Lawrence Woocher
Lawrence Woocher is research director of the Political Instability Task Force at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Prior to assuming this role in September 2011, he was a senior program officer at the United States Institute of Peace, where he focused on early warning, conflict prevention, and the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities. He was a member of the executive committee and lead expert on early warning for the Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. He is also a lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Before joining USIP in late 2006, Woocher was a research fellow at Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution and, concurrently, a consultant on early warning to the Office of the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. Woocher received a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a Bachelor’s in Neuroscience from Brown University.
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