kevinp
Jun 19, 2009
Graduate / Conflict resolution and peace study - Statement of Purpose for PhD in IR [4]
You guys are good. Thanks much.
You guys are good. Thanks much.
kevinp
Jun 5, 2009
Graduate / Conflict resolution and peace study - Statement of Purpose for PhD in IR [4]
Can you work your magic on my SoP? Thanks!
I am a practitioner. In the last 21 years, I have studied security systems, indigenous survival, violent and non-violent social change, peace building, and conflict resolution. My classroom was not made of brick and mortar. My preliminary education came from being a soldier, under arms, in the field, sweating and freezing.
I aspire to study international relations in the XXXX PhD program. I want to graduate from practitioner to scholar, blending theory and practice to find alternatives to violence through study in XXXX. I propose to exchange ideas, work collaboratively and support the XXXX Center for Global Peace. I endeavor to graduate from working-class to scholar-class in my impassioned avocation. I intend to devote a lifetime to teaching undergraduate and graduate students. I would like to contribute and shape national security policy, when the opportunity presents itself. To this end, I would pursue the International Affairs degree with study and research in International Politics and International Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Conflict resolution and peace studies have always captivated me. I began my study of peace by joining the profession of arms in the United States Military Academy. After graduating in 1989, I was an infantryman assigned a sector of the NATO General Defense Plan in West Germany. Subsequently, I deployed to Desert Shield/Desert Storm and served as a platoon leader in that war. I later planned rescue contingencies for U.S and Coalition forces should peacekeeping operations fail in Bosnia. I deployed to the Balkans to protect the Kosovar Albanians from the Serbian ethnic slaughter. I supported peace and humanitarian relief to Monrovia in the Second Liberian Civil War and planned the non-combatant evacuation of Lebanon and the Levant. Later that year, I assisted planning for the invasion of Iraq, and gallingly waived an opportunity to plan "Phase IV" stability and reconstruction to cement my position in the "Liberation." I deployed to the contentious northern Iraq and managed Kurds, Turkomen, Sunni Arabs and Chaldo-Assyrians in the oil-rich region of Kirkuk. I served the joint military community by planning the consequence management of a terrorist attack upon the Panama Canal, and later operations in Cuba, post-Castro. I returned to Iraq and implemented counterinsurgency and reconciliation techniques in religious and ethnic- torn Sunni-Shiia Baghdad. In all, I have occupied a front-row seat in the collusion of identities, competing political philosophies and religious intolerance in a macedoine of nationalities.
I have prepared academically for this journey. I earned a Master of Arts in Military Studies and a Master of Science in International Relations. I spent a year as a fellow in the in the Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Cooperation, a graduate-level institution focused on the political, historical, and human rights issues in the western hemisphere, as chartered by the Organization of American States. This fellowship and all academic work were conducted in Spanish. Later, I attended the Joint Forces Staff College and earned the Douglas MacArthur Writing Award for an essay in national security affairs. Additionally, I served as a professor for UUUU in the undergraduate international relations department, teaching courses in Technology in IR, Treaties, History of Latin American, and Government and Politics of Africa. I taught for two years before Operation Iraqi Freedom interrupted my service.
I have attended XXXX information sessions and have toured the facility. I have conducted office calls and communicated with several professors, and have spent time in the research facilities. I have found the XXXX program to be extremely competitive with other programs offered in universities in Washington DC. In the areas of human rights, stability and reconstruction, peace building through reconciliation, and peace studies, XXXX is peerless. My desire and commitment coupled with XXXX faculty and resources seems to be a perfect match. I sincerely hope to build a mutually benefiting association and contribute my best towards a successful research endeavor. Thank you for your consideration.
Can you work your magic on my SoP? Thanks!
I am a practitioner. In the last 21 years, I have studied security systems, indigenous survival, violent and non-violent social change, peace building, and conflict resolution. My classroom was not made of brick and mortar. My preliminary education came from being a soldier, under arms, in the field, sweating and freezing.
I aspire to study international relations in the XXXX PhD program. I want to graduate from practitioner to scholar, blending theory and practice to find alternatives to violence through study in XXXX. I propose to exchange ideas, work collaboratively and support the XXXX Center for Global Peace. I endeavor to graduate from working-class to scholar-class in my impassioned avocation. I intend to devote a lifetime to teaching undergraduate and graduate students. I would like to contribute and shape national security policy, when the opportunity presents itself. To this end, I would pursue the International Affairs degree with study and research in International Politics and International Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Conflict resolution and peace studies have always captivated me. I began my study of peace by joining the profession of arms in the United States Military Academy. After graduating in 1989, I was an infantryman assigned a sector of the NATO General Defense Plan in West Germany. Subsequently, I deployed to Desert Shield/Desert Storm and served as a platoon leader in that war. I later planned rescue contingencies for U.S and Coalition forces should peacekeeping operations fail in Bosnia. I deployed to the Balkans to protect the Kosovar Albanians from the Serbian ethnic slaughter. I supported peace and humanitarian relief to Monrovia in the Second Liberian Civil War and planned the non-combatant evacuation of Lebanon and the Levant. Later that year, I assisted planning for the invasion of Iraq, and gallingly waived an opportunity to plan "Phase IV" stability and reconstruction to cement my position in the "Liberation." I deployed to the contentious northern Iraq and managed Kurds, Turkomen, Sunni Arabs and Chaldo-Assyrians in the oil-rich region of Kirkuk. I served the joint military community by planning the consequence management of a terrorist attack upon the Panama Canal, and later operations in Cuba, post-Castro. I returned to Iraq and implemented counterinsurgency and reconciliation techniques in religious and ethnic- torn Sunni-Shiia Baghdad. In all, I have occupied a front-row seat in the collusion of identities, competing political philosophies and religious intolerance in a macedoine of nationalities.
I have prepared academically for this journey. I earned a Master of Arts in Military Studies and a Master of Science in International Relations. I spent a year as a fellow in the in the Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Cooperation, a graduate-level institution focused on the political, historical, and human rights issues in the western hemisphere, as chartered by the Organization of American States. This fellowship and all academic work were conducted in Spanish. Later, I attended the Joint Forces Staff College and earned the Douglas MacArthur Writing Award for an essay in national security affairs. Additionally, I served as a professor for UUUU in the undergraduate international relations department, teaching courses in Technology in IR, Treaties, History of Latin American, and Government and Politics of Africa. I taught for two years before Operation Iraqi Freedom interrupted my service.
I have attended XXXX information sessions and have toured the facility. I have conducted office calls and communicated with several professors, and have spent time in the research facilities. I have found the XXXX program to be extremely competitive with other programs offered in universities in Washington DC. In the areas of human rights, stability and reconstruction, peace building through reconciliation, and peace studies, XXXX is peerless. My desire and commitment coupled with XXXX faculty and resources seems to be a perfect match. I sincerely hope to build a mutually benefiting association and contribute my best towards a successful research endeavor. Thank you for your consideration.