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Dr. Brittany Foutz is a Faculty member of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University. Dr. Foutz is the Co-Director of Salisbury Regional Centre of Expertise, a location acknowledged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and United Nations University. This United Nations location focuses on conflict prevention and creative problem-solving. Dr. Foutz has been elected to be on the United Nations Americas Governance Committee and United Nations Americas Strategic Planning Support Committee, and Leader of the United Nations Americas Task Force on Education.
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Dr. Brittany Foutz is a Faculty member of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University. She teaches International Law and various United Nations courses with the Salisbury University Department of Political Science and the Honors College. In addition, she has been recently awarded an Honors College Faculty Fellowship. She serves as the Faculty Advisor for Salisbury University’s Model United Nations, the United Nations Millennium Fellowship, and the United Nations Association Chapter. At the university, Dr. Foutz is a Fulton School of Liberal Arts Remote Teaching Specialist. Dr. Foutz is, also, a Senior Research Fellow and Trained Mediator at the Bosserman Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University in Salisbury. Dr. Foutz’s research interests include international law, transitional justice, reparations, the International Criminal Court, and human rights and the rule of law. This dissertation addresses how the implementation and use of reparation mechanisms affects the satisfaction of child soldier and sexual violence victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s court.
Dr. Foutz is the Co-Director of Salisbury Regional Centre of Expertise, a location acknowledged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and United Nations University. This United Nations location focuses on conflict prevention and creative problem-solving. Dr. Foutz has been elected to be on the United Nations Americas Governance Committee and United Nations Americas Strategic Planning Support Committee, and Leader of the United Nations Americas Task Force on Education.
She serves as a formal consultant for the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise Global Network, and the United States Institute of Peace Africa Program. Furthermore, she has fluency in six languages and has received $800,000 in grants.
Dr. Foutz has her Ph.D. in International Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. Her dissertation is entitled “Victim Satisfaction with Reparations from the International Criminal Court: An Examination of Child Soldier Cases from Kenya and Sexual Violence Cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo” and is currently a manuscript in publication with Oxford University Press.
While working on her Ph.D., Dr. Foutz served for two years as the Program Manager for the United Nations International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) and has worked with Former President Jimmy Carter at The Carter Center. In her capacity with CIFAL, Dr. Foutz was a speechwriter for the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Nikhil Seth, and was responsible for proposal research and writing, developing new programs, writing curriculum for e-learning platforms with international institutions, implementation at the local level of the Sustainable Development Goals, responsible for the development of airport connections and training of the world’s busiest airports, and developed grants and reports.
She received an M.A. in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution from Salisbury University. As an M.A. student, she was the Graduate Assistant for the Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution Department. In addition, Dr. Foutz was awarded an internship studying at The Hague, Netherlands where she had the opportunity to attend The Hague Symposium on Post-Conflict Transitions and International Justice in the summer of 2016 hosted by the International Peace and Security Institute and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael. At the symposium, she was awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Post-Conflict Transitions. At The Hague, she was able to take part in criminal proceedings at the International Criminal Court as a Visiting Professional, and had opportunities at the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia as well as the International Court of Justice. She also worked at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Fields of expertise: Education