Brian Polkinghorn, MS, MA, MPhil, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University. In 1994 Brian was the co-founding faculty member of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR), Nova Southeastern University. In 2000 he designed in launched the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution (CADR) and became the Executive Director of the Bosserman Center for Conflict Resolution (BCCR) at Salisbury University. He has worked in the conflict intervention field since 1985 as a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, trainer, researcher, academic program and curriculum developer, conflict coach, dispute systems designer and ombudsman. He has published over 50 articles, book chapters and books and has been the (co)principle investigator on several dozen research projects. Brian has also been the recipient of more than 80 grants. He has practiced in a dozen countries primarily in the areas of environmental policy dispute intervention, labor-management, cross border cooperative enterprises, leadership development and support of peace talks. Brian is an alum of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (SCAR), George Mason University, the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), Syracuse University and was a Fellow with the Program on Negotiation (PON), Harvard University Law School. Brian was a National Fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency, a United States Presidential Fellow, the University System of Maryland Wilson Elkins Professor and a Senior American Fulbright Scholar with the Evens Program in International Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University. Brian is currently a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador with the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) the scholar division of the Institute of International Education (IIE).