Professional Presentations

“Peace Processes, Ceasefires and Persuasion for Special Operations Forces,” presenter at Special Operations Forces Support to Strategic Competition 2024 Research Forum, Joint Special Operations University, SOCOM, August 8, 2024

“Four Negotiation Skills for National Security Crisis Negotiations” guest lecturer, George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, National Security Studies Program, Senior Manager Course in National Security Leadership, Washington, DC, June 12, 2024

“Tactics of Negotiation for Combat Advisor Leadership,” Pre Command Course, Security Force Assistance Command, USFORSCOM Headquarters, Ft. Liberty, April 22-24, 2024

“Challenging the Flawed Foundations of Post-Liberal Peacebuilding,” Paper co-written and presented with Alex Cromwell at the 65th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 6, 2024

“Negotiation and Persuasion in Leadership and Command,” Lecture presented at Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College, Leadership and Negotiation Course, Quantico, VA, March 19, 2024

“Tactical Mastery in National Security Negotiations” guest lecturer, George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, National Security Studies Program, Senior Manager Course in National Security Leadership, Washington, DC, March 13, 2024

“Strengthening Peacemaking in Times of War,” Keynote Address at “History of Conflicts or Conflict of Histories” Symposium, Florida State College at Jacksonville, March 8, 2024

“Palestinian-Israel Negotiations: From Humanitarian Contact to Comprehensive Talks,” Panelist at NATO’s Civil-Military Cooperation Center of Excellence (CIMIC CCOE) seminar on “Israel-Palestine: A Humanitarian Case Study,” March 6, 2024

“Tactics of Negotiation for Combat Advisor Leadership,” Pre-Command Course, Security Force Assistance Command, USFORSCOM Headquarters, Ft. Liberty, January 22-24, 2024

"Strategic Advising Curriculum" Training of Trainers at the Military Advisor Training Academy (MATA), Ft. Moore, GA, July 17-20, 2023

“National Security Negotiations: Hostages, Ukraine and Russia,” guest lecturer, George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, National Security Studies Program, Senior Manager Course in National Security Leadership, Washington, DC, March 15, 2023

“Negotiation and Persuasion in Leadership and Command,” Lecture presented at Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College, Leadership and Negotiation Course, Quantico, VA, February 28, 2023

“Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy,” Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 21, 2022

“Professional Negotiation Strategies and Tactics,” Breakthrough Leadership Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 13, 2022

“National Security Negotiations: Great Power Politics and Interagency Negotiations,” guest lecturer, George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, National Security Studies Program, Senior Manager Course in National Security Leadership, Washington, DC, March 16, 2022

“Negotiation and Persuasion in Leadership and Command,” Lecture presented at Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College, Leadership and Negotiation Course, Quantico, VA, March 3, 2022

“Foreign Policy, Strategic Questioning and Negotiation Skills for Defense Advisors,” Pre Command Course, Security Force Assistance Command, USFORSCOM Headquarters, Ft. Bragg, January 26-28, 2022

“From Saigon to Kabul: Negotiation Lessons Learned and Forgotten,” Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, PON Live! Lecture Series, January 12, 2022, https://youtu.be/HbV03mqE2g

“Prenegotiations in Peace Processes,” guest lecture in Prof. Jim Pugel’s Conflict Analysis course within Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence program, National Intelligence University, April 28, 2021

“Back Channels in Palestine Before 1948: Colonialists, Zionists and Arab Nationalists" for Panel "Out of the Shadows: Israel and Back-channel Diplomacy,” paper presented at the 62nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 6, 2021

“Adapting International Negotiation Teaching for Online Delivery,” 10th Annual Graduate Education Symposium in Peace and Conflict Resolution, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, December 4, 2020

“Cultural and Psychological Dimensions of Negotiation,” Skokolvo Moscow School of Business, October 6, 2020 https://youtu.be/-xkk0rEv8G8

“Peace Negotiation Skills for Women Delegates to Intra-Afghan Peace Talks,” United States Institute of Peace, September 9, 2020

 

Work In Progress

• "Peace Processes: Assessing the Empirical Evidence" (with Alexander Cromwell)
• "Shooting for Peace: Negotiation of Ceasefires"
• "Heading for the Exit: From Saigon to Kabul"
• "International Law and Civil Wars"
• "Kashmiri Self-Determination in International Law"
• "Unofficial Emissaries in Hostage Diplomacy"
• "Arab-Israeli Channels of Secret Diplomacy during the British Mandate"
• "Secret Diplomacy of the 1967 War, the 1973 War and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon"

Selected Publications

Books | Edited Volume (Refereed) | Book Chapters | Journal Issues - Guest Editor | Refereed Journal Articles | Non-Refereed Journal Articles | Research Reports | Reviews and Review Essays | Research Monographs | Peer-Reviewed Policy Papers and Publications | Pedagogy

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Books

• Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process. Syracuse University Press, 2011/2017.

Edited Volumes

• Contemporary Peacemaking: Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict, with Roger Mac Ginty. 3rd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
• Conflict Prevention and Management in the New Security Context: Case of Macedonia, with M. Mitrevska, A. Grizold, V. Buchovski (Open Society Institute, 2009) (Table of Contents; Chapters 1 and 9)
• In Macedonian

Book Chapters

• "Conclusion: Peace Processes Past, Present and Future," with Roger Mac Ginty in Mac Ginty and Wanis-St. John, eds., Contemporary Peacemaking: Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict. 3rd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Ch. 27.
• "Introduction (to Contemporary Peacemaking), with Roger Mac Ginty in Mac Ginty and Wanis-St. John, eds., Contemporary Peacemaking: Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict. 3rd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• "The Intermediation of Turkey and Brazil between Iran and the Western Powers," with Arunjana Das, in Doga Ulas Eralp, ed. Turkey as Mediator: Stories of Success and Failure (Lexington Books, 2016)
• “International Conflict Resolution: From Knowledge to Practice and Back Again,” with Suzanne Ghais, in P. Coleman, M. Deutsch, and E. Marcus, eds.The Handbook of Conflict Resolution 3rd ed. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2014), Ch. 56.
• “Indigenous Peacebuilding,” in Roger Mac Ginty, ed., Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding (London: Routledge, 2013), Ch. 28, pp. 360 - 374
• “Nuclear Negotiations: Iran, the EU (and the United States),” in G. Olivier Faure, ed., Unfinished Business: Saving International Negotiations From Failure (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
• “Structural Dimensions of Negotiations That Do Not End in Agreement,” with the late Christophe Dupont, in G. Olivier Faure, ed., Unfinished Business: Saving International Negotiations From Failure (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
• “Ancient Peacemakers: Exemplars for Humanity,” in Susan Allen Nan, Andrea Bartoli, Zachariah Mampilly, eds. Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (Praeger, 2011), pp. 563-581.
• “Cultural Pathways in Negotiation and Conflict Management,” Chapter 8 in Michael Moffitt and Robert Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005), pp. 118-134.

Journal Issues - Guest Editor

• “Peace Processes, Secret Negotiations and Civil Society,” special thematic issue of International Negotiation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2008).

Refereed Journal Articles

• "Fumbling Abdication: Make America Diplomatic Again," Negotiation Journal vol. 35, no. 1 (2019): 107-110
• "Impediments to trade across the Green Line in Cyprus: The role of classic barriers and trust," with Omer Gokcekus, Dennis Nottebaum and Jessica Henson, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 49, no. 6 (November 2012) 
• “Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Confronting Exclusion,” International Negotiation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2008), with Darren Kew.
• “Back Channel Negotiation: International Bargaining in the Shadows.” Negotiation Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (2006): 119-144.
• “The National Security Council: Tool of Presidential Crisis Management,” Journal of Public and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998): 102-127.
• “Third Party Mediation Over Kashmir: A Modest Proposal,” International Peacekeeping, vol. 4, no. 4 (1997): 1-30.
• “The Mediating Role in the Kashmir Dispute Between India and Pakistan,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 21, no. 1 (1996): 173-195.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

• "The Rambouillet Negotiations: A Precursor for Failure?" (on Kosovo), The Diplomatic Courier, vol. 2, no. 1 (2007)
• “Implementing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Transitioning States: Lessons Learned From Practice” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Vol. 5 (2000): 339-381.

Research Reports

• “Managers as Negotiators: The Power and Gender Mix,” Negotiation Journal, vol. 12, no. 4 (1996): 367-370.
• “Toward the ‘Next Generation’ of Research on Mediation and Third-Party Intervention,” Negotiation Journal, vol. 12, no. 3 (1996): 271-274.

Reviews and Review Essays

• “Thinking Globally and Acting Locally,” Review Essay of Negotiating Globally, by J. Brett and Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution, by F. Dukes, M. Piscolish and J. Stephens, Negotiation Journal, vol. 19, no. 3 (2003): 371-378.
• “Advice to Princes in the Global Age”: Review Essay of Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts, by T. Sisk and Elusive Peace, by I. W. Zartman, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 21, no. 2 (1997).
• Review of A Concise History of the Middle East, by A. Goldschmidt, Jr., The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 20, no. 2 (1996).

Research Monographs

• Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Why, Whether and How They Could Be Involved, with Thania Paffenholz and Darren Kew. Background paper for International Mediators’ Retreat, June 2006 Oslo Forum: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, Switzerland, and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• An Assessment of Back Channel Diplomacy: Negotiations Between the Palestinians and Israelis, PON Paper 00-7 (September 2000) Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
• Resolving the Kashmir Conflict Between India and Pakistan: Prospects for Mediation, Working Paper Series, 96-2 Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
• The Negotiations Between the Palestinians and Israel: Short Term Breakthrough but Long Term Failure? Working Paper Series, 95-4 Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.

Peer-Reviewed Policy Papers and Publications

• “Negotiating Civil Resistance,” with Noah Rosen, Peaceworks vol. 129, United States Institute of Peace, July 2017
• Setting the Table for Arab-Israeli Peace: The Role of Publics, Policy paper for the USIP Senior Working Group on the Middle East, Co-Chaired by Samuel R. Berger and Stephen A. Hadley, June 23, 2009.
• Training Manual on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Justice [Judicial training for Nigerian judges], co-authored with Darren Kew and Kevin Nwosu, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, October 2007.
• International Prevention Practices in the Culture of Drugs and Violence, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, July 2005.
• “A Culture of Justice: Guatemala’s Post-Conflict Judicial Modernization,” World Bank, April 2004 (presented at World Bank’s “Scaling-Up Poverty Reduction” Conference in Shanghai, May 2004).
• “Evaluation of World Bank-supported ADR in Guatemala,” World Bank, March 2003.
• “Commercial Alternate Dispute Resolution in Bolivia,” Appendix “B” in S. Brown, C. Cervenak, D. Fairman, Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs: A Guide for USAID, December 1997 (USAID Contract AEP-I-00-96-90022-00).

Pedagogy

• “Comparative Peace Processes,” in Timothy A. McElwee, B. Welling Hall, Joseph Liechty, Julie Garber, eds., Peace, Justice and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7th ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009) Ch. 14.6