Mr. David L. Philips is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights. He is also the Executive Director, for the International Conflict Resolution Program/SIPA at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs. He’s been a director for the Project on Failed State at the. National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Executive Director at the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University’s Center for Middle East Studies.