Mr. Lawrence Woocher
Research Fellow, CICR; Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Lawrence Woocher is a Program Officer in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the United States Institute of Peace, an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by the US Congress. Mr. Woocher is responsible for designing and implementing projects on cross cutting issues related to early warning and conflict prevention. He is also a Research Fellow at CICR, focusing on genocide prevention. Mr. Woocher served as a consultant to the Office of the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide in 2006. From 2004-2006 he served as Program Manager of Global Policy Programs at the United Nations Association of the USA. In this role, he conceived and directed a project aimed at strengthening the capacity of the UN to prevent genocide. From 2001-2003 he was a Research Associate/Special Projects Manager at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Woocher received a master in public policy with a focus on international security and political economy from Harvard’s Kennedy School in 2001 and a bachelor of science in neuroscience from Brown University in 1995. His publications include “Peace Operations and the Prevention of Genocide,” forthcoming in S. Totten (Ed.), Genocide: A Bibliographical Series, Volume 6. (Transaction Publishers), and “Deconstructing ‘Political Will’: Explaining the Failure to Prevent Deadly Conflict and Mass Atrocities,” Journal of Public and International Affairs, 2001.