Guide to Specialists

Sheryl J. Brown
Associate Vice President:
Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
Virtual Diplomacy Program
Jeanette Rankin Library Program

NOTE: This is an archived profile of a former U.S. Institute of Peace specialist and is current as of March 2006. The Office of Public Affairs and Communications maintains an extensive list of foreign policy experts outside of USIP—including many former fellows and staff members. For more information on how to contact this individual, please contact the Office of Public Affairs and Communications.

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Phone: (202) 429-3821

E-mail: sbrown@usip.org

Sheryl J. Brown is the associate vice president of the Jennings Randolph Fellowship program, USIP's Jeanette Rankin Library program, the Information and Communications Technologies office, and the Virtual Diplomacy Initiative, one of the Centers of Innovation.

Brown is editor of the Virtual Diplomacy Series and author of articles on theoretical perspectives and applications of information and communications technologies in international conflict prevention, management, and resolution.

She earned a double doctorate in political philosophy and literature from the University of Dallas (1985), where she was a fellow at the Institute for Philosophic Studies.

Publications:

• Creating a Common Communications Culture: Interoperability in Crisis Management
  Co-authored with Richard Solomon, USIP Virtual Diplomacy Series, 2004
• "Virtual Diplomacy: Rethinking Foreign Policy Practice in the Information Age," Information & Security, co-authored with Margarita Studemeister (Vol. 7, , 2001).
• "The Diffusion of Diplomacy," The Magazine on Information Impacts, co-authored with Margarita Studemeister (2001).
• Resolving Third World Conflicts: Challenges for a New Era, co-edited with Kimber Schraub (USIP Press, 1992).
• Making Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Negotiating Experience, co-authored with Samuel W. Lewis and Kenneth W. Stein (USIP Press, 1991).