Question About US Institute of Peace

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Does anybody know anything about these people? This is a government funded group that supposedly promotes peace, and its board is appointed by the President. How "peaceful" is any group that includes neocon Douglas Feith as an ex-officio member?

http://www.usip.org/aboutus/mission.html

Board of USIP:

Chester A. Crocker (Chairman)
James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies
School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University

Seymour Martin Lipset (Vice Chairman)
Hazel Professor of Public Policy
George Mason University

Betty F. Bumpers
Founder and former President
Peace Links
Washington, D.C.

Holly J. Burkhalter
Advocacy Director
Physicians for Human Rights
Washington, D.C.

Charles Horner
Senior Fellow
Hudson Institute
Washington, D.C.

Stephen D. Krasner
President
Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations
Stanford University

Marc E. Leland
President
Marc E. Leland & Associates
Arlington, Va.

Mora L. McLean
President
Africa-America Institute
New York, N.Y.

María Otero
President
ACCION International
Boston, Mass.

Daniel Pipes
Director
Middle East Forum
Philadelphia, Pa.

Barbara W. Snelling
Former State Senator and former Lieutenant Governor
Shelburne, Vt.

Harriet Zimmerman
Vice President
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Washington, D.C.

Members ex officio

Lorne W. Craner
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Michael M. Dunn
Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force
President, National Defense University

Douglas J. Feith
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Richard H. Solomon
President
United States Institute of Peace (nonvoting)