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As a doctoral student at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), Kimairis Toogood received a one-year fellowship (The David L. Boren National Security Education Program, or NSEP Fel- lowship) to conduct field research in Tajikistan. This fellowship, which provides language training to graduate students in languages deemed critical to US Foreign Policy interests, required intensive Tajiki and Dari language courses while completing research activities. Immediately following her data collection, Kim registered her conflict prevention and Central Asia regional specialties with the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) with the UNDP and quickly accepted a short-term consultancy assignment as a Conflict Prevention Specialist with UNDP in southern Kyr- gyzstan. She was responsible for facilitating several important meetings between Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnic communities that had recently experienced violent conflict, and for conducting stakeholder meetings with local and interim govern- ment officials. Kim now works with the State Department Office ofthe Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabiliza- tion (S/CRS) as a Conflict Assessment and Prevention Specialist and will complete her doctoral studies Fall 2011.
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