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Professional Background

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education and Director, International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

Educational Background

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

    • Scholarly Interests

  • The conditions required for fostering constructive change in situations of protracted and intractable conflict.
  • The psychological processes and social conditions which foster the use of constructive social power.

    • Selected Publications

     

     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., Vallacher, R., Nowak, A., & Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2007). Intractable conflict as an attractor: Presenting a dynamical model of conflict, escalation, and intractability.  American Behavioral Scientist, 50(11), 1454-1475.

    Coleman, P. T., & Lowe, J. K. (2007). Conflict, identity, and resilience: Negotiating collective identities within the Palestinian and Israeli Diasporas. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 24(4), 377-412.

    Coleman, P. T. (2006) Conflict, complexity, and change: A meta-framework for addressing protracted, intractable conflicts - III. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 12(4), 325-348.
     
    Coleman, P. T., Schneider, A., James, C. C. F., Adams, D. S., Gameros, T. A., Hammons, L. R., Orji, C. C., Waugh. R. M., & Wicker, R. F. (2005). Intragroup subgroup attitude clustering, external intervention, and intergroup interaction patterns: Toward a dynamical model of protracted intergroup conflict. Peace and Conflict Studies, 12(1), 55-70.
     
    Coleman, P. T. (2004) Paradigmatic framing of protracted, intractable conflict: Towards the development of a meta-framework - II. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 10(3), 197-235.

     
    Coleman, P. T. (2004). Implicit Theories of Organizational Power and Priming Effects on Managerial Power Sharing Decisions: An Experimental Study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), 297-321.

    Coleman, P. T., & Fisher-Yoshida, B. (2004). Conflict resolution across the lifespan: The work of the ICCCR. Theory into Practice, 43(1), Winter 2004. College of Education, The Ohio State University.

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

    Tjosvold, D., Coleman, P. T., & Sun, H. (2003). Effects of organizational values on leader's use of information power to affect performance in China. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 7, 152-167.

    Coleman, P. T., & Voronov, M. (2003). Power in Groups and Organizations. In M. West & D. Tjosvold & K. G. Smith (Eds.), International handbook of organizational teamwork and cooperative working. New York, NY: Wiley & Sons.

    Deutsch, M., & Coleman, P. T. (Eds.). (2000). The Handbook of Constructive Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

    Coleman, P. T. & Lim, Y. Y. J. (2001). A systematic approach to evaluating the effects of collaborative negotiation training on individuals and groups. Negotiation Journal, 17(4), 329-358.

    Coleman, P. T. (2000). Fostering ripeness in seemingly intractable conflict: An experimental study. International Journal of Conflict Management, 11 (4), 300-317.


    Peter Coleman

    Peter Thomas Coleman

    Associate Professor of Psychology and Education

    Director, International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

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