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Matthew Vaccaro is Program Director of the Center for Stabilization and
Reconstruction Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
He concurrently holds a faculty position of Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School.
As Program Director he oversees the Center's activities in cross-community education
among the practitioner communities of stability and relief operations (the armed forces,
government civilian agencies, non-governmental organizations, and inter-governmental
organizations). His experience and interests are in conflict management and peace
operations, the U.S. interagency process, political-military planning,
and post-conflict reconstruction.
Mr. Vaccaro joined the University in 2003 after many years in U.S. Government policy-advisory
and implementation positions in Washington. Among other positions, he served as Director
for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff at the
White House (1998-2000) and as Director of the Office for Peace Operations in the Office
of the Secretary of Defense (2000-2003). He has also served in positions at a research
think tank and as an officer in the U.S. Army (1990-1993) with service in Somalia as a
member of the 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division.
Mr. Vaccaro's publications and research focus on operational strategies for peace
enforcement, policing within stability operations, interagency political-military
planning, and training of civilians and armed forces for contingency operations.
His BA and MA are from Stanford University in international relations and international
policy studies, respectively.
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