| Name:
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Doug Brooks
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| Title: |
Founder and President, International Peace Operations Association (IPOA)
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| Position: |
None found
to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"
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| Reasoning: |
No position found (5/22/07)
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Credibility
Ranking: |
 Organization/VIP/Other
Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories.
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| Involvement: |
- Founder and President, International Peace Operations Association
- Former Adjunct Faculty member, American University
- Academic Fellow and Research Associate, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Johannesburg, 1999-2000
- Has testified before Congress and appeared on the BBC, CBS News, NBC
News, Fox News, CNN International, National Public Radio, Brazilian Globo Television, Voice
of America, SABC in South Africa, Lehrer News Hour, and Russian television
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| Education: |
- Additional Doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
- MA, History, Baylor University
- BA, History, Indiana University
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Affiliations/
Honors:
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- Former employee, Library of Congress
- Former employee, National Archives
- Former employee, Institute of International Education
- Former employee, International Management Development Institute, Pittsburgh
- Former teacher in Kambuzuma Township in Harare, Zimbabwe
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| Contact Info: |
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| Other: |
Select Publications:
- Testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, June 13, 2006
- Cowritten Jim Shevlin, "Reconsidering Battlefield Contractors," Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Summer/Fall 2005
- Cowritten with Gaurav Laroia, "Privatized Peacekeeping," National Interest, Summer 2005
- "Re: Can Mercenaries Protect Hamid Karzai?" Letter to the Editor, New Republic, Nov. 1, 2004
- "A New Twist on a Long Military Tradition," Op Ed, Boston Globe, Oct. 19, 2003
- "The Business of World Peace: Military Service Providers Revolutionize International Peace Operations," Canopy, Jan. 2003
- "Messiahs or Mercenaries? The Future of International Private Military Services," International Peacekeeping, Winter 2000
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