Professional skill and understanding of major conflict is scattered across a huge number of separate disciplines and specialties, as many of which are in "civilian" domains as in military, intelligence or other security-related fields. Many of these fields and specialties are barely aware of each other's contributions, and true collaboration across more than a few of them is rare. Project Seshat is designed to draw from most or all of the relevant skill sets and knowledge bases.
Steering Committee:
Steering Committee:
Cynthia Alkon
Cynthia Alkon is a law professor and the Director of the Criminal Law, Justice & Policy Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. Professor Alkon teaches Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Procedure, and Negotiation. Professor Alkon’s scholarship focuses on plea bargaining, criminal dispute resolution, comparative criminal procedure and rule of law reform. Before joining academia, Professor Alkon was a deputy public defender in Los Angeles County handling cases ranging from misdemeanors to first degree murder. Professor Alkon then joined the American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative, working as a Rule of Law Liaison in Belarus for two years (1998-2000). After Belarus, Professor Alkon was the head of the legal department for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Albania. From 2002-2006 Professor Alkon was the Head of the Rule of Law Unit for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR). In that position Professor Alkon supervised the OSCE/ODIHR Rule of Law Unit’s criminal justice reform assistance projects in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe.
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Adrian Borbély
Adrian Borbély is an Associate Professor of Negotiation at em-lyon business school in Lyon, France. A litigation lawyer by training, he contributed to the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute (IU Bloomington), then the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation at ESSEC Business School, before launching his career in academia. He has been teaching and practicing negotiation, mediation, and conflict management since 2008, teaching in French business, law, and public administration schools, as well as in professional settings. He has a special interest in negotiation theory and has contributed to the Negotiator’s Desk Reference, among other books. For project Seshat, he is coordinating the drafting, updating, and publishing of case studies. He may be reached at aborbely@em-lyon.com.
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Calvin Chrustie
Calvin Chrustie, BA, BA (Honors), LLM is a senior security and critical risk consultant. He has successfully advised and coached executives, law offices, diplomats, politicians, community leaders, in these fields for several decades. He specializes in negotiations (ransom), intelligence, investigations, and crisis response and management. His work in this area is often described as ‘asymmetrical problem solving' and often touches on national security related issues, transnational crime actors and / or geopolitical dynamics. Calvin served 33 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a Senior Operations Officer. He specialized in complex transnational organized crime investigations, kidnap/extortion negotiations, illicit finance, crisis and conflict management. He has extensive experience in intelligence operations and international investigations with transnational organized crime networks, including those affiliated with state actors. He holds a Masters in Law (LLM), specializing in Alternate Dispute Resolution - Conflict and Negotiations. He also holds a BA in Justice and Law Enforcement and a BA (honours) with a Major in Law. Calvin is a graduate of the FBI Academy’s and Scotland Yard's international hostage negotiation programs. He has extensive experience in the design and delivery of scenario-based and simulation training for crisis-related incidents. Calvin was the Team Leader of Canada's International Negotiation Group, a group of highly specialized negotiators tasked with terrorist and hostage situations. He now works with a boutique group of ‘tier-one' risk and security advisors with backgrounds in military, intelligence, policing, cyber, indigenous matters, NGO's and law. More at Critical Risk Team
Sanda Kaufman
Sanda Kaufman is Professor Emerita of Planning, Public Policy and Administration at Cleveland State University’s Levin School of Urban Affairs. Her research spans negotiations and intervention in environmental and other public conflicts; social-environmental systems resilience; decision analysis; program evaluation; disaster preparedness; and negotiation pedagogy. She conducts interdisciplinary research with scholars from several disciplines including geography, law, political science, sociology, management, statistics, and physics. Her articles have appeared in the Journal for Conflict Resolution, the Negotiation Journal, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, International Journal for Conflict Management, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Revue Négociations, Journal on Policy and Complex Systems, Entropy, and others. She holds degrees in B. Arch. and M.S. in Planning (Technion) and Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis (Carnegie Mellon University); she is a trained mediator (PON).
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Andrea Kupfer Schneider
Andrea Kupfer Schneider is a Professor of Law and has taught Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Ethics, and International Conflict Resolution for 25 years. In 2022 she joined Cardozo Law School in New York as the director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution. She previously served as the inaugural director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Marquette University and as the Director of the nationally ranked Dispute Resolution Program at Marquette University Law School. Professor Schneider is the author or co-author of numerous books, including leading textbooks on dispute resolution generally, negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution in the criminal context. She has also edited multiple volumes focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to negotiation, including Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers and The Negotiator’s Desk Reference, both co-edited with Chris Honeyman. She has published articles on negotiation, ethics, pedagogy, gender and international conflict. Professor Schneider was named 2009 Woman of the Year by the Wisconsin Law Journal and, in 2016, gave her first TEDx talk, entitled Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense. She was the 2017 recipient of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work. She received her A.B. cum laude from Princeton University and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Senior Advisor:
Chris Honeyman is the project's Senior Advisor, after chairing the steering committee and serving as Principal Investigator for four years. He is Managing Partner of Convenor Conflict Management, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Chris has served as an advisor to numerous academic and practical conflict resolution programs in the U.S. and other countries, and as a mediator, arbitrator and in other neutral capacities in more than 2,000 disputes since the 1970s. He has been co-director of the long-running Canon of Negotiation Initiative since its inception. From 2007-2013 he was co-director of Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, a major project to revamp the content and methods of negotiation teaching worldwide. From 2004-2009 he served as lead external consultant to ADR Center (Rome), the largest dispute resolution firm in continental Europe. And from 1990-2006 he was director of a succession of Hewlett Foundation-funded research-and-development programs, of national or international scale. He is co-editor of The Negotiator’s Desk Reference and six other books, and author or co-author of more than 100 published articles, book chapters and monographs on dispute resolution ideas, infrastructure, quality control and ethics. He has held a variety of committee and advisory roles for the ABA, IMI and other organizations.
Contributors:
The project team currently includes roughly forty conflict management / negotiation specialists and ten security experts. While it is based in the longstanding "Five Eyes" security partnership, the project is now working to expand its geographic reach, and also seeks to draw from a larger variety of cultural backgrounds. The project's conflict management / negotiation specialists include both practitioners and scholars with varied backgrounds in law, business, sociology, planning and many other fields. Most are well-known authors who have written at least one textbook in their field. The security specialists have backgrounds in police, intelligence, military, cybersecurity or related work at an equivalent level to the negotiation specialists. The project team operated from nine different countries as of mid-2023; about one-third of the total group are women. Those who have agreed to list their names in public include:
Andrew Floyer Acland began his working life as a political analyst specialising in East-West relations and arms control. In 1985, while working on the staff of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, he was involved in negotiating the release of British hostages in Libya. He subsequently worked for a Swiss intermediary organisation in South Africa, contributing to work with South Africa’s churches which may have subsequently encouraged their disavowal of apartheid. In his subsequent freelance career Andrew has specialised in designing and facilitating dialogue and engagement processes in many controversial situations, especially those involving differences of beliefs and values. Since 2015 he has focused on research into religious conflict and his most recent book, Religious Hatred and Human Conflict: Psychodynamic Approaches to Insight and Intervention, based on his PhD work, will be published in Autumn 2023.
Oluwaseun Ajaja has a graduate degree from the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a public policy enthusiast, researcher, and legal practitioner with close to a decade of experience in human rights law, social justice issues, criminal justice reforms, conflict engagement, guerrilla warfare and intergovernmental affairs. He has acted on behalf of government parastatals, represented multi-national corporations, advised continental-wide associations, and supported law enforcement agencies in framing guerrilla warfare tactics. His current research interest straddles the Sino-Afro relationship, the political economy of development, rising economic disparities, deliberative democracy, micro and macro discrimination, securities of human rights, hybrid warfare, supply chain management, corruption, information technology and artificial intelligence.
Dainius T. Balčytis is a security researcher focusing on emerging threats, foresight and wargaming/simulation of conflicts. His professional experience includes employment by the European Commission, University of Aberdeen and volunteering with the UK Army Cadet Force. He holds double Masters from the University of Aberdeen in History-International Relations (MA) and in European Politics and Society (MSc). He is also founder and research coordinator at the ETAFIN project mapping global risks. In addition to this, he has a strong interest in strategic thought, having designed and conducted war games and exercises on topics related to insurgency, information & unconventional warfare, space conflict and pandemic containment.
Guy Burgess, with his wife and partner, Heidi Burgess, has co-directed the Conflict Information Consortium at the University of Colorado since its founding in 1988. Guy holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in the conflict resolution field, as a scholar, educator, and practitioner, since 1979. His primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. He co-created and co-directs CRInfo–the Conflict Resolution Information Source and the Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project (https://www.beyondintractability.org/). With Guy and Heidi's retirement from teaching and research positions at the University, the Consortium became a freestanding project which the Burgesses are still actively developing with the Moving Beyond Intractability series of online courses and blogs and the Constructive Conflict Initiative. The Burgesses have jointly edited and authored a number of books and articles on intractable conflict. More at https://www.beyondintractability.org/moos/ghburgess
Heidi Burgess, with her husband and partner, Guy Burgess, co-directed the Conflict Information Consortium at the University of Colorado since its founding in 1988. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in the conflict resolution field, as a scholar, educator, and practitioner, since 1979. Her primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. She co-created and co-directs CRInfo–the Conflict Resolution Information Source and the Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project (https://www.beyondintractability.org/). With their retirement from their teaching and research positions at the University of Colorado, the Consortium became a freestanding project which the Burgesses are still actively developing with the Moving Beyond Intractability series of online courses and blogs and BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative. The Burgesses have jointly edited and authored a number of books and articles on intractable conflict and she continues to teach online through the Carter School at George Mason University. More at https://www.beyondintractability.org/moos/ghburgess
Christopher A. Corpora, Ph.D. currently serves as a Domain Expert with Hala Systems and Board Member with the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE). He is an international security expert with over 30 years of experience in the field and classroom – serving in various positions, ranging from Department Director though Subject Matter Expert to Assistant Professor. He served as a senior manager and advisor with multiple U.S. government agencies and private companies, focused on conflict stabilization and countering transnational threats – global illicit trafficking, transnational organized crime, corruption and violent extremism. Most of his work and research focuses on conflict regions and at-risk populations. His career accomplishments are highlighted by multiple awards, authorship of over a dozen peer-reviewed book chapters and articles, and many opportunities to work with great teams in the service of promoting democracy, peace, security and education around the world. He received his Ph.D. from American University’s School of International Service and is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Junior Scholars Seminar. Most importantly, he is the proud father of three creative and remarkable daughters.
Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist in private practice with Emeritus Professor status at both the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. He has wide international experience in teaching and research, particularly in the interdisciplinary study of law, medicine, science and technology. This has included extensive studies of mediation, particularly in family disputes, and civil justice, particularly in relation to personal injury and medical negligence. He is also interested in the application of ideas from conflict resolution to issues of public engagement and the interactions between science and society. His recent work has been particularly focused on policy, practice and management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The public and private conflicts over what counts as knowledge and what counts as disinformation have many echoes in hybrid warfare. More at https://www.dingwallenterprises.co.uk/
Noam Ebner is a professor of negotiation and conflict resolution at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business. Previously an attorney and a mediator, he has taught mediation and negotiation in a dozen countries around the world. He was among the first teachers to engage in online teaching of negotiation and conflict studies, and to explore the potential for Massive Open Online Courses in these fields. Noam’s research interests include online negotiation and dispute resolution, trust and its role in dispute resolution, negotiation pedagogy, and the future of the negotiation and conflict fields. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation (2019) and Star Wars and Conflict Resolution (2022). Noam can be contacted at NoamEbner@creighton.edu; his work can be found at www.ssrn.com/author=425153.
Véronique Fraser served on the project's Steering Committee from 2020-2023, and hosted the project's first in-person meeting. She is a Law Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), and she most recently held the position of Vice-Dean for Strategic Development for the Faculty. She is specialized in negotiation, cross-cultural dispute resolution, conflict avoidance and psychology of conflict. She holds a doctorate in law (Ph.D.) from the University of Ottawa, and is a lawyer called to the bars of the provinces of Québec (civil law) and Ontario (common law) in 2009, as well as an accredited mediator. She is the President of the Institute for Negotiation Innovation, a non-for-profit corporation which mission is to promote the development of innovative negotiation tools and mobilize knowledge derived from an international body of credible negotiation science, in order to make them freely accessible. She sits on the Executive Committee of the International Task Force on Mixed Mode Dispute Resolution, a combined effort of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the International Mediation Institute and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. She has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of the University of Toulouse (France) in 2018, at the Faculty of Law of the University Lyon 2 (France) in 2021, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law (California) between 2016 and 2018, one of the leading dispute resolution programs in the United States. She has published over 20 articles and books in dispute resolution and negotiation and has given more than 30 lectures to academic and professional audiences.
John Gilmour retired from Canada’s federal government after a career of thirty-seven years, most recently serving in the counter-terrorism unit of one of Canada’s national security agencies. His expertise lies in strategic and policy advice in counter-terrorism (CT), counter-insurgency (COIN) and asymmetric warfare, and the geopolitical implications of terrorism threats and risk. Experience in managing CT capacity building assistance to partner countries or other recipients, and the assessment of government policy (domestic and international) on the conduct and delivery of national security mandates. Post retirement, he has been retained as an advisor/analyst within Canada's national security agencies, and by private sector companies to provide specialized training both domestically and abroad. John currently serves as an instructor at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (Ottawa) on subjects related to terrorism, counter-terrorism and intelligence, and has contributed to peer-reviewed journals on the subject of national security. He serves as a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, an advisor to the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (Vancouver), and is a Director for the Canadian Intelligence Network. John graduated with a BA from Carleton University (Ottawa) and a Masters and Ph.D from the Royal Military College of Canada's War Studies Program (Kingston)
Art Hinshaw is the John J. Bouma Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program, and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Professor Hinshaw’s research bridges dispute resolution theory and practice, and he has co-authored or co-edited 3 books as well as co-authored 25 articles and book chapters. He is a 3-time winner of prestigious CPR awards from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution: the 2021 Award for Best Book (Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles), the 2017 Award for Best Professional Article (Regulating Mediators), and the 2012 Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement (Foreclosure Mediation Project). Professor Hinshaw is active in the dispute resolution community, having served on several academic and professional committees at the state and national levels, and he is a regular contributor to Indisputably, the ADR law professor blog. Outside of the ADR realm, he has served as a member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Barney Jordaan served on Project Seshat's steering committee from 2020-2023, and hosted the project's second in-person meeting. He holds a doctorate in law from Stellenbosch University and since 2014 has been professor of management practice at Vlerick Business School, Belgium, focusing on negotiation, conflict management and the resolution of disputes impacting on organisations. Prior to this he held appointments as professor of law at Stellenbosch University and as professor in negotiation at two leading business schools in South Africa (universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch). Apart from his academic involvement, Barney has also been involved in private practice since 1985, first as associate in a human rights law firm in South Africa, thereafter as co-founder and director of a consulting practice with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg which specializes in negotiation, mediation and dispute resolution and currently as negotiation trainer, coach and mediator. He is a senior mediator, having been involved in the field since 1989. He is certified by the International Mediation Institute as well as by the ADR Group (UK), the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR, UK) and the Africa Centre for dispute Settlement (ACDS). Until June 2014 he was also consultant to the World Bank Group’s Office of Mediation Services. He has been listed annually in the International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediators since 2011.
Miron Kaufman is Professor (Emeritus) of Physics at Cleveland State University. From 2000 to 2012 he chaired the Physics Department. His research in statistical physics covers topics in critical phenomena, complex systems, hierarchical and fractal lattices, and sociophysics—the use of physics models to describe and model various complex social phenomena, including social polarization. He has proposed a dynamic model of conflicts between several groups, such as the Bosnia-Herzegovina ethnic conflict, which exhibit emergent behavior and chaos [e.g. Entropy 2020, Sociophysics Analysis of Multi-Group Conflicts], that could also be used to model hybrid warfare. For the past two decades, he has collaborated on several National Science Foundation- and National Institutes of Health-funded research projects at the interface of statistical physics with cognitive science, health science, urban studies, and engineering. His 200 publications have been referenced 2800 times (Hirsch index 27).
David Kliemann is a Cloud Risk and Controls Leader who helps drive the security of IBM’s Cloud for Financial Services. Prior to joining IBM, he held several cybersecurity roles at Fiserv, a Fortune 500 Fintech, including VP, Cyber & Technology Risk and VP, Cyber Threat Management. Dave was also a 20-year U.S. Naval Officer whose assignments included Information Operations Planning and Director, Navy Cyber Red Team roles. Among his efforts to increase the financial sector’s cybersecurity posture, he has been involved in the development and execution of cyber-related tabletop exercises at both the organizational and sector level. Dave also serves as an adjunct instructor teaching cybersecurity at Marquette University and an advisory board member of MU’s Center for Cybersecurity Awareness and Cyber Defense.
Michelle LeBaron is a conflict transformation scholar/practitioner at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law whose work is animated by creativity, culture and interdisciplinarity. She has done seminal work in many types of conflicts including intercultural, international, family, organizational and commercial, exploring how arts help shift intractable conflicts. She was for a number of years a fellow at the Trinity College Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute in Dublin, and holds a Wallenberg Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa. Her books include The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience; Conflict Across Cultures: A New Approach for a Changing World; Bridging Cultural Conflicts; and Bridging Troubled Waters.
Anne Leslie is Cloud Risk and Controls Leader for EMEA at IBM Cloud for Financial Services. She has over 15 years’ experience in international roles in banking and related technology businesses, spanning the intersection of financial services, international regulatory policy, cybersecurity and Cloud. Bilingual in French and English, Anne holds an Executive MBA from HEC Business School in Paris and the CCSP in Cloud Security from (ISC)² in addition to multiple security platform certifications. Since joining IBM Cloud, her focus has been on accompanying major financial institutions in securely accelerating their journey to cloud and transforming their cybersecurity operations to keep pace with a dynamic business, regulatory, technology and threat landscape, using human-centered approaches and Design Thinking to address some of the most wicked problems facing cybersecurity practitioners. Widely known for her public speaking, Anne regularly contributes her thought leadership to industry publications and conferences, and provided the keynote address to the 2022 Melnick Symposium: Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means. A recognized, trusted advisor on cybersecurity strategy, she has a proven ability to orchestrate outcome-oriented dialogue on complex industry issues by convening diverse stakeholder groups and cultivating positive relationships between them. Irish by nature and French by design, Anne was born and raised in the Republic of Ireland and lives happily with her three children in Paris, France which has been her home now for over twenty years. More at: https://www.beyondintractability.org/newsletter-69 ; https://youtu.be/TQHJ30Vu634 ; and https://www.ibm.com/blogs/jobs/2020/09/28/how-my-non-traditional-path-took-me-to-a-career-in-cybersecurity/
Leonard (Len) L. Lira is chair of the Department of Public Policy and Service at San Antonio College (https://www.alamo.edu/siteassets/sac/about-sac/leadership/department-chairs/lira-cv.pdf). He was previously a Colonel (ret. 2016) in the U.S. Army. His final posting was as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the Army University. He has a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Kansas and has taught Public Administration at San Jose State University. He served in two combat tours in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and also served in Afghanistan, as Director of the Combined Joint Operations Center for the NATO HQs in Kabul.
Scott McGregor is Principal of Closehold Intelligence Inc., and co-author of The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard (Optimum 2023). Previously he was an officer in Canadian military intelligence, and subsequently was Intelligence Advisor for Federal and Serious Organized Crime at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Kamil Mikulski is a senior OSINT analyst at IN2, a PhD student at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid and a PhD fellow at NATO StratCom CoE. He was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Tackling Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy through Education and Training, and acts as an expert within the European Digital Media Observatory’s Task Force, working in Structural Indicators to assess the impact of the Code of Practice on Disinformation. He is a policy expert of the European Academy of Democracy and an external expert of the Kosciuszko Institute. K.mikulski.2021@alumnos.urjc.es
Debbie Perouli is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Her research lies in the broad areas of cybersecurity and privacy focusing on Internet protocols and cyber physical systems. She has been awarded cybersecurity grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Security Agency (NSA) to study social robots, conduct summer K-12 camps, and more recently train students as part of scholarship for service opportunities. She received her doctoral degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and her diploma (5 year degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece. More information: https://www.marquette.edu/computer-science/directory/debbie-perouli.php
Jeff Senger is a partner at Sidley Austin, handling litigation and FDA matters. He previously served as FDA’s Acting General Counsel. He was a litigator with the United States Department of Justice, a special assistant United States Attorney, and the leader of DOJ’s Office of Dispute Resolution. He wrote an award-winning book, Federal Dispute Resolution (Wiley 2003); taught trial advocacy, mediation, and negotiation at Harvard Law School; testified as an expert witness on dispute resolution before the United States Congress; and spoke about mediation on five continents. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Nancy A. Welsh is the Frank W. Elliott, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. She was previously the William Trickett Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law. Professor Welsh is a leading scholar and teacher of dispute resolution and procedural law. She examines negotiation, mediation, arbitration, judicial settlement, and dispute resolution in U.S. and international contexts, focusing on self-determination, procedural justice, due process, and institutionalization dynamics. Professor Welsh presents nationally and internationally and has written more than 70 articles and chapters that have appeared in law reviews, professional publications and books. Professor Welsh is also co-author of the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LAWYERS and co-editor of EVOLUTION OF A FIELD: PERSONAL HISTORIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION. She has served as co-chair of the Editorial Board of the Dispute Resolution Magazine, conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, and served as Chair of both the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an American Bar Foundation Fellow. Before joining the legal academy, Professor Welsh was the executive director of Mediation Center in Minnesota and practiced law with Leonard, Street and Deinard. She has advised state legislatures, federal and state agencies, and courts regarding the institutionalization of dispute resolution, conducted empirical research, convened roundtables and symposia on various dispute resolution topics, and served as a mediator, facilitator and arbitrator. Professor Welsh earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Allegheny College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
I. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. He is author of The Practical Negotiator (Yale 1982), Ripe for Resolution (Oxford 1989), Preventing Deadly Conflict (Polity 2015), and Cowardly Lions (Rienner 2005), and editor of numerous works, including Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflicts (Cambridge 2005), Peace vs Justice (Rowman and Littlefield 2005), Peacemaking in International Conflict (USIP 1993; 2006), Arab Spring: Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat (University of Georgia Press 2015) and How Negotiation Ends: Behavior in the Endgame (Cambridge 2016). He is a member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Group of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy of Abu Dhabi. zartman@jhu.edu
Oluwaseun Ajaja has a graduate degree from the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a public policy enthusiast, researcher, and legal practitioner with close to a decade of experience in human rights law, social justice issues, criminal justice reforms, conflict engagement, guerrilla warfare and intergovernmental affairs. He has acted on behalf of government parastatals, represented multi-national corporations, advised continental-wide associations, and supported law enforcement agencies in framing guerrilla warfare tactics. His current research interest straddles the Sino-Afro relationship, the political economy of development, rising economic disparities, deliberative democracy, micro and macro discrimination, securities of human rights, hybrid warfare, supply chain management, corruption, information technology and artificial intelligence.
Dainius T. Balčytis is a security researcher focusing on emerging threats, foresight and wargaming/simulation of conflicts. His professional experience includes employment by the European Commission, University of Aberdeen and volunteering with the UK Army Cadet Force. He holds double Masters from the University of Aberdeen in History-International Relations (MA) and in European Politics and Society (MSc). He is also founder and research coordinator at the ETAFIN project mapping global risks. In addition to this, he has a strong interest in strategic thought, having designed and conducted war games and exercises on topics related to insurgency, information & unconventional warfare, space conflict and pandemic containment.
Guy Burgess, with his wife and partner, Heidi Burgess, has co-directed the Conflict Information Consortium at the University of Colorado since its founding in 1988. Guy holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in the conflict resolution field, as a scholar, educator, and practitioner, since 1979. His primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. He co-created and co-directs CRInfo–the Conflict Resolution Information Source and the Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project (https://www.beyondintractability.org/). With Guy and Heidi's retirement from teaching and research positions at the University, the Consortium became a freestanding project which the Burgesses are still actively developing with the Moving Beyond Intractability series of online courses and blogs and the Constructive Conflict Initiative. The Burgesses have jointly edited and authored a number of books and articles on intractable conflict. More at https://www.beyondintractability.org/moos/ghburgess
Heidi Burgess, with her husband and partner, Guy Burgess, co-directed the Conflict Information Consortium at the University of Colorado since its founding in 1988. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in the conflict resolution field, as a scholar, educator, and practitioner, since 1979. Her primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. She co-created and co-directs CRInfo–the Conflict Resolution Information Source and the Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project (https://www.beyondintractability.org/). With their retirement from their teaching and research positions at the University of Colorado, the Consortium became a freestanding project which the Burgesses are still actively developing with the Moving Beyond Intractability series of online courses and blogs and BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative. The Burgesses have jointly edited and authored a number of books and articles on intractable conflict and she continues to teach online through the Carter School at George Mason University. More at https://www.beyondintractability.org/moos/ghburgess
Christopher A. Corpora, Ph.D. currently serves as a Domain Expert with Hala Systems and Board Member with the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE). He is an international security expert with over 30 years of experience in the field and classroom – serving in various positions, ranging from Department Director though Subject Matter Expert to Assistant Professor. He served as a senior manager and advisor with multiple U.S. government agencies and private companies, focused on conflict stabilization and countering transnational threats – global illicit trafficking, transnational organized crime, corruption and violent extremism. Most of his work and research focuses on conflict regions and at-risk populations. His career accomplishments are highlighted by multiple awards, authorship of over a dozen peer-reviewed book chapters and articles, and many opportunities to work with great teams in the service of promoting democracy, peace, security and education around the world. He received his Ph.D. from American University’s School of International Service and is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Junior Scholars Seminar. Most importantly, he is the proud father of three creative and remarkable daughters.
Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist in private practice with Emeritus Professor status at both the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. He has wide international experience in teaching and research, particularly in the interdisciplinary study of law, medicine, science and technology. This has included extensive studies of mediation, particularly in family disputes, and civil justice, particularly in relation to personal injury and medical negligence. He is also interested in the application of ideas from conflict resolution to issues of public engagement and the interactions between science and society. His recent work has been particularly focused on policy, practice and management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The public and private conflicts over what counts as knowledge and what counts as disinformation have many echoes in hybrid warfare. More at https://www.dingwallenterprises.co.uk/
Noam Ebner is a professor of negotiation and conflict resolution at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business. Previously an attorney and a mediator, he has taught mediation and negotiation in a dozen countries around the world. He was among the first teachers to engage in online teaching of negotiation and conflict studies, and to explore the potential for Massive Open Online Courses in these fields. Noam’s research interests include online negotiation and dispute resolution, trust and its role in dispute resolution, negotiation pedagogy, and the future of the negotiation and conflict fields. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation (2019) and Star Wars and Conflict Resolution (2022). Noam can be contacted at NoamEbner@creighton.edu; his work can be found at www.ssrn.com/author=425153.
Véronique Fraser served on the project's Steering Committee from 2020-2023, and hosted the project's first in-person meeting. She is a Law Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), and she most recently held the position of Vice-Dean for Strategic Development for the Faculty. She is specialized in negotiation, cross-cultural dispute resolution, conflict avoidance and psychology of conflict. She holds a doctorate in law (Ph.D.) from the University of Ottawa, and is a lawyer called to the bars of the provinces of Québec (civil law) and Ontario (common law) in 2009, as well as an accredited mediator. She is the President of the Institute for Negotiation Innovation, a non-for-profit corporation which mission is to promote the development of innovative negotiation tools and mobilize knowledge derived from an international body of credible negotiation science, in order to make them freely accessible. She sits on the Executive Committee of the International Task Force on Mixed Mode Dispute Resolution, a combined effort of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the International Mediation Institute and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. She has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of the University of Toulouse (France) in 2018, at the Faculty of Law of the University Lyon 2 (France) in 2021, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law (California) between 2016 and 2018, one of the leading dispute resolution programs in the United States. She has published over 20 articles and books in dispute resolution and negotiation and has given more than 30 lectures to academic and professional audiences.
John Gilmour retired from Canada’s federal government after a career of thirty-seven years, most recently serving in the counter-terrorism unit of one of Canada’s national security agencies. His expertise lies in strategic and policy advice in counter-terrorism (CT), counter-insurgency (COIN) and asymmetric warfare, and the geopolitical implications of terrorism threats and risk. Experience in managing CT capacity building assistance to partner countries or other recipients, and the assessment of government policy (domestic and international) on the conduct and delivery of national security mandates. Post retirement, he has been retained as an advisor/analyst within Canada's national security agencies, and by private sector companies to provide specialized training both domestically and abroad. John currently serves as an instructor at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (Ottawa) on subjects related to terrorism, counter-terrorism and intelligence, and has contributed to peer-reviewed journals on the subject of national security. He serves as a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, an advisor to the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (Vancouver), and is a Director for the Canadian Intelligence Network. John graduated with a BA from Carleton University (Ottawa) and a Masters and Ph.D from the Royal Military College of Canada's War Studies Program (Kingston)
Art Hinshaw is the John J. Bouma Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program, and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Professor Hinshaw’s research bridges dispute resolution theory and practice, and he has co-authored or co-edited 3 books as well as co-authored 25 articles and book chapters. He is a 3-time winner of prestigious CPR awards from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution: the 2021 Award for Best Book (Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles), the 2017 Award for Best Professional Article (Regulating Mediators), and the 2012 Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement (Foreclosure Mediation Project). Professor Hinshaw is active in the dispute resolution community, having served on several academic and professional committees at the state and national levels, and he is a regular contributor to Indisputably, the ADR law professor blog. Outside of the ADR realm, he has served as a member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Barney Jordaan served on Project Seshat's steering committee from 2020-2023, and hosted the project's second in-person meeting. He holds a doctorate in law from Stellenbosch University and since 2014 has been professor of management practice at Vlerick Business School, Belgium, focusing on negotiation, conflict management and the resolution of disputes impacting on organisations. Prior to this he held appointments as professor of law at Stellenbosch University and as professor in negotiation at two leading business schools in South Africa (universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch). Apart from his academic involvement, Barney has also been involved in private practice since 1985, first as associate in a human rights law firm in South Africa, thereafter as co-founder and director of a consulting practice with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg which specializes in negotiation, mediation and dispute resolution and currently as negotiation trainer, coach and mediator. He is a senior mediator, having been involved in the field since 1989. He is certified by the International Mediation Institute as well as by the ADR Group (UK), the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR, UK) and the Africa Centre for dispute Settlement (ACDS). Until June 2014 he was also consultant to the World Bank Group’s Office of Mediation Services. He has been listed annually in the International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediators since 2011.
Miron Kaufman is Professor (Emeritus) of Physics at Cleveland State University. From 2000 to 2012 he chaired the Physics Department. His research in statistical physics covers topics in critical phenomena, complex systems, hierarchical and fractal lattices, and sociophysics—the use of physics models to describe and model various complex social phenomena, including social polarization. He has proposed a dynamic model of conflicts between several groups, such as the Bosnia-Herzegovina ethnic conflict, which exhibit emergent behavior and chaos [e.g. Entropy 2020, Sociophysics Analysis of Multi-Group Conflicts], that could also be used to model hybrid warfare. For the past two decades, he has collaborated on several National Science Foundation- and National Institutes of Health-funded research projects at the interface of statistical physics with cognitive science, health science, urban studies, and engineering. His 200 publications have been referenced 2800 times (Hirsch index 27).
David Kliemann is a Cloud Risk and Controls Leader who helps drive the security of IBM’s Cloud for Financial Services. Prior to joining IBM, he held several cybersecurity roles at Fiserv, a Fortune 500 Fintech, including VP, Cyber & Technology Risk and VP, Cyber Threat Management. Dave was also a 20-year U.S. Naval Officer whose assignments included Information Operations Planning and Director, Navy Cyber Red Team roles. Among his efforts to increase the financial sector’s cybersecurity posture, he has been involved in the development and execution of cyber-related tabletop exercises at both the organizational and sector level. Dave also serves as an adjunct instructor teaching cybersecurity at Marquette University and an advisory board member of MU’s Center for Cybersecurity Awareness and Cyber Defense.
Michelle LeBaron is a conflict transformation scholar/practitioner at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law whose work is animated by creativity, culture and interdisciplinarity. She has done seminal work in many types of conflicts including intercultural, international, family, organizational and commercial, exploring how arts help shift intractable conflicts. She was for a number of years a fellow at the Trinity College Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute in Dublin, and holds a Wallenberg Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa. Her books include The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience; Conflict Across Cultures: A New Approach for a Changing World; Bridging Cultural Conflicts; and Bridging Troubled Waters.
Anne Leslie is Cloud Risk and Controls Leader for EMEA at IBM Cloud for Financial Services. She has over 15 years’ experience in international roles in banking and related technology businesses, spanning the intersection of financial services, international regulatory policy, cybersecurity and Cloud. Bilingual in French and English, Anne holds an Executive MBA from HEC Business School in Paris and the CCSP in Cloud Security from (ISC)² in addition to multiple security platform certifications. Since joining IBM Cloud, her focus has been on accompanying major financial institutions in securely accelerating their journey to cloud and transforming their cybersecurity operations to keep pace with a dynamic business, regulatory, technology and threat landscape, using human-centered approaches and Design Thinking to address some of the most wicked problems facing cybersecurity practitioners. Widely known for her public speaking, Anne regularly contributes her thought leadership to industry publications and conferences, and provided the keynote address to the 2022 Melnick Symposium: Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means. A recognized, trusted advisor on cybersecurity strategy, she has a proven ability to orchestrate outcome-oriented dialogue on complex industry issues by convening diverse stakeholder groups and cultivating positive relationships between them. Irish by nature and French by design, Anne was born and raised in the Republic of Ireland and lives happily with her three children in Paris, France which has been her home now for over twenty years. More at: https://www.beyondintractability.org/newsletter-69 ; https://youtu.be/TQHJ30Vu634 ; and https://www.ibm.com/blogs/jobs/2020/09/28/how-my-non-traditional-path-took-me-to-a-career-in-cybersecurity/
Leonard (Len) L. Lira is chair of the Department of Public Policy and Service at San Antonio College (https://www.alamo.edu/siteassets/sac/about-sac/leadership/department-chairs/lira-cv.pdf). He was previously a Colonel (ret. 2016) in the U.S. Army. His final posting was as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the Army University. He has a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Kansas and has taught Public Administration at San Jose State University. He served in two combat tours in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and also served in Afghanistan, as Director of the Combined Joint Operations Center for the NATO HQs in Kabul.
Scott McGregor is Principal of Closehold Intelligence Inc., and co-author of The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard (Optimum 2023). Previously he was an officer in Canadian military intelligence, and subsequently was Intelligence Advisor for Federal and Serious Organized Crime at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Kamil Mikulski is a senior OSINT analyst at IN2, a PhD student at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid and a PhD fellow at NATO StratCom CoE. He was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Tackling Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy through Education and Training, and acts as an expert within the European Digital Media Observatory’s Task Force, working in Structural Indicators to assess the impact of the Code of Practice on Disinformation. He is a policy expert of the European Academy of Democracy and an external expert of the Kosciuszko Institute. K.mikulski.2021@alumnos.urjc.es
Debbie Perouli is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Her research lies in the broad areas of cybersecurity and privacy focusing on Internet protocols and cyber physical systems. She has been awarded cybersecurity grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Security Agency (NSA) to study social robots, conduct summer K-12 camps, and more recently train students as part of scholarship for service opportunities. She received her doctoral degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and her diploma (5 year degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece. More information: https://www.marquette.edu/computer-science/directory/debbie-perouli.php
Jeff Senger is a partner at Sidley Austin, handling litigation and FDA matters. He previously served as FDA’s Acting General Counsel. He was a litigator with the United States Department of Justice, a special assistant United States Attorney, and the leader of DOJ’s Office of Dispute Resolution. He wrote an award-winning book, Federal Dispute Resolution (Wiley 2003); taught trial advocacy, mediation, and negotiation at Harvard Law School; testified as an expert witness on dispute resolution before the United States Congress; and spoke about mediation on five continents. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Nancy A. Welsh is the Frank W. Elliott, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. She was previously the William Trickett Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law. Professor Welsh is a leading scholar and teacher of dispute resolution and procedural law. She examines negotiation, mediation, arbitration, judicial settlement, and dispute resolution in U.S. and international contexts, focusing on self-determination, procedural justice, due process, and institutionalization dynamics. Professor Welsh presents nationally and internationally and has written more than 70 articles and chapters that have appeared in law reviews, professional publications and books. Professor Welsh is also co-author of the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LAWYERS and co-editor of EVOLUTION OF A FIELD: PERSONAL HISTORIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION. She has served as co-chair of the Editorial Board of the Dispute Resolution Magazine, conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, and served as Chair of both the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an American Bar Foundation Fellow. Before joining the legal academy, Professor Welsh was the executive director of Mediation Center in Minnesota and practiced law with Leonard, Street and Deinard. She has advised state legislatures, federal and state agencies, and courts regarding the institutionalization of dispute resolution, conducted empirical research, convened roundtables and symposia on various dispute resolution topics, and served as a mediator, facilitator and arbitrator. Professor Welsh earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Allegheny College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
I. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. He is author of The Practical Negotiator (Yale 1982), Ripe for Resolution (Oxford 1989), Preventing Deadly Conflict (Polity 2015), and Cowardly Lions (Rienner 2005), and editor of numerous works, including Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflicts (Cambridge 2005), Peace vs Justice (Rowman and Littlefield 2005), Peacemaking in International Conflict (USIP 1993; 2006), Arab Spring: Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat (University of Georgia Press 2015) and How Negotiation Ends: Behavior in the Endgame (Cambridge 2016). He is a member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Group of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy of Abu Dhabi. zartman@jhu.edu