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  1. A discussion about Counterinsurgency
    A discussion about Counterinsurgency

    with Montgomery McFate and Sarah Sewall on Dec 24, 2007

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Sarah Sewall is the Faculty Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on counterinsurgency and U.S. strategy in the long war. She also runs the Carr Center’s National Security and Human Rights Program, which integrates humanitarian and military perspectives on the use of force.

During the Clinton Administration, Sewall served in the Department of Defense as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1987-1993, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, delegate to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group, and on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Sewall has also worked at a variety of defense research organizations and as Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sewall wrote the introduction to the University of Chicago edition of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (2007). She was lead editor of The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law (2000) and has written widely on U.S. foreign policy and national security issues. She is a member of the Center for Naval Analyses’ Defense Advisory Committee, the National Academies’ Committee on Offensive Information Warfare, and founder of the White House Projec’s National Security Boot Camp. She is writing a book about civilian harm in war. Sewall graduated from Harvard College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.