Bruce Allyn '80

Program Director, Conflict Management Group

Allyn recently organized a highly publicized set of three-nation conferences to re-examine the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The meeting included Andrei Gromyko, Robert McNamara, and Fidel Castro and put Allyn on the world political map. It is a changing map, however, and that fact is at the heart of his work with the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Conflict Management Group: he coordinates and organizes seminars for conflict management and resolution in the former Soviet Union. The position points to a career in teaching or government, but for now, Allyn is exactly where he wants to be. "Because of the historic changes taking place in the former Soviet Union," he says, "we cannot teach 'Sovietology' as we used to, and being an official government representative would compromise our project's efforts the role of neutral third party is much more useful. The action right now is on the ground."

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