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Former U.N. Ambassador is Dickey Fellow

Specialist in nation building to work with Dartmouth students and faculty

Former United Nations Ambassador Jonathan Moore '54, will be a visiting fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding during the remainder of the winter term and throughout spring term 2007. Moore is the second scholar to participate in the Visiting Fellows Program, which brings scholars, postdoctoral researchers, and practitioners to campus for two or three terms to work with students and faculty. As a fellow, Moore is specializing in postconflict reconstruction and nation-building.

Jonathan Moore '54 (Courtesy Jonathan Moore)

While at Dartmouth, Moore will be available to meet and work with students and faculty on courses, programs, projects, and events related to his experience and interest in humanitarian intervention, postconflict reconstruction and nation-building, the relationship between security and development, the United Nations, and U.S. foreign policy, and domestic politics. He will be undertaking his own research and writing on the subject of morality and foreign policy.
Moore says he was drawn to the fellowship because, "I experienced President Dickey's conviction that international challenges should be a priority in Dartmouth's undergraduate education and this is a chance for me to get reacquainted at close hand to that end."

From 1989 to 1992 Moore was ambassador to the United Nations and representative to its Economic and Social Council. From 1986 to 1989 he served as U.S. coordinator and ambassador-at-large for refugees and as director of the Refugee Programs Bureau, U.S. Department of State. Currently, he is an associate at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he was director of the Institute of Politics and lecturer in public policy from 1974 to 1986. He also serves on the Dickey Center Board of Visitors and is former chairman of the Board of Visitors for Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center.

During 1969 to 1973, he served in Washington as deputy secretary of state; counselor to the Department of Health, Education ,and Welfare; special assistant to the secretary of defense; and associate attorney general in the Justice Department. Previously, he worked for the U.S. Information Agency in India and Africa, in the U.S. Senate, and on state and national electoral campaigns.

He continues to work with the United Nations and other international organizations in relief and development programs in developing countries such as Cambodia, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Kosovo, Croatia, and Sri Lanka.

He is the author of a book, The U.N. and Complex Emergencies: Rehabilitation in Third World Transitions (1996), and numerous articles.

By GENEVIEVE HAAS

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