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Dirk Salomons
International Affairs Building, Room 831
Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs; Director, Humanitarian Affairs Program and International Organizations Specialization
Phone: 212-854-8825
dirk.salomons@sipa.columbia.edu
ds2002@columbia.edu
Biography:
Dirk Salomons is the director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University, where he also heads the International Organizations specialization. In his research as well as in teaching, Salomons focuses on the interaction between policy and management in humanitarian operations; he has a particular interest in the transition from relief to recovery in countries coming out of conflict.
Prior to joining the SIPA faculty in 2002, Salomons served since 1997 as managing partner of the Praxis Group, Ltd., an international management consulting firm based in the USA and Switzerland, where he still plays an advisory role. Praxis works mainly with public service entities, applying its expertise in humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping, and post conflict recovery as well as in human resources management. Salomons is also a non-resident fellow at New York University's Center on International cooperation, working mainly on post-conflict stabilization issues.
From 1970-1997, Salomons served in a wide range of management, peace building, and policy advisory functions in several organizations of the United Nations system, including FAO, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNOPS, and the UN Secretariat. His most cherished assignment was that of executive director for the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Mozambique, from 1992 to 1993.
Salomons received a "kandidaats" degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1964, and subsequently obtained his "doctoraal", also at the University of Amsterdam, in 1967.
Search Categories: Africa, United Nations, peacekeeping, peacebuilding
Publications:
"On the far side of conflict: the UN Peacebuilding Commission as an optical illusion", in Danchin, Peter and Fischer, Horst (eds), United Nations Reform and Collective Security, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (forthcoming).
"Clusters or Clutter: Structuring Humanitarian Space in Chad" (with Dennis Dijkzeul), in Paul Hoebink (ed) The Netherlands Yearbook on International Cooperation, Van Gorcum Publishers, Assen, 2009.
"Financiering van humanitaire hulp als politieke dwangbuis" (Financing of humanitarian aid as political straightjacket) in: Dijkzeul, Dennis and Herman, Joost (eds), Humanitaire Bewegingsruimte: Humanitaire Hulp tussen Politiek en Onpartijdigheid [Humanitarian Space: Humanitarian Action Caught between Politics and Impartiality], BOOM Publishers, Amsterdam, 2008.
Cluster Approach Evaluation Report, with Adele Harmer, Katherine Haver and Abby Stoddard, Humanitarian Policies Group, Overseas Development Institute, London, 2007 (commissioned by the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee).
Common Funds for Humanitarian Action in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Monitoring and Evaluation Study, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2007, in collaboration with The Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute, UK.