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John Shattuck

Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

John Shattuck is Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, a Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and chairs the international advisory board of the Center on Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University. He has served as US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; Washington Director of the American Civil Liberties Union; US Ambassador to the Czech Republic; CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; and President of Central European University. He was the first US official to reach and interview survivors of the genocide at Srebrenica and helped negotiate the Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia.

He is the author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response, a study of the international response to genocide and crimes against humanity. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

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