Georgetown University’s Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies appointed author, teacher and expert in conflict resolution Dr. Alan Tidwell as its new director, beginning January 2005.
As Director, Tidwell said that he plans to build on the Center’s previous achievements.
Georgetown founded the Center in 1995 and became the only university in North America to offer an undergraduate certificate in Australian and New Zealand Studies.
Tidwell said he also intends to address the Center’s financial issues.
“The Center survives primarily on external funding and we are currently seeking a new injection of capital,” he said.
Tidwell wrote Conflict Resolved? A Critical Examination of Conflict Resolution, published in 1999. He holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution from George Mason University, a master’s in professional ethics from the University of New South Wales, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.
Tidwell, replacing Ambassador Richard Teare, who has been with the Center since 1998, comes to Georgetown from the United States Institute of Peace, where he worked as a program officer in education.
