Robert Maguire, Jr.'s Resume (Last updated December 4th 2008)

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• "TPO Eyes the Future" August 2008
  

The Charleston Mercury:

• "The Taiwan Issue: A Ripple in the Strait" April 24, 2008
  

• "How China Plays the War on Terror" December 6, 2007
  

• "Appeasing China has No Guarantees" October 25, 2007
  

• "Learning There is No Mainland" September 13, 2007
  

• "A Day in the DMZ" July 19, 2007
  

• "The Caveman in the Kitchen" June 7, 2007
  

• "Two Thousand Years of Scholarship" April 26, 2007
  

• "The Dynamics of Conflict" March 29, 2007
  

• "A New Home in New Tokyo" March 1, 2007
  

• "Trying to Make Sense of Contemporary France" April 13, 2006
  

• "From Paris: A Lowcountry Native's View of French Riots" November 22, 2005
  

Pajamas Media:

• "New Taiwanese Leadership = An Opportunity for U.S." March 26, 2008
  

The Tiger (Clemson University):

• "Study abroad fair deserves attention" September 24, 2004
  

• "A Great Escape! Just not from studying..." September 17, 2004
  

Brookings Center of Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) Northeast Asia Forum: Cross-Strait Political and Economic Relations and the Next American Administration, December 3, 2008, Taipei:
A discussion hosted by the Brookings CNAPS and the Epoch Foundation on what the implications of an Obama Administration regarding US relations with Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Subjects included general policy issues for each country, as well as specific Taiwan-China-US policy and Economic policy in the aftermath of the international financial crisis.

The East-West Center's Summer Institute for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights on Asia-Pacific Transitional Justice and Peace-Building:
In 2008, I was one of thirty out of over a hundred applicants accepted East-West Center's Summer Institute Asia-Pacific Transitional Justice and Peace-Building held in Bangkok in conjunction with Mahidol University and UC-Berkeley. As one of the program's youngest participants (the average age being late thirties, early forties), I had the opportunity to share with and learn from people who, in many cases, had been practicing human rights law and activism since before I was born.

The two-week seminar brought together participants from South East Asia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States who specialize in the fields of human rights, international humanitarian law and transitional justice. Over two dozen presentations were given by

• UN judges, special rapporteurs, and defenders working in Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Timor Leste, North Korea and Rwanda
  

• experts from various Human Rights organizations and universities like the International Crisis Group, UC-Berkeley's War Crimes Studies Center, and the Mindanao Commission on Women
  

• officials from international bodies like ASEAN and the United Nations.
  

The subjects of these presentations ranged from investigations into the role of identity in violent conflicts in Mindanao (the Philippines) and the Patani region (Thailand) to detailed descriptions of the various international courts trying alleged war crimes in Cambodia, Timor Leste, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.


Taiwan Thinktank's seminars on transitional justice and referendum laws in Taiwan:
In Taiwan, I've attended two seminars held by the Taiwan Thinktank at both of which then-President Chen Shui-Bian gave the commencement speech. The first conference was on transitional justice:http://www.taiwanthinktank.org/ttt/servlet/OpenBlock?Template=Article&lan=en&categoryid=59&articleid=787&BlockSet= in Taiwan, discussing how to manage allegedly stolen assets acquired by the KMT during the martial law period. The second was an analysis of Taiwan's referendum laws with special emphasis on the then-upcoming UN referendum in 2008.


The Breakfast Club:
I often participated in the monthly meetings of the "breakfast club." These meetings are put together by Dr. Jerome Keating, a professor and writer in Taipei, and is meant to give those interested a chance to discuss issues important to Taiwan. Each meeting has a guest speaker, ranging from Taiwanese politicians and scholars to high-level White House adviser Steven Yates and Asia specialist John Tkacik. These discussions are very intimate, usually only involving only about a dozen people or so.

2008 Webby Awards Honoree - The Webby Awards is an international award honoring excellence on the internet. In 2008, my website, The Only Redhead in Taiwan, was selected as an honoree, a distinction that is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of the nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries entered into the Webby Awards.

LIFE Scholarship (freshman, junior and senior year at Clemson University)

Dean's List 2002-2003

Sigma Tau Delta - National English Honors Society

French - professional proficiency



Chinese - Limited working proficiency

http://www.pida.org.tw/welcome.asp

I translated the French version of the Swiss watchmaker's website into English.

I was an ESL teacher for children between six and fifteen years old.

For three summers, I was a bike taxi (pedicab) operator in Charleston, giving rides around downtown Charleston.

Four nights a week, I attended two hour study halls to answer any questions students had in regards to their English assignments.

I participated in this program for high school students, involving restoration and maintenance at national historic sites�Fort Summer, Fort Moultrie, and the Charles Pinckney House.

When I was eleven, I started a neighborhood landscaping business and maintained it for eight years, averaging over twenty clients per summer.

Sigma Nu Fraternity

Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Habitat for Humanity
Charleston Soup Kitchen