Nova Southeastern University

Graduate Student, Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Other Affiliations: National Defense Intelligence College, Strategic Intelligence, Adjunct Faculty

Graduate School of Humanities & Social Science

Thesis Title: Concentration: Ethnic & Culture Conflict

About

Patrick Christian is a policy advisor with the office of the Secretary of Defense, a doctoral student researching the psychological foundations of sociological structures in conflict and an adjunct faculty teaching African Civil War at NIU's Department of African Studies.

Patrick has extensive experience in the practice and research of intra-state violence, civil war and tribal conflict. He has led field teams conducting combat advisory missions, tribal engagement and counterinsurgency operations in Caquetá, Putumayo and Los Amazonas Colombia; Puerto Francisco de Orellana in Ecuador; Darfur Sudan; Bilate and Ogadin regions of Ethiopia; and Baghdad and Taji Iraq.

He has served as the Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, Ethiopian Special Operations Department, and the Colombian Army’s 6th COLAR Division as well as served as the United States Representative to the African Union Ceasefire Commission in Darfur Sudan.

Patrick has trained US Army Special Forces, US Navy SEALs, and USMC Advisory Groups in combat advising, tribal engagement and psycho-historiographical profiling of tribes in conflict and in 2011, BrownWalker Press published his first book, a Combat Advisor’s Guide to Tribal Engagement, available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble booksellers.

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