Acknowledgments
The editors are grateful for the contributions of each of the authors whose manuscripts form the basis for this handbook. This volume would not have come to fruition without the patient support and wise guidance provided by David Smock, vice president of the United States Institute of Peace’s Center of Mediation and Conflict Resolution (CMCR), and Virginia Bouvier, senior program officer in CMCR. The editors are also indebted to all those within United States Institute of Peace who lend their creativity, energy, and enthusiasm to the task of producing the Peacemaker’s Toolkit and promoting it to a broad audience.
About the Authors
Editors
Nigel Quinney, president of The Editorial Group, has examined the role of negotiation and mediation in conflict resolution and international security for some twenty years. He is coauthor (with Richard Solomon) of American Negotiating Behavior (2010), and has edited most of the volumes in the United States Institute of Peace’s Cross-Cultural Negotiation series. He is a series editor of the Peacemaker’s Toolkit. He has written on a wide range of subjects, most recently, culture and regional conflict management and promoting justice and security in countries emerging from conflict. A publisher as well as a writer and editor, Quinney is a consultant to European and American think tanks, academic institutions, and multinational corporations.
A. Heather Coyne was a senior program officer in the Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution of the United States Institute of Peace, where she was responsible for development of best practices and conflict management tools for mediation practitioners. She is a series editor of the Peacemaker’s Toolkit. Currently, she serves as the NGO and International Organizations Liaison for the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan, working to strengthen the role of civil society in shaping the training and reform of the Afghan police and army. She previously served in Iraq. She worked for four years at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the National Security Division, where she was responsible for oversight of federal programs to combat terrorism and development of an interagency review process.
Contributors
Daniel Byman is a professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the research director at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Byman has served as a professional staff member with both the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (“the 9-11 Commission”) and the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. He has written widely on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, and the Middle East. His most recent book is A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (2011).
Mark Perry is a Washington, D.C., foreign policy analyst, writer and author of eight books, including Partners in Command (2008) and Talking To Terrorists (2010). His articles on foreign policy issues have appeared widely in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Nation, and Asia Times.
Guy Olivier Faure is professor of sociology at the Sorbonne University, Paris V, France, where he teaches international negotiation, conflict resolution, and strategic thinking and action. He is a member of the editorial boards of the three major international journals dealing with negotiation theory and practice ( International Negotiation, Negotiation Journal, and Group Decision and Negotiation) and two major scientific book series ( International Negotiation and Negotiation). He has authored, coauthored, or edited fifteen books and over eighty articles. Among his most recent publications are How People Negotiate, Escalation and Negotiation (with William Zartman), and La négociation décloisonnée. Together with Jeffrey Z. Rubin, he published Culture and Negotiation.
I. William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Professor Emeritus at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at Clingendael. His doctorate is from Yale and his honorary doctorate from Louvain, and he received a lifetime achievement award from the International Association for Conflict Management. He is author of a number of books, including Negotiation and Conflict Management, The Practical Negotiator, Ripe for Resolution, and Cowardly Lions.