Taylor Seybolt

Taylor Seybolt "joined USIP in 2002 as a program officer in the Grant program. He currently is a senior program officer and works for the Grants & Fellowships program.

"From 1999 to 2002 he was director of the Conflicts and Peace Enforcement Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Stockholm, Sweden. At SIPRI, Seybolt published on humanitarian intervention and the incidence of major armed conflicts worldwide.

"From 1997 to 1999 he was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote on humanitarian intervention, communal civil conflicts, and coordination among organizations during crisis response. Seybolt received an Institute grant when he was at SIPRI to write a book on humanitarian intervention. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was awarded a dissertation fellowship funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Seybolt has given presentations and lectures in Austria, Bosnia, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United States and is a participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

"He holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT."