Helena Cobban was born on 1952 and is a British-American writer and researcher on international relations, with special interests in the Middle East, the international system, and transitional justice.
14 Facts About Helena Cobban
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Helena Cobban is the founder and CEO of the book-publishing company, Just World Books and the Executive President of the small educational non-profit organization, Just World Educational.
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Helena Cobban was awarded an MA from Oxford in 1981.
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From 1990 through 2007, Helena Cobban contributed a regular column on global issues to The Christian Science Monitor, and from 1993 through 2006 she contributed a separate column to the Arabic-language international daily Al-Hayat.
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Helena Cobban is a Contributing Editor at Boston Review, where she has published essays on Palestinian-Israeli issues, Iraq, and post-conflict justice questions.
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Helena Cobban then spent more time running Just World Educational, which she served as Executive President.
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Helena Cobban is a member of Charlottesville Friends Meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Helena Cobban used to be a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and formerly sat on the Middle East Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch.
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Helena Cobban is married to William B Quandt, who is the Edward R Stettinius, Jr.
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Between 1984 and 2000, Helena Cobban published numerous articles and book chapters on Palestinian political developments.
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Helena Cobban has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts about issues in this field, arguing in particular that the United States and other sponsors of the peace diplomacy should aim rapidly at securing a final peace agreement rather than losing time and political capital chasing interim deals.
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Helena Cobban has helped to lead, or participated in, several Track II diplomacy programs between Israelis and Palestinians and has developed some nuanced assessments of the potential benefits and pitfalls of such efforts.
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Helena Cobban made numerous reporting trips back to Lebanon after 1999, and has published two notable articles about the rise of Hezbollah.
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Helena Cobban published field notes and reflective essays from most of these trips on her Just World News blog and on the specially created Transitional Justice Forum blog.