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Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Mark Amstutz - Professor of Political Science, Department of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College
Topics: apology and forgiveness, human rights, justice
 
Download Listen Read Mary Anderson - President of CDA (Collaborative for Development Action), Inc.
Topics: networking, conflict analysis, intervention, peace processes
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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]
 
Download Listen Read Kevin Avruch - Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: conflict resolution strategies, culture, conflict analysis and resolution
 
Download Listen Read Eileen Babbitt - Assistant Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law, Tufts University
Topics: refugees, establishment of personal relationships, facilitators
 
Download Listen Read Jock Baker - Senior Advisor in the Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance Unit of CARE
Topics: facilitating coordination
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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)
 
Download Listen Read Baba Bey - Principal at MA-AT Enterprises, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia
 
Download Listen Read Frank Blechman - Private Consultant. Formerly at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: facilitation, conflict intervenors, role of the mediator
 
Download Listen Read Jannie Botes - Assistant Professor, Program on Negotiations and Conflict Management, University of Baltimore
Topics: mass communication, media mediation, large-scale communication, framing, media strategies
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Fred Brown - Research Policy Analyst at the Pittsburgh Transportation Equity Project
Topics: empowerment, decision making, community
 
Download Listen Read Greg Brown - Program Officer, Balkans and Caucasus Programs, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Topics: joint projects, extremists and spoilers, social structural changes
 
Download Listen Read Guy Burgess - Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium and the Beyond Intractability Project
Topics: conflict resolution, complexity, peacebuilding
 
Download Listen Read Marcia Caton Campbell - Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topics: mediation, reframing, Thirdsiders
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Laura Chasin - Director of the Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Topics: dialogue, facilitation, common ground, ground rules
 
Download Listen Read Helen Chauncey - The Coexistence Initiative
Topics: coexistence, cooperation, identity, human rights
 
Download Listen Read Roberto Chene - Private trainer, teacher, and consultant
 
Download Listen Read Mark Chupp - Program Manager, Center for Neighborhood Development, Cleveland State University
Topics: race relations, scaling-up
 
Download Listen Read Kristin Clay - Senior Program Officer in the East Asia Program, World Wildlife Fund
Topics: advocacy
 
Download Listen Read Sarah Cobb - Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: narratives and stories, values, neutrality
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Pat Coy - Professor of Political Science at Kent State University
Topics: protective accompaniment, nonviolence
 
Download Listen Read Chester Crocker - Research Professor of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, intervention, communication
 
Download Listen Read Susan Dearborn (2003) - Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
Topics: interpersonal or small-scale communication, values, language
 
Download Listen Read Susan Dearborn (2004) - Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
Topics: dialogue
 
Download Listen Read Tamra d'Estrée - Conflict Resolution Program, University of Denver
Topics: interpersonal or small-scale communication, evaluation, conflict stages
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Louise Diamond - President and Founder of Peace-Tech
Topics: dialogue, conflict assessment, multi-track diplomacy
 
Download Listen Read Jayne Docherty - Eastern Mennonite University
Topics: cultural and worldview frames, rationality, complexity, trust building
 
Download Listen Read Maire Dugan - Director, Race Relations 2020, Columbia, South Carolina
Topics: dialogue, envisioning
 
Download Listen Read Frank Dukes - Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia
Topics: consensus building, empathic listening, role of the mediator, neutrality, conflict assessment
 
Download Listen Read Nelson Espinal-Baez - Center for the Study, Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts, Pontífica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic [en español]
 
Download Listen Read Lowell Ewert - Director of PACS Program at the University of Waterloo
Topics: violence prevention
 
Download Listen Read Nancy Ferrell - Private mediator and trainer
Topics: empowerment, relationship between power and agreement-based resolution, training the trainers, ground rules, conflict analysis
 
Download Listen Read J. Atieno Fisher - Usoni Method coach for groups and individuals
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Ambassador Robert Frowick - Formerly of the U.S. State Department and an OSCE representative; currently a USIP grantee, writing a book on Bosnia
 
Download Listen Read Howard Gadlin - Ombudsman, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Topics: mediation, conflicts and disputes, interpersonal conflict, violence
 
Download Listen Read Mark Gerzon - Private facilitator, mediator, trainer, author and key organizer of the Congressional civility retreats
Topics: leadership, training the trainers, dialogue
 
Download Listen Read Suzanne Ghais - Program manager at CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado
Topics: mediation, framing, conflict stages
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Juan Gutierrez - Director of Gernika Gogoratuz, Spain [en español]
 
Download Listen Read Steven Haberfeld - Executive Director, Senior Negotiator/Mediator, and Director of Training at Indian Dispute Resolution, Inc.
 
Download Listen Read Silke Hansen - Senior Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service
Topics: listening, facilitation, peace processes, compromise
 
Download Listen Read Barry Hart - Eastern Mennonite University
Topics: trauma healing, peacebuilding, intermediary roles
 
Download Listen Read Chip Hauss - Search for Common Ground
 
Download Listen Read Brad Hayes - Research Professor at the Naval War College
Topics: development projects
 
Download Listen Read Wendell Jones - Ombudsman, Sandia National Lab
Topics: obstacles, complex adaptive systems
 
Download Listen Read Indira Kajosevic - Co-director and project coordinator of the Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network, Inc., New York
Topics: trauma healing, cultural sensitivity, dialogue
 
Download Listen Read John Katunga - Nairobi Peace Initiative (NPI). Also serves on the advisory board of Partners for Democratic Change
Topics: mediation, peacebuilding, dialogue
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Herbert Kelman - Professor Emeritus, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Topics: problem solving workshops, scale-up, track II communication, track I - track II cooperation, facilitation
 
Download Listen Read Angela Khaminwa (with Sarah Peterson) - Program Officer for Outreach and Communication, The Coexistence Initiative
Topics: coexistence, reconstruction programs, peacebuilding
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Michelle LeBaron - Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and Director of UBC's Dispute Resolution Program
Topics: dialogue
 
Download Listen Read John Paul Lederach - Professor at Eastern Mennonite University, International Peacebuilder and Trainer
Topics: narratives and story-telling, insider-outsider distinction, mediation, transformation
 
Download Listen Read 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."
 
Download Listen Read Roy Lewicki - Professor of Management and Human Resources at Ohio State University
Topics: framing, trust building, conflict assessment
 
Download Listen Read Terrence Lyons - Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: refugees, peace processes, retributive justice
 
Download Listen Read John McDonald - Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, trust, peace processes
 
Download Listen Read Sandra Melone - Executive Director of Search for Common Ground
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Susan Allen Nan - Director of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Topics: intervention coordination, intervention processes, evaluation and assessment of interventions
 
Download Listen Read Joel Peters - Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Topics: transformation, track II (citizen) diplomacy, communication, intervention
 
Download Listen Read Sarah Peterson (with Angela Khaminwa) - Program Officer for Dialogue and Mainstreaming Coexistence, The Coexistence Initiative
Topics: coexistence, reconstruction programs, peacebuilding
 
Download Listen Read Julian Portilla (with Gachi Tapia) - Mediator and Facilitator for Fundación Cambio Democrático, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International
 
Download Listen Read Steve Power - Country Director, Mercy Corps
Topics: ripeness, development
 
Download Listen Read Sallyann Roth - Family Therapist, Trainer, and Co-Founder of the Public Conversations Project, in Watertown, Massachusetts
Topics: listening, dialogue, facilitators
 
Download Listen Read Jay Rothman - President of the ARIA Group, Inc
Topics: action evaluation in theory and practice, win-win / win-lose / lose-lose situations, identity issues
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Richard Salem - Private Mediator, President of Conflict Management Initiatives
Topics: peacebuilding, mediation
 
Download Listen Read Dennis Sandole - Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: violence prevention, emotions, trauma healing, framing
 
Download Listen Read Hal Saunders - Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation
Topics: peace processes, collaboration, dialogue
 
Download Listen Read Paul Scham - Visiting Scholar at George Washington University
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, negotiation, peace processes
 
Download Listen Read Ray Shonholtz - Director, Partners for Democratic Change
Topics: training the trainers, cultural frames, reconciliation
 
Download Listen Read Leo Smyth (2003) - Professor of Management, National University of Ireland
Topics: framing, trust, conflict assessment
 
Download Listen Read Leo Smyth (2004) - Professor of Management, National University of Ireland
 
Download Listen Read Robert Stains - Program Director, Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Topics: safe spaces, interpersonal communication, facilitation
 
Download Listen Read Carolyn Stephenson - Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i
Topics: track I - track II cooperation, diplomacy, escalation, power
 
Download Listen Read William Steubner - Executive Director, Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Topics: conflict assessment, negotiation
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read Gachi Tapia (Portilla, Interviewer) - Executive Director of Fundación Cambio Democrático, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International [en español]
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read William Ury - Director of the Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Topics: Thirdsiders, transformation, violence prevention, intervention roles
 
Download Listen Read Paul van Tongeren - Executive Director of the European Center for Conflict Prevention
Topics: conflict prevention, violence prevention, peacebuilding
 
Download Listen Read Shelly Vendiola - Training and Program Campaign Director, IEN (Indigenous Environmental Network)
 
Download Listen Read Maria Volpe - Professor of Dispute Resolution, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Topics: communication, trust, transformative mediation
 
Download Listen Read Wallace Warfield - Associate Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Topics: leadership, role of the mediator, negotiation
 
Download Listen Read Paul Wehr - Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Colorado
Topics: conflict stages, intervention, listening
 
Download Listen Read Joshua Weiss - Associate Director, Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Topics: sequencing strategies and tactics, negotiation, mediation
 
Download Listen Read Elizabeth Williams - Director of Programming Strategies, National Office of the NCCJ (National Conference for Community and Justice)
 
Download Listen Read Peter Woodrow - Partner and Program Manager, CDR Associates
Topics: dispute resolution systems design, cultural frames, trust building
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
Download Listen Read 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
 
 
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein

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