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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 p
rofessor 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 languag
es. 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