John R. Richardson, Jr. (American University)

John R. Richarson, Jr.
Professor of International Development
and 
Director of Center for Teaching Excellence
American University
School of International Service
Hurst Hall Room 206
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, 
Washington DC 20016  USA

phone: 202-885-2346
fax:   202-885-1190
email: jrich@american.edu
url:   http://www.american.edu/cte/student/staff.html
url:   http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/facultybiographies/richardson.htm
url:   http://gurukul.american.edu/jrich/Richardson.home.html

Description of work:

My research on international development, conflict/ terrorism, and applied 
systems analysis seeks to make complex technologies and public policy 
issues accessible to wide audiences. I have collaborated on several books: 
Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling, Breakthrough: 
New Global Thinking, Making it Happen: A Positive Guide to the Future, 
Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, and Democratization in South 
Asia: The First Fifty Years.  My most recent book, Paradise Poisoned: 
Learning About Conflict, Terrorism, and Development from Sri Lanka's Civil Wars 
(to be released in January 2005), engages the political economy of 
conflict and terrorism in Sri Lanka and beyond.  I belong to numerous 
professional networks and organizations and I continue to serve as a 
Director of Sri Lanka's International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES).