Bruce Dayton Assistant Professor, Political Science Director, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Bruce Dayton is the Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School where he specializes in conflict studies, crisis management, and global environmental politics. He has been active in community-based advocacy work and was a practitioner with the Boston-based Center for Policy Negotiation. Dayton currently heads a project to evaluate the impact of third-party interventions on intractable identity-based conflicts, which received funding from the United States Institute of Peace. He also co-directs an initiative to train Maxwell graduate students in a comparative case-study methodology focusing on crisis management. In January of 2005 Dayton was elected to serve as the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Dayton recently published “Managing Crises in the Twenty First Century”. He has also authored “Policy Frames, Policy Making and the Global Climate Discourse,” and is the associate editor of Social Conflict and Collective Identity. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University and an MA in Political Science from the University of Nebraska.   Margaret (Peg) Hermann Professor, Political Science Committee Member, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Margaret (Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of The Moynihan Institute of the Maxwell School. Her research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy decision making, and the comparative study of foreign policy. Hermann has worked to develop techniques for assessing the leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and currently has such data on 130 leaders. She has been president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and the International Studies Association (ISA) as well as editor of the journal, Political Psychology. At present she is editor of the International Studies Review, a journal of the ISA, and Advances in Political Psychology, an annual sponsored by ISPP. She developed the Summer Institute in Political Psychology and was its director for nine years. Her books include The Psychological Examination of Political Leaders; Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking. Among her journal articles are “Presidents, Advisers, and Foreign Policy,” “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers,” “Rethinking Democracy and International Peace: Perspectives from Political Psychology,” “International Decision Making: Leadership Matters,” “Ballots, a Barrier Against the Use of Bullets and Bombs,” and “The US Use of Military Intervention to Promote Democracy: Evaluating the Record.” Hermann received her Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University.   Louis Kriesberg Professor, Sociology Committee Member, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Louis Kriesberg (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1953) is the founding director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, at Syracuse University. His interest in issues of international peace and ethnic conflict arose while growing up with immigrant parents in multi-ethnic Chicago and during wars in China, Spain and then around the world. He did research on the European Coal and Steel Community, while a Fulbright Research Scholar in Cologne Germany, 1956-1957. He has done research on international nongovernmental organizations, American public opinion regarding arms spending, the de-escalation of the Cold War, peace making efforts in the Middle East, and various processes of conflict resolution, including mediation and Track Two diplomacy. His most recent writings include: the second edition of Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution (2003, first edition, 1998) and International Conflict Resolution: The U.S.-USSR and Middle East Cases (1992). He is currently doing comparative research on reconciliation and changing accommodations between ethnic, religious, and other communal groups. He is also examining the ways that American officials and private citizens are engaged in counter terrorism and other current foreign conflicts. More Info...     Gavan Duffy Associate Professor, Political Science Participant, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Dr. Gavan Duffy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, where he conducts research and teaches courses in political conflict and research methods. He has published essays on conflicts in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and Vietnam. He has also published the results of conflict simulations conducted in a massively concurrent computational environment. Elsewhere, Prof. Duffy has published linguistic analyses of diplomatic negotiation talk exchanges. Before joining Syracuse in 1989, Prof. Duffy served on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.   Catherine Gerard Associate Director, Executive Education Participant, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Catherine Gerard serves as Associate Director of Executive Education Programs at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. In that role, she manages the Master of Arts in Public Administration degree program, serves as graduate course professor for the Department of Public Administration, and designs and delivers executive education programs for domestic and international customers. Her research interests include reinvention of government organizations, public sector leadership, and labor-management partnerships. As an organizational development consultant, Ms. Gerard specializes in strategic planning, change management, and facilitation for government, education, and not-for-profit organizations. Before joining Syracuse, she was Assistant Director for the New York State Governor’s Office of Employee Relations where she led a consulting and training organization devoted to statewide training and organizational effectiveness, and was a key architect of the State’s total quality management program. Ms. Gerard has consulted with public and non-profit organizations in the areas of strategic planning, leadership/management skills, organizational change, team-building and conflict resolution, labor-management partnerships, and total quality management. Ms. Gerard holds an MA from the University of Toronto, an MPA from the Rockefeller College, and has completed substantial graduate work in the field of education.     Galia Golan Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Participant, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Dr. Galia Golan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the Jay and Leoni Darwin Professor of Russian and East European Studies and the Chairperson of the Lafer Center for Women's Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the former Chairperson of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University and the founder of the Herezeg Program on Sex Differences in Society (Israel's first program in gender studies). The recipient of the Gleitsman Foundation Activist Award in 1999, Professor Golan is also one of the founders and a member of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Link -- An Israeli-Palestinian Women's Joint Venture for Peace. She was an International Fellow at the Brandeis Institute for Ethics, Justice and Public Life as well as a consultant for an International Study of Peace Organizations of the Aspen Institute. Professor Golan is the author of eight books on Soviet foreign policy and on Eastern Europe, including a book on the Soviet Union and the PLO and a book on Gorbachev's attitude toward terrorism. Her latest books recently appeared with Cambridge University Press on Soviet Policies in the Middle East from World War Two to Gorbachev and with the Royal Institute of International Affairs on Moscow and the Middle East and Russia and Iran. In addition, she has published a number of articles on women and politics in Israel and on the Middle East peace process. Professor Golan has been a visiting professor at a number of American universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, UC-Irvine, Wellesley College, and Cornell University as well as at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, the Rand Corporation, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Aspen Institute. She has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.     Gearoid Millar PhD Student, Social Science Participant, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Gearoid Millar is a Research Assistant at the Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict at the Maxwell School and is a PhD student in the multidisciplinary Social Science program researching post-conflict reconciliation processes in West Africa. Gearoid has a Masters degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington D.C. and has studied various aspects of conflict resolution theory and methods.     Bradford Vivian Assistant Professor, College of Visual and Performing Arts Participant, Evaluating Track Two Diplomacy Dr. Bradford Vivian (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is Dean’s Scholar and Assistant Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. His research specialties include the study of rhetoric and subjectivity, cultural politics, and public memory. He is the author of Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, the Western Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. He is the recipient of an NEH Summer Stipend and the B. Aubrey Fisher Award.