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Barbara K. Bodine the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative and lectures at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She was the ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001 and was the coordinator for post-conflict reconstruction for Baghdad and the central region of Iraq in 2003.
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