On Tuesday, February 5, 2008, CommGAP hosted a day-long peer review meeting on two of its major pieces of research on post-conflict environments: The Missing Link - Re-enabling the Public Sphere in Support of Post-Conflict State-building, by Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau, and Toward a New Communication Doctrine in Post-Conflict & Fragile States, by Shanthi Kalathil, with John Langlois and Adam Kaplan of USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives.

Peer reviewers included:

• Rick Barton, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Program, CSIS
• Suzanne Bilello, UNESCO, New York
• Cynthia Brady, USAID Conflict Mitigation Office
• Bill Durch, Stimson Center, Washington, DC
• Carole Frampton, Search for Common Ground, Washington, DC
• Susanne Frueh, UN Peace Building Support Office, New York
• Tom Jacobson, Temple University, Philadelphia
• Shira Loewenberg, The New School for Social Research, New York
• Ana Paula Fialho Lopez, Fragile/Conflict Affected Countries, World Bank
• Susan Manuel, UN Department of Public Information
• Monroe Price, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• Ivan Sigal, U.S. Institute for Peace, Washington, DC
• Stefaan Verhulst, Markle Foundation, New York
• Timothy Sisk, Denver University

These studies will be published and widely disseminated in September 2008.