Second Track/Citizen's Diplomacy Concepts and Techniques for Conflict Transformation

Eileen R. Borris is founding President of Peace Initiatives. She is a trainer for the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., and is on the Board of Directors of the Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association John Davies is Co-Director of the Partners in Conflict Project and Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland. He is a recent Board Member of the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response and consultant to the U.S. government's State Failure Task Force Ronald J. Fisher is a Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution in the School of International Service at American University, Washington, D.C. Previously he was Professor of Psychology and Founding Coordinator of the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Victor J. Friedman is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the Ruppin Institute, Israel, and Senior Researcher with the Action Evaluation Research Institute Yellow Springs, Ohio Ted Robert Gurr is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and directs the Minorities at Risk Project, which tracks the status and activities of over 300 communal groups world-wide, providing analytical data on the causes and management of ethnopolitical conflict. From 1994 to 2000 he was senior consultant to the U.S. government's State Failure Task Force Edward (Edy) Kaufman is the Executive Director of the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Senior Research Associate (and former Director) of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland and Visiting Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland Herbert C. Kelman is the Richard Clarke Cabot Research Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University and Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs John W. McDonald, a U.S. diplomat for 40 years, wrote the first book on track two diplomacy in 1985, co-authored the first book on multi-track diplomacy with Louise Diamond in 1991, and co-founded the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in 1992. The Institute takes a systems approach to peace and has its focus on international ethnic conflict Christopher Moore is a Partner at CDR Associates, an international consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, that provides professional decision-making, organizational consulting, public participation, and conflict management assistance to public, private, and non-governmental sectors Jay Rothman is President of the ARIA Group, Inc. a conflict resolution training and consulting company. He is also founder and Research Director of the Action Evaluation Research Institute, which provides research, training, and technical assistance in action research, and Scholar-in-Residence at the McGregor School of Antioch University Andrea Strimling is Commissioner for International and Dispute Resolution Services with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, an independent agency of the U.S. government based in Washington, D.C. Peter Woodrow is the Program Director for CDR Associates, an international consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, that provides professional decisionmaking, organizational consulting, public participation, and conflict management assistance to public, private, and non-governmental sectorsDavies, John is the author of 'Second Track/Citizen's Diplomacy Concepts and Techniques for Conflict Transformation' with ISBN 9780847695515 and ISBN 0847695514.