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I will focus on enriching foreign policy with psycho-dynamic insights. That's an ambitious goal. Last year, I signed a letter to the Secretary of State on behalf of several non-governmental organization (NGO) research institutes, including our Center at UVA, Harold Saunders' Kettering Institute, and the Carter Foundation Programs, proposing to the Secretary of State that she convene a meeting of representative NGOs that are involved in international conflict resolution and start a dialogue between Track I officials and practitioners of Track II diplomacy. The goal would have been to bring officials at the policy level to recognize that there are certain elements in the reconciliation and peace-building process—the psychologically sensitive tasks—that are not carried out by Track I diplomacy and that would best be assigned to carefully selected, politically street-smart professional NGOs to deal with. We discussed the proposal with the Secretary of State's staff, but they didn't quite know what to do. We forced an answer about seven months later, which simply said, “We think NGOs are good; in fact, we've worked with some of you. Please keep in touch.”
That was about as far as they could accommodate