Diplomacy and Psychiatry: The Human Factor is the Basis of Crises.

About the Lecture:
Dr. Enrico Suardi will provide a tribute for an extraordinary Italian diplomat who passed away this year. Giandomenico Picco, as a special assistant to the UN Secretary General Perez De Cuellar, negotiated the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the end of the Iran-Iraq war, and freed hostages in Lebanon, including seven Americans. He will highlight Picco’s unconventional diplomatic ground work based on the review of his book Man Without a Gun and review some of his conceptual work in peacemaking summarized in The Fog of Peace, the Human Face of Conflict Resolution that he coauthored with the psychotherapist Gabrielle Rifkind.
Dr. Baiju Gandhi will discuss the Camp David Accords with a focus on describing the psychological and human factor elements involved that contributed to the success of the Accords. He will give a brief background on Camp David and note how the structure of the summit and the personalities of the principals involved led to an eventual agreement.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Enrico Suardi (’19) is director of psychiatry at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital and director of forensic services at the Ross Center in Washington, D.C. A diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, on faculty at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, Georgetown University and George Washington University, he has served as chief child and family psychiatrist at the U.S. State Department. Dr. Suardi studied political psychology with Jerrold Post. He completed his M.D. and a residency in preventive medicine in Milan, Italy and obtained an MSc in Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Baiju Gandhi is a medical doctor with specialization in psychiatry. Alongside his clinical work, he is interested in topics that lie at the intersection of psychiatry and national security, such as the psychology of extremism and the psychology of diplomacy. He is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in non-violent conflict at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. He holds a medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine as well as a Master of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
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