Beyond Intractability Contributors

Authors of Essays, Core Knowledge Overviews, Case Studies, and other Materials

Note: We are aware that this listing is incomplete. If you notice your name missing, we apologize! Please let us know of the oversight and we will add you. Otherwise, looking for missing names is on our "to-do list," but we are trying to finish the Constructive Conflict Guide first.

Peter Adler — Director of The Center for Science and Public Policy at The Keystone Center

Jennifer Akin — Former Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Ahmad Al-Hadidi — Graduate student, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

Maurice O. Amollo — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Christopher Anderson — Graduate student, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

Edilwasif Baddiri — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Dan Bar-Tal — School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Olympio Barbanti — Faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Philip Barker — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Andrea Bartoli — Dean, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Jacob Bercovitch — Former Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Juliana Birkhoff - Center for Collaborative Policy, Sacramento State (California State University - Sacramento)

SY Bowland — Private Mediator and Project Director of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute

Eric Brahm — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Amelia Branczik — Graduate Student at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Karin Brown — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Guy Burgess — Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium and the Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base (ICKB) Project

Heidi Burgess — Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium and the Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base (ICKB) Project

Rebecca Burns — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Julia Chaitin — Professor, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), The Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Diana Chigas — Director of Programs, Conflict Management Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mark Chupp — Program Manager, Center for Neighborhood Development, Cleveland State University

Kenneth Cloke, Director, Center for Dispute Resolution, Santa Monica, California

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

Keziah Conrad — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Patrick Coy — Professor of Political Science at Kent State University

Kelsey Davenport — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Mark Davidheiser — Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Nova Southeastern University

Susan Dearborn — Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute

Silke Denker — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Merwyn De Mello — Graduate student, Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University

Tamra d'Estrée — Conflict Resolution Program, University of Denver

Máire Dugan — Director, Race Relations 2020, Columbia, South Carolina

Anna Di Lellio — Columbia University

Michael Elliot — Associate Professor of City Planning at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture

Nicole Enns Fehr — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Mark Fetzko — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

John Filson — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Mari Fitzduff — Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University

Hala Fleihan — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Kimberly Fornace — Undergraduate student, University of Colorado.

Christi F. Freeman — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Jill Freeman — Graduate Student in the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Massimo Fusato — Graduate Student at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and a SAIS Conflict Management Toolkit team member

Robert Gardner — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Mark Gerzon — Private facilitator, mediator, trainer, author and key organizer of the Congressional civility retreats

Kevin Gibson — Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University

Juan Gutierrez — Director of Gernika Gogoratuz

Charles (Chip) Hauss — Director, Policy and Research, Search for Common Ground USA, and Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University

Kristian Herbolzheimer — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Patrick Hiller — Graduate student, Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova Southeastern University

Christopher Honeyman — President of Convenor, Director of Broad Field Project

Emmy Godwin Irobi — Professor of Political Science, University, Poland

Sofia Javed — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Lisa Irvin — Graduate student, University of Colorado

Wendell Jones — Ombudsman, Sandia National Lab

Omario Kanji — Graduate Student at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Sanda Kaufman — Professor of Planning and Public Administration at the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University

Angela Khaminwa — Program Officer for Outreach and Communication, The Coexistence Initiative

Dareen Khattab — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Louis Kriesberg — Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University

Hyun Jin Kwak — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Christina Leb — Graduate student, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and a SAIS Conflict Management Toolkit team member

Michelle LeBaron — Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and Director of UBC's Dispute Resolution Progam

John Paul Lederach — Professor of International Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University

Roy Lewicki — Professor of Management and Human Resources at Ohio State University

Helen Lewis — Graduate Student at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Evelin Gerda Lindner — Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway

Michelle Maiese — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Cate Malek — Freelance Journalist and Professional Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium

Sandra Marker — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Taras Mazyar — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Sammy Mwiti Mbuthia — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Ann McBroom — Graduate student, Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University

Burcu Munyas — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Neha Navlakha — Graduate student, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

John McDonald — Chairman of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy

Chris McMorran — Former Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Meedan Mekonnen — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Susan Allen Nan — Director of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)

Tova Norlen — Graduate Student at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Nuredin Netabay — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Denis Junior Okello — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Stephen Oola — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Patrick William Otim — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Julian Ouellet — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Sarah Park — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Sarah Peterson — Program Officer for Dialogue and Mainstreaming Coexistence, The Coexistence Initiative

Sarah Rosenberg — Consultant to the Conflict Research Consortium and former graduate student at American University

Sallyann Roth — Family Therapist, Trainer, and Co-Founder of the Public Conversations Project, in Watertown, Massachusetts

Richard Salem — Private Mediator, President of Conflict Management Initiatives

Claudia Seymour — Graduate student, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Ilana Shapiro — Co-Director of the Psychology of Peace and Prevention of Violence graduate program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Deborah Shmueli — Senior Lecturer of Planning and Environmental Policy in the Geography Department at Haifa University

Norman Shultz — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Sophat Soeung — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Alicia Simoni — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Tim Sisk — Associate Professor and Director of the BA Program in International Studies, University of Denver

Michael Shane Smith — Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Bradford Spangler — Professional Research Associate, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado

Carolyn Stephenson — Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i

Dustin Stokes — Graduate student, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

Adrienne Stone — Graduate student, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Andrea Strimling — Commissioner, International ADR, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and a founder of ACRON (the Applied Conflict Resolution Organizations Network)

Patrick Tom — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Ed Tomlinson — Graduate student, Ohio State University

John Unruh — Human-Environment Interaction Program, Department of Geography, Indiana University

William Ury — Director of the Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School

Delgerjargal Uvsh — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

James Wagooli — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Joshua Weiss — Associate Director, Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University

Peter Wengert — Private Consultant, Senior Lecturer in Political Science (retired), York College, CUNY

Said Yakhyoev — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Dan Sinh Nguyen Vo — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Christina Woolner — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Zamira Yusufjonova — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

María Lucía Zapata — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Anna Zaros — Graduate student, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

William Zartman — Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Beyond Intractability Interviewees

Pamela Aall — Director of the Education Program at the United States Institute of Peace
Mohammed Abu-Nimer — Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at the School of International Service, American University
Mark Amstutz — Professor of Political Science, Department of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College
Mary Anderson — President of CDA (Collaborative for Development Action), Inc.
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
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
Eileen Babbitt — Assistant Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law, Tufts University
Jock Baker — Senior Advisor in the Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance Unit of CARE
Olympio Barbanti, Jr. — Faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Andrea Bartoli — Dean, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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
Jannie Botes — Assistant Professor, Program on Negotiations and Conflict Management, University of Baltimore
Elise Boulding — Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Dartmouth College and Former Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association
S.Y. Bowland — Director of The Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (PRASI) and mediator, based in Atlanta, Georgia
Fred Brown — Research Policy Analyst at the Pittsburgh Transportation Equity Project
Greg Brown — Program Officer, Balkans and Caucasus Programs, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Guy Burgess — Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium and the Beyond Intractability Project
Marcia Caton Campbell — Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Julia Chaitin — Professor, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), The Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Laura Chasin — Director of the Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Helen Chauncey — The Coexistence Initiative
Roberto Chene — Private trainer, teacher, and consultant
Mark Chupp — Program Manager, Center for Neighborhood Development, Cleveland State University
Kristin Clay — Senior Program Officer in the East Asia Program, World Wildlife Fund
Sarah Cobb — Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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
Pat Coy — Professor of Political Science at Kent State University
Chester Crocker — Research Professor of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Susan Dearborn — Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
Tamra d'Estrée — Conflict Resolution Program, University of Denver
Morton Deutsch — E.L. Thorndike Professor and Director Emeritus of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University
Louise Diamond — President and Founder of Peace-Tech
Jayne Docherty — Eastern Mennonite University
Maire Dugan — Director, Race Relations 2020, Columbia, South Carolina
Frank Dukes — Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia
Nelson Espinal-Baez — Center for the Study, Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts, Pontífica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic
Lowell Ewert — Director of PACS Program at the University of Waterloo
Nancy Ferrell — Private mediator and trainer
Ron Fisher — Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of International Service, American University
Mari Fitzduff — Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University
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)
Mark Gerzon — Private facilitator, mediator, trainer, author and key organizer of the Congressional civility retreats
Suzanne Ghais — Program manager at CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado
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
Juan Gutierrez — Director of Gernika Gogoratuz, Spain
Steven Haberfeld — Executive Director, Senior Negotiator/Mediator, and Director of Training at Indian Dispute Resolution, Inc.
Silke Hansen — Senior Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service
Barry Hart — Eastern Mennonite University
Chip Hauss — Search for Common Ground
Brad Hayes — Research Professor at the Naval War College
Wendell Jones — Ombudsman, Sandia National Lab
Indira Kajosevic — Co-director and project coordinator of the Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network, Inc., New York
John Katunga — Nairobi Peace Initiative (NPI). Also serves on the advisory board of Partners for Democratic Change
Sanda Kaufman — Professor of Planning and Public Administration at the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
Herbert Kelman — Professor Emeritus, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Angela Khaminwa (with Sarah Peterson) — Program Officer for Outreach and Communication, The Coexistence Initiative
Deborah Kolb — Co-Director of the Program on Negotiations in the Workplace, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
Louis Kriesberg — Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Syracuse. Also author of numerous books on intractable conflict.
Michelle LeBaron — Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and Director of UBC's Dispute Resolution Program
John Paul Lederach — Professor at Eastern Mennonite University, International Peacebuilder and Trainer
Roy Lewicki — Professor of Management and Human Resources at Ohio State University
Terrence Lyons — Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
John McDonald — Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
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)
Susan Allen Nan — Director of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Joel Peters — Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Sarah Peterson — Program Officer for Dialogue and Mainstreaming Coexistence, The Coexistence Initiative
Julian Portilla — Mediator and Facilitator for Fundación Cambio Democrático, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International
Steve Power — Country Director, Mercy Corps
Sallyann Roth — Family Therapist, Trainer, and Co-Founder of the Public Conversations Project, in Watertown, Massachusetts
Jay Rothman — President of the ARIA Group, Inc
Richard Rubenstein — Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Richard Salem — Private Mediator, President of Conflict Management Initiatives
Dennis Sandole — Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Hal Saunders — Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation
Paul Scham — Visiting Scholar at George Washington University
Ray Shonholtz — Director, Partners for Democratic Change
Leo Smyth — Professor of Management, National University of Ireland
Robert Stains — Program Director, Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Carolyn Stephenson — Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i
William Steubner — Executive Director, Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Andrea Strimling — Commissioner, International ADR, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Also a founder of ACRON (the Applied Conflict Resolution Organizations Network)
Larry Susskind — Co-Director of the Public Disputes Program, Inter-University Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Gachi Tapia — Executive Director of Fundación Cambio Democrático, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Member of Partners for Democratic Change International
William Ury — Director of the Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Paul van Tongeren — Executive Director of the European Center for Conflict Prevention
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
Wallace Warfield — Associate Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Paul Wehr — Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Colorado
Joshua Weiss — Associate Director, Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
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
William Zartman — Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University