Research

• Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
• M.Phil., Teachers College, Columbia University
• B.A., University of Iowa 

• The constructive use and abuse of social power
• Motivation dynamics and conflict
• Intractable conflict
• Injustice and conflict
• Moral emotions and conflict
• Polarized collective identity formation
• Culture and conflict
• Sustainable peace

Coleman, P. T. (May 3, 2011). The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to (Seemingly) Impossible Conflicts. New York: Public Affairs, Perseus Books.

Coleman, P. T. (Ed., Fall 2011). Conflict, Justice, and Interdependence: The Legacy of Morton Deutsch. Springer Books. Three authored chapters.

M. Deutsch, P. T. Coleman, & E. Marcus (Eds., Fall 2011) A Guiding Handbook for Conflict Resolution in The Arab World. New York: International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Publications. (In Arabic).

Deutsch, M., & Coleman, P. T. (Eds., January, 2012). Psychology’s Contributions to Sustainable Peace. Springer Books. Three authored chapters.

Deutsch, M., Coleman, P. T., & Marcus, E. (Eds.) (2006).The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Coleman, P. T., Kugler, K. G., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., Nowak, A., and Vallacher. R. (forthcoming). Getting down to basics: A situated model of conflict in social relations. Negotiation Journal.

Vallacher, R., Coleman, P. T., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2010).Rethinking intractable conflict: The perspective of dynamical systems. American Psychologist, 65 (4), 262-278.

Vallacher, R., Coleman, P. Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2010). Dynamical foundations of intractable conflict: Introduction to the special issue. Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology, 16(2), 113-125.

Coleman, P. T., Hacking, A., Stover, M., Fisher-Yoshida, B, and Nowak, A. (2008). Reconstructing ripeness I: A study of constructive engagement in protracted social conflicts. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 26(1), 3-42.

Coleman, P. T., Fisher-Yoshida, B., Stover, M., Hacking, A., and Bartoli, A. (2008). Reconstructing ripeness II: Models and methods for fostering constructive stakeholder engagement across protracted divides. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 26(1), 43-69.

Coleman, P. T. (2003). Characteristics of protracted, intractable conflict: Towards the development of a meta-framework - I. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 9(1), 1-37. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.