I’m excited to announce my recent article “Consequences of Excluding Armed Groups from Peace Negotiations” has been featured in the excellent Peace Science Digest. For those of you who (like me) rarely have time to read through a whole journal article, this publication provides summaries of peace-related academic works in an easy-to-read style (subscribe here). […]
Joining Network of Experts: Negotiation & Public Service
April 1, 2019 by 1 Comment
I’m excited to join a new network of experts called “Negotiation & Public Service” offering consulting and capacity building on negotiation for the public sector (governmental and nonprofit organizations). Many thanks to colleague Stefan Szepesi for initiating this!
Article published!
March 19, 2019 by 2 Comments
I’m excited to announce the publication of my article “Consequences of Excluding Armed Groups from Peace Negotiations: Chad and the Philippines” in the peer-reviewed journal International Negotiation. This is part of the special issue on Inclusive Peace Negotiations (vol. 24 issue 1), edited by Thania Paffenholz and William Zartman. https://brill.com/abstract/journals/iner/24/1/article-p61_4.xml
Recent Trainings
March 1, 2019 by 1 Comment
In the past few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of being back in the trainee seat. I just finished the Facilitator Training Program at Training Resources Group. Trainers Helen Petrozzola and Andrea Scott were truly phenomenal, consistently modeling the skills they were helping us learn. For me, as a solo practitioner, the opportunity for detailed […]
Developing new training, “Facilitation Skills for Inclusive Negotiations”
January 11, 2019 by Leave a Comment
I am in the process of developing a training, probably two and a half days in length, called “Facilitation Skills for Inclusive Negotiations.” This will be aimed at those involved in political negotiations, national dialogues, and peace processes. Rather than trying to cover all facilitation tactics in chronological fashion (beginning to end of a process), […]
Great panel on the Colombian peace process
October 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Great panel at the Korbel School yesterday (cosponsored by One Earth Future) on the still-fragile Colombia #peaceprocess. Speakers included Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace Rodrigo Rivera, Gimena Sanchez of the Washington Office on Latin America, and postdoc Juliana Restrepo. Nice to bump into friends Conor Seyle and Prof. Lynn Holland and to meet Prof. (and […]
Chapter in “Contemporary Peacemaking”
October 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This week I submitted a manuscript of a chapter on inclusivity in peace processes for the third edition of Contemporary Peacemaking. After the sad loss of John Darby, Roger Mac Ginty recruited Anthony Wanis-St. John (my erstwhile dissertation advisor) as co-editor. The second edition, which I used heavily in my doctoral studies, is pictured here. […]
Is “Inclusivity” a Leftist Agenda?
September 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The other day I had coffee with my friend and colleague Eric Meade. We had a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, and then, as two solo consultants in related but distinct lines of work, we did the usual thing and offered each other ideas for our respective businesses. I got talking about how I seek ways […]
Tensions between Headquarters and Field Offices
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Recently I’ve facilitated several working groups in different organizations that shared a theme: how to manage the tension between the headquarters or central office of an organization and field or local offices. In these cases, the field offices had considerable autonomy, but the central office, due to new legislation or other pressures, required more standardization […]
The United Nations and Peace: What You Might Not Know
July 5, 2018 by 2 Comments
I don’t like to talk to people at the gym. My goal is to work out, get out, and get on with my day. But recently, I made an exception when I saw this man and his anti-UN shirt. Meet Eric. He believes the US pays far more toward the UN than we get back […]