Cavanaugh Awarded Cambridge Fellowship; Mingst Named Interim Director of Patterson School
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 14, 2016) — Carey Cavanaugh, director of the University of Kentucky Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, has been awarded a fellowship at Cambridge University’s Clare College. Established in 1326, Clare College is the second oldest of Cambridge’s community of 31 independent colleges.
Cavanaugh has also been selected to be an executive-in-residence and fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) beginning July 1. The Swiss government established GCSP in 1995 to promote the building and maintenance of peace, security and stability. GCSP has become one of Europe’s leading academic and research centers, providing executive education and practical training to foreign policy and military professionals from around the world.
After 10 years of service as Patterson School’s director, Cavanaugh will spend this fall semester on sabbatical, writing and conducting research on international conflict resolution.
At Cambridge, he will be analyzing the inherent contradiction between two fundamental competing principles: acknowledging people's right to self-determination, but also backing support for maintaining the territorial integrity of states. He will also be probing the political challenge of how to prepare publics to support compromise solutions that have been negotiated in secret and are not yet fully known.
In Switzerland, Cavanaugh’s focus will be more policy-oriented, exploring diplomatic options to address the renewed fighting in the South Caucasus. Violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh flared up in April, with the greatest loss of life since a ceasefire was brokered between the two nations in 1994. Cavanaugh will also work with the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Vienna hosts the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe which continues to play a key mediation role in peace efforts in the Caucasus.
Retired UK political science professor Karen Mingst will return to UK on July 1 to serve in an administrative capacity as interim Patterson School director through December.
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