© , Janine Wedel

 

PROJECTS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Director, Privatization of National Security Initiative, New America Foundation

Co-organizer and convener, New America Foundation workshop on Public-Private Interfaces (July 19, 2007)

Co-founder and co-convener, Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP), American Anthropological Association

Initiator and co-organizer, Ford-Foundation funded project on "Building Accountability Into International Development Advising in an Age of Diffused Governance"

Co-organizer, international workshop on accountability in international development advising, funded by Ford Foundation and co-sponsored by Polish Academy of Sciences

Initiator and co-organizer, Ridgway Center for International Security Studies conference on "The Social Organization of the State: A Theory-Building Workshop" (University of Pittsburgh)

Initiator and co-director: Ford Foundation-funded research on political and economic development in Eastern Europe, with Center for Solidarity and Trade Union Studies, Warsaw

Initiator and co-organizer: International conference sponsored by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on "Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: What we are doing Right, What we are doing Wrong, How we can do it Better." See summary

Initiator and co-organizer: International conference sponsored by German Marshall Fund on "The Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Europe"