Anthony Wanis Associate Professor Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
- Degrees
- Ph.D., International Relations, Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Certificate in Strategic Management and International Consultancy, Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
M.A.L.D., Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
B.S., Human Services, St. John’s University, <i>magna cum laude</i> - Languages Spoken
- Spanish, French, and a bit of Arabic
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- Spot where JFK gave the 1963 Commencement Speech and announced nuclear test ban negotiations
- Favorite Place in Washington DC
- Lincoln Memorial
- Book Currently Reading
- Peter Maas, <i>The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History</i>
- Bio
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Anthony Wanis-St. John is the author of Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in Middle East Peacemaking (Syracuse University Press, January 2011), and with Noah Rosen, the coauthor of “Negotiating Civil Resistance,” Peaceworks Vol. 129 (2017), USIP Press. With Roger Mac Ginty, he co-edited Contemporary Peacemaking, 3rd ed. (Palgrave, 2022). He directed the M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from 2013 to 2016 and supports the Department of Defense in the training of advisors through the Defense Advising Program and the Security Force Assistance Command at Ft. Liberty, NC.
His research, practice and teaching focus on negotiations in zones of conflict; including peace processes, ceasefires and civil society engagement. His practical experience includes Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Since 2010 he has supported the Department of Defense and USIP in the preparation of military and civilian advisors deploying to Afghanistan and other partner countries. In 2016 he co-facilitated the strategic review session of USAID/OTI’s countering violent extremism portfolio in Nigeria. In 2015 he worked with the National Democratic Institute to advise Syrian civilian opposition groups exiled in Turkey on having a unified posture with regard to the Syrian government, and to build the negotiating capacity of Syrian local councils. He has facilitated several Track II workshops for Palestinian and Israeli official negotiation staff and advisors.
He has successful experience mediating disputes within federal agencies and corporations, as well as mediating labor contracts and disputes within the education sector in the US. Dr. Wanis-St. John has also consulted with the World Bank and USAID on rule of law programs in countries such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador.
He has provided negotiation trainings and lectures to the Joint Special Operations University, US Army 352nd Civil Affairs Command and the 450th Civil Affairs Battalion as well as Marine Corps University’s Command and Staff College, the Department of Labor’s International Labor Affairs Bureau, the Department of State’s Conflict and Stabilization Operations Bureau, the World Bank, CSIS and others.
He was a Senior Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace, and in that capacity has advised Darfur military commanders on their unity negotiations, conducted electoral violence prevention and dialogue training in Haiti, delivered pre-deployment negotiation trainings for US Military Observer Groups, trained Ugandan military deploying to Mogadishu as part of AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia).
He has been an instructor at the Inter-American Defense College at Ft. McNair; UMASS Boston; Tufts University’s Fletcher School; Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, the executive education programs at Harvard Law School, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Notre Dame University in Beirut and Georgetown University’s McDonough Business School. Additionally, he’s conducted negotiation consulting around the world for corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Amex, Visa, Eli Lilly, Parsons and Amgen. He was a Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.
His research appears in outlets such as Journal of Peace Research, Negotiation Journal and International Negotiation
- See Also
- 2022 edition of Contemporary Peacemaking
- My ResearchGate Profile
- My book on secret negotiation in the Middle East Peace Process
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Spring 2024
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SIS-611 International Negotiation
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SIS-619 Special Studies in Int'l Pol: Comparative Peace Processes
Summer 2024
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SIS-730 Skills Inst in Int'l Affairs: Exped Civil-Military Interactn
Fall 2024
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SIS-611 International Negotiation
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SIS-611 International Negotiation
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Joint Special Operations University
Non Resident Fellow 2023-2024
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Books | Edited Volume (Refereed) | Book Chapters | Journal Issues - Guest Editor | Refereed Journal Articles | Non-Refereed Journal Articles | Research Reports | Reviews and Review Essays | Research Monographs | Peer-Reviewed Policy Papers and Publications | Pedagogy
Books
Edited Volumes
- Contemporary Peacemaking: Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict, with Roger Mac Ginty. 3rd edition. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
- Conflict Prevention and Management in the New Security Context: Case of Macedonia, with M. Mitrevska, A. Grizold, V. Buchovski (Open Society Institute, 2009) (Table of Contents; Chapters 1 and 9)
- In Macedonian
Book Chapters
- "The Intermediation of Turkey and Brazil between Iran and the Western Powers," with Arunjana Das, in Doga Ulas Eralp, ed. Turkey as Mediator: Stories of Success and Failure (Lexington Books, 2016)
- “International Conflict Resolution: From Knowledge to Practice and Back Again,” with Suzanne Ghais, in P. Coleman, M. Deutsch, and E. Marcus, eds.The Handbook of Conflict Resolution 3rd ed. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2014), Ch. 56.
- “Indigenous Peacebuilding,” in Roger Mac Ginty, ed., Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding (London: Routledge, 2013), Ch. 28, pp. 360 - 374
- “Nuclear Negotiations: Iran, the EU (and the United States),” in G. Olivier Faure, ed., Unfinished Business: Saving International Negotiations From Failure (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
- “Structural Dimensions of Negotiations That Do Not End in Agreement,” with the late Christophe Dupont, in G. Olivier Faure, ed., Unfinished Business: Saving International Negotiations From Failure (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
- “Ancient Peacemakers: Exemplars for Humanity,” in Susan Allen Nan, Andrea Bartoli, Zachariah Mampilly, eds. Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (Praeger, 2011), pp. 563-581.
- “Cultural Pathways in Negotiation and Conflict Management,” Chapter 8 in Michael Moffitt and Robert Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005), pp. 118-134.
Journal Issues - Guest Editor
Refereed Journal Articles
- "Fumbling Abdication: Make America Diplomatic Again," Negotiation Journal vol. 35, no. 1 (2019): 107-110
- "Impediments to trade across the Green Line in Cyprus: The role of classic barriers and trust," with Omer Gokcekus, Dennis Nottebaum and Jessica Henson, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 49, no. 6 (November 2012)
- “Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Confronting Exclusion,” International Negotiation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2008), with Darren Kew.
- “Back Channel Negotiation: International Bargaining in the Shadows.” Negotiation Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (2006): 119-144.
- “The National Security Council: Tool of Presidential Crisis Management,” Journal of Public and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998): 102-127.
- “Third Party Mediation Over Kashmir: A Modest Proposal,” International Peacekeeping, vol. 4, no. 4 (1997): 1-30.
- “The Mediating Role in the Kashmir Dispute Between India and Pakistan,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 21, no. 1 (1996): 173-195.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles
- "The Rambouillet Negotiations: A Precursor for Failure?" (on Kosovo), The Diplomatic Courier, vol. 2, no. 1 (2007)
- “Implementing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Transitioning States: Lessons Learned From Practice” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Vol. 5 (2000): 339-381.
Research Reports
- “Managers as Negotiators: The Power and Gender Mix,” Negotiation Journal, vol. 12, no. 4 (1996): 367-370.
- “Toward the ‘Next Generation’ of Research on Mediation and Third-Party Intervention,” Negotiation Journal, vol. 12, no. 3 (1996): 271-274.
Reviews and Review Essays
- “Thinking Globally and Acting Locally,” Review Essay of Negotiating Globally, by J. Brett and Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution, by F. Dukes, M. Piscolish and J. Stephens, Negotiation Journal, vol. 19, no. 3 (2003): 371-378.
- “Advice to Princes in the Global Age”: Review Essay of Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts, by T. Sisk and Elusive Peace, by I. W. Zartman, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 21, no. 2 (1997).
- Review of A Concise History of the Middle East, by A. Goldschmidt, Jr., The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 20, no. 2 (1996).
Research Monographs
- Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Why, Whether and How They Could Be Involved, with Thania Paffenholz and Darren Kew. Background paper for International Mediators’ Retreat, June 2006 Oslo Forum: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, Switzerland, and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- An Assessment of Back Channel Diplomacy: Negotiations Between the Palestinians and Israelis, PON Paper 00-7 (September 2000) Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
- Resolving the Kashmir Conflict Between India and Pakistan: Prospects for Mediation, Working Paper Series, 96-2 Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
- The Negotiations Between the Palestinians and Israel: Short Term Breakthrough but Long Term Failure? Working Paper Series, 95-4 Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
Peer-Reviewed Policy Papers and Publications
- “Negotiating Civil Resistance,” with Noah Rosen, Peaceworks vol. 129, United States Institute of Peace, July 2017
- Setting the Table for Arab-Israeli Peace: The Role of Publics, Policy paper for the USIP Senior Working Group on the Middle East, Co-Chaired by Samuel R. Berger and Stephen A. Hadley, June 23, 2009.
- Training Manual on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Justice [Judicial training for Nigerian judges], co-authored with Darren Kew and Kevin Nwosu, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, October 2007.
- International Prevention Practices in the Culture of Drugs and Violence, U.S. Department of State, July 2005.
- “A Culture of Justice: Guatemala’s Post-Conflict Judicial Modernization,” World Bank, April 2004 (presented at World Bank’s “Scaling-Up Poverty Reduction” Conference in Shanghai, May 2004).
- “Evaluation of World Bank-supported ADR in Guatemala,” World Bank, March 2003.
- “Commercial Alternate Dispute Resolution in Bolivia,” Appendix “B” in S. Brown, C. Cervenak, D. Fairman, Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs: A Guide for USAID, December 1997 (USAID Contract AEP-I-00-96-90022-00).
Pedagogy
- “Comparative Peace Processes,” in Timothy A. McElwee, B. Welling Hall, Joseph Liechty, Julie Garber, eds., Peace, Justice and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7th ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009) Ch. 14.6
Professional Presentations
Grants and Sponsored Research
- Fulbright Senior Specialists Scholarship 2009; Curricular collaboration with the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Palestinian American Research Center Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2005
- Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1999-2000
Work In Progress
- "Shooting for Peace: Negotiation of Ceasefires in Civil Wars."
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
international negotiation, military negotiations, ceasefires, humanitarian negotiations, peace process, back channel negotiation
Additional Information
Anthony Wanis-St. John researches international negotiation, military negotiations, ceasefires, humanitarian negotiations and peace processes. He has created several advanced courses on negotiation for SIS, ranging from interpersonal skills and analysis to complex international multilateral contexts. He also conducts advanced negotiation trainings, mediation and conflict resolution workshops in diverse organizational contexts and sectors. He is an advisor to the Academy of International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.