Daniel P. Serwer is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He was previously professor of Practice of Conflict Management as well as director of the Conflict Management and American Foreign Policy programs at SAIS. Serwer is also a research scholar at the

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Serwer served as a

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with the U.S.

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. He was deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires at US Embassy Rome from 1990 to 1993 and from 1994 to 1996, special envoy and coordinator for the Federation of

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

. During this posting, Serwer mediated between Croats and Bosniaks to build the institutions of the Federation, and negotiated the first agreement reached at the 1995 Dayton peace talks. Between 1998 and 2010 Serwer was a vice-president at the

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. During that time he led the USIP's peace-building work in

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

and the

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. At USIP, Serwer specialized in preventing inter-ethnic and sectarian conflict. He was also the Executive Director of the Hamilton/Baker Iraq Study Group. Serwer is the author of Strengthening International Regimes: the Case of Radiation Protection (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Ukraine (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), Righting the Balance: How You Can Help Protect America (Potomac, 2013) and editor with David Smock of Facilitating Dialogue (USIP, 2012). He regularly blogs on foreign policy at www.peacefare.net.

Personal life

He is married to art curator Jacquelyn Serwer, with whom he has two sons. His son,

Adam Serwer Adam Serwer (born 1982) is an American journalist and author. He is a staff writer at ''The Atlantic'' where his work focuses on politics, race, and justice. He previously worked at BuzzFeed News, ''The American Prospect'', and '' Mother Jones''. ...

, is a political journalist. Jared Serwer is an architect with

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in Atlanta.

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