[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 177 (Wednesday, December 2, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12155-S12156]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO HARRY R. BADER

 Mr. BEGICH. Mr. President, I wish congratulate Fairbanks, AK, 
resident Mr. Harry R. Bader for being the first Civilian Response 
Corps-Active Officer in the United States Agency for International 
Development, USAID, to be trained and ready for world-wide deployment.
  Mr. Bader's specialized training, which will allow him to work in 
high threat environments, was recognized by the Administrator of USAID 
in a November 23, 2009, ceremony in Washington, DC. Currently, Mr. 
Bader is the USAID Deputy Environmental Officer for the Democracy, 
Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau.
  USAID's Civilian Response Corps is a commendable program. The Corps 
plays an integral part in U.S. national security strategy. One of their 
missions is to bring coordination to military and civilian efforts in 
order to stabilize fragile states and to improve the effectiveness of 
counter-insurgency operations.
  As an active officer, Mr. Bader's environmental security specialty 
will be brought to bear in those areas of the developing world where 
scarcity or degradation of natural resource contribute to conflict. His 
task will be to find ways to reduce the means and motivations for 
violence.
  Mr. Bader's diverse educational and professional backgrounds make him 
well suited to excel as a Civilian Response Corps-Active Officer. He 
has a law degree from Harvard and B.A. from Washington State 
University. His career has been one of distinction and variety as a 
professor, author, researcher, lecturer, natural resource manager and 
consultant.
  He taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as an associate 
professor of resources policy at the School of Natural Resources 
Management. During his tenure, he served on the Alaska Sea Grant Legal 
Research Team, which was created in response to the Exxon Valdez Oil 
Spill to help strengthen oversight of hazardous materials.
  At the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Mr. Bader was the 
northern region land manager in Fairbanks, where he was responsible for 
the stewardship of 40 million acres of public land in the arctic and 
boreal regions of Alaska. He often collaborated with industry and 
academia in developing land use policy.
  Until recently, Mr. Bader was active with the Betula group, a 
consulting firm he founded which specializes in resource management 
issues in challenging social and physical environments. He travelled to 
Tajikistan, Iraq,

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and Ukraine lending his expertise in the development of democracy and 
governance. Mr. Bader is also perusing a midcareer doctorate at the 
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
  I applaud Harry on this appointment and am confident he will make 
contributions to security and environmental improvement wherever he is 
assigned by the Corps.

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