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R. Bruce Hitchner

R. Bruce Hitchner is Professor of Classics and International Relations at Tufts University and Founder and Chairman of the Dayton Peace Accords Project.  In 2005-6 a team led by Ambassador Donald Hays, Paul Williams, and Hitchner assisted the major political parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina in launching the first constitutional reform which resulted in the April 2006 Package of Constitutional Reforms. This initiative was funded by the European Commission, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the United States Institute of Peace, and Tufts University. Hitchner has continued to work on constitutional reform through a multi-year grant to the Dayton Peace Accords Project from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Most recently, Hitchner has published a policy paper for the  International Centre for Democratic Transition (Hungary) entitled, “The Necessity of Constitutional Reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina.”

Hitchner’s work related to the Dayton Peace Accords Project also includes numerous publications on the Western Balkans and especially the Dayton mission and constitutional reform in Bosnia. His opeds and papers have appeared in the International Herald Tribune  the Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, the USIPeace Briefing among others.

Hitchner has served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology Chair of the Department of Classics at Tufts, and has directed four archaeological projects in Tunisia and France. Hitchner has also published extensively on the history and archaeology of the Roman Empire.

Hitchner also served as director of the Center for International Programs at the University of Dayton, and was awarded a Fellowship at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 2002-03.