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Guy Burgess is the Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology, and has worked in the field of conflict resolution for over twenty years, doing research, teaching, and conflict management practice. He has taught a variety of conflict management courses in the Sociology Department and the multi-disciplinary Environmental Policy Certificate Program at the University of Colorado, has done research on international and environmental conflict management at both CU and MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , and has been involved as a researcher and a facilitator on a number of different environmental dispute resolution programs.
Along with his wife, Heidi Burgess, he has recently authored an Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution, (ABC-Clio, 1997) has co-edited (and contributed several chapters to) a book entitled Justice Without Violence (Lynne Reinner, 1994), and was co-author (with Kenneth and Elise Boulding) of The Social System of the Planet Earth (Addison Wesley, 1997). His current interests and activities focus largely on the analysis of alternative methods of approaching intractable conflicts, and developing ways to present this and other related information in an easy-to-use form on the Internet.
Heidi Burgess
Heidi Burgess is also a Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology, and has worked in the field of conflict resolution for over twenty years, doing research, teaching, and conflict management practice. She has taught conflict management and sociology courses at the University of Colorado, the University of Denver, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also worked as an environmental mediator for several years.
Heidi is a co-author (with Guy ) of the Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution, and co-edited (also contributing several chapters to) Justice Without Violence with Guy Burgess and Paul Wehr. Her current interests focus on the theory and practice of intractable conflict management, particularly as that relates to intergroup, international, and public policy conflicts.
Paul Wehr
Paul Wehr has taught the sociology of conflict since 1968, first at Haverford College, then at the University of Colorado. His career path in conflict resolution has led
him through a number of tasks; war refugee relief work with the American Friends Service Committee, building the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development as its first director, developing and teaching a Short Course on conflict management for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, chairing the sociology department at the University of Colorado, co-founding the Conflict Research Consortium also at Colorado, and co-editing the
journal Peace and Change.