1999 Research Symposium Leaders and Participants

Symposium Leaders

Professor Jane Jaquette
Jane S. Jaquette holds the Bertha Harton Orr Chair in the Liberal Arts and is Professor of Politics, Diplomacy, and World Affairs at Occidental College. Her work has concentrated on Latin America and on women and politics, themes that are combined in her most recent books: The Women's Movement in Latin America; Participation and Democracy and Women and Democracy; Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe (co-edited with Sharon L. Wolchik). She has also written on the impact of feminism on political science scholarship, on women and development, and on the UN Decade for Women. Dr. Jaquette served as President of the Association for Women in Development from 1990-92 and of the Latin American Studies Association from 1995-97. She is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Overseas Development Council. She helped organize a Southern California Chapter of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and has served on the National Board of the US Committees for UNIFEM and INSTRAW. She has recently been a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and is currently affiliated with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is finishing a book on gender and power in the work of Machiavelli and Hobbes as well as beginning a new project on women and democratization in a global perspective.

Professor Deborah Kolb
Deborah M. Kolb is Professor of Management at Simmons Graduate School of Management and is the college's Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations. From 1991-1994, Kolb was Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; she is currently a Senior Fellow at the Program where she co-directs the Negotiations in the Workplace Program.

Professor Kolb is an authority on gender issues in negotiation and other forms of conflict management. Her research looks at how women (and men) can become more effective problem solvers by mastering the dual requirements of the shadow negotiation - advocacy and connection. Her book, The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Manage Hidden Agendas in Bargaining (with Judith Williams), will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2000. Dr. Kolb is also involved in a number of action research and consulting projects that link strategic business concerns with gender, diversity, and work and personal life issues.

Her teaching and professional practice focus on negotiation and conflict resolution in the leadership of organizations. Among other firms, Professor Kolb has served as a consultant to AT&T;, Ameritech, Chase Manhattan Bank, Pricewaterhouse/Coopers; Deloitte and Touche; Digital Equipment Company, Fidelity Investments, Ford Motor Company, MCI, Motorola-Codex, Owens-Corning, Tupperware International, Procter & Gamble, Mobil Oil, Firestone/Bridgestone, and Pfizer Corporation. Non-profit organizations have included the Ford Foundation, Girl Scouts of the USA, Harvard Community Health Plan, the American University of Paris, University of Buenos Aires Law School, Fundacion Interfas, Mass Medical Society, New England Human Resource Association, The Boston Security Analysts Society, and WGBH.

Professor Kolb is the author of The Mediators (MIT Press, 1983), an in-depth study of labor mediation, and co-editor of Hidden Conflict In Organizations: Uncovering Behind-The-Scenes Disputes, a collection of field studies about how conflicts are handled in a variety of business and not-for-profit organizations. She has published a study of the practice of successful mediators, Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators (Jossey-Bass, 1994). A new book, Negotiation Eclectics: Essays in Memory of Jeffrey Z. Rubin, will appear in 1999.

She has also developed curriculum on managerial mediation and negotiation in business organizations and a teaching module on gender in negotiations for the National Institute of Dispute Resolution. A video tape, Women Negotiate, tracks the experience of leading negotiators in finance, real estate and labor. Kolb is a Co-Faculty Editor of the Negotiation Journal and on the editorial board of the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Deborah Kolb received her Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship. She has a BA from Vassar College and an MBA from the University of Colorado.

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Professor Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We Lost the ERA (co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award in 1987, and the Schuck Award in 1988), editor of Beyond Self-Interest, and co-editor, with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism. Her current research includes work on feminism, representation, trust, coercion and deliberation in democracy, the public understanding of collective action problems, and the effect of non-activists on social movements.

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Professor Simona Sharoni
Simona Sharoni is currently a visiting faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and a Research Fellow at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Prior to that she taught in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program at American University and was the Academic Director of the Peace & Conflict Resolution Semester. She holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and is the author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance, Syracuse University Press, 1995. Dr. Sharoni has lived most of her life in Israel and has been involved in advocacy work on behalf of Israeli women's peace groups that struggled to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and in solidarity work with Palestinian women in Israel, Palestine, and North America. She has written extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, gender and Middle East politics, and new directions in peace and conflict resolution studies. Her current research involves the transformations of people's personal and collective identity after peace agreements are signed. The project is comparative in scope, focusing on Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.

Dr. Sharoni's research has been supported by grants from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), The United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), and the Peace Studies Association (PSA) and the Consortium of Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED). She is the co-chair of COPRED's Board of Directors.

Her political analyses have been featured both nationally and internationally, including on CNN International, CNN Today, CNN Headline News, NBC News, MS-NBC, Fox News Channel, NPR, USA TODAY, The Voice of America, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Pacifica Network News, WBAI, WPFW, KPFK, KPCI, KPCC, Inter-Press Service, London Radio, the Jim Bohannon Show, and ANA--Arab Net among others.

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Symposium Participants

1. Marjorie Agosin Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College
2. Ana Maria Arena Women Waging Peace, Colombian delegation
3. N.S. Attaullah Women Waging Peace, India/Pakistan delegation
4. Eileen Babbitt Professor, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University
5. Jill Benderly Women Waging Peace, Post-Yugoslav Region Delegation
6. Tina Bochorishhvili Professor and Kennan Institute Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center
7. Elise Boulding Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College
8. Sue Dorfman Photojournalist, Documentary Producer
9. Jasminka Dulic Women Waging Peace, Post-Yugoslav Regiondelegation
10. Francine Friedman Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of European Studies, Ball State University
11. Tanya Gallagher Women Waging Peace, Northern Ireland delegation
12. Margaret Gardinier Student, Peace Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University
13. Sheba George Women Waging Peace, India/Pakistan delegation
14. L.M. Handrahan Kennan Fellow and Director, the Finvola Group
15. Dafna Hochman Student, Harvard College
16. Debbie Kolb Professor, Director, Simmons Graduate College of Management
17. Carina Korostelina Researcher, Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Psychology, National Taverichesky University
18. Jane Jacquette Professor of Politics, Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental University, Kennedy School Fellow
19. Sulan Karabacak Women Waging Peace, Cyprus delegation
20. Nuzhat Kidvai Women Waging Peace, India/Pakistan delegation
21. Sara Kobb Executive Director, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
22. Ann Hallan Lakhdir Representative, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, United Nations Vice-President of Program of NGO Committee on Disarmament
23. Marianne Makar Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
24. Rita Manchanda Women Waging Peace, India/Pakistan delegation
25. Jane Mansbridge Faculty Chair, Women & Public Policy Program, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
26. Tamar Miller Partner, Middle Holding Company
27. Bianca Cody Murphy Dorothy Reed Williams Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Wheaton College
28. Ann-Charlotte Nisson Consultant, Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights
29. Mominat Omarova Women Waging Peace, Armenia/Azerbaijan delegation
30. Alexia Panayioutou Women Waging Peace, Cyprus delegation
31. Charlotte Patton Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Political Science, City University of New York (CUNY)
32. Pamela Pelletreau Visiting Scholar, Center for Global Peace, American University
33. Gulden Plumer Women Waging Peace, Cyprus delegation
34. Simona Sharoni Professor, Evergreen State College
35. Laura Sperazi Sociologist, Director of Possibilities Project
36. Carolyn Stephanson Associate Professor of Political Science, Program on Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaii at Manoa
37. Rubina Ter-Martirossian Women Waging Peace, Armenia/Azerbaijan delegation
38. Natalia Tovmasyan Research Fellow, National Peace Foundation Visiting Scholar, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
39. Zorica Trifunovic Women Waging Peace, Post Yugoslav-Region delegation
40. Marybeth Ulrich Associate Professor of Government, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College
41. Eugenia Wang Program Director, Boston Women's Fund
42. Rebecca Weiner MA Program in International Communications, American University
43. Betty Woody Professor, University of Massachusetts Research Associate, Wellesley Center for Research on Women
44. Effie Xerou Women Waging Peace, Cyprus delegation
45. Nahla Yassine Professor, Government and Gender Politics, Wayne State University

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