Taylor B. Seybolt is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
He is the author of Humanitarian Military Intervention: the Conditions for Success and Failure (Oxford, 2007) and co-editor of Counting Civilian Casualties: an Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict (Oxford, 2013). His research concerns protection of civilians in conflict zones. In particular, he seeks to understand the process of violence that can lead to mass killing of civilians, in order to identify ways to prevent atrocities.
He was the Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh, 2009-2011. From 2002 to 2008, he Taylor B. Seybolt is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
He is the author of Humanitarian Military Intervention: the Conditions for Success and Failure (Oxford, 2007) and co-editor of Counting Civilian Casualties: an Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict (Oxford, 2013). His research concerns protection of civilians in conflict zones. In particular, he seeks to understand the process of violence that can lead to mass killing of civilians, in order to identify ways to prevent atrocities.
He was the Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh, 2009-2011. From 2002 to 2008, he was a Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, where he established grant-making programs in Nigeria and Sudan. While in Washington, he served as an advisor to the Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen. He continues to be involved in efforts to build governmental capacity to prevent and respond to mass atrocities.
He has taught courses on conflict resolution at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and civil war at the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Seybolt was Leader of the Conflicts and Peace Enforcement Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden, from 1999 to 2002. He was both a Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT....more