Professor Mari Fitzduff is Director of the Program in Coexistence and Conflict at Brandeis University. Previously, Mari Fitzduff was Executive Director of UNU/INCORE, which was established by the University of Ulster and the United Nations University with the aim of adopting an integrated approach to conflict management. From 1990-1997, Professor Fitzduff was Director of the Community Relations Council (CRC), which seeks to develop programs of conflict resolution that bring together various stakeholders in Northern Ireland. She has worked as a consultant on conflicts in the Middle East, Indonesia, the Caucausus, Sri Lanka, and the Basque country. She is the author of 'Community Conflict skills,' a source book for group skills in intercommunal conflict, and 'Beyond Violence: Conflict Resolution Processes in Northern Ireland.’