Faculty

Courses are taught by Columbia University faculty and by practitioners in the field.

Advisory Commitee

Andrea Bartoli

Andrea Bartoli, senior research scholar, is the founding director of Columbia’s Center for International Conflict Resolution, in the School of International and Public Affairs. Since August 2007 Bartoli has been the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, where he continues his work on the Genocide Prevention Program and on peacemaking. He is senior research scholar in Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, a teaching fellow at Georgetown University and at the University of Siena. Bartoli has taught at SIPA since 1994 and chaired the Columbia University Seminar on Conflict Resolution. He is a member of the Dynamical Systems and Conflict Team. Bartoli has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of St. Egidio, and has published books and articles on violence, migrations, and conflict resolution. He was co-editor of Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of International Media in Wars and International Crisis. Bartoli served as associate director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (1992–99). He was a lecturer at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata (1987–92), and was director of the Center for the Study of Social Programs (1986–92). He was president of Unita Sanitaria Locale 7 (1983–87), and a consultant to Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro (1980–84). An anthropologist from Rome, Bartoli completed his Italian dottorato di ricerca (Ph.D. equivalent) at the University of Milan and his laurea (B.A.–M.A. equivalent) at the University of Rome.

Aldo Civico

Aldo Civico is the director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) at Columbia University. An anthropologist, he has been doing fieldwork in Colombia since 2001 focusing on internally displaced people and the paramilitary. Since 2003, he has been facilitating the peace efforts with the ELN guerrilla. Previously, he worked as a senior political adviser to Mr. Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo (Italy) and leader of the anti-mafia movement La Rete. In the 1990s, as a freelance journalist he worked for Italian and German media.

Peter T. Coleman

Peter T. Coleman is director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR), Teacher's College, Columbia University. He is currently associate professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, and teaches courses in conflict resolution, social psychology, and social science research. He has conducted research on social entitivity processes (ingroup/outgroup formation), the mediation of inter-ethnic conflict, intractable conflict, complexity, and on the conditions and processes that foster the constructive use of social power. In 2003, he became the first recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence. Dr. Coleman co-edited The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2000; 2nd edition in press), and has also authored over forty journal articles and chapters. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in social/organizational psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.A. in communications from the University of Iowa.

Carol Liebman

Carol Liebman is clinical professor, Columbia University School of Law. She has taught negotiation and mediation in Vietnam, Brazil, Israel, and China, and has designed and presented mediation training for a variety of groups including the Certification Program in Bioethics of Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; New York’s First Department, Appellate Division, Attorney Disciplinary Committee; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and high school students, parents and teachers. She served as Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Correction (1976-79); and clinical professor, Boston College Law School (1979-91). Liebman is a member of the New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is co-principal investigator of the Mediating Suits against Hospitals (MeSH) project, and was co-principal investigator of the Demonstration Mediation and ADR Project, a part of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Liebman is co-author of Mediating Bioethics Disputes: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions. Liebman holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. from Rutgers University, where she was a Fellow of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.