FPCD Announces Associate Scholar Dr. Michaela Hertkorn

FPCD Associate Scholar, Adjunct Professor, Center for Global Affairs, School of Continuing and Professional Studies & General Studies Program, School of Arts and Science of New York University


The Foundation for Post Conflict Development (FPCD) is honoured to announce the selection of Dr. Michaela C. Hertkorn as Foundation Associate Scholar. Through a formal Memorandum of Understanding signed by Dr. Hertkorn and FPCD Executive Director, Claudia Abate on August 15, 2007, the relationship has been formalized. Dr. Hertkorn, as an associate of the Foundation for Post Conflict Development will undertake a research project entitled, How to Make Peace- and Nation-Building Work? Lessons the Atlantic Community Can Learn from Post 2nd World War Germany. The focus of the Research will be three-fold:

1.Research will continue to explore the role of, both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union in post-conflict peace- and nation-building.
2.Research will also examine the theoretical challenges for successful, viable nation- and peace-building after both, man-made and natural disasters.
3.Based on earlier research, the study will deal with the particular case of successful reconstruction and nation-building in Western Germany following World War II.

When complete, the study will be made available on FPCD’s website, however, please visit www.postconflictdev.org for updates on Dr. Hertkorn’s progress.

About Dr. Michaela Hertkorn
Dr. Hertkorn is an adjunct professor at Center for Global Affairs with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies of New York University. She also teaches at NYU’s School of Arts and Science.

Michaela holds a masters degree in political science from the University of Heidelberg and a Ph. D. in political science and international relations from Free University Berlin. Her dissertation focused on conflict prevention in intra-state conflicts, while most of her doctoral research was conducted at the German American Center for Visiting Scholars and at the Center for German and European Studies of Georgetown University. From 2000 to 2001, she was a Robert-Bosch post-doctoral fellow with the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University. In September 2001, research on transatlantic relations continued with the Center for European Studies of New York University.

Since 2003, Michaela Hertkorn has served as the Director for Transatlantic Relations with the Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy, a German think tank affiliated with the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf. Michaela is an associate of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD), a non-governmental organization based in Arlington, VA, which focuses on peace-building and conflict transformation.

Dr. Hertkorn is an alumni of the 2002 Manfred-Wörner-Seminar and was a German delegate to the 2006 annual 'young leaders conference' organized by the American Council on Germany in Berlin.
Her research in recent years has focused on the NATO and EU framework in post-conflict stabilization.

About The Foundation for Post Conflict Development
The Foundation for Post Conflict Development is a not-for-profit organization recognized as tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code section 501 (c) (3) that raises awareness about and assists countries emerging from conflict situations. The mission of the FPCD is to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals; eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; develop a global partnership for development and fulfill the aims of the United Nations Charter in the context of post conflict situations.

Through direct education, action and development or the promotion of a global partnership for such efforts, the FPCD is dedicated to assist post conflict countries with projects necessary for their reconstruction, among them the demobilization/disbanding of child soldiers, reintegration of war veterans, the creation of meaningful employment and cultural preservation.

The Foundation for Post Conflict Development is a civil society partner in improving global development and seeks to work with organizations that place development as a priority. In this vein, the FPCD and Fundacao Xanana Gusmão (FXG) have formally joined efforts as “sister foundations”

The FPCD has signed the UN Global Compact, committing the FPCD to adhering to and promoting principles of human rights, labor, the environment and anti corruption within its sphere of influence. More information may be found by visiting www.unglobalcompact.org or www.postconflictdev.org .

Contact:

Dr. Michaela Hertkorn
FPCD Associate Scholar
mhertkorn@postconflictdev.org

Claudia Abate
FPCD Executive Director
cabate@postconflictdev.org