Brian Polkinghorn, Salisbury University
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MS, MA, Ph.D.
Professor Polkinghorn is the University System of Maryland Wilson Elkins Professor and Distinguished Professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. Since 2000 he has been the Director of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) at Salisbury University. Prior to that (1994-2000) he was the senior faculty member in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR), Nova Southeastern University where he designed and launched their MA and Ph.D. programs. He has worked in the conflict intervention field since 1985 as a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, trainer, researcher, academic program administrator, dispute systems designer and ombudsman. His primary research is in the areas of environmental disputes, graduate program developments in the English speaking world, court program assessment, evaluation of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission mediation programs, state agency partnering and mediation programs, dispute systems design and conflict model building. He has practiced in over 30 countries primarily in the areas of environmental policy dispute intervention, labor-management and civil society training, including work for focused humanitarian assistance groups in regions experiencing massive population shifts. He has published scores of journal articles, book chapters and books primarily in the areas of conflict processes, intervention strategies and applied research findings. He earned graduate degrees from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution (ICAR), George Mason University and the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), Syracuse University. He was also a visiting fellow with the Program on Negotiation (PON), Harvard University, a United States Environmental Protection Agency Fellow and United States Presidential Fellow as well as has been a guest lecturer or visiting professor at more than a dozen programs overseas.