Staff

Susan Carroll

Program Coordinator, Duke-UNC Rotary Center for Peace & Conflict Resolution
919.843.2792
secarrol@email.unc.edu

Susan Carroll is the Coordinator of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, based on the campuses of both Duke University at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and UNC's University Center for International Studies. Joining the Rotary Center in May 2005, she has over 20 years of experience in the field of international humanitarian assistance, principally working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has worked on large-scale refugee operations in Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi, Turkey, Hong Kong and Thailand. In 1991, she was the first UN Liaison Officer with the Allied Forces in Incirlik, Turkey, working with military personnel on the protection and assistance of Kurdish refugees.

As an Emergency Management Officer with UNHCR, she was particularly focused on developing institutional mechanisms for improving the organization's response to refugee emergency situations.

Susan has also coordinated two UNHCR training programs – one focusing on gender analysis of refugee populations and the other on emergency preparedness. In these coordination roles, she has been responsible for designing and implementing training, program and operational strategies involving staff in the U system, NGOs and governments.

Susan attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.