 | Pamela Aall
Director of the Education Program at the United States Institute of Peace
Topics: peace education, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international mediation, peacekeeping, definition of intractability |
| Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at the School of International Service, American University
Topics: Middle East, peacebuilding, interfaith dialogue, stereotypes, transformation |
| Mark Amstutz
Professor of Political Science, Department of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College
Topics: apology and forgiveness, human rights, justice |
| Mary Anderson
President of CDA (Collaborative for Development Action), Inc.
Topics: networking, conflict analysis, intervention, peace processes |
| R. Scott Appleby
John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute For International Peace Studies, and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame
Topics: religion and conflict, religion and peace, peacebuilding |
| Leopoldo Artiles
Analyst and academic coordinator of the Centro para el Estudio, Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos-CEPREC (Center for Conflict Study, Prevention and Resolution), at the Pontífica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic [en español] |
| Kevin Avruch
Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: conflict resolution strategies, culture, conflict analysis and resolution |
| Eileen Babbitt
Assistant Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law, Tufts University
Topics: refugees, establishment of personal relationships, facilitators |
| Jock Baker
Senior Advisor in the Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance Unit of CARE
Topics: facilitating coordination |
| Olympio Barbanti, Jr.
Faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Topics: culture and conflict, development and conflict |
| Andrea Bartoli (Portilla, Interviewer)
Director of the International Conflict Resolution Program of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Chair of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network
Topics: Sant'Egidio, mediation, religion and peace, religion and conflict |
| Andrea Bartoli (Nan and Strimling, Interviewers)
Director of the International Conflict Resolution Program of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Chair of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network
Topics: track I diplomacy, track II (citizen) diplomacy, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) |
| Baba Bey
Principal at MA-AT Enterprises, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Frank Blechman
Private Consultant. Formerly at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: facilitation, conflict intervenors, role of the mediator |
| Jannie Botes
Assistant Professor, Program on Negotiations and Conflict Management, University of Baltimore
Topics: mass communication, media mediation, large-scale communication, framing, media strategies |
| Elise Boulding
Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Dartmouth College and Former Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association
Topics: networking, peacemaking, conflicts in history
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| S.Y. Bowland
Director of The Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (PRASI) and mediator, based in Atlanta, Georgia
Topics: conflict resolution, culture, relationships, framing, communication |
| Fred Brown
Research Policy Analyst at the Pittsburgh Transportation Equity Project
Topics: empowerment, decision making, community |
| Greg Brown
Program Officer, Balkans and Caucasus Programs, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Topics: joint projects, extremists and spoilers, social structural changes
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| Guy Burgess
Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium and the Beyond Intractability Project
Topics: conflict resolution, complexity, peacebuilding
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| Marcia Caton Campbell
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topics: mediation, reframing, Thirdsiders |
| Julia Chaitin
Professor, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), The Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Topics: Israel - Palestine conflict, trust |
| Laura Chasin
Director of the Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Topics: dialogue, facilitation, common ground, ground rules |
| Helen Chauncey
The Coexistence Initiative
Topics: coexistence, cooperation, identity, human rights |
| Roberto Chene
Private trainer, teacher, and consultant |
| Mark Chupp
Program Manager, Center for Neighborhood Development, Cleveland State University
Topics: race relations, scaling-up |
| Kristin Clay
Senior Program Officer in the East Asia Program, World Wildlife Fund
Topics: advocacy |
| Sarah Cobb
Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: narratives and stories, values, neutrality |
| Peter Coleman
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia
Topics: intractable conflicts, transformation, neutrality, framing |
| Pat Coy
Professor of Political Science at Kent State University
Topics: protective accompaniment, nonviolence |
| Chester Crocker
Research Professor of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, intervention, communication |
| Susan Dearborn (2003)
Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
Topics: interpersonal or small-scale communication, values, language |
| Susan Dearborn (2004)
Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
Topics: dialogue |
| Tamra d'Estrée
Conflict Resolution Program, University of Denver
Topics: interpersonal or small-scale communication, evaluation, conflict stages |
| Morton Deutsch
E.L. Thorndike Professor and Director Emeritus of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University
Topics: negotiation, competitive or cooperative approaches to conflict, conflict identification |
| Louise Diamond
President and Founder of Peace-Tech
Topics: dialogue, conflict assessment, multi-track diplomacy |
| Jayne Docherty
Eastern Mennonite University
Topics: cultural and worldview frames, rationality, complexity, trust building |
| Maire Dugan
Director, Race Relations 2020, Columbia, South Carolina
Topics: dialogue, envisioning |
| Frank Dukes
Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia
Topics: consensus building, empathic listening, role of the mediator, neutrality, conflict assessment |
| Nelson Espinal-Baez
Center for the Study, Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts, Pontífica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic [en español] |
| Lowell Ewert
Director of PACS Program at the University of Waterloo
Topics: violence prevention |
| Nancy Ferrell
Private mediator and trainer
Topics: empowerment, relationship between power and agreement-based resolution, training the trainers, ground rules, conflict analysis |
| J. Atieno Fisher
Usoni Method coach for groups and individuals |
| Ron Fisher
Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of International Service, American University
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, trust building, rebuilding relationships, complexity, peace processes
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| Mari Fitzduff
Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University
Topics: Northern Ireland, intervention coordination, peacemaking, conflict analysis, military intervention |
| Ambassador Robert Frowick
Formerly of the U.S. State Department and an OSCE representative; currently a USIP grantee, writing a book on Bosnia |
| Howard Gadlin
Ombudsman, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Topics: mediation, conflicts and disputes, interpersonal conflict, violence |
| Mark Gerzon
Private facilitator, mediator, trainer, author and key organizer of the Congressional civility retreats
Topics: leadership, training the trainers, dialogue |
| Suzanne Ghais
Program manager at CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado
Topics: mediation, framing, conflict stages |
| Jennifer Goldman
Graduate Fellow at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and a Graduate Student at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University
Topics: humiliation
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| Juan Gutierrez
Director of Gernika Gogoratuz, Spain [en español] |
| Steven Haberfeld
Executive Director, Senior Negotiator/Mediator, and Director of Training at Indian Dispute Resolution, Inc. |
| Silke Hansen
Senior Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service
Topics: listening, facilitation, peace processes, compromise |
| Barry Hart
Eastern Mennonite University
Topics: trauma healing, peacebuilding, intermediary roles |
| Chip Hauss
Search for Common Ground |
| Brad Hayes
Research Professor at the Naval War College
Topics: development projects |
| Wendell Jones
Ombudsman, Sandia National Lab
Topics: obstacles, complex adaptive systems |
| Indira Kajosevic
Co-director and project coordinator of the Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network, Inc., New York
Topics: trauma healing, cultural sensitivity, dialogue |
| John Katunga
Nairobi Peace Initiative (NPI). Also serves on the advisory board of Partners for Democratic Change
Topics: mediation, peacebuilding, dialogue |
| Sanda Kaufman
Professor of Planning and Public Administration at the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
Topics: framing, cultural frames, complex adaptive systems |
| Herbert Kelman
Professor Emeritus, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Topics: problem solving workshops, scale-up, track II communication, track I - track II cooperation, facilitation |
| Angela Khaminwa (with Sarah Peterson)
Program Officer for Outreach and Communication, The Coexistence Initiative
Topics: coexistence, reconstruction programs, peacebuilding |
| Deborah Kolb
Co-Director of the Program on Negotiations in the Workplace, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Topics: development, gender and conflict, social structural changes |
| Louis Kriesberg
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Syracuse. Also author of numerous books on intractable conflict.
Topics: costs and benefits of conflict, complexity, intractable conflict |
| Michelle LeBaron
Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and Director of UBC's Dispute Resolution Program
Topics: dialogue |
| John Paul Lederach
Professor at Eastern Mennonite University, International Peacebuilder and Trainer
Topics: narratives and story-telling, insider-outsider distinction, mediation, transformation |
| John Paul Lederach - The Moral Imagination
Professor at Eastern Mennonite University, International Peacebuilder and Trainer. This is the keynote address from the 2004 annual conference of the Association for Conflict Resolution and draws from Professor Lederach's new book, "The Moral Imagination." |
| Roy Lewicki
Professor of Management and Human Resources at Ohio State University
Topics: framing, trust building, conflict assessment |
| Terrence Lyons
Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: refugees, peace processes, retributive justice |
| John McDonald
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, trust, peace processes |
| Sandra Melone
Executive Director of Search for Common Ground |
| Onaje Mu'id
MSW and CASAC (Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor) with the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (PRASI)
Topics: post-colonial, reconciliation, trauma healing |
| Susan Allen Nan
Director of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Topics: intervention coordination, intervention processes, evaluation and assessment of interventions |
| Joel Peters
Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Topics: transformation, track II (citizen) diplomacy, communication, intervention |
| Sarah Peterson (with Angela Khaminwa)
Program Officer for Dialogue and Mainstreaming Coexistence, The Coexistence Initiative
Topics: coexistence, reconstruction programs, peacebuilding |
| Julian Portilla (with Gachi Tapia)
Mediator and Facilitator for Fundación Cambio Democrático, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International |
| Steve Power
Country Director, Mercy Corps
Topics: ripeness, development |
| Sallyann Roth
Family Therapist, Trainer, and Co-Founder of the Public Conversations Project, in Watertown, Massachusetts
Topics: listening, dialogue, facilitators |
| Jay Rothman
President of the ARIA Group, Inc
Topics: action evaluation in theory and practice, win-win / win-lose / lose-lose situations, identity issues
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| Richard Rubenstein
Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: religion and conflict, terrorism, ripeness |
| Richard Salem
Private Mediator, President of Conflict Management Initiatives
Topics: peacebuilding, mediation |
| Dennis Sandole
Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: violence prevention, emotions, trauma healing, framing |
| Hal Saunders
Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation
Topics: peace processes, collaboration, dialogue |
| Paul Scham
Visiting Scholar at George Washington University
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, negotiation, peace processes |
| Ray Shonholtz
Director, Partners for Democratic Change
Topics: training the trainers, cultural frames, reconciliation |
| Leo Smyth (2003)
Professor of Management, National University of Ireland
Topics: framing, trust, conflict assessment |
| Leo Smyth (2004)
Professor of Management, National University of Ireland |
| Robert Stains
Program Director, Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Topics: safe spaces, interpersonal communication, facilitation
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| Carolyn Stephenson
Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, diplomacy, escalation, power
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| William Steubner
Executive Director, Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Topics: conflict assessment, negotiation |
| Andrea Strimling
Commissioner, International ADR, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Also a founder of ACRON (the Applied Conflict Resolution Organizations Network)
Topics: dialogue, ADR, mediation |
| Larry Susskind
Co-Director of the Public Disputes Program, Inter-University Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Topics: consensus building, conflict assessment, neutrality, capacity building, trust |
| Gachi Tapia (Portilla, Interviewer)
Executive Director of Fundación Cambio Democrático, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International [en español] |
| Gachi Tapia (with Julian Portilla; Burgess, Interviewer)
Executive Director of Fundacion Cambio Democratico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International
Topics: leadership, language, mediation |
| William Ury
Director of the Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Topics: Thirdsiders, transformation, violence prevention, intervention roles |
| Paul van Tongeren
Executive Director of the European Center for Conflict Prevention
Topics: conflict prevention, violence prevention, peacebuilding |
| Shelly Vendiola
Training and Program Campaign Director, IEN (Indigenous Environmental Network) |
| Maria Volpe
Professor of Dispute Resolution, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Topics: communication, trust, transformative mediation |
| Wallace Warfield
Associate Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: leadership, role of the mediator, negotiation |
| Paul Wehr
Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Colorado
Topics: conflict stages, intervention, listening |
| Joshua Weiss
Associate Director, Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Topics: sequencing strategies and tactics, negotiation, mediation |
| Elizabeth Williams
Director of Programming Strategies, National Office of the NCCJ (National Conference for Community and Justice) |
| Peter Woodrow
Partner and Program Manager, CDR Associates
Topics: dispute resolution systems design, cultural frames, trust building |
| William Zartman (Portilla, Interviewer)
Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Topics: negotiation, ripeness, conflict analysis |
| William Zartman (Nan and Strimling, Interviewers)
Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, NGOs, leadership |
