Susan Allen Nan is a scholar-practitioner of conflict resolution. Her main focus is on intermediary roles and coordination amongst intermediaries. She also works on evaluation of conflict resolution initiatives, and community conflict resolution approaches. She has engaged long-term in conflict resolution in Eurasia, as well as contributing to a variety of conflict resolution initiatives in Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa.

Susan Allen Nan joined the ICAR core faculty in 2005 after two years teaching International Peace and Conflict Resolution as Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University. This was a return to ICAR. Susan Allen Nan’s Ph.D. (2000) and M.S. (1995) degrees are from ICAR. Between graduate school and joining the faculty at ICAR, she co-founded and directed the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT) and served as Senior Program Associate for the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, GA.

Susan Allen Nan’s current research centers on coordination in conflict resolution. Her work on this topic has been supported by the US Institute of Peace (Peace Scholar award), and the William and Flora I. Hewlett Foundation, Compton Foundation, and Catalyst Fund (with ACT). Watch for the forthcoming special issue of the journal International Negotiation focused on coordination in conflict resolution, which she is editing (with Andrea Strimling).

Susan Allen Nan serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT). www.conflicttransformation.org and on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org.

Graduate Courses

“Theories of the Person ” (CONF 802)

Selected Publications

Nan , Susan Allen. “Track One-and-a-Half Diplomacy: Contributions to Georgian-South Ossetian Peacemaking.” in Ronald J. Fisher, ed., Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Nan , Susan Allen. “Track One and a Half Diplomacy: Searching for Political Agreement in the Caucasus.” In Mari Fitzduff and Cheyanne Church, eds. NGOs at the Table: Strategies for Influencing Policies in Areas of Conflict. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Previous work by Susan Allen Nan on coordination and evaluation can be found at www.beyondintractability.org.

http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/track1_diplomacy.jsp

http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/track_1_2_cooperation.jsp

http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/formative_evaluation.jsp

http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/intervention_coordination.jsp

And, read her speech on Track One- Track Two Cooperation to the Secretary’s Open Forum at the State Department at: http://www.state.gov/s/p/of/proc/tr/14387.htm.

Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking

NGOs at the Table: Strategies for Influencing Policies in Areas of Conflict