Authors
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
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 - 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
Jacob Bercovitch - Professor of International Relations in the Department
of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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
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
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
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
Patrick Coy - Professor of Political Science at Kent State University
Mark Davidheiser - Assistant Professor of Conflict
Resolution and Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Nova Southeastern University
Susan Dearborn - Director of the Pacific Family Mediation Institute
Tamra d'Estrée - Conflict Resolution Program, University of Denver
Máire Dugan - Director, Race Relations 2020, Columbia, South Carolina
Michael Elliot - Associate Professor of City Planning at the Georgia Tech
College of Architecture
Mari Fitzduff - Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University
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
Christopher Honeyman - President of Convenor, Director of Broad Field Project
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
Louis Kriesberg - Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Maxwell Professor
Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University
Christina Leb - Graduate Student at the 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
John McDonald - Chairman of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
Chris McMorran - Former Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict
Research Consortium, University of Colorado
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
Julian Ouellet - Graduate Student Research Assistant, Conflict Research
Consortium, University of Colorado
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 at the School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Asmaa Shalabi - Graduate Student at the 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
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
Adrienne Stone - Graduate Student at the 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)
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
Dianne Walker - International Student Program, University of California,
Berkeley
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
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
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein
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