Eileen F. Babbitt is professor of the practice of international conflict analysis and resolution, director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, and codirector of the Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She is also a faculty associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Her more than twenty-five years of practice as a facilitator, mediator, and trainer has included work in the Middle East and the Balkans, and with the United Nations, US government agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations, and international and local nongovernmental organizations. Her latest publications include “Preventive Diplomacy by Intergovernmental Organizations: Learning from Practice” in International Negotiation (2012) and “Conflict Resolution as a Field of Inquiry: Practice Informing Theory,” with Fen Osler Hampson, in International Studies Review (2011). Babbitt holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD in policy and planning from MIT.
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Andrea Bartoli is Drucie French Cumbie Chair and the dean of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He has been at the school since 2007. He works primarily on peacemaking and genocide prevention. He is also the founding director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution, a senior research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, and a teaching fellow at Georgetown University and the University of Siena. He has taught in the United States since 1994. He is a member of the dynamical systems and conflict team and a board member of search for Common Ground. He has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the community of Sant’Egidio and has published books and articles on violence, migrations, and conflict resolution. The most recent books that he coedited are Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (2011) and Attracted to Conflict (2013). His book Negotiating Peace: The Role of NGOs in Peace Processes is forthcoming.
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Susan K. Boardman received her PhD in social psychology from Columbia University. A psychologist, she specializes in family mediation, particularly marital mediation, using mediation techniques to keep couples together and improve communication. She served on the board of the Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce for five years. As an academic, she has taught both undergraduate and graduate students in conflict resolution, mediation, research methods, organizational behavior, and social psychology. Her research and teaching interests include conflict resolution, group dynamics, communication, gender differences, and the relationship between personality and conflict resolution style. Her recent publications include “Peacemaking in Marriage,” in the International Encyclopedia of Peace , and “Marital Mediation: A Psychological Perspective,” in Conflict Resolution Quarterly . She has been teaching, training, and conducting research in negotiation, mediation, and communication for over twenty years.
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Sarah J. Brazaitis is a senior lecturer and the MA program coordinator in the Social-Organizational Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches courses on group dynamics and improving team performance to master’s- and doctoral-level students. As part of her group dynamics course, she runs an experiential group relations conference (based on the Tavistock model of human relations training) that provides students with opportunities to learn about covert processes affecting leadership and power in groups and organizations. She has written on conducting groups in education and health care settings and the interplay of social identity and group dynamics. She maintains a private practice of organizational consulting with a focus on improving group and team performance, executive coaching, and leadership development. Clients have included for-profit and nonprofit organizations, universities, and medical centers. She received her BA degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her master’s and doctorate in counseling psychology from Teachers College. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, a fellow of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, and a licensed psychologist in the state of New York.
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Barbara Benedict Bunker is an organizational social psychologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University at Buffalo. Her research and writing interests are diverse but focus on organizational change and organizational effectiveness. With her colleague Billie Alban, she has become nationally and internationally known for her work systematizing a number of new methods of organization and community change that work at the systems level. She has written about them, used them in her own practice, and written two books and edited two journals about the work that is being done in this area of practice. Her books include Conflict, Cooperation, and Ju stice (with Jeffery Rubin, 1995) and Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change (1997) and The Handbook of Large Group Methods: Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and Communities (2006), the latter two with Billie Alban. She received her PhD from Columbia University.
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W. Warner Burke is the Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education and coordinator for the graduate programs in social organizational psychology in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also codirector of the master of arts program in organizational psychology at the US Military Academy, West Point. A diplomate in industrial/organizational psychology and organizational and business consulting from the American Board of Professional Psychology, he is also a fellow of the Academy of Management, the Association of Psychological Science, and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and was editor of both Organizational Dynamics and Academy of Management Executive . Currently he is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science . He has written more than two hundred articles and book chapters in organizational psychology, organization change, and leadership and has written, collaborated on, or edited nineteen books. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Contribution to Practice award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management, and the National Public Service Medal from NASA. His most recent book is the fourth edition of Organization Change: Theory and Practice (forthcoming).
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Shannon P. Callahan is a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the University of California, Davis. She completed her bachelor’s degree in peace and conflict studies and psychology at Juniata College and received a master’s of science from Seton Hall University in experimental psychology. In her research, she explores how the identities, attitudes, and goals of different groups contribute to intergroup relations and group perception. Her research has been funded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and has been published by the Society for Terrorism Research.
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Peter J. Carnevale is professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (USC). He also is a senior fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles Law School, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program. His research focuses on negotiation, mediation, and decision making in organizations. His current work on affective computing and negotiation is funded by the Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) program of the National Science Foundation. He teaches negotiation classes for undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students and in various executive programs. He has a PhD in social psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and prior to joining USC in 2007 was on the faculty in psychology at New York University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and, recently, INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
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Mekayla K. Castro is a social-organizational psychology scholar and practitioner. She received her PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and conducts research in the area of social identity threat and diversity climate in organizations. In a consulting capacity, she partners with clients to promote effective organizational development and change, diversity and inclusion initiatives, groups and teams, leaders, and individuals. She is also an adjunct professor at Teachers College, teaching courses in executive coaching, intercultural communication, and other topics.
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Shelly Chaiken received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1978. She held professorial appointments at Vanderbilt University, University of Toronto, and New York University and was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota before retiring. Her seminal research on dual processes in persuasion substantially contributed to the field’s advancing understanding of social cognition and attitude change, and she received the Society for Experimental Social Psychology’s Scientific Impact Award in 2009 in recognition of her outstanding theoretical and empirical work in this area. Her dual-process model has also proven to be a particularly powerful tool for understanding and influencing information processing in ways that can help effect positive social change in a range of contexts, including negotiation and conflict, health and substance abuse, environmental behavior, and juror decision making.
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Christine T. Chung is a doctoral student in the Social-Organizational Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research is devoted to the study of conflict and culture, examined through the lens of dynamical systems. In particular, her work aims to understand what cultural parameters are fundamental to the development and resolution of conflicts and what approaches practitioners may employ to overcome cultural differences in the field and bring about integrative solutions for the parties. She is an associate in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the School of Continuing Education, Columbia University, and she is also the recipient of the International Association for Conflict Management Scholarship and the Teachers College Dean’s Fellowship for Teaching and Diversity.
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Claudia E. Cohen trained as a social psychologist. Her areas of interest throughout her career have been in constructive conflict resolution, leadership and organization development, and social justice. After leaving a faculty position at Rutgers University, she served for several years as an employee ombudsman and internal consultant at AT&T. She worked with an extensive roster of Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, and universities, consulting to leaders around conflict management, leadership, and stewarding effective change. She has been on the New Jersey Roster of Civil Court Mediators since 2005 and has mediated dozens of cases. Cohen joined the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2008 as the associate director. She teaches Managing Conflict in Organizations and has taught the advanced practicum in conflict consulting. She serves as a liaison between ICCCR and other programs at Teachers College, including the Social-Organizational Program and the Summer Principal’s Academy. Her current interests include university-community collaboration through participatory action research paradigms, particularly around criminal justice initiatives; psychological factors affecting the successful reentry of formerly incarcerated individuals; and the impact of interpersonal collaboration on future conflict strategies. She also is interested in how mediators can apply reflective practices to improving their skills.
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Susan W. Coleman works with individuals, groups, or the whole system to resolve differences, develop people, and build common ground. In the past twenty-five years, she has worked with the United Nations worldwide, American Express, the government of Colombia, US Departments of State and Agriculture, and NASA, among others. She is currently a partner of C Global Consulting, a firm in New York City that specializes in conflict management, leadership development, and organizational change. Her articles include “Teaching Conflict Resolution Skills in a Workshop” (in E. Raider, S. Coleman, and J. Gerson, Handbook of Conflict Resolution , 2000, 2006); “International/Intercultural Conflict Resolution Training” (in E. Raider and S. Coleman, Sage Handbook of Conflict Communication , 2006), and, with D. E. Weaver, “Women and Negotiation: Tips from the Field” (Dispute Resolution Magazine , 2012). She holds a juris doctor (Hofstra University School of Law), master’s in public administration (Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government), and advanced certifications in individual, group, and organization development (Gestalt OSD Center and Institute).
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Aaron L. DeSmet is a doctoral student in the department of organization and leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is finishing his PhD in social and organizational psychology. His research focuses on self-awareness and self-regulation and their effects on leadership and group performance. He is also an organization and change strategy consultant. His independent consulting work includes strategic planning, team building, process reengineering, employee surveys, and 360-degree feedback design.
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Megan Doherty-Baker is a master’s candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the social-organizational psychology program, focusing on conflict resolution. Previously she worked for six years with homeless, runaway, and formerly incarcerated youth in San Francisco. During her time there, she developed and managed workforce development programs in the hopes of creating opportunities that could help young people exit street life for good. She is currently a philanthropy fellow in the areas of education and human justice at the New York Community Trust and a research assistant at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia. She is passionate about social and restorative justice and sees participatory action research as a way to build community, as well as affect systemic change.
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Daniel Druckman is professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University and an eminent scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is also a member of the faculty at Sabanci University in Istanbul and has been a visiting professor at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on such topics as international negotiation, turning points, justice, nationalism, peacekeeping, nonverbal communication, and research methodologies and is the recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. He has also received outstanding book awards for Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (2005) and Evaluating Peace Operations with Paul F. Diehl (2010). His current research, sponsored by the Swedish Research Council, is on the role of justice in durable peace.
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Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She received her PhD from Yale University, and her research focuses on the beliefs or mind-sets that underlie optimal achievement, prosocial behavior, and conflict resolution. Her research also examines the experiences and the socialization practices that foster these mind-sets. She has received numerous awards, including the Donald Campbell Career Achievement Award in Social Psychology (Society for Personality and Social Psychology), the Thorndike Career Achievement Award in Educational Psychology (American Psychological Association), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (American Psychological Association), and the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award (Association for Psychological Science). She has been named the Herbert Simon Fellow of the Academy of Political and Social Science and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the National Academy of Sciences. Her best-selling book, Mindset , has been translated into more than twenty languages.
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Guy Olivier Faure is visiting professor at Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, and director at the PIN (Processes of International Negotiation), International Conflict Resolution Center, The Hague, Netherlands. He has made innovating breakthroughs at the Sorbonne University, Paris, by introducing topics such as strategic thinking and action, international negotiation, and conflict resolution. Having accomplished extensive work in areas such as terrorism, he conducts consulting and training activities with governments and international organizations that include the United Nations, UNESCO, and the European Union. Referenced in the Diplomat’s Dictionary published by the US Peace Press, he was also selected as one of the “2000 outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century” by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK, and has lectured in a number of renowned universities and institutions all over the world. Faure is a member of the editorial board of the three major international journals dealing with international negotiation, theory, and practice: International Negotiation, Negotiation Journal and Group Decision , and Negotiation . He has authored, coauthored, or edited nineteen books and over one hundred articles. Among his most recent publications are Negotiating with Terrorists (2010) and Escalation and Negotiation (2006), both with William Zartman, and How People Negotiate (2004). Together with Jeffrey Z. Rubin, he published Culture and Negotiation (1993). His latest book is Unfinished Business: Why Negotiations Fail (2012). His work has been published in twelve languages.
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Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project (PSP). A consortium of researchers, policymakers, and community activists, PSP produces critical scholarship “to be of use” in social policy debates and organizing movements for educational equity and human rights. A sampling of her most cited books and policy monographs includes The Changing Landscape of Public Education (with Michael Fabricant, 2013), Charter Schools and the Corporate Make-Over of Public Education (with Michael Fabricant, 2012), Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (with Julio Cammarota, 2008), Muslim-American Youth (with Selcuk Sirin, 2008), Becoming Gentlemen: Women and Law School (with Lani Guinier and Jane Balin, 1997), Working Method: Social Research and Social Justice (with Lois Weis, 2004), and her classic Framing Dropouts: Notes on an Urban High School (1991). Changing Minds: The Impact of College on Women in Prison (2001) is recognized nationally as the primary empirical basis for the contemporary college in prison movement.
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Joshua Fisher is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity at the Earth Institute and a lecturer in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the School of Continuing Education, both at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University for his work modeling the ecological correlates of armed conflict. In addition, he holds an MA in political science from Utah State University for work exploring the political economy of conflict resolution in East Timor in the period 1997 to 2001. His current research and practice focus on natural resource management and land use planning as tools for conflict prevention and conflict resolution with special focus on the Amazon Basin and sub-Saharan Africa. He also works on conflicts between extractive industry and indigenous groups. As a lecturer, he teaches two courses on environmental conflict resolution. Fisher has extensive field experience in Mozambique, Peru, the western United States, and Mexico on issues related to land use planning, conflict-sensitive biodiversity conservation, and development.
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Ronald J. Fisher is a professor of international peace and conflict resolution in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. His primary interest focuses on interactive conflict resolution, which involves informal third-party interventions in protracted and violent ethnopolitical conflict. His publications include The Social Psychology of Intergroup and International Conflict Resolution (1990), Interactive Conflict Resolution (1997), Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking (2005), and numerous articles in interdisciplinary journals in the field of peace and conflict resolution. He has extensive experience as a trainer and consultant in areas related to conflict resolution, and he has provided workshop design and facilitation expertise to a number of international institutes that organize workshops for peacemakers and peace builders. In 2003 he received the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award from the Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and he has been elected as a fellow in both the American and Canadian Psychological Associations. He holds a BA and MA in psychology from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan.
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Beth Fisher-Yoshida is a facilitator, educator, mediator, and executive coach who partners with clients to foster change for improved communication and organizational performance. Clients include organizations in the Fortune 100, nonprofit and government sectors, military and security forces, communities, school districts, and academic institutions. She is also director of the MS program in negotiation and conflict resolution at Columbia University and cochair of the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in change management, leadership development, conflict resolution, intercultural communication, and performance management. She has been consulting with the United Nations and was a training manager with McKinsey & Company, Japan. Fisher-Yoshida received her PhD in human and organizational systems and MA in organization development from Fielding Graduate University. She received her MA with honors from Columbia University. She graduated with a BA and a BS from Buffalo State College. She is a certified clinical sociologist. She has published articles, chapters, and authored and edited books. She serves on the boards of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution and Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. She speaks conversational Japanese and lived and worked in Japan for thirteen years.
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Douglas P. Fry is docent and director of peace, mediation, and conflict research at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland, and adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His interests include war, peace, and conflict resolution. He is editor of War, Peace and Human Nature (2013), author of Beyond War (2007) and The Human Potential for Peace (2006), and coeditor of Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World (2004) and Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence (1997).
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Suzanne Ghais is a doctoral candidate at American University’s School of International Service. Her research focuses on inclusivity in peace processes using comparative case studies. Prior to returning to graduate school, she practiced mediation and facilitation as a solo consultant (2006–2010) and at CDR Associates in Boulder, Colorado (1996–2006). Her projects included interpersonal dispute resolution, retreats, and group consensus building and conflict management within organizations. In the public policy arena, she facilitated or mediated stakeholder negotiations, government-to-government negotiations, and public participation in areas such as tribal-federal government relations, transportation, Superfund cleanup, and air quality. Her clients included government agencies at all levels, universities, nonprofit organizations, and professional service firms. She also contributed to evaluations of two peace-building projects, one in Bulgaria and another in the southern Caucasus. Ghais has conducted dozens of training courses on mediation, facilitation, arbitration, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. She is the author of Extreme Facilitation: Guiding Groups through Controversy and Complexity (2005). She earned her master’s degree from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.
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Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler is an organizational psychologist and founder of Alignment Strategies Group, a consultancy based in New York City that helps clients build leadership capacity in order to overcome challenging conflict, collaborate across complex organizations, and implement large-scale change. For close to two decades, she has consulted to senior executives in diverse sectors, including Fortune 500 companies, global nonprofits, and academic and governmental institutions. In addition to consulting, she serves as adjunct instructor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches the popular course Transforming Conflict from Within on how leaders can make a difference in even the most challenging long-term conflicts. She is also an executive coach with the Program on Social Intelligence at Columbia Business School. She has authored articles and chapters in publications, including Chief Learning Officer Magazine Online , the International Journal of Conflict Management , and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, Second Edition . She received her BA in social psychology with honors from Tufts University and holds a PhD in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University.
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Francisco Gomes de Matos holds a PhD in applied linguistics from the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, an MA in linguistics from the University of Michigan, and BA degrees in languages and law from the Federal University of Pernambuco/Recife, where he taught until his retirement in 2003 and now is professor emeritus. He was a visiting professor in Canada (Ottawa) and the United States (Fulbright at the University of Georgia, Athens). One of the world’s pioneers in peace and nonkilling linguistics, he is the author of Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation and a contributor to Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace (edited by Peter Coleman and Morton Deutsch, 2012). Cofounder of the World Dignity University initiative and the Dom Helder Camara Human Rights Commission in Recife, he is currently president of the board of Associação Brasil América, a Global Education School, in Recife. He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com .
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Julie S. Gottman is the cofounder and president of the Gottman Institute, as well as cocreator of a curriculum for couples in poverty tested nationally in over fifteen hundred couples. She has served as the clinical director of the Couples Together Against Violence research study as well. A highly respected clinical psychologist, she is sought internationally by media and international organizations as an expert advisor on marital therapy, the treatment of trauma, domestic violence and affairs, gay and lesbian adoption, and same-sex marriage and parenting issues. She is the cocreator of the popular Art and Science of Love weekend workshops for couples and the clinical training program in Gottman Couples Therapy, which she has taught internationally. She is recognized for her clinical psychotherapy treatment, with specialization in distressed couples, abuse and trauma survivors, substance abusers and their partners, and cancer patients and their families. Gottman is in private practice in the Seattle area, providing intensive marathon sessions or weekly sessions for couples and individuals. She has been recognized as the Washington State Psychologist of the Year and is the author or coauthor of three books: Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, And Baby Makes Three , and The Marriage Clinic Casebook .
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John Gottman is world renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction. He has conducted forty years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples. His work on marriage and parenting have earned him numerous major awards. He is the author of 190 published academic articles and author or coauthor of forty books, including the best-selling The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work; The Relationship Cure; Why Marriages Succeed or Fail ; and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child , among many others. Cofounder of the Gottman Institute with his wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, John was also the executive director of the Relationship Research Institute. He is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, where he founded “The Love Lab” at which much of his research on couples’ interactions was conducted.
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Andy Greendorfer , received an MSW from the University of Washington and a BA in psychology from Sonoma State University and is a licensed social worker. He has been treating couples, individuals, and families in his Seattle office since 1985. As one of the twelve founding members of the Gottman Institute, he has provided training to clinicians working toward certification as a Gottman method therapist. In 2004, he authored a chapter in The Marriage Clinic , a clinical manual by Julie Gottman. Greendorfer and fellow Gottman Institute therapist Mirabai Wahbe designed and colead a two-day workshop, “Deepening the Gottman Method,” for couples who have completed the Gottman workshop. Together they coauthored a corresponding manual for the workshop. Through his thirty years of clinical practice, Greendorfer has assisted hundreds of couples in developing the skills necessary for healthy relationships.
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James J. Gross is professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. He earned his BA in philosophy from Yale University and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. He is a leading figure in the areas of emotion and emotion regulation and received early-career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He also has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Stanford Postdoctoral Mentoring Award, and the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and the director of the Stanford Psychology One Teaching Program. Gross has an extensive program of investigator-initiated research, with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences. He has over 250 publications and is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.
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Howard E. Gruber was professor emeritus of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He obtained his PhD from Cornell University in 1950. He was professor of genetic psychology in Geneva, a chair previously held by Jean Piaget. At Rutgers University, he was codirector with Solomon Asch of the Institute for Cognitive Studies. His major field of work was studying the creative process, with special emphasis on intensive case studies of highly creative people. He authored some two hundred articles and such books as the much-honored Darwin on Man . He had been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and was awarded Guggenheim, Ford, and National Institute for Mental Health fellowships. He also received the Rudolph Anheim Award for his contribution to psychology and the arts. Gruber died on January 25, 2005, after a prolonged illness.
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Alexis Halkovic is a doctoral student in the critical social/personality psychology program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has a strong interest in understanding structural injustice and the ways people resist. Her recent research investigates the factors that facilitate successful transitions from prison to college for college students with criminal justice histories and has recently coauthored a policy paper, “The Gifts They Bring: Welcoming Students into College after Prison.” She received the SPSSI Applied Social Issues Internship Award for research on the prison-to-college pipeline. She is also curious about the circumstances and individual characteristics that lead people to engage in activism and sustain that engagement. She is committed to the use of participatory research methods, including the experiences of affected community members in the design and implementation of research and the development of research products that resist oppression.
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Eran Halperin is a senior lecturer at the new school of psychology at the IDC, Herzliya, Israel. He received his PhD from the University of Haifa in 2007 (summa cum laude) and completed postdoctoral training (through a Fulbright Scholarship) at the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, in 2008. He serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Political Psychology and in 2012 was awarded the Erikson Award for early-career achievements in the field. His main line of research focuses on the role of emotions and emotion regulation in determining public opinion toward peace and equality, on the one hand, and war and discrimination, on the other. In addition, he is interested in the psychological roots of some of the most destructive political ramifications of intergroup conflicts (e.g., intolerance, exclusion, and intergroup violence). The unique case of Israeli society in general, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular, motivates his work and inspires his thinking. His recent work on these issues has been published in Science . In addition, in recent years, he has published articles in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology , and Journal of Peace Research .
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Elizabeth Hernandez is a project coordinator at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her BA in psychology and Spanish from the University of Arizona. She then completed her MA in social-organizational psychology and received the Certificate in Cooperation and Conflict Resolution from the ICCCR. While studying at Teachers College, she interned at the United Nations as well as Amnesty International. She was awarded the Davis Projects for Peace grant and the Institute of Latin American Studies grant to develop and facilitate a series of conflict resolution workshops for teachers in Phoenix, Arizona, and Bogotá, Colombia, respectively. Her current research interests include social justice, multiculturalism, identity, and intercultural communication.
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Christopher Honeyman , a managing partner of Convenor Conflict Management in Washington, DC, has served as a consultant to numerous academic and practical conflict resolution programs in the United States and abroad. He is codirector of Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, a major project designed to revamp the teaching content and methods of negotiation worldwide. Previously he was director of an extensive succession of research-and-development programs of national or international scale, including Broad Field (2002–2005), Theory to Practice (1997–2002), and the Test Design Project (1990–1995). He is coeditor of all four volumes published by the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching project (2009, 2010, 2012), and, most recently, Educating Negotiators for a Connected World (2013) and The Negotiator’s Fieldbook (2006), and he is author or coauthor of more than seventy published articles, book chapters, and monographs on dispute resolution concepts, infrastructure, quality control, and ethics. He has served as a mediator, arbitrator, and in other neutral capacities in more than two thousand disputes since the 1970s.
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David W. Johnson is an emeritus professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is codirector of the Cooperative Learning Center. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University. He has authored over five hundred research articles and book chapters and over fifty books. He is a past editor of the American Educational Research Journal . He held the Emma M. Birkmaier Professorship in Educational Leadership at the University of Minnesota from 1994 to 1997 and the Libra Endowed Chair for Visiting Professor at the University of Maine in 1996–1997. He has received numerous professional awards from the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Association of Conflict Management, and other professional organizations. His email is: johns010@umn.edu
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Roger T. Johnson is a professor of education at the University of Minnesota and is codirector of the Cooperative Learning Center. He holds his doctoral degree from the University of California in Berkeley. In 1965 he received an award for outstanding teaching from the Jefferson County Schools and has since been honored with several national awards. He taught in the Harvard-Newton Intern Program as a master teacher. He was a curriculum developer with the Elementary Science Study in the Educational Development Center at Harvard University. For three summers, he taught classes in the British primary schools at the University of Sussex near Brighton, England. He has consulted with schools throughout the world and is the author of numerous research articles, book chapters, and books. His e-mail address is johns009@umn.edu .
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Robert M. Krauss is emeritus professor of psychology at Columbia University. He received his PhD in psychology from New York University in 1964. His research has focused on human communication—verbal and nonverbal. His publications include Theories in Social Psychology (with Morton Deutsch, 1967), the chapter “Language and Social Behavior” (with C.Y. Chiu), which appeared in the fourth edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology (1997), and “Inferring Speakers’ Physical Attributes from Their Voices” (with Robin Freyberg and Ezequiel Morsella), which appeared in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2002).
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Kenneth Kressel is professor of psychology at Rutgers University, Newark, and former director of its graduate program in psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He received his BA from Queens College, CUNY, and his PhD from Columbia University in psychology. He is the author of The Process of Divorce: How Professionals and Couples Negotiate Settlement (1985) and coeditor of Mediation Research: The Process and Effectiveness of Third-Party Intervention (with Dean Pruitt, 1989). He coedited an issue of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research on mediator style (with James Wall, 2012) and an issue of the Journal of Social Issues on the mediation of social conflict (with D. Pruitt, 1985). He has served as an associate editor of the International Journal of Conflict Management and is on the editorial boards of Negotiation Journal and Conflict Resolution Quarterly . He has been a consultant and trainer in the areas of dispute mediation and conflict management for the Office of the Ombudsman at the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the New Jersey Cancer Institute, the New Jersey Court system, and Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton universities. His current research focuses on the tacit knowledge that underlies mediator intervention decision making.
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Ethan Kross is a graduate student in the department of psychology at Columbia University. His current research concerns the psychological, physiological, and brain mechanisms that underlie adaptive self- and emotion regulation.
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Katharina G. Kugler is a faculty member of the Department of Psychology (Economic and Organizational Psychology) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany, where she also earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in psychology. During her graduate and doctorate studies, she spent several years at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, holding a Fulbright scholarship and a fellowship in complexity and conflict. Her research concentrates on interpersonal conflicts in organizational settings. In this area, she focuses on complexity and adaptivity using the dynamical systems approach.
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Michelle LeBaron is a tenured professor on the University of British Columbia (UBC) law faculty and was director of the UBC Program on Dispute Resolution until 2012. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2003 after ten years teaching at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the Women’s Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. From 1990 to 1993, she directed the Multiculturalism and Dispute Resolution Project at the University of Victoria. She has lectured and consulted around the world on cross-cultural conflict resolution and has practiced as a family law and commercial mediator. Her current research focuses on using expressive arts practices—particularly movement and dance—to train mediators and inform intervention design. She holds a JD from UBC, an MA in counseling psychology from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and a BA from Chapman University in California. She was called to the bar of British Columbia in 1982. Michelle is the author of several books, including Bridging Troubled Waters, Bridging Cultural Conflict , and Conflict across Cultures . Her new book, The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience , was published in 2013 by the American Bar Association.
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Alison Ledgerwood is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD in social psychology from New York University in 2003. Much of her research focuses on understanding when and why people’s attitudes change in response to social influence. In another line of work, she studies the role of group symbols in shaping group identity and conflict.
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Kwok Leung is a chaired professor of management at City University of Hong Kong. His research areas include justice and conflict, creativity, cross-cultural research methods, international business, and social axioms. He is the deputy editor in chief of Management and Organization Review and on the editorial board of several journals, including Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology , and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes . He is the past president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and a fellow of Academy of International Business, Academy of Intercultural Research, and Association for Psychological Science. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Roy J. Lewicki is the Irving Abramowitz Professor of Business Ethics and professor of management and human resources emeritus at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. He has a BA degree from Dartmouth College and a PhD in social psychology from Columbia University. He maintains research and teaching interests in the fields of negotiation, conflict management and dispute resolution, trust development, managerial leadership, organizational justice, and ethical decision making and has published many research articles and book chapters on these topics. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. He is the author or editor of thirty-six books, including Negotiation (2014) and Essentials of Negotiation (2011), both with Saunders and Barry)—the leading academic textbooks on negotiation—and Mastering Business Negotiations (with Roy Lewicki and Alexander Hiam, 2007), a book for managers. He has extensive management consulting and training experience worldwide.
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Micaela Linder is a student at Columbia University’s master’s program in negotiation and conflict resolution and is a participatory action research project coresearcher with the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia. She completed her undergraduate education at Hampshire College, where she wrote her senior thesis about a PAR (participatory action research) project she completed with imprisoned women in central California. The project focused on incarcerated women’s peer-care strategies and resistance to the prison system. She hopes to conduct further research on how participatory research methods can foster social change and create alternatives to injustice.
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Evelin G. Lindner is a research fellow at the University of Oslo, affiliated with Columbia University in New York City since 2001 (with the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, AC4), and with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. She lives and teaches globally. Her work focuses on human dignity and humiliation. She is the founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. She is also a cofounder of the World Dignity University initiative, which includes Dignity Press and World Dignity University Press. She has a dual education as a medical doctor and a psychologist, with two PhDs (in medicine and psychology). Her first book, Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict , was honored as Outstanding Academic Title by the journal Choice for 2007 in the United States. She published her second book, Emotion and Conflict in 2009; her third book, Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security , with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, appeared in 2010 and was highly recommended by Choice . Her fourth book, published in 2012, is A Dignity Economy . She has received several awards, among them the Prisoner’s Testament Peace Award in 2009.
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Wen Liu is a doctoral student in the critical social/personality psychology program at City University of New York, Graduate Center. Her research interests are broadly on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and labor through the lenses of Marxist-feminism, queer theory, and critical psychology. She is preparing an ethnographic account of the lives of Filipina migrant domestic workers under the context of neoliberal restructuring. She recently received the Globalization, Health, and Social Justice Fellowship from the City University of New York, Graduate Center, to conduct a multisite study for critically examining the meanings of human rights in the transnational LGBTQ movements in Taiwan and China. She has published an entry on activism in The Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology edited by Thomas Teo.
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Brian J. Lucas is a doctoral student at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research interests include morality and ethics, motivation, and ideological conflict. His research has been published or is in press at academic journals including Psychological Science and Learning and Memory . He has presented his research at academic conferences including the Academy of Management, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, and Behavioral Decision Research in Management.
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Mark Magellan received his master’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University. He has experience mentoring at-risk youth using peer mediation in the after-school setting through the Youth Policy Institute. Moreover, he has used his training as a community organizer to work with local communities through collaborative problem-solving curriculums that encourage dialogue and perspective. He believes in the power of art and poetry to make a positive change in conflict resolution pedagogy and training. Finally, he is a contributor to Beyond Intractability and cocreator of the Collective Canvas initiative, which encourages students of conflict resolution to take ownership of their education and find their voice in the field.
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Borislava Manojlovic is Drucie French Cumbie director of research at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR), George Mason University, and has taught courses and implemented numerous research projects that focus on dealing with the past, genocide prevention, and conflict resolution education. Before joining S-CAR, she worked on issues related to minorities and reconciliation with the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Croatia and Kosovo for more than seven years. The experience of wars in the Balkans in the 1990s and her desire to understand the roots of violent conflicts have shaped her life trajectory and dedication to conflict prevention. She is currently teaching a course on dealing with the past in the aftermath of mass atrocities in the Balkans that includes travel to the Balkans and learning from the local people about transitional justice and reconciliation processes. She is writing a book based on her dissertation research that explores memory of past atrocities and its impact on relationships among youth in eastern Slavonia, Croatia.
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Victoria J. Marsick is professor of adult learning and leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College. She holds a PhD in adult education from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MPA in international public administration from Syracuse University. She codirects (with Martha A. Gephart) the J. M. Huber Institute for Learning in Organizations, dedicated to advancing the state of knowledge and practice for learning and change in organizations. She is also a founding member of Partners for Learning and Leadership, a group that works with organizations to design, develop, and implement strategic learning interventions.
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Carrie Menkel-Meadow is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California Irvine Law School, and A. B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches a variety of international and domestic dispute resolution courses, including on negotiation, mediation, international dispute resolution, and multiparty dispute resolution processes. She is the author or editor of over ten books, including Complex Dispute Resolution (3 volumes: Foundations, Multi-Party Disputes, Democracy and Decision Making , and International Dispute Resolution ), Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2nd ed., 2011), and What’s Fair: Ethics for Negotiators (2004), and over two hundred articles. She has taught conflict resolution–related subjects on five continents, including in Chile, Argentina, China, Singapore, Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, France, Norway, and Paraguay. She has been working as a scholar, teacher, mediator and arbitrator for over thirty years and has been working on peace in the Middle East for the last seven years. She recently won the first ever awarded American Bar Association Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Dispute Resolution.
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Alex Mintz is dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC-Herzliya, Israel, director of its Institute for Policy and Strategy, and chair of the Herzliya Conference. He is also editor in chief of the journal Political Psychology and editorial board member of several other academic journals. He served as associate editor of the Yale-based Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004–2009) and as editor of the University of Chicago Press book series, Leadership and Decision Making in the International Arena. Mintz is the 2005 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the 1993 recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the ISA. He has written several books dealing with US defense policymaking and has also published multiple articles in such top journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly , and Journal of Conflict Resolution . Currently he is working on a book, together with Carly Wayne, which introduces the Polythink concept and analyzes the effects of disjointed, fragmented advisory groups on elite group decision making and foreign policy formation in the United States.
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Walter Mischel is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University where he has been since 1983, after twenty-one years as a professor at Stanford University. His research focuses on the structure and organization of individual differences and the psychological mechanisms underlying self-control. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. His honors include the 2012 Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize, the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, a Doctorate Philosophiae Honoris Causa from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, the Distinguished Contributions to Personality Award of the Society of Social and Personality Psychologists, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the APA Division of Clinical Psychology. He is past editor of Psychological Review . He has been president of APA Division 8 (Social and Personality), the Association for Research in Personality, and the Association for Psychological Science (2008–2009). He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Ohio State University.
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Bridget Moix has spent most of her career working on issues of peace and violence prevention within the national and international policy arena. She has also worked with community-based organizations in South Africa and Mexico. She is a member of the Religious Society of Friends and has worked with its organizations, including the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Quaker United Nations Office, and American Friends Service Committee on peace and conflict issues. She also worked with Oxfam America on Sudan and with the World Policy Institute. She now works with the Genocide Prevention Program at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, where she is pursuing her doctorate, examining issues of how and why people choose peace in the midst of violence.
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Ezequiel Morsella is associate professor of social cognitive neuroscience at San Francisco State University and associate adjunct professor in the Department of Neurology at University of California, San Francisco. He received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University. His research concerns the nature of basic unconscious and conscious mechanisms in human action production. His publications include “The Function of Phenomenal States: Supramodular Interaction Theory” (Psychological Review , 2002) and “The Unconscious Mind” (with John Bargh; Perspectives on Psychological Science , 2008). He is coeditor, with J. A. Bargh and P. M. Gollwitzer, of Oxford Handbook of Human Action (2002).
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Rebecca Neshkes is a research associate at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds an MA in social-organizational psychology from Teachers College and a BA in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from UCLA. She also holds an Advanced Certificate in Cooperation and Conflict Resolution from the ICCCR. She received the Vision Fellowship to study conflict resolution in the Balkans, which was honored by President Bill Clinton in his Global Initiative in 2006. Her research focuses on criminal justice, empowerment, identity, and violence prevention.
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Mara Olekalns is professor of management (negotiations) at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the relationships among contextual variables, negotiators’ strategies, and their ability to craft mutually beneficial outcomes. Her recent research explores how initial trust shapes the use of deception and on conditions under which trust buffers negotiators against unexpected events in negotiation. She also investigates the impact of gender stereotype violations in negotiation, focusing on the relationship between stereotype violations and social outcomes such as trustworthiness. Her research has been published in journals including Human Communication Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics , and Journal of Management , as well as in multiple edited volumes. She is a past president of the International Association for Conflict Management, a past editor of the association’s journal (Negotiation and Conflict Management Research ), and a member of the Academy of Management Conflict Management Division’s Executive Committee. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research and Group Decision and Negotiation.
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Susan Opotow , a social psychologist and scholar of injustice, is a faculty member in the PhD program in critical social/personality psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the Sociology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Her empirical studies investigate sociopolitical and psychological contexts in which the scope of justice—the extent of our justice concerns for others—widens or narrows. Her research examines how and when injustice and direct and structural violence directed at marginalized groups are rendered normal, acceptable, and just. She also studies the complementary, inclusionary process when the scope of justice widens to extend rights and resources more broadly within a society. She situates her research in conflictual contexts that include environmental degradation, the postwar period (e.g., the US Civil War and World War II), and museum exhibits that focus on historical injustice. She is editor of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology . Recent honors include Baruch College–Rubin Museum Faculty Fellowship (2012–2013), Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Distinguished Service Award (2012), the American Psychological Foundation’s Lynn Stuart Weiss Lecture Award (2011), and presidency of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2009). She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and three of its divisions and serves on its Committee on International Relations in Psychology (2010–2013).
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Dean G. Pruitt is distinguished scholar in residence at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He received his PhD in psychology from Yale University. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society and has received the Harold D. Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Ralph K. White Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence. He is author or coauthor of five books—Theory and Research on the Causes of War; Negotiation Behavior; Social Conflict: Escalation, Stalemate, and Settlement (three editions); Mediation Research ; and Negotiation in Social Conflict —and more than one hundred articles and chapters.
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Michelle Pryce-Screen has worked as a nonprofit executive for the past eighteen years, leading and managing staff who deliver high-quality services to marginalized populations. She has worked in the fields of housing, reentry, substance abuse, mental health, education, employment, and health care. Most recently, she has used her extensive knowledge in the areas of social services and reentry to partner with the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College and the Fortune Society to study the effectiveness of one of Fortune’s innovative supportive housing programs. She received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and earned master’s degrees in social work and education from Hunter College in New York City.
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Yaron Prywes is a trainer and leadership development specialist with C Global Consulting. He has led conflict resolution trainings for business professionals and international civil servants in cities throughout the world, including New York, Geneva, Nairobi, and Addis Ababa. These trainings help increase participants’ ability to manage conflict productively and negotiate skillfully. He also facilitated emotionally charged conversations for large groups of young adults who lost a parent to politically motivated violence in the United States, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ireland, Israel, and Palestine, in conjunction with the organization Tuesday’s Children. These conversations deepened mutual understanding among participants, and resulted in concrete peace-in-action plans. He supports the professional development of leaders in a variety of industries with LeaderNation, his Web-based, 360-degree feedback tool. In addition, he frequently publishes in the leadership-coaching space and recently received an award from the Organization Development Network for his article on the role of history in leading change. As part of his doctorate, Yaron empirically examined the relationship between coaching and goal attainment. His study revealed that coachees achieved 30 percent more of their goals relative to participants who did not receive coaching (after goal difficulty was accounted for). He is an adjunct faculty member and coach with the Center for Creative Leadership. He received his PhD in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College.
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Nicholas Redding is a doctoral candidate in social-organizational psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, and project coordinator for the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. His research areas include dynamic approaches to conflict, motivation in conflict, social networks, conflict in organizations, and communication in online social environments.
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Sandra V. Sandy is a senior research consultant for the Northside Center for Child Development in New York. She earned her PhD in social psychology from Columbia University and began her career at the New York City Board of Education where her research focus was on the social-emotional health and achievement of homeless children in the school system. As an assistant professor at Cornell University Medical College, she continued her research on homeless children, expanding the scope to include families living in New York City welfare hotels. In 1994, she joined the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University, first as codirector of research and then serving as director of research. She is the creator of the Peaceful Kids ECSEL Program, which offers social, emotional, and conflict resolution education to preschoolers, parents, and preschool staff. She has published various articles and chapters on conflict resolution, particularly in early childhood, and is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World.
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Gene Sharp , who has been called “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare,” is senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, Massachusetts. He founded the institution in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in the face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression. Before founding AEI, he held research appointments in Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs for nearly thirty years. He holds a PhD in political theory from Oxford University, an MA in sociology, and a BA in social sciences from Ohio State University. Dr. Sharp is the author of several books on nonviolent struggle, power, dictatorships, Gandhi, and defense policy. These include The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973), From Dictatorship to Democracy (1993), Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle: Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts (2012), and How Nonviolent Struggle Works (forthcoming). His writings have been published in over forty-five languages. Sharp is convinced that pragmatic, strategically planned, nonviolent struggle can be made highly effective for application in conflicts to lift oppression and as a substitute for violence.
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Geneviève Souillac is senior university researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at the University of Tampere, Finland. Previously, she was senior associate professor of philosophy and peace studies at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and earlier, academic program associate at the United Nations University’s Peace and Governance Program also in Tokyo. Her interests include the philosophy and ethics of peace, religious ethics, and civilizational dialogue. She is the author of Human Rights in Crisis: The Sacred and the Secular in Contemporary French Thought (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), The Burden of Democracy: The Claims of Cultures, Public Culture, and Democratic Memory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), and A Study in Transborder Ethics: Justice, Citizenship, Civility (Peter Lang, 2012).
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Ervin Staub is professor emeritus and founding director of the doctoral program in the psychology of peace and violence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is past president of the International Society for Political Psychology and of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence. His books include Positive Social Behavior and Morality (vols. 1 and 2); The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence; The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults and Groups Help and Harm Others; and Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism , which won an award in 2012 from the International Society for Political Psychology for the best book published in political psychology in 2011 and in 2013 from the International Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association for fundamental contributions to psychology as a global discipline. He has edited a number of books as well, including The Roots of Goodness: Inclusive Caring, Moral Courage, Altruism Born of Suffering, Active Bystandership and Heroism (forthcoming). He has conducted many projects in field settings, ranging from working with teachers and parents to promote altruism in children, to seminars, trainings, and educational radio projects in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo to promote psychological recovery and reconciliation. He received awards for lifelong contributions to peace psychology, distinguished contributions to political psychology, and distinguished scholarly and practical contributions to social justice and an international and intercultural relations prize. For other awards and downloads of articles, see www.ervinstaub.com
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Janice M. Steil received her PhD from Columbia University. She was trained as a social psychologist working with Morton Deutsch and has particular interests in the psychology of justice and gender. She began teaching that same year at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, where she continues today. While at Adelphi, her research has focused primarily on the study of adult close relationships, particularly issues of power and intimacy in dual-earner marriages. Consistent with her interests in gender, she is a past associate editor of the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly . She is also the author of numerous publications on relationships, including her book Marital Equality: Its Relationship to the Well-Being of Husbands and Wives .
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Leigh L. Thompson joined the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1995 and is the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations. She directs the Leading High Impact Teams executive program and the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center, and codirects the Negotiation Strategies for Managers program. An active scholar and researcher, she has published over one hundred research articles and chapters and has authored ten books: Creative Conspiracy; The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator (5th edition); Making the Team (5th edition); Creativity in Organizations; Shared Knowledge in Organizations; Negotiation: Theory and Research; The Social Psychology of Organizational Behavior: Key Readings in Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior Today; The Truth about Negotiation; and Conflict in Organizational Teams . Thompson has worked with private and public organizations in the United States, Latin America, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Her teaching style combines experiential learning with theory-driven best practices.
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Dean Tjosvold is Henry Y. W. Fong Chair Professor of Management, academic dean of the business faculty, director of the Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, and director of the Hong Kong Cooperative Learning Center, Lingnan University, in Hong Kong. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He is past president of the International Association of Conflict Management and was elected to the Academy of Management Board of Governors in 2004. He has published over two hundred articles, twenty books, thirty book chapters, and one hundred conference papers on managing conflict, cooperation and competition, decision making, power, and other management issues. He is now associate editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior , Asian editor of the Journal of World Business , and associate editor of Group Decision and Negotiation . His books have been selected by Fortune, Business Week, Newbridge, and Executive Book Clubs and translated into Chinese and Spanish. With colleagues, he has written books on teamwork, leadership, and conflict management published in the People’s Republic of China. He is a partner in his family’s health care business, based in Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota.
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Edward C. Tomlinson is an associate professor of management at West Virginia University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and business at Virginia Military Institute and an MBA from Lynchburg College. He also received master’s and PhD degrees in labor and human resources from the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. His primary research interests include interpersonal trust, behavioral integrity, and deviant workplace behavior. He has published in several top-tier management journals, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Education , and International Journal of Conflict Management . He is coeditor, with Ron Burke and Cary Cooper, of Crime and Corruption in Organizations: Why It Occurs and What to Do about It (2011).
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Beth Turetsky received her PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. She worked in the Counseling Center at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey, and then at Princeton University’s Counseling Center as coordinator of the eating disorders program, individual and group therapist, and supervisor of clinical interns. She had a private clinical practice until 2005 and served as a consultant to the eating disorders program of Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. She has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Adelphi University. Currently she is focusing on research examining cross-cultural perspectives of intimacy and marriage.
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Maria R. Volpe is professor of sociology and director of the Dispute Resolution Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and director of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center. An internationally known scholar, she has lectured, researched, and written extensively about dispute resolution processes, particularly mediation; has been widely recognized for her distinguished career in the field of dispute resolution; mediates conflicts in educational settings; conducts dispute resolution skills training; administers grant-funded projects; facilitates for a wide range of groups; serves on several editorial boards, including Conflict Resolution Quarterly and the Negotiation Journal ; and is past president of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), past president of the NYC Chapter of SPIDR, past board member of the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York, and board member of the New York Peace Institute, among others. Since 9/11 she has initiated a variety of dispute resolution public awareness initiatives in New York City. Her current research focuses on police use of mediation, conflict resolution in higher education, dispute resolution responses to disasters, informal responses to conflict used by immigrants, roots of diversity in the dispute resolution field, and barriers to minority participation in dispute resolution. She received her PhD from New York University, where she was a National Institute of Mental Health fellow.
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Mirabai Wahbe was one of the very first therapists invited to join the Gottman Institute Relationship Clinic in 1997. She is a Senior Certified Gottman Method therapist, Certified Couples Workshop Leader, and Master Teacher. She designed and coauthored with Andy Greendorfer a two-day workshop and manual, Deepening the Gottman Method , and they presented this opportunity to expand the skills and concepts of the Gottman Relationship House twice yearly for many years. She is a contributing author to The Marriage Clinic Casebook , edited by Julie Schwartz Gottman. She has presented to a variety of audiences on the Gottman method, parenting concepts, recovering from depression, and childhood abuse. She has also been in extensive training with Virginia Satir and was a member of her Avanta Network. Training with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross over many years gave her experience in the process of grief, death, and dying, and she has been a resource to many in this process of life. She has been in private practice in Bellingham, Washington, since 1979, working with couples, adults, and teens on a variety of relationship, personal, and psychological issues. She has an MA in applied behavioral science.
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Anthony Wanis-St. John is associate professor at American University’s School of International Service. He is the author of Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process (2011). His research has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, International Negotiation, Negotiation Journal , and the Harvard Negotiation Law Journal . His research and teaching focus on negotiations and peace building in zones of conflict. His practical experience includes more than a decade of work in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. With the US Institute of Peace, he has advised Darfur rebel military commanders on unity negotiations, conducted electoral violence prevention work in post-earthquake Haiti, conducted predeployment negotiation trainings for US military observer groups, and trained Ugandan military deploying to Mogadishu as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia. He has also worked with the World Bank and USAID on judicial modernization and rule of law in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, and El Salvador. He has mediated labor contracts and disputes within the education sector in the United States, as well as disputes within partnerships and corporations. He has lectured in graduate programs at the Inter-American Defense College at Ft. McNair, the Marine Corps University’s Command and Staff College, the Defense Information School at Ft. Meade, University of Massachusetts Boston, Tufts University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has conducted negotiation consulting for corporations around the world. He earned his PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and was a doctoral research fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.
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Carly Wayne is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Michigan. She received an MA in government diplomacy and conflict studies at IDC Herzliya in Israel and a BA in political science and history from the University of Michigan, and has previously served as the senior editorial assistant for the journal Political Psychology . Her current research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of political psychology and decision making in the context of political conflict. She is interested in integrating research on political and psychological biases in decision making, examining the effects of traditional political factors on the strength and prevalence of various cognitive, emotional, and motivational biases in foreign policy decision making. Currently she is working on a book, together with Alex Mintz, which introduces the Polythink concept and analyzes the effects of disjointed, fragmented advisory groups on elite group decision making and foreign policy formation in the United States.
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Dorothy E. Weaver holds a doctorate in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University, Teachers College, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Graduate School of Business. She creates and teaches a wide range of workshops designed to improve individuals’ competence in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution, including seminars for female professionals about negotiating at work. She recently coauthored two articles: “Women and Negotiation: Tips from the Field” and “The Literature on Women and Negotiation: A Recap,” both published in Dispute Resolution , an American Bar Association magazine. An experienced executive in the nonprofit sector, she has worked with and consulted for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Columbia Business School, New York University, and the American Museum of Natural History. She currently works at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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Eben A. Weitzman , a social and organizational psychologist specializing in the resolution of conflict, is chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, and director of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also director of the organizational practice at the Mediation Group, a firm providing organization development, dispute-resolution systems design, mediation, and arbitration services. His work focuses on conflict within and between groups, with emphases on organizational conflict, cross-cultural conflict, and intergroup relations. He does conflict resolution and organization development work with a wide variety of organizations in the public and private sectors. These have included organizations in education, government, law enforcement, social services, business, labor, and the courts. He is currently engaged in interfaith conflict resolution work in Nigeria and in building collaborative relationships between federal law enforcement agencies and the Muslim and Sikh communities in Massachusetts. From 1989 to 2000, he was a trainer, consultant, and research associate at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University. From 2004 to 2008, he served as grievance officer for the faculty staff union at UMass Boston. He received his PhD from Columbia University.
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Patricia Flynn Weitzman is a senior research scientist at Environment and Health Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she conducts federally funded public health research. Previously, she served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from New York University. Her research interests center on sociocultural influences on health outcomes among underserved patients, including how social beliefs and interactions affect patient health decisions.
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James D. Westaby is an associate professor in the Program in Social-Organizational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with honors and his PhD in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His first area of research examines behavioral reasoning theory, which explains human behavior with a validated set of psychological variables, such as intentions, attitudes, and reasons. The theory has been applied to various topics, such as the prediction of turnover, work-family balance, and participation in conflict resolution training. His second area of research examines how social networks influence human goal pursuit, performance, and emotional contagion in social, organizational, and international contexts. This has culminated in dynamic network theory and its methodologies, which have direct implications for the study of human conflict. For example, the network conflict worksheet allows researchers and practitioners to identify the direct, indirect, and peripheral players involved in specific conflicts. His research has been published in major outlets in psychology, organizational science, and public health. He teaches various courses in social and organizational psychology and has worked with numerous organizations, including the United Nations and Boeing Corporation.
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Lyle Yorks is associate professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches courses in adult learning, strategy development as an organization learning process, strategic human resource development, and research. He has over thirty years of experience working with organizations in diverse industries worldwide on projects involving action learning, strategic organizational change, and management development. He has also served as visiting faculty in various EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) and executive education programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The articles he has authored and coauthored have appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Education and Learning, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Teachers College Record, Sloan Management Review , and other scholarly and professional journals. His article, “Toward a Political Economy Model for Comparative Analysis of the Role of Strategic Human Resource Development Leadership,” in Human Resource Development Review (2004) received the Outstanding Article Award. He earned master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University and Columbia University and his doctorate from Columbia University.