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Special Plymouth Program: Ambassador Rick Barton

  • Thursday, March 27, 2014
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Plymouth State University, Welcome Center, 129 NH Rt-175A (Holderness Road), Plymouth NH 03245

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Thursday, March 27 - 1 PM
Plymouth State University
"A Golden Opportunity for Diplomacy"



Featuring Ambassador Rick Barton,
Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations

Explore burgeoning conflicts the world over and examine the role the United States plays in them, from Honduras to Burma, with Ambassador Rick Barton.

Ambassador Rick Barton is the Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations and Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. His newly-established office focuses on civilian-led peace and security efforts in volatile situations across the world.

Welcome Center, Plymouth State University
129 NH Rt-175A (Holderness Road)
Plymouth NH 03245

Free & Open to the Community


Presented by the World Affairs Council of NH in partnership with Plymouth State University; Sponsored, in part, by the Sidore Foundation

ABOUT AMBASSADOR BARTON

Ambassador Rick Barton of Maine is the Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations and the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. Prior to this position, Mr. Barton served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on Conflict and Stabilization.

The new Bureau is responsible for driving the State Department’s efforts to improve U.S. government effectiveness in preventing conflict and addressing crises. Mr. Barton leads a team of nearly 200, who are focused on a few countries of special importance or where innovative initiatives can further locally-driven solutions.

From 2009-2011 Ambassador Barton served in New York as the U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), working on development, peacebuilding, climate change, and human rights. During that time, Mr. Barton was actively engaged in the creation of UN Women, the advancement of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, the Millennium Development Goals summit, the suspension of Libya’s voting rights on the UN Human Rights Commission, Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction, Democracy Fund initiatives, and efforts to better align U.S. and UN development country programs.

Mr. Barton has worked to improve the U.S. and international response to conflict in more than 30 of the world’s most unstable places. He led independent reviews of Iraq reconstruction; developed civilian strategies for Iraq, Sudan, and Sri Lanka; created new measurements of progress in Iraq and Afghanistan; and initiated path-breaking approaches to conflict reduction in Pakistan and Nigeria.

The leadership positions he held in this field include Co-Director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Deputy High Commissioner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland, and founding director of the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives. Mr. Barton taught for five years at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he was the Frederick Schultz Professor.

Mr. Barton served on the Smart Power Commission, as an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group, led conflict-related working groups at the United States Institute of Peace and for the Princeton Project on National Security.

Ambassador Barton graduated from Harvard College, earned his Masters in Business Administration from Boston University, and was honored with a Doctorate by Wheaton College of Massachusetts. As the children of American diplomats, Mr. Barton and his brothers lived in Argentina, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Mexico. 


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