SYMPOSIUM - Participants

Harold Abramson
Professor of Law, Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
hala@tourolaw.edu

Nadja Alexander
Professor of Dispute Resolution and Director of ADR & Practice, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS), The University of Queensland
nadjaalexander@mac.com

Nabil Antaki
Emeritus Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for Business Law and International Commerce, Montreal University
nabil.antaki@umontreal.ca

Kevin Avruch
Professor, George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
kavruch@gmu.edu

Stephen Bensimon

Director, Institute of Mediation and Negotiation Training, Catholic University of Paris
bensimon@tiscali.fr

Phyllis Bernard

Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law
pbernard@okcu.edu

Anita Bhappu
Research Fellow, Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing, Norton School of Family & Consumer Sciences,
The University of Arizona
abhappu@email.arizona.edu

Jennifer Brown

Professor of Law and Director, Center on Dispute Resolution, Quinnipiac College School of Law
jennifer.brown@quinnipiac.edu

Lt. Jack Cambria
Commanding Officer, Hostage Negotiation Team, New York City Police Department
jcambria@nypd.org

Habib Chamoun-Nicolás

Honorary Professor, Catholic University of Santiago Guayaquil- Ecuador; author of Negotiate
like a Phoenician; Founder, Keynegotiations, LLC
hchamoun@kingwoodcable.net

Sandra Cheldelin
Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
scheldel@gmu.edu

James Coben
Professor of Law and Director, Dispute Resolution Institute, Hamline University School of Law
jcoben@hamline.edu

Lynn Cohn

Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director, Program on Negotiations and Mediation,
Northwestern University School of Law
l-cohn@law.northwestern.edu

Calvin Chrustie

Lead Negotiator and Negotiation Strategist, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Conflict Negotiation Team, Province of British Columbia
calchrustie@hotmail.com

Helena De Backer

Attorney, De Backer & Bastin; Member and Officer, International Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section h.debacker@debacker-bastin.com

Ellen Deason
Joanne Wharton Murphy/Classes of 1965 and 1973 Professor in Law, Moritz College of Law,
The Ohio State University
deason.2@osu.edu

Giuseppe De Palo

International Professor of ADR Law and Practice, Hamline University Law School; President, ADR Center (Rome); co-editor, Arbitration and Mediation in the Southern Mediterranean Countries (Kluwer, 2007) giuseppe.depalo@adrcenter.it

Jayne Docherty
Associate Professor of Conflict Studies, Eastern Mennonite University
jayne.docherty@emu.edu

William Donohue

Distinguished Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
donohue@msu.edu

Noam Ebner

Co-Director, Tachlit Mediation Center, Jerusalem; Adjunct Professor, Graduate Program on Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Sabanci University
noam@tachlit.net

Yael Efron

Co-Director, Tachlit Mediation Center, Jerusalem
yael@tachlit.net

Ken Fox
Associate Professor and Director of Conflict Studies, Hamline University; Senior Fellow,
Dispute Resolution Institute, Hamline University School of Law
kfox@hamline.edu

Clark Freshman

Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law
clarkfreshman@mac.com

Ewa Gmurzynska

Ph.D; Co-director, Center for Amicable Dispute Resolution, Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University; Director, Center for American Law Studies, joint program of University of Florida/University
of Warsaw

Bee Chen Goh

Professor and Dean, Law School, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia beechen.goh@scu.edu.au

Chris Guthrie

Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Vanderbilt University Law School; co-author, Dispute Resolution
and Lawyers (West Publishing, Third Edition 2005) and of The Psychology of Judging(forthcoming,
Harvard University Press)
chris.guthrie@law.vanderbilt.edu

Julia Gold

Director, Mediation Clinic and Senior Law Lecturer, University of Washington School of Law julgold@u.washington.edu

Susan Hackley

Managing Director, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
shackley@law.harvard.edu


Christopher Honeyman

Managing Partner, Convenor Conflict Management; co-editor, The Negotiator’s Fieldbook (ABA 2006) honeyman@convenor.com

Gregory Todd Jones
Faculty Research Fellow and Director of Research, Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Georgia State University College of Law
lawgtj@langate.gsu.edu

Sanda Kaufman

Professor of Planning and Public Administration, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University sanda@urban.csuohio.edu

Kim Kovach

Acting Director, Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution, South Texas College of Law k2kovach@yahoo.com

Ran Kuttner

Visiting Scholar, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
rkuttner@law.harvard.edu

Michelle LeBaron

Professor of Law and Director, Program on Dispute Resolution, the University of British Columbia, Canada; co-author, Conflict across Cultures (Intercultural Press, 2006)
lebaron@law.ubc.ca

Andrew Lee

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Leading Negotiation; Lectures at Peking University Law School, China
andrewlee008@gmail.com

Leonard Lira

Major, U.S. Army; formerly Assistant Professor of Political Sciences, Department of Social Sciences,
U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
leonard.lira@us.army.mil

Karl Mackie

Chief Executive, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, United Kingdom
kmackie@cedr.com

Melissa Manwaring

Director of Curriculum Development, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School mmanwar@law.harvard.edu

David Matz

Director, Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Boston
david.matz@umb.edu

Barbara McAdoo

Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Dispute Resolution Institute, Hamline University School of Law bmcadoo@gw.hamline.edu

Navin Merchant

Program Manager, ADR Program, International Finance Group, World Bank
nmerchant@ifc.org

Mike McIlwrath

Senior Counsel-Litigation, GE Infrastructure Oil & Gas
michael.mcilwrath@ge.com

Melissa Nelken
Professor of Law and Faculty Chair, Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution,
UC Hastings College of Law
nelkenm@uchastings.edu

Jackie Nolan-Haley

Professor of Law and Director, ADR & Conflict Resolution Program, Fordham University School of Law
jnolan-haley@law.fordham.edu

Mario Patera

Head of the Department for Intercultural Social Competence, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies and Continuing Education (IFF)-Vienna campus; founder and organizer "International Summer School on Business Mediation" (www.isbm.at); certified mediator trainer and mediator;psychotherapist mario.patera@univie.ac.at

Dana Potockova

Managing Director, Conflict Resolution International, Czech Republic
potockova@conflict-management.org

Avi Schneebalg

Attorney and Mediator, Lecturer at Boston, Bologna and Brussels Universities
aschneebalg@skynet.be

Andrea Schneider

Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School; co-editor, The Negotiator’s Fieldbook (ABA 2006) andrea.schneider@marquette.edu

Manon Schonewille
Director, ACB Conflict Management, The Hague, Netherlands 
manonschonewille@home.nl

Deborah Shmueli

Senior Lecturer of Planning and Environmental Policy, Department of Geography, Haifa University, Israel deborah@geo.haifa.ac.il

Joseph Stulberg
John W. Bricker Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
stulberg.2@osu.edu

Catherine Tinsley
Associate Professor, The McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; board member, Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management; board member and past program chair, International Association of Conflict Management; numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals tinsleyc@georgetown.edu

Michael Tsur
Founder and Director, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Institute, Jerusalem; Adjunct Professor
of Mediation, College of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
tsur_gishur@yahoo.com

Maria Volpe

Professor of Sociology and Director, Dispute Resolution Program, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
City University of New York
mvolpe@jjay.cuny.edu

John H. Wade
Professor of Law and Director, Dispute Resolution Centre, Bond University, Queensland, Australia;
author of over 100 books and articles
jwade@bond.edu.au

Kimberly Wade-Benzoni

Associate Professor of Management and Center of Leadership and Ethics Scholar, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
kimberly.wadebenzoni@duke.edu

Wallace Warfield

Associate Professor of Conflict Management, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution,
George Mason University
wwarfiel@gmu.edu

Michael Wheeler

Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School; founding faculty member,
Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; author of nine books; editor, Negotiation Journal
mwheeler@hbs.edu

Shmulik Zoltak

Chief Negotiator, Israeli National Police
zoltaksh@netvision.net.ilcc