INPROL Management Team

Vivienne O'Connor is a Senior Rule of Law Adviser at the US Institute of Peace. She is the Director of USIP's Rule of Law Training Project and lead instructor on its Rule of Law Practitioners Course. As part of this project, she co-developed and led the UK Government's Rule of Law and Access to Justice Practitioners Course. Vivienne is the Co-Director of the Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice Project and, as part of this, leads a USIP project to provide technical support to the criminal law reform process in Haiti. Before joining USIP in 2007, Vivienne worked in her native Ireland for 5 years at the Irish Centre for Human Rights as its Rule of Law Project Officer. She is the co-editor of the three-volume Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice, a comprehensive law reform tool. She is also a co-author of Combating Serious Crimes in Postconflict States: A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners, as well as numerous academic articles on rule of law. Vivienne is currently an Adjunct Professor at William & Mary School of Law.

Previously, she has taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Melbourne Law School. She has been a consultant for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Vivienne holds a law degree from the National University of Ireland, Dublin. She also holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law and a PhD in Law (focusing on post-conflict rule of law) from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Outside of work, Vivienne is passionate about yoga and alternative healing.

Knowledge Management Specialist

Teuta Gashi has worked on INPROL since its inception as its Knowledge Management Specialist. Her role is to manage and champion rule of law knowledge with the goal of sharing resources and information among the INPROL Community. Teuta also works on the Rule of Law Training Project at USIP as its Adult Education Specialist. Prior to joining USIP, Teuta worked for the Kosovo Trust Agency on efforts to privatize Kosovo’s state-owned companies. From 2001-2003, she worked for the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Civil Administration Pillar where she was involved in the creation of a new Ministry of Education for Kosovo. During the early days of the UN Mission in Kosovo, she worked on the establishment of an UNMIK Regional Office in Prizren. In 1999, Teuta also was an advisor/interpreter for the OSCE Verification Mission in Kosovo.

Before working for the UN, she was a teacher in Prizren, Kosovo. In 2004, Teuta received a Ron Brown Fellowship from Kosovo and, consequently came to the US to obtain a Master's degree in Educational Leadership from Lehigh University. Currently, she is a member of the Alumni Fulbright Association, Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Students) and the American Education Research Association. She enjoys studying diplomacy, psychology and leadership issues.

INPROL Facilitators

Rule of Law

Christina Murtaugh is INPROL’s new Rule of Law Facilitator. Her role is to support INPROL's Rule of Law Forum. She also works on USIP's Model Codes for Post-Conflict Justice Project. Prior to joining INPROL, she was a consultant for USIP’s Rule of Law Center of Innovation on various other projects. In 2008, she worked for the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative Azerbaijan, focusing on continuing legal education and legal aid programs. She is one of the authors of the forthcoming USIP and UN Office on Drugs and Crime publication entitled Handbook on Criminal Justice Reform in Post-Conflict States. Christina has a Juris Doctorate degree from the William & Mary School of Law with a focus on international law and rule of law. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky. In addition to her other interests, Christina is an avid Kentucky basketball fan.

Police Commanders

J. O'Neil G. Pouliot is INPROL's Police Facilitator. He has worked with INPROL for the past several years to build and support INPROL’s Police Forums. He is a retired Chief Superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, with 34 years of diverse laws enforcement experience. He has been involved in numerous international criminal investigations, and supervised onsite undercover operations in Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia. As Commissioner of the Civilian Police for the U.N. Mission in Haiti, (1994 -1996), Mr. Pouliot welded the highly diverse UNCIVPOL force of 21 countries, 9 languages, and 8 religions into a cohesive and focused organization. Mr. Pouliot was formerly a faculty member of the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Centre, in Clementsport, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Stability Police

Colonel Francesco Bruzzese del Pozzo has worked for the past number of years as INPROL’s Stability Police Facilitator. He is the Director of the Research and Studies Department at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units in Vincenza, Italy. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has served as a commander of territorial police units across Italy and has accumulated extensive experience at both the operational and strategic levels of international police operations.

Col Bruzzese’s international duties include deployments with the Western European Union (WEU) Police Mission in Mostar (1996), where he coordinated the establishment of a unified police force; Senior Police Advisor for the WEU Multinational Advisory Police Element (MAPE) in Albania (1997-8); and Chief of Plans for the MAPE in Brussels (1999-2000). In 2001 he served as Police Advisor to the European Union Special Representative in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, coordinating international efforts to implement the police aspects of the Ohrid Agreement. From 2001-2007, he was Principle Administrator and then Deputy Head of the EU Council Police Unit where he contributed to the development of the EU capability to plan and conduct police crisis management operations in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Donald Bohn, Jr. serves as the Plans and Training Officer at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) in Vincenza, Italy. He served over 34 years in the US Army, first as an enlisted man and non-commissioned officer, then as a Commissioned Officer. Donald's recent military experiences include several years with the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) and with the US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI). While serving as the Director of Law Enforcement Operations with PKSOI, he worked on developing the Stability/Formed Police Unit concept. Donald's recent military duties have also included service in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, Bosnia, Serbia and Africa. He has also served as a civilian police officer, investigator and attorney. Donald was a member of the team that investigated and then authored the July 2005 joint report from the US Department of State and the US Department of Defense entitled, "Interagency Assessment of Iraq Police Training."