EPIIC Weekend Immersion

EPIIC Weekend Immersion: “Human and Military Security”

September 23-25, 2011
Outward Bound at Appalachian Mountain Club, Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire

Resource Scholars:

Lucas Kello
Lucas Kello is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard University and a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford. As an IGL INSPIRE Fellow, he will assist in the development of the Institute’s academic curriculum with a particular emphasis on this year’s EPIIC Colloquium: “Conflict in the 21st Century”. He brings to the IGL a varied range of academic and policy experience in international security. He has taught courses in security studies at Oxford and has worked with the Spanish Ministry of Defense in various areas of national and international security, including maritime counterterrorism and post-conflict stabilization in the Middle East. He has also advised European Union and Estonian government authorities on cybersecurity strategy. At Harvard, he is investigating institutional responses to problems of cyber deterrence and is a participant in “Explorations in Cyber International Relations”, a Harvard-MIT collaborative research program.

Kello holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and an M.Phil. from Oxford. An alumnus of EPIIC, he conducted field research on Bosnian war crimes while a student in the Program and presented his findings to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and to the International Court of Justice.
 
Ayan Holmberg
Ayan Holmberg was born and raised in Mogadishu, Somalia where she worked with UNICEF as a program support officer.  She worked in Somalia until 1999, serving in a program support role with the United Nations Development Program – Somalia, War Torn Societies Project.  In 2000, Ayan joined Progressive Interventions.
 
William Martel
William Martel is Professor of International Security Studies at The Fletcher School. Martel was the Director and Founder of the Center for Strategy and Technology from 1993–99.  From 1999–2005 he was Professor of National Security Affairs and Chair of Space Technology and Policy Studies at the Naval War College. He is the author and co-editor of several books, including Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy and The Technological Arsenal: Emerging Defense Capabilities.