Francesco Mancini
Associate
mancini@ipinst.org
Francesco heads “Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change,” a multi-year research and policy-facilitation program that aims to develop institutional and policy innovation in order to strengthen multilateral response capacities to security challenges. He also directs the research project, “Management of UN Peace Operations,” which seeks to bolster management capacity at UN field missions. When he joined IPI in 2004, his research covered security and development issues, and security sector reform, with a particular focus on the private sector’s contribution to reform of security institutions.
Francesco is also an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and at New York University. He teaches a graduate-level seminar on conflict analysis and assessment at both universities.
Prior to joining IPI, Francesco served as an Associate at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he co-managed the Worldwide Security Initiative, a program designed to enhance international cooperation in addressing new security threats, particularly transnational terrorism. From 1996 to 2001, Francesco was a senior management consultant at Charles Riley Consultants International in Paris, where he focused on business strategy and change management, leading multi-million dollar projects for major public sector companies in France, Italy, and Morocco.
Francesco earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs where he studied International Security Policy and Conflict Resolution. While at Columbia, he was awarded a fellowship within the Satzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. In 2002, he researched the peace negotiations in Cyprus at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- “The Company We Keep: Private Contractors in Jamaica,” Civil Wars, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 231-250, and in Gordon Peake, Eric Scheye and Alice Hills (eds.), Managing Insecurity: Field Experiences of Security Sector Reform (London: Taylor & Francis, 2008)
- Encyclopedia of United States National Security (London: SAGE Publications, 2006; Richard Samuels, ed.), contributions including Osama Bin Laden; Bush Doctrine; Middle East Conflicts; Preemptive War Doctrine; Preventive War; UN Peacekeeping
- “Counting What Counts: Ten Steps Toward Increasing the Relevance of Empirical Research in the UN System,” Meeting Note (New York: International Peace Academy, February 2006; with Reyko Huang).
- “Maritime Power in A Flat World,” Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2005)
- In Good Company? The Role of Business in Security Sector Reform, Policy Paper (London and New York: Demos and International Peace Academy, 2005)