Picar Affiliates

Program affiliates included faculty members and doctoral students, all of whom were scholar-practitioners combining research and theory building with the practice of third-party facilitation.

PICAR maintained active contact with the growing network of former members whose professional work has taken them to a variety of academic institutions and governmental or nongovernmental organizations in the United States and abroad.

Following is a list of some of the PICAR affiliates who participated in this program:

Carlos M. Alvarez, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida International University (FIU). He is a member of the faculty coordinating committee for the FIU Graduate Certificate Program in Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building. He is also an Affiliate of the Harvard University Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Dr. Alvarez teaches graduate level courses and conducts research on topics related to conflict resolution and the psychosocial study of ethnonational identities. He is the co-author of a recently published book entitled: Ethnic identity: Understanding Contemporary Perspectives. Dr. Alvarez directs an action research project on the implementation of Identity-Reconstruction Workshops with Cuban and Cuban-American young professional participants, which take place in Havana, Cuba. He has published articles and book chapters on Cuban-American identity and ethnic identity as a psychosocial phenomenon. He has also been the author of an edited book, and written book chapters, monographs and journal articles on topics related to psychology and education.

Dr. Alvarez has worked for more than 25 years as a consultant, visiting professor, lecturer and trainer at educational institutions in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain on programs and projects sponsored by Unesco, the Organization of American States, the Organization of Iberoamerican States for Education, Science and Culture, the US Agency for International Development and other international and regional organizations. In addition, he maintains a clinical practice specializing in marriage and family therapy. He also provides services as clinical consultant to private sector institutions and non-governmental organizations on issues related to conflict resolution.

Camilo Azcarate holds a JD from Xaverian University and a Master in Dispute Resolution from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is a professional mediator, facilitator and a faculty member of the Florida Gulf Course University where he teaches Conflict Management and directs the Conflict Resolution Institute. He is also the coordinator for the Southwest for the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium (FCRC). His experience includes working as Government Programs Coordinator for the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution where he conducted mediations and facilitations of public policy discussions. He is an active member of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard University, and has received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in dispute resolution and the Don Paulson Award for excellence in dispute resolution.

Eileen Babbitt is Assistant Professor of International Politics and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also co-director of the Fletcher Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution. Before joining the Fletcher faculty, Dr. Babbitt was Director of Education and Training at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. and Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. She is currently a senior associate at PICAR, and a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. As a facilitator and trainer, she has worked in the Middle East, Southeastern Europe and the Horn of Africa. Her current research interests include trust-building and reconciliation, negotiating self-determination, conflict prevention, and roles for third parties in protracted intergroup conflicts.

She has authored and co-authored many articles and book chapters on international mediation and conflict resolution, including "Women and the Art of Peacemaking" with Tamra Peason d'Estree, published in Political Psychology; "The Power of Moral Suasion in International Mediation: A Profile of Jimmy Carter," in When Talk Works: Profiles of Master Mediators, edited by D. Kolb and Associates; and "Overcoming the Obstacles to Effective Mediation of International Disputes," co-authored with Lawrence Susskind in Mediation in International Relations, edited by J. Bercovitch and J. Rubin. Dr. Babbitt holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph.D from MIT.

Cynthia Chataway's bio is located at http://www.psych.yorku.ca/chataway.

Pamela Pomerance Steiner received her master's degree in Government from Harvard in 1978. Before then and after, until 1982, she was environmentalist activist on transportation issues, for twelve of those years in Britain. She then returned to Harvard and received a doctorate in Psychology and Human Development in 1996, studying under Robert Kegan, Herbert Kelman, and Ronald Heifetz (with whom she also taught). Since receiving her doctorate, she has practiced as a facilitator for conflict resolution, an organizational consultant, and a group and individual psychotherapist, specializing in people with a trauma history. She is an Affiliate and founding member of PICAR and an Instructor in Psychology in the Dept. of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Hospital where she teaches a leadership seminar. She has been on the facilitation team of many Problem Solving Workshops. In the last few years her focus has been to understand and promote reconciliation in the contemporary German/Jewish relationship. She is a wife, a mother of two grown children, and has an organic Vermont farm.

Rebecca Wolfe is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology at Harvard University. Her research concerns the role of power asymmetry in negotiation.

Jorje Zalles is Professor (and Department Chair) of Theory of Conflict and Resolution, as well as Chair of Leadership Studies. He is the Director of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution ("Centro de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos - CENARC") and Director of the Negotiation and Leadership Institute ("Instituto de Negociación y Liderazgo - INELID") at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Quito, Ecuador. His principal areas of interest and research relate to the enhancement of the willingness and ability of social decision-makers to engage in fruitful dialogue and consensus-building processes.