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Francesco Mancini
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-225-9610
fm2009@columbia.edu
Biography:
Francesco Mancini is currently Senior Director of Research at the International Peace Institute (IPI), where he works on conflict analysis, prevention, mediation, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. He heads “Coping with Crisis, Conflict and Change,” IPI’s largest program that works to assist decision-makers at the United Nations, other multilateral institutions, and their member states to strengthen their response capacity to crises and conflict. He manages www.theglobalobservatory.org, which he conceived and designed - the new IPI’s website with daily analysis and interviews on global security. He regularly lectures in academic institutions and presents to conferences and governments on global peace and security issues. Prior to joining IPI, Francesco served as an Associate at the EastWest Institute in New York. He has worked as management consultant at the French Group CRCI in France, Italy, and Morocco in the 1990s.
Francesco was educated at Bocconi in Milan, his hometown, and Columbia Universities. He has been teaching the seminar on conflict assessment since 2004. He also held the same position for two years at New York University.
Publications:
Recent
publications include: The Management Handbook for UN Field Missions (International Peace Institute, 2012); “Partnership – A New Horizon for Peacekeeping?”, International Peacekeeping Vol. 18, Issue 5 (Taylor & Francis, 2011), with Adam C. Smith (eds.); Security & Development: Searching For Critical Connections (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010), with Neclâ Tschirgi and Michael S. Lund (eds.); “The Company We Keep: Private Contractors in Jamaica,” in Gordon Peake, Eric Scheye and Alice Hills (eds.), Managing Insecurity: Field Experiences of Security Sector Reform (London: Taylor & Francis, 2007); and In Good Company? The Role of Business in Security Sector Reform (London and New York: Demos and International Peace Academy, 2005). He also contributed to the Encyclopedia of United States National Security (London: SAGE Publications, 2006; Richard Samuels, ed.), to Civil Wars and the Journal of International Affairs.