B.A.  Ithaca College
M.A. University of Nebraska
Ph.D. Syracuse University

Courses:

Fundamentals of Conflict Studies                                               Transnational Environmental Politics
Evaluating Conflict Resolution Interventions
Crisis Management
Governance and Global Civil Society

Recent Publications:

"Managing Crises in the Twenty-First Century," (Ed.) International Studies Review 6, 1 (March 2004).

“Policy Frames, Policy Making and the Global Climate Discourse,” in John Proops and Helen Addams, (eds.), Social Discourse and Environmental Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000.

Social Conflict and Collective Identity. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2000. Associate Editor with Patrick Coy (ed.), Timothy Hedeen (associate ed.), Michael Hovey (associate ed.), Anna Synder (associate ed.) & Lynne Woerhle (ed.).

Research Interests:

Peace and Conflict Studies
Crisis Management                                                                    Environmental Politics
Program Evaluation

Current Research Projects:

Bruce Dayton researches and teaches in the fields of conflict studies, crisis management, and environmental politics. He has been active in community-based advocacy work and was a practitioner with the Boston-based Center for Policy Negotiation. At the Moynihan Institute Dayton heads a project to evaluate the impact of third-party interventions on intractable identity-based conflicts. He also co-directs the Institute’s Transnational Crisis Management Project and is a member of the Institute’s NSF-funded Transnational NGO research team.  Dayton serves as the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), an international organization representing all field of inquiry concerned with exploring the relationship between political and psychological processes.