Candace Karp coordinates Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) work for USIP's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. Dr. Karp spent seven years in Afghanistan, as head of office in Daikundi province, political affairs officer in southern Afghanistan and head of the security sector unit for the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan. She is a specialist in issues pertaining to sub-national governance and security sector reform, and her on the ground experience includes conflict analysis, mitigation and prevention, crisis management and mediation and programmatic planning and management. Prior to Afghanistan, Dr. Karp worked in the United Nations Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Planning in Ramallah. She has also consulted for the World Bank on projects related to Afghanistan, Mali and the Republic of Congo. Dr. Karp holds a PhD in diplomatic history from the University of Queensland, Australia, and is the author of "Missed Opportunities: US Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947 to 1967".