Ronald Fisher is a Professor of International Relations and Director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. He was previously the Founding Coordinator of the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. His primary interest focuses on interactive conflict resolution, which involves informal third party interventions in protracted and violent ethnopolitical conflict. He has worked on the longstanding dispute in Cyprus and similar conflicts in other parts of the world. Dr. Fisher's publications include Social Psychology: An Applied Approach(1982), The Social Psychology of Intergroup and International Conflict Resolution (1990), Interactive Conflict Resolution (1997), Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking (2005), and numerous articles in interdisciplinary journals in the field of peace and conflict resolution. Dr. Fisher has 30 years of experience as a trainer and consultant, and at the international level, has provided workshop design and training expertise in conflict resolution to several international institutes which organize workshops for diplomats, nongovernmental staff, military personnel, and citizen peacebuilders from a wide range of countries. In 2003, he received the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award from the Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and he has been elected as a Fellow in both the American and Canadian Psychological Associations.
