Re-thinking the Middle East Conflicts – Dr. Landrum Bolling
Dr. Landrum Bolling presents an Abraham’s Tent Forum on, “Re-thinking the Middle East Conflicts.”
Dr. Bolling brings over seven decades of exceptional international experience in conflict resolution and in facilitating dialogue between members of different religions, cultures and ethnicities. Early in his career he was a foreign correspondent with assignments in Rome, Vienna and Berlin and served as a war correspondent with Tito’s Partisans in World War II, covering the liberation of Sarajevo from Hitler’s occupation army.
Educated as a political scientist at the University of Tennessee and the University of Chicago, Dr. Bolling served on the faculties of Beloit College, Brown University and Earlham College, where he was president for 15 years. He was also a research professor at The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Dr. Bolling also served as president of the Lilly Endowment, one of the largest grant-making foundations in the world, and as Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Foundations. He has been a senior advisor to Mercy Corps (http://www.mercycorps.org) for much of the organization’s history. Currently he works out of the agency’s Washington, DC, office on matters of policy and program development, serves as president of Pax World Service (a Mercy Corps affiliate that promotes citizen diplomacy), and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington.
Dr. Bolling has written or co-authored several books, including Search for Peace in the Middle East, This is Germany, Private Foreign Aid, Reporters Under Fire, and Conflict Resolution: Track Two Diplomacy.
