Center for International Conflict Resolution Associates

Francesco Mancini
Research Associate

fm2009@columbia.edu

Mr. Francesco Mancini is a Research Associate with CICR and a Senior Program Officer at the International Peace Academy. He was Program Associate for the Worldwide Security Initiative at EastWest Institute, New York. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Mancini served as a Senior Consultant at the Charles Riley International Consultants Group. He specialized in Strategy and Management of Change and worked in Paris, Milan, Rome, Brussels and Rabat. He currently serves as member of the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. He co-teaches a graduate seminar on conflict assessment at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Mr. Mancini obtained his B.S. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, his hometown. He also holds a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where he concentrated on International Security Policy and Conflict Resolution. He was awarded the 2002-2003 Program Assistantship in the Institute for War & Peace Studies. At Columbia University he coordinated a graduate student task force to assemble an annotated bibliography in fifteen languages on terrorism for the UN Secretary-General's Policy Working Group on the United Nations and Terrorism. He has also worked at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, researching the peace negotiations in Cyprus.