Dr. Peter T. Coleman, PhD Social-Organizational Psychology: Director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, a member of the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, Chair of the International Project on Conflict and Complexity (IPCC), Chair of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) at Columbia and an affiliate of the International Center for Complexity and Conflict (ICCC) at The Warsaw School for Social Psychology in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Coleman co-edits The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2000; 2nd edition 2006), and has authored over 50 journal articles and chapters. He is also a New York State certified mediator and experienced consultant.
Dr. Robin Vallacher, PhD Social Psychology: Professor of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, and Research Affiliate at Columbia University’s ICCCR and the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) and the Center for Complex Systems, Warsaw University. In recent years, his work has centered on identifying the invariant properties underlying diverse social phenomena. Using experimentation and computer simulations, he and his colleagues are investigating the dynamism and complexity associated with such phenomena as self-regulation, social judgment, close relations, inter-group conflict, and the emergence of personality from social interaction. Dr. Vallacher has published five books, including two with Andrzej Nowak that develop the implications of dynamical systems for social psychology and over 100 articles and chapters.
Dr. Andrzej Nowak, PhD Psychology: Professor of Psychology at the Warsaw School for Social Psychology, where he is the Director of the Institute of Social Psychology of Informatics and Communications. He is also Professor of Psychology at University of Warsaw, where he directs the Center for Complex Systems at Institute for Social Studies, Associate Professor of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, and Research Affiliate at Columbia University’s ICCCR and the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). His primary focus is on the dynamical approach to social psychology. He has done research concerning social influence, social transitions, social dilemmas, emotions, and the self. His current research includes the use of coupled dynamical systems to simulate the emergence of personality through social coordination, attractor neural networks to model interpersonal and group dynamics, and cellular automata to simulate societal change. Dr. Nowak has published five books, including two with Robin Vallacher concerning dynamical social psychology and over 100 articles and chapters.
Dr. Andrea Bartoli, PhD Anthropology: Holds the Drucie French Cumbie Chair at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He works primarily on Peacemaking and Genocide Prevention. The Founding Director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), a Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University, and at the University of Siena, and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University’s ICCCR and the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) Dr. Bartoli has taught in the US since 1994. He is a Board member of Search for Common Ground, has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of St. Egidio (http://www.santegidio.org/en/ ), 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. 
Dr. Lan Bui-Wrzosinska PhD, Psychology: A faculty member at the Warsaw School for Social Psychology and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University’s ICCCR and the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). Her interests are focused on the dynamical systems approach to intractable conflicts. She has co-taught courses in Poland, at Teachers College, Columbia University, and in Florida Atlantic University. She is currently developing a dynamical model of intractable conflicts and conducting experimental and qualitative studies on the dynamics of change in intractable conflicts. Lan Bui-Wrzosinska is also implementing conflict resolution programs in educational settings in Warsaw and in New York City. 
Dr. Larry S. Liebovitch PhD, Astrophysics: Professor and Association Dean for Graduate Programs and Studies in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Liebovitch earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at City College of New York, and a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and then served as assistant professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He is formerly the director of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, where he also has appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Biomedical Science and at the Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. He is a Research Affiliate at Columbia University’s ICCCR and the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4).
Katharina Kugler, Ph.D. student: Doctoral student in psychology at the University of Munich, Germany. Currently she holds a Fellowship in Complexity and Conflict from the ICCCR to study at Teachers College and to work as a Research Assistant for Professor Coleman at the ICCCR. Katharina Kugler received her “Diplom” (combined B.A. and M.A.) in Psychology at the University of Munich, Germany. During her graduate studies she studied for one year at Teachers College, holding a Fulbright Scholarship. Her main research interest is in the role of emotions in conflicts. She contributed previously to a series of studies, which elaborated on how the experience of humiliation fuels intractable conflicts. Currently her research concentrates on conflicts within organizations, employing the dynamical systems theory approach. 
