Ned Lazarus

Ned Lazarus is a FIPSE Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at S-CAR. Ned earned his doctorate in International Relations from American University's School of International Service in 2011. His dissertation, entitled Evaluating Peace Education in the Oslo-Intifada Generation, tracks the peacebuilding activity of more than 800 Israeli and Palestinian graduates of the Seeds of Peace program from adolescence through adulthood. The study highlights the effects of changing personal, organizational and conflict contexts on graduates’ participation in cross-conflict peacebuilding over periods of 8-15 years. For his research, Ned was awarded an SIS dissertation fellowship from American University, a "Peace Scholar" fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace, and a Visiting Researcher appointment at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Ned’s dissertation is informed and inspired by his work as Middle East Program Director for Seeds of Peace from 1996-2004, based in Jerusalem. There, he established and directed dialogue and peacebuilding programs involving hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian youth, their families and communities, as well as youth from the Balkans, Cyprus, India and Pakistan.

Ned has taught Conflict Resolution Theory, Evaluation of Conflict Resolution, Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding, and Nonviolence and Civil Resistance at Georgetown University, The University of Massachusetts-Boston, and American University. He is an Advisory Council member for Just Vision, and has served as an evaluation and facilitation consultant for Social Impact, the Parents' Circle-Families Forum, the Alliance for Middle East Peace, and other Middle East peacebuilding initiatives. In 2011-12, Ned will join a USAID-sponsored “Learning Community” reviewing best practices for design, monitoring and evaluation of “people-to-people” reconciliation initiatives.

At S-CAR, Ned is a member of the Undergraduate Experiential Learning Project team, focused on designing, testing and evaluating experiential and service-learning models for teaching Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the undergraduate level, through a grant from the Fund for Improving Post-Secondary Education.