John Norris
Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative
John Norris is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at American Progress. He has served in a number of senior roles in government, international institutions, and nonprofits. John previously served as the Executive Director of the Enough Project at American Progress. John was the chief of political affairs for the United Nations Mission in Nepal as that country tried to emerge from a decade-long war. Previously, John served as the Washington chief of staff for the International Crisis Group, conducting extensive field work and senior-level advocacy for resolving conflicts in South Asia, Africa, and the Balkans.
Earlier in his career, John served as the director of communications for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. He also worked as a speechwriter and field disaster expert at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
John is the author of several books, including the Disaster Gypsies, a memoir of his work in the field of emergency relief, and Collision Course: NATO, Russia and Kosovo. John has published commentary in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He has a graduate degree in public administration.
Email: jnorris /@\ americanprogress.org
Articles by John Norris
- Interactive Map: Ranking Our Foreign Aid Recipients, May 8, 2012
- Engagement Amid Austerity, May 7, 2012
- Ostriches and Automatic Weapons, April 27, 2012
- Interactive Map: Foreign Aid, March 19, 2012
- It All Starts with Training, December 14, 2011
- Foreign Aid Cuts Can Be Reasonable, October 11, 2011
- The Price of Failure, October 5, 2011
- How to Help Somalia, October 3, 2011
- Twenty Years of Collapse and Counting, September 14, 2011
- Slideshow: International War Crimes and Justice, June 29, 2011
- Afghan Aid Under the Microscope, June 9, 2011
- 4 Ways to Save $2 Billion While Improving U.S. Foreign Aid, May 26, 2011
- Five Steps to Make Our Aid More Effective and Save More Than $2 Billion, May 5, 2011
- Withdrawing from the United Nations: A Misguided Assault, May 2, 2011
- Five Myths About Foreign Aid, April 28, 2011
- The Y Article, April 13, 2011
- The U.S. Global Development Council, April 8, 2011
- Can America Rise to the Occasion in the Middle East?, March 28, 2011
- Reading the Tea Leaves in Libya, March 18, 2011
- Learning from the Post-Soviet Era, March 15, 2011
- Rushing Carefully in Libya, March 8, 2011
- ¿El último desafío de Gadafi?, February 23, 2011
- Qaddafi’s Last Stand?, February 22, 2011
- Where Do We Go from Here?, February 17, 2011
- Interactive Map: Foreign Aid Analysis Made Easy, February 7, 2011
- The Road to Better Aid: An Emerging Bipartisan Consensus?, January 13, 2011
- The Ambassadors-as-CEOs Model, December 17, 2010
- U.S. Foreign Aid Reform Meets the Tea Party, November 22, 2010
- Can Progressives and Tea Partiers Find Love Across the Aisle?, November 3, 2010
- Reinventing Diplomacy and Development?, October 26, 2010
- Getting Development Right in Haiti, October 25, 2010
- No Easy Fix for U.S. Foreign Aid, September 24, 2010
- Ask the Expert: Building a Better Security Budget, July 1, 2010
- Less Is More, June 8, 2010
- Sudan Is Still Up to No Good, March 11, 2010
- Testing Obama's Sudan Policy, October 20, 2009
- Sudan Score Card, October 19, 2009
- Lawyers, Guns, and Money, October 14, 2009
- Two Years to Self Destruct in Sudan, September 3, 2009
- Not Enough?, August 13, 2009
- Give Reality a Chance, June 26, 2009
- Congo's Electronic Blood Diamonds, May 8, 2009
- Getting It Right: What the United States Can Do To Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in the Twenty-First Century, March 2, 2009
- Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama, November 6, 2008
- The Merits of Justice, July 14, 2008
