Trying It on for Size: Design and International Public Policy

April 01 2011 Trying It on for Size: Design and International Public Policy Derek B. Miller, Derek B. Miller Derek B. Miller is Director of The Policy Lab, an international consulting frm specializing in the design of strategic engagement with local communities in the security, development, and humanitarian sectors. He is also Senior Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); Senior Fellow at the Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change at the University of Massachusetts, and Associate Scholar at the Center for Local Strategies Research at the University of Washington. He holds both a DES and Ph.D. with distinction in international relations from The Graduate Institute, University of Geneva; an MA with a citation for academic excellence in national security studies from Georgetown University and a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Thematically he has published and lectured on peacebuilding, research ethics, comparative security, cultural research, small arms, design theory, and international security policy. Miller is also a novelist, with a new book due to be published by Norway's Cappelen Damm in 2011. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Lisa Rudnick Lisa Rudnick Lisa Rudnick has worked to design and develop the Security Needs Assessment Protocol (SNAP) at the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland sin 2006. A Senior researcher at UNIDIR, she is also a Fellow at the Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change at the University of Massachusetts, and Associate Scholar at the Center for Local Strategies Research at the University of Washington. A PhD candidate in communication at the University of Massachusetts, where she holds both BA and MA degrees, she has conducted or contributed to ethnographic studies in Denmark, Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal, and among various communities in the United States, and has lived in over 8 countries. She uses her expertise in cultural communication, interpretive theory and ethnographic research methods to work with Derek Miller on developing an approach for the generation of local knowledge about "community security" in the context of UN assessment missions, and a system for the integration of local knowledge into the design of policy and programming. She has written and lectured on cultural research, design theory, and community security. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Derek B. Miller Derek B. Miller is Director of The Policy Lab, an international consulting frm specializing in the design of strategic engagement with local communities in the security, development, and humanitarian sectors. He is also Senior Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); Senior Fellow at the Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change at the University of Massachusetts, and Associate Scholar at the Center for Local Strategies Research at the University of Washington. He holds both a DES and Ph.D. with distinction in international relations from The Graduate Institute, University of Geneva; an MA with a citation for academic excellence in national security studies from Georgetown University and a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Thematically he has published and lectured on peacebuilding, research ethics, comparative security, cultural research, small arms, design theory, and international security policy. Miller is also a novelist, with a new book due to be published by Norway's Cappelen Damm in 2011. Lisa Rudnick Lisa Rudnick has worked to design and develop the Security Needs Assessment Protocol (SNAP) at the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland sin 2006. A Senior researcher at UNIDIR, she is also a Fellow at the Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change at the University of Massachusetts, and Associate Scholar at the Center for Local Strategies Research at the University of Washington. A PhD candidate in communication at the University of Massachusetts, where she holds both BA and MA degrees, she has conducted or contributed to ethnographic studies in Denmark, Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal, and among various communities in the United States, and has lived in over 8 countries. She uses her expertise in cultural communication, interpretive theory and ethnographic research methods to work with Derek Miller on developing an approach for the generation of local knowledge about "community security" in the context of UN assessment missions, and a system for the integration of local knowledge into the design of policy and programming. She has written and lectured on cultural research, design theory, and community security. Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Design Issues (2011) 27 (2): 6–16. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00073-Miller Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Derek B. Miller, Lisa Rudnick; Trying It on for Size: Design and International Public Policy. 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