Director, Institute for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship for the Village Foundation, Washington DC, USA email: shuman@igc.apc.org
	Michael Shuman is Director of the Institute for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship with the Village Foundation in Washington. Working with African-American men and boys, the Institute is focused on community-based solutions rooted in local markets, small business and devolution. Formerly the co-director of IPS in Washington, he is the author of the acclaimed Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. He founded the Center for Innovative Diplomacy, an 8,000-member nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting global peace, justice, development, and environmental protection through direct citizen and city participation in international affairs. Michael received an A.B. with distinction in economics and international relations from Stanford University in 1979 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1982.
	Areas of interest		Community Economics, Federalism & Municipal Foreign Policy
	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
	Books		Going Local. Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age Free Press, February 1998 Towards a Global Village. International Community Development Initiatives Pluto Press, London/Boulder (Colorado), July 1994 Security without War. A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy (Co-author with Hal Harvey) Westview Press, Washington, October 1993 Technology for the Common Good (Co-editor with Julia Schweig) IPS, Washington, 1993 Conditions of Peace. An Inquiry (Co-editor with Julia Schweig) IPSExpo Press, Washington, June 1991 Alternative Security. Beyond the Controlled Arms Race (Co-author) Hill & Wang, New York, March 1990 Citizen Diplomats. Pathfinders in Soviet-American Relations Continuum, New York, March 1987 Building Municipal Foreign Policies. An Action Handbook for Local Elected Officials Center for Innovative Diplomacy, 1987 Pacific Northwest Model Energy Plan Natural Resources Defense Counsel, 1981 Alternative Energy Futures (Co-editor) Stanford Institute for Energy Studies, 1979
	Contributions to books		"Ten Steps toward Community Self-Reliance" in A World That Works, Bootstrap, 1997. The official book of the meeting of TOES (Toward Another Economic Summit), Denver, 1997 "Reclaiming the Inner City" in Bobby William Austin (ed), Repairing the Breach. Key Ways to Support Family's Life, Reclaim our Streets, and Rebuild Civil Society in America's Communities. Chicago, Noble Press, 1996 "Participatory Peace Policies" in Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova (ed), Paradigms Lost. The Post Cold War Era, TNI/Pluto Press, Amsterdam/London, 1992
	Selected Articles		Why do Progressive Foundations Give too Little to too Many?, The Nation, Feature Story, 12 January 1998

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