Sarah Sewall

Sarah Sewall is the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Tom Hayden writes:

Led by Gen. David Petraeus, the so-called surge–an escalation of over 25,000 American troops–is resulting in hundreds of killings, mass roundups, door-to-door break-ins, and military offensives in Baghdad, Al-Anbar and Diyala provinces, on the side of a deeply-sectarian Baghdad regime which, according to the White House benchmarks report, still compiles official lists of Sunni Arabs targeted for detention or death. The counter-insurgency campaign is explained as a military way to create "space" for Iraqis to reach a political solution without violent interference.
The new doctrine was jointly developed with academics at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard. The Carr Center's Sarah Sewell, a former Pentagon official, co-sponsored with Petraeus the official "doctrine revision workshop" that produced the new Army-Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual [US Army Field Manual No. 3-24, Marine Corps Warfighting Publication No. 3-33.5, 2007]. The workshop was held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Feb. 23-24, 2006, and can be accessed here.^[1]

Affiliations

• Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

External Resources

• ^ Edward Herman, Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the "Worthy-Genocide" Establishment, Znet, 24 March 2007.
• ^ Tom Hayden, Harvard's Humanitarian Hawks, Znet, 16 July 2007.