AC4’s Peter Coleman interviewed by CU-SCE: “What Psychology and Mathematics Can Teach Us About Conflict”
In the field of conflict resolution, Prof. Peter Coleman is one of the most prominent leaders and thinkers. He has co-edited and authored several books on the subject matter, including The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice and his most recent book Making Conflict Work: Navigating Disagreement Up and Down Your Organization (September 2014).
He’s also the director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) and the Executive Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation Conflict, and Complexity (AC4 at The Earth Institute at Columbia).
Trained as a social psychologist and previously mentored by the renowned psychologist Morton Deutsch, Coleman brings his unique perspective to the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NECR) program at Columbia University.
We met with Prof. Coleman one spring morning at his office at the MD-ICCCR, housed at Teachers College. He discussed his approach to complexity and conflict, the interdisciplinary nature of NECR, and how he trains students to rethink solutions to intractable conflicts.
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