Ms. Sarah Sewall

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  SARAH SEWALL teaches international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she also directs the Program on National Security and Human Rights. She led the Obama Transitions National Security Agency Review process in 2008. During the Clinton Administration, Sewall served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1983-1996, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell on the Democratic Policy Committee and the Senate Arms Control Observer Group. Before joining Harvard, Sewall was at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where she edited The United States and the International Criminal Court (2002).

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  Published on: 10/1/2002    Last Visited: 12/18/2008  

  Attitudes toward the United Nations on the part of the Defense Department and White House during the Clinton administration are exposed authoritatively by Sarah B. Sewall, deputy assistant secretary of defense for peacekeeping from 1993 to 1996, in a new book, Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement, a collection of essays by policy experts."Early in the Clinton Administration," she writes, "U.S. officials frequently looked to satisfy short-term political goals via the U.N., sometimes regardless of the consequences for the organization or for other U.S. objectives in the longer term."Sewall adds that Washington pushed the United Nations into one ambitious mission after another, then perversely denied the organization's peacekeeping department the resources-troops or money-to carry them out, as was evident in the tragedies in Somalia, Bosnia, and Rwanda."Washington often pushed the U.N. beyond any reasonable expectations, and then stepped away when the U.N. failed," she concludes.

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  Sarah Sewall
  
  Sarah Sewall is Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
  
  From 1993 to 1996, Sewall served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance.
  
  She also has been Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and worked a defense analyst at several Washington, D.C. organizations.
  
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  Published on: 12/24/2005    Last Visited: 2/18/2009  

  Sarah Sewall, deputy assistant secretary of defense from 1993 to 1996 and now program director for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, said the military's resistance to acknowledging and analyzing so-called collateral damage remained one of the most serious failures of the U.S. air and ground war in Iraq.
  
  "It's almost impossible to fight a war in which engagements occur in urban areas [and] to avoid civilian casualties," Sewall, whose center is a branch of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government that focuses on issues such as genocide, failed states and military intervention, said in a telephone interview.
  
  "In a conflict like Iraq, where civilian perceptions are as important as the number of weapons caches destroyed, assessing the civilian harm must become a part of the battle damage assessment process if you're going to fight a smart war," she said.
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  Sewall, the former Pentagon official, also said air power often is the best means for taking out a target more cleanly than ground forces could. But, she said, U.S. forces don't do enough after the airstrikes to figure out whether each one succeeded in hitting the intended targets while sparing civilians.
  
  Marine officers said their lessons-learned center at Quantico did not try to assess civilian casualties from attacks. At the Pentagon, routine bomb-damage assessments rely heavily on the examination of aerial photos and satellite images, which Sewall said were "good for seeing if a building was hit, but not as good for determining who was inside."
  
  "I have enormous respect for the extent to which U.S. air power has become discriminate," Sewall said. "But when you're using force in an urban area or using force in an area with limited intelligence," and facing an enemy actively "exploiting distinctions between combatants and noncombatants, air power becomes challenging no matter how discriminate it is.
  
  "When it comes to the extent to which they are minimizing civilian harm, the question becomes: How do you know? Sewall said.

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  Sarah Sewall is a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group responsible for the national security agencies. She is on part-time leave from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she teaches and is Faculty Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Her research focuses on U.S. national security strategy, civil-military relations, counterinsurgency, terrorism and mass atrocity. Sewall served as the first U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance (1993-1996). She previously served for six years as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.

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  · Sarah Sewall, Clinton administration deputy secretary of defense, counter, insurgency czar

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  In addition, another advisor, Sarah Sewall, who heads a human rights center at Harvard and is a former Defense official, wrote the introduction to General Petraeus's Marine Corps/Army counterinsurgency handbook, the handbook that is now being used worldwide by US troops in various killing operations.

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  Defining Success by Sarah Sewall
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  Sarah Sewall, former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the Clinton administration, teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

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  Published on: 6/24/2005    Last Visited: 3/6/2007  

  Sarah Sewall , Director of the Program on National Security and Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor, author of Breaking the Phalanx and Transformation Under Fire, joins him.

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