Coleman, Peter T.
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Educational Background
- Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
- M.Phil., Teachers College, Columbia University
- B.A., University of Iowa
Scholarly Interests
- Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom
- Adaptive Negotiation
- Adaptive Mediation
- Cross-Cultural Adaptivity and Conflict
- Navigating Political Polarization
- Constructive Multicultural Organizational Development
- Intractable Conflict Dynamics
- Sustainable Peace
- Dynamical Systems Theory
Selected Publications
Books
Coleman, P. T. (2021). The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization. New York, Columbia University Press.
Coleman, P. T. & Deutsch, M. (2015). Morton Deutsch: Major Texts on Peace Psychology. Springer Books.
Coleman, P. T. & Deutsch, M. (2015). Morton Deutsch: A Pioneer in Developing Peace Psychology. Springer Books.
Coleman, P. T. and Ferguson, R. (2014). Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement. New York: Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt.
Coleman, P. T., Deutsch, M., & Marcus, E. (Eds.) (2014). The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. 3rd Edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Translated into Japanese (2003), Polish (2006).
Vallacher, R., Coleman, P. T., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., Kugler, K., Bartoli, A., & Liebovitch, L. (2013). Attracted to Conflict: The Dynamic Foundations of Malignant Social Relations. Springer.
Coleman, P. T. & Deutsch, M. (Eds., July, 2012). The Psychological Components of a Sustainable Peace. Springer Books. Four authored chapters.
Coleman, P. T. (Ed., 2012). Conflict, Justice, and Interdependence: The Legacy of Morton Deutsch. Springer Books. Three authored chapters.
Coleman, P. T. (May 3, 2011). The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to (Seemingly) Impossible Conflicts. New York: Public Affairs, Perseus Books.
Deutsch, M., Coleman, P. T., & E. Marcus (Eds., Fall 2011) A Guiding Handbook for Conflict Resolution in the Arab World. New York: International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Publications. (In Arabic).
Deutsch, M., Coleman, P. T., & Marcus, E. (Eds.) (2000, 2006 2nd Edition). The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Translated into Japanese (2003), Polish (2006).
Articles (Selected)
Phan, L. H. & Coleman, P. T. (forthcoming). Where is the expertise? Investigating the drivers of top-down versus bottom-up approaches to cross-cultural conflict resolution training. International Journal of Conflict Management.
Liebovitch, L. S., Powers, W., Shi, L., Chen-Carrel, A., Loustaunau, P., Coleman, P. T. (2023). Machine learning to determine the word differences in media in lower and higher peace countries and a quantitative peace index. PLOS One. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292604
Welker, K., Duong, M., Rakshani, A., Dieffenbach, M., Coleman, P., & Haidt, J. (2023). The Online Educational Program ‘Perspectives’ Improves Affective Polarization, Intellectual Humility, and Conflict Management. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/10651
Coleman, P. T., & Chan, A. (2023). Conflict + Anxiety = Turmoil! Introducing a Measure of Conflict Response Derailers. Negotiation Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/nejo.12427
Aumeerally, N., Chen-Carrel, A. & Coleman, P. T. (2022). Learning with Peaceful, Heterogenous Communities: Lessons on Sustaining Peace in Mauritius. Peace and Conflict Studies. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1806&context=pcs
Fry, D. P., Souillac, G., Liebovitch, L. S., Coleman, P. T., Agan, K., Nicholson-Cox, E., Mason, D., Gomez, F. P., Strauss, S. (2021). Societies within peace systems avoid war and build positive intergroup relationships. Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Communications 8, 17. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00692-8 .
Coleman, P.T., Fisher, J., Fry, D.P., Liebovitch, L. Chen-Carrel, A., Souillac, G. (2021). How to Live in Peace? Mapping the Science of Sustaining Peace: A Progress Report. American Psychologist. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-84567-001
Kim, R., Coleman, P. T., & Kugler, K. (2020). Is Conflict Adaptivity Better than Cooperation? The Effects of Adaptive Conflict Behaviors on Job-Related Well-Being in South Korea. Conflict Resolution Quarterly. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/crq.21291
Kugler, K. and Coleman, P. T. (2020). Get Complicated: The Effects of Complexity on Conversations over Potentially Intractable Moral Conflicts. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ncmr.12192
Liebovitch, L. Coleman, P. T., Bechhofer, A., Colon, C., Donahue, J., Eisenbach C., Guzm´an-Vargas, L., Jacobs, D., Khan, A., Li, C., Maksumov, D., Mucia, J., Persaud, M., Salimi, M., Schweiger, L., Wang, Q. (2019). Complexity analysis of sustainable peace: mathematical models and data science measurements. New Journal of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab2a96
Liebovitch, L., Coleman, P. T., and Fisher, J. (2019). Approaches to Understanding Sustainable Peace: Qualitative Causal Loop Diagrams and Quantitative Mathematical Models. American Behavioral Scientist. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Approaches-to-Understanding-Sustainable-Peace%3A-Loop-Liebovitch-Coleman/2f336c28a2a921abe02102f96574362c4ea88469
Coleman, P. T., Liebovitch, L. and Fisher, J. (2019). Taking complex systems seriously: Visualizing and modeling the dynamics of sustainable peace. Global Policy, June, 2019. https://ac4.climate.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/TakingComplex.pdf
Coleman, P. T., and Bass, B. (2019). Facing uncertain times together: Strengthening intercultural connections. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 22, pp. 1-14.
Coleman, P. T. (2019). Tentative teachings on conflict from Trump’s tumultuous tenure in office. Negotiation Journal, 35(1), p. 231-234.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Tentative teachings on conflict from Trump’s tumultuous tenure in office. Negotiation Journal.
Coleman, P. T., Kugler, K. G., Kim, R. and Vallacher, R. (forthcoming). Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst: Regulatory focus optimality in high and low-intensity conflict. International Journal of Conflict Management.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Morton Deutsch (1920–2017). American Psychologist, 73(2), 198.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Conflict intelligence and systemic wisdom: Meta-competencies for engaging conflict in a complex, dynamic world. Negotiation Journal, 34, 1, pp. 7-35.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Ten major scientific contributions that promote a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. Negotiation Journal, 34, 1, pp. 105-116.
Coleman, P. T., Coon, D., Kim, R., Chung, C., Regan, B., Anderson. R., & Bass, R. (2017). Promoting constructive multicultural attractors: Fostering unity and fairness from diversity and conflict. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 53(2), 180-211.
Coleman, P. T., Kugler, K. G., and Chatman, L. (2017). Adaptive mediation: An evidence-based contingency approach to mediating conflict. International Journal of Conflict Management, 28(3), 383-406.
Webb, C. E., Coleman, P. T., Rossignac-Milon, M., Tomasulo, L. R., and Higgins, E. T. (2017). Moving On or Digging Deeper: Regulatory Mode and Interpersonal Conflict Resolution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Kim, R., Coleman, P. T., Chung, C., & Kugler, K. (2015). Culture and conflict landscapes in organizations. Peace and Conflict Studies.
Coleman, P. T., Kugler, K., Gozzi, C., Mazzaro, K., El Zokm, N & Kressel, K. (2015). Putting the peaces together: Introducing a situated model of mediation. International Journal of Conflict Management, 26(2), 145-171.
Coleman, P. T., and Kugler, K. G. (2014). Tracking adaptivity: Introducing a dynamic measure of adaptive conflict orientations in organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35, 945-968.
Coleman, P. T., Kugler, K. G., Mitchinson, A., and Foster, C. (2014). Navigating Power and Conflict at Work: The Effects of Power Asymmetries and Interdependence on Conflict Dynamics and Outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(10), 1963-1983.
Coleman, P. T., Kugler, K. G., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., Nowak, A., and Vallacher. R. (2012). Getting down to basics: A situated model of conflict in social relations. Negotiation Journal, 28(1), 7-43.
Vallacher, R., Coleman, P. T., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2010).Rethinking intractable conflict: The perspective of dynamical systems. American Psychologist, 65(4), 262-278.
Coleman, P. T., Goldman, J., and Kugler, K. (2009). Emotional intractability: Gender, anger, aggression, and rumination in conflict. International Journal of Conflict Management, 20, 113-131.
Coleman, P. T., Hacking, A., Stover, M., Fisher-Yoshida, B, and Nowak, A. (2008). Reconstructing ripeness I: A study of constructive engagement in protracted social conflicts. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 26(1), 3-42.
Coleman, P. T., Fisher-Yoshida, B., Stover, M., Hacking, A., and Bartoli, A. (2008).Reconstructing ripeness II: Models and methods for fostering constructive stakeholder engagement across protracted divides. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 26(1), 43-69.
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., 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. (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. (2003). Characteristics of protracted, intractable conflict: Towards the development of a meta-framework - I. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 9(1), 1-37. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Blog Posts (Selected)
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Half the peace: The fear challenge and the case for promoting peace. Published in Courier on August 26, 2018.
Coleman, P. T., and Donahue, J. (2018). Costa Rica: Choosing a path to peace. Published in Courier on August 26, 2018.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). The science of teamwork: Five actionable lessons for the lab. Posted on Psychology Today on June 14, 2018.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Lawmakers, to repair our polarized Congress, make DC your home. Published in The Hill on May 16, 2018.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). To Sustain Peace, UN Should Embrace Complexity and Be UN-Heroic. Posted on State of the Planet on March 22, 2018.
Coleman, P. T., Douglas P. Fry, Larry S. Liebovitch, Jaclyn Donahue, Joshua Fisher, Beth Fisher-Yoshida, and Philippe Vandenbroeck (2018). The Science of Sustaining Peace: What the UN should learn about peaceful societies. Psychology Today, posted February 13, 2018.
Coleman, P. T. (2017). Tired of Feeling Divided? What Americans can do to De-Polarize our Nation. Psychology Today, Posted Nov 09, 2017.
Coleman, P.T. (2017). 10 Big Ideas on Peace and Justice from the Career of Morton Deutsch. A series of 10 posts published weekly on Psychology Today and Huffington Post blogs.
Coleman, P. T. (2016). Conflict and Justice in Trump’s America: A nine-point strategy for resistance, resolution and reconciliation. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today November 21, 2016.
Coleman, P. T. (2016). Racism and violence in America: What are white allies to do?. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today July 11, 2016.
Coleman, P. T. (2016). Don’t blame Trump: Heal thyself America. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today July 24, 2016.
Coleman, P. T. (2016). How to resolve conflict with an app. Editorial opinion published in Psychology Today February 18, 2016.
Coleman, P. T. (2015). A vision for peace in America. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today December 7, 2015.
Coleman, P. T. and Ferguson, R. (2015). Inequality on the rise? Workers of America Adapt! Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today February 14, 2015.
Coleman, P. T. (2014). The power of moral complexity. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today September 17, 2014.
Coleman, P. T. (2013). The consequences of our games. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today January 1, 2013.
Coleman, P. T. (2012). The decade for peace in Israel-Palestine. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today May 14, 2012.
Coleman, P. T. (2012). President Obama’s mixed-motive dilemma. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post, February 3, 2012.
Coleman, P. T. (2011). Are peacemakers helping or harming? Conflict resolution and the science-practice gap. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post, May 27, 2011.
Coleman, P. T. (2011). Washington is fixed and needs to be broken. Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post, January 19, 2011.
Biographical Information
Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR)
Professor of Psychology and Education
Program in Social-Organizational Psychology
Department of Organization and Leadership
Teachers College, Columbia University, Box 53
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
Executive Director
Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4)
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Tel: (212) 678 - 3112; Fax: (212) 678 - 4048; email: pc84@tc.columbia.edu
Dr. Peter T. Coleman is Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University where he holds appointments at Teachers College, the Climate School, and the School of Professional Studies. Dr. Coleman directs the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), is founding director of the Institute for Psychological Science and Practice (IPSP), and is co-executive director of Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4).
Dr. Coleman is a renowned expert on constructive conflict resolution and sustainable peace. His current research focuses on promoting conflict intelligence and systemic wisdom as meta-competencies for navigating conflict constructively across all levels (from families to companies to communities to nations), which includes projects on adaptive negotiation and mediation; cross-cultural conflict adaptivity; optimality dynamics in conflict, justice and polarization; multicultural conflict; intractable conflict; and sustainable peace.
In 2003, Dr. Coleman became the first recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, and in 2015 was awarded the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award by APA and a Marie Curie Fellowship from The European Union. In 2018, Dr. Coleman was awarded the Peace Award from Meaningful World, in celebration of their 30th anniversary and the UN’s International Day of Peace, and in 2020 a Lifetime Commitment Award from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies association. In 2023 he was elected to be 2023 Fellow of the International Association of Conflict Management.
Dr. Coleman edits the award-winning Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2000, 2006, 2014) and his other books include The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts (2011); Conflict, Justice, and Interdependence: The Legacy of Morton Deutsch (2011), Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace (2012), and Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations (2013), and Making Conflict Work: Navigating Disagreement Up and Down Your Organization (2014), which won the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from The International Association of Conflict Management. Most recently he published a book with Columbia University Press on breaking through the intractable polarization plaguing the U.S. and other societies, titled, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization (2021).
Dr. Coleman has also authored well over 100 articles and chapters, is a member of the United Nations Mediation Support Unit’s Academic Advisory Council, is a founding board member of the Gbowee Peace Foundation USA, and is a New York State certified mediator and experienced consultant. In 2017, he received the International Association of Conflict Management 2017 Best Conference Theoretical Paper Award for his article Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom: Meta-competencies for Engaging Difference in a Complex, Dynamic World, and in 2018 The Emerald Literati Award for the paper Adaptive mediation: An evidence-based contingency approach to mediating conflict.
Dr. Coleman also founded and edits the MD-ICCCR Science-Practice Blog, the WKCR (89.9 FM) monthly radio program Peace and Conflict at Columbia: Conversations at the Leading Edge, and is a frequent blogger on Psychology Today and The Hill. Dr. Coleman’s work has also been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribute, Nature, Science, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Wired, This American Life, Time Magazine, Fox Business, CBS, Fast Company, Chicago Public Radio, the PBS Newshour and various international outlets.
Today, Dr. Coleman serves as a scientific advisor to dozens of nonprofit peacebuilding groups, including Starts With Us, Fix US, Constructive Dialogue Institute, Convergence, Search for Common Ground USA, ListenFirst, Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, Bipartisan Problem-Solvers Caucus, Unite, Generations for Peace, One Small Step (Story Corps), Cascade Institute, Essential Partners, Civic Health project, Horizons project, Partners Global, Braver Angels, UJA-Federation, Paramount’s Social Impact group, and American Exchange Project.
Curriculum Vitae
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Honors and Awards
| 2018 |
Recipient of the 2018 Peace Award from Meaningful World, in celebration of their 30th anniversary and the UN’s International Day of Peace. |
| 2017 |
Recipient of the International Association of Conflict Management's 2017 Best Theoretical Paper Award for paper entitled Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom: Meta-Competencies for Navigating Difference in a Complex, Dynamic World |
| 2016 |
Recipient of the International Association of Conflict Management's 2016 Outstanding Book Award for Making Conflict Work (2014) |
| 2015 | Recipient of the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence. |
| 2014 | Recipient of a 2014 Marie Curie Fellowship by the European Commission |
| 2013 | Invited speaker at 2013 Doha Forum in Qatar |
| 2012 | Founding board member of the Gbowee Peace Foundation USA. |
| 2012 | Founding member of the United Nations Mediation Support Unit Academic Advisory Council, UNDPA. |
| 2010-2012 | Elected board member of the International Association of Conflict Management. |
| 2009 | Elected to the Executive Committee of Division 48 of the American Psychological Association. |
| 2005 & 2006 | Recipient of Outstanding Teaching Awards from Teachers College, Columbia University |
| 2003 | Recipient of the 2003 Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence. |
| 2003 | Recognized for authoring the Most Downloaded Article: Coleman, P. T. (2003). Characteristics of protracted, intractable conflict: Towards the development of a meta-framework - I. Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology, 9(1), 1-37. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
| 2000 | Recipient of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution 2000 Book Prize for Excellence for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice edited by Morton Deutsch & Peter T. Coleman. |
Professional Presentations
Coleman, P. T. (2018, August). Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the power of conflict. Invited to speak at the 2018 Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service National Labor-Management Conference in Chicago.
Coleman, P. T. (2018, August). Facing uncertain times together: Strengthening intercultural connections. Keynote presentation given at the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) conference in Tokyo, Japan.
Coleman, P. T. (2018, August). Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom. Three-day master class given at Hitotsubashi Business School in Tokyo, Japan.
Coleman, P. T. (2018, June). Peacebuilding and sustaining peace through complexity and systems theory. Invited paper presented at the Processes of International Negotiation Program at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany.
Coleman, P. T. (2018, May). The science of sustaining peace: Actionable lessons from the Columbia University Human Peace Project. Keynote presentation given at NAFSA: Association of International Educators Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Coleman, P. T. (2018, March). The science of sustaining peace. Presented at the AC4 Sustaining Peace Forum in New York, NY. http://ac4.ei.columbia.edu/events/annual-sustaining-peace-conference/sustaining-peace-forum-2018/
Coleman, P. T. (2018, March). The science of sustaining peace. Presented at the International Peace Institute’s (IPI) Sustaining Peace in Practice: Evidence, Measurement, and Indicators Forum in New York, NY. https://www.ipinst.org/2018/03/sustaining-peace-in-practice-evidence-measurement-and-indicators
Coleman, P. T. (2017, November). Ten lessons on sustaining peace for policy makers. Presented at the International Peace Institute’s (IPI) Empirical Research and Sustainable Peace Policy Forum in New York, NY. https://www.ipinst.org/2017/11/empirical-research-and-sustaining-peace
Coleman, P. T. (2017, October). From political polarization to constructive dialogue: Lessons from the lab. Invited keynote speaker for a discussion forum hosted by Critical Connections in Amherst, MA.
Coleman, P. T. (2017, May). Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom. Seminar given at Correymeela in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Coleman, P.T. (2017, February). Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom. Keynote given at the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Residential Institute at NOVA Southeastern University in February 2017.
Coleman, P.T. (2017, January). Getting in Sync: Leadership in the Time of Increasing Complexity. Keynote given at the annual BIFMA Leadership Conference in St. Petersburg, FL.
Coleman, P.T. (2016, September). The Fractal Nature of Intractable Conflict. Invited paper presentation at the Conference on Transforming Intractable Conflict, PARC, Syracuse University, New York.
Coleman, P.T. (2016, September 21).The Possibility of Peace in Colombia. Invited speaker for International Week at the Superior School of Public Administration (ESAP) in advance of the FARC peace accord referendum, Bogota, Colombia.
Coleman, P. T. (2016, August 20). Making Conflict Work: Navigating Conflict Up and Down Your Organization. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services Conference, Chicago, IL.
Coleman, P.T. (2015, December 11). Social Change as a Complex Dynamical System. Uppsala University, Sweden.
Coleman, P.T. (2015, October 5). Positive peace and systems thinking. Invited panel respondent at From Theory to Practice: Inaugural Positive Peace Conference at the Institute for Economics and Peace Stanford University. Stanford, CA.
Coleman, P.T. (2015, September 19). Complexity and the need for a meta-framework for addressing protracted and intractable conflicts. Conference on the Transformation of Intractable Conflicts II: Challenges and Perspectives for Interactive Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Coleman, P.T. (2015, October 10). The Mediation of Ethnic and Religious Conflicts. Distinguished speaker at the Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Yonkers, New York.
Coleman, P. T. (2014-2015-2016). Making Conflict Work. Speaking tour at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, The United Nations Office of the Ombudsman, Columbia University, and American University.
Coleman, P. T. (March, 2015). Complexity, Intractability and Social Change. Keynote address at Sustainable Peace Conference, Columbia University.
Coleman, P. T. (December, 2014). Making Conflict Work. Presentation for the Young Presidents Association at Columbia University.
Coleman, P. T. and Mazzaro, K. (2013). The Missing peace in the GPI/PPI. Paper presented at the United Nations launch of the 2013 General Peace Index and Positive Peace Index at the U.N. in New York City on June 12, 2013.
Coleman, P. T. (May 6, 2013). On Evaluating Success & Failure of Conflict Engagement: Taking Time, Space and Black Holes Seriously. Keynote address at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Coleman, P. T. (May 6, 2013). Conflict, complexity and openness. Seminar address at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Coleman, P. T. (October 23, 2012). Why we’re stuck: The attraction of a polarized America. TEDx Miami, Miami, Florida.
Coleman, P. T. (September 6, 2012). The five percent solution: Finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Presentation at The Institute of foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway.
Coleman, P. T. (April 15, 2012). The five percent solution: Finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Presentation at The Lauder School, of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
Coleman, P. T. (April 11, 2012). The five percent solution: Finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Presentation at Harvard Law School.
Coleman, P. T. (September 27, 2011). The five percent solution: Finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Presentation at The Harvard Club of New York.
Coleman, P. T. (July 20, 2011). The Value-added of Smaller States in Peace Mediation: Smart Peace - An Anti-Peace Mediation Approach. Paper presentation at the upcoming 7th Conference of The European Peace Research Association (EuPRA) in Tampere, Finland (20-22 July, 2011).
Coleman, P. T. (June 3, 2011). The five percent solution: Finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Presentation at The Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York, John Jay College, New York City.
Coleman, P. T. (March 10, 2011). Tackling the world’s most difficult conflicts. Presentation at The Columbia Club, New York City.
Coleman (2009).Navigating power and conflict: Lessons from the laboratory. Invited presentation at Kyushu Law School, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, June, 2009.
