Carey Cavanaugh

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Carey Cavanaugh
United States Ambassador and Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts
In office
1999 – 2001
Also, OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair
PresidentBill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded byDonald Keyser
Succeeded byRudolf V. Perina
Special Cyprus Coordinator, Acting
In office
1998–1999
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byJames Williams
Succeeded byThomas J. Miller
United States Chief of Mission to Georgia
In office
1992 – 1992
Charge d'affaires ad interim
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byUS established relations with Georgia in April 1992
Succeeded byKent N. Brown
Personal details
Born1955 (age 68–69)
International Studies (M.A.) (ABD)
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Notre Dame
Profession
Websitewww.careycavanaugh.com

Carey Edward Cavanaugh (born January 1955) is a former

chairman of International Alert
, a London-based independent peacebuilding organization. He is currently professor of diplomacy at the University of Kentucky.

Cavanaugh had a twenty-two year Foreign Service career focused on conflict resolution, arms control, and humanitarian issues. This included diplomatic postings in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern, as well as Washington assignments in the State Department, the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. Upon leaving government service, he took a full professorship at the University of Kentucky and became director of its Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He remains active in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, working with several leading British and European non-governmental organizations on civil society initiatives and track-two diplomatic efforts.

Early life and education

Cavanaugh was born in

Leningrad Polytechnical Institute
. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1976.

He went on to graduate study in government and international affairs at the University of Notre Dame, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1978.[2] He continued work toward a Ph.D., but left before completion in 1981 to accept a tenure-track position teaching international affairs and Soviet and East European studies at Youngstown State University[3] in Ohio. In the summer of 1982 he was a research intern and in 1983 a visiting researcher at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich.[4]

Cavanaugh later attended the U.S. Army Russian Institute (today the

Seminar XXI in 1994–1995.[5] In 2001–2002, he was a member of the Department of State's 44th Senior Seminar. At the Foreign Service Institute
, he also studied German and Italian.

Government service

Entering the Foreign Service in 1984, Cavanaugh rose to the diplomatic rank of

House Committee on Armed Services members to instruct their Supreme Soviet counterparts on how to perform legislative oversight.[8]

In 1991–92, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, working with Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) on nuclear weapons issues.[9] When Eduard Shevardnadze became President of the Republic of Georgia in 1992, Cavanaugh was sent to Tbilisi as Chargé d'affaires, leading the team that established the U.S. embassy to that new independent state.[10][11] After Tbilisi, Cavanaugh was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Rome to cover the communist (PDS) and socialist parties (PSI), the Lega Nord, as well as European policy issues. The State Department cut short this assignment to return him to Washington to help with the multibillion-dollar assistance program for the post-Soviet states and shortly thereafter to support U.S. and international efforts to advance peace in the Caucasus, working with Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson and Finnish diplomat (and later European Union Special Representative) Heikki Talvitie.

Under the administrations of Presidents

Harry S Truman Little White House in Key West, Florida.[18][19]

Cavanaugh was president of the Department of State's 44th Senior Seminar in 2001–2002. Afterwards, he worked for three years as a senior inspector/team leader in State's

Office of the Inspector General. Cavanaugh's final official assignment was foreign policy/political advisor to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
.

Since leaving government service, he has also carried out special assignments for the State Department's Inspector General in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Brazil.

Academic work

Cavanaugh was appointed tenured full professor at the

Clare College.[21] His policy writing and research focus primarily on peace efforts in the South Caucasus, in particular the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.[22][23][24][25]

Under Cavanaugh's leadership, the size of this master's degree program was capped at 35 new students each year. He grew the program's co-curricular activities so that during their studies each Patterson School student would have the opportunity — at no additional cost — to visit the headquarters or manufacturing operations of 12-15 major corporations in the Midwest and South (such as

CARE. Cavanaugh also established greater engagement with defense/security entities such as the Department of Energy's Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee[26] and the United States Army War College.[27][28] He also fostered a focus on Mideast politics that has included regular student attendance at the Middle East Institute's annual conference in Washington, DC and participation in the annual Doha Forum in Qatar
. His teaching focuses on diplomacy, negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution; the diplomacy of nuclear weapons; and international ethics.

Cavanaugh has served repeatedly as a senior scholar for IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board). He was a founding board member of the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship (HCCS) in 2007 and until 2013 developed the curriculum for its annual student congress.[29] From 2012 to 2016, he was a member of the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute.[30] He works frequently with the United States Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership, helping conduct negotiation and conflict resolution exercises at select American universities.

From 2014 to 2017, Cavanaugh was involved in a multi-year effort to address the problem of fraternity hazing on college and university campuses in the United States and Canada, serving on a presidential commission for the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC)[31] The commissioners' report impacted more than 5,500 fraternity chapters on more than 800 campuses with approximately 350,000 members.

Engagement with Peacebuilding Organizations

Since leaving the Foreign Service, Cavanaugh has engaged with international non-governmental organizations (

Elizabeth Rehn in an effort to encourage the appointment of more women to senior international mediation and special envoy positions at the United Nations, European Union and OSCE.[33] He also assisted the former World Security Institute with its Caucasus project, engaging scholars from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to build cross-cultural understanding.[34]

In 2009, Cavanaugh took part in

Track 2 diplomacy
efforts related to the countries formed following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Cavanaugh served as a director and trustee of Conciliation Resources from 2014 to 2018.

Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, and Fiji
.

In 2018, Cavanaugh was appointed chairman of the Board of Trustees of International Alert.[39] This major peacebuilding NGO was established in 1986, with Martin Ennals (former Secretary General of Amnesty International) as Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Vice Chairman. Headquartered in London, with a European office in The Hague, International Alert has staff based in 19 countries partnering with over 800 organizations on projects designed to shape policies and practices to advance peace and working with people directly affected by international conflict.[40] Alert's principal geographic areas of operation are Africa, Asia and the Middle East, but it is also currently supporting peace activities in Colombia, the South Caucasus and Ukraine.[41] Cavanaugh stepped down from this position in 2023.

Additional affiliations and activities

Cavanaugh is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and the American Foreign Service Association (Washington).[42] For more than a decade, he has been a regular speaker in cities across the United States for the American Committees on Foreign Relations.[43] He also sits on the Kentucky advisory committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (Washington), a grouping of businesses and non-profits that encourages greater support and funding for diplomacy and development.[44]

Awards and honors

Cavanaugh is the recipient of a number of State Department awards, including two individual Superior Honor awards and the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence.[45] In 2015, Cavanaugh was named by Delta Chi International fraternity as one of two Distinguished Delta Chis based upon his outstanding civic service in higher education and his past and continuing engagement toward advancing international peace.[46] He was tapped as an honorary member of Florida Blue Key (the University of Florida's leadership honor society) in 2017.[47] In 2018, Cavanaugh received the University of Florida's Distinguished Alumnus Award.[48]

Personal life

Cavanaugh married his wife Laura in 1981. They have two adult sons. Cavanaugh has two brothers: Terence Cavanaugh (an associate professor of education at the University of North Florida) and James Ponti (author of the "City Spies", "Framed" and "Dead City" mystery book series for young adults).[49]

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Diplomatic posts
First
Newly recognized state
 United States Chief of Mission to Georgia

Chargé d'affaires ad interim
1992

Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Special Cyprus Coordinator, Acting
1995-1996 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts and OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairman
1999-2001 		Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by Director, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky
2006-2016 		Succeeded by
Interim appointments pending restructuring
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by Board Chair, International Alert
2018-2023 		Succeeded by
David Nussbaum
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