitment and demobilization of children in irregular armed forces, global-local conflict linkages, and the agenda-setting role of UN humanitarian and development ideas.  A frequent public speaker on the Congo and security and humanitarian issues in Africa, she also serves as peer reviewer for academic journals and is a founding member of the steering committee of Central Africa Policy Forum in New York.  Tatiana co-authored UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Indiana University Press, 2005). Her second book, Pioneers of Peacekeeping: The UN Operation in the Congo 1960-65 (Lynne Rienner Press) is expected in 2010. Her work has appeared in a number of books and academic journals, including the Journal of Global Governance, Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Global Social Policy, and Forum for Development Studies. She has also consulted for a variety of UN agencies and NGOs, including DPKO, UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and the International Peace Institute. Tatiana was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar and is expected to receive her Ph.D. from The CUNY Graduate Center in 2009. She holds an M.Phil. from The CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. from New York University, and a B.A. from Adelphi University. She received a Cértificat Pratique de français commercial et économique from the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris and training in oral history methods from Columbia University.