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"Conflict Doctor" Dan Dana is the founder (retired) of Mediation Training Institute International, now housed at Eckerd College in St Petersburg, Florida, USA. Holding the PhD in psychology, Dr Dana is the author of books and curricula that make the magic of mediation accessible to everyday people in their homes, communities, and workplaces. "Everyday Peacemaking" is adapted from a keynote address he wrote and delivered at an international conference in Africa. That keynote was selected for publication by the Professional Speechwriters Association and has been nominated for the Cicero Award as the best speech of 2018. This presentation distills the expanse of how-to knowledge gained during Dan's 45-year career into an aperitif of practical guidance for everyone who lives or works with other people. For more information visit www.dandana.us
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Founded the Mediation Training Institute International in 1985 and guided its development to being the world's most prominent provider of training and certification in managing and mediating workplace conflict. Retired December 31, 2013, when MTI was acquired by Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Florida.
Established the "Elect Mediators to Public Office" Project, seeking "better government through non-adversarial resolution of differences" by supporting the campaigns of political candidates who publicly advocate interest-based approaches to political conflicts. [This project may be taken over by other parties without restriction. It is no longer maintained on this website.]
Developed the Dana Trading System in 2013, a means of assisting late-career mediators, educators, academics, healthcare professionals, social service workers, scientists, social liberals, secular humanists, and other humanitarians achieve financial security
Author and thought-leader
Originator of Managerial Mediation (1979)
Developer of the Dana Measure of Financial Cost of Organizational Conflict, the first and most widely cited instrument of its kind, based on an article published in 1981.
Author of Managing Differences: How to Build Better Relationships at Work and Home (1988-2006), published worldwide in six languages
Author of Talk It Out: Four Steps to Managing People Problems in Your Organization (1996), HRD Press
Author of Conflict Resolution: Mediation Tools for Everyday Worklife (2001), featured book in McGraw-Hill's Bookcase Books series, published worldwide in many languages
Author of The Promise of Mediation: Managing the Conflicts that Disrupt Our Lives, keynote address for a mediation conference at Swarthmore University, Nairobi, Kenya, 25 July 2018. Published by the Professional Speechwriters Association (2018). Adapted for general audiences under the title Interpersonal Peacemaking: Quelling the Conflicts that Disrupt Our Lives, available for pro bono delivery worldwide by the author and by associates of Mediation Training Institute at Eckerd College.
Educator
Full-time professor of organizational behavior and conflict management, University of Hartford (Connecticut) Graduate School of Business, 1978-1985. Continued as adjunct professor until 2007.
Adjunct professor of conflict management, Syracuse University, 1996-2001
Visiting lecturer at other institutions, including Middle Eastern Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), Bond University (Gold Coast, Australia), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), Strathmore University (Nairobi, Kenya), and Younsei University (Seoul, Korea)
Mediator-consultant
Recipient of contract to establish one of the first Employee Assistance Programs in the United States Government, 1977-78, Washington, DC (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the office of Secretary Joseph Califano)
Workplace mediator, 1975 to 2013 (no longer in active practice)
Education
PhD (Counseling Psychology), University of Missouri, 1977
Dissertation: Categorial Intergroup Bias in Natural Groups, a study of conflict in healthcare workplaces
Clinical internship specializing in systems-oriented marriage and family therapy
Intern with NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science (Bethel, Maine), 1972-75
Selected life experiences
Born 1945, reared on a family farm in northwest Missouri
Vietnam veteran (non-combat), 1966-68; returned as tourist in 2015
Woodstock Festival, August 1969; participant in the counter-culture, 1969-1973
Speaking tour in the USSR, June 1990 (shortly before the Soviet collapse); events organized by group who translated Managing Differences to Russian language; accompanied by 17-year-old daughter Susan.
Present in South Africa on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's first election as President, April 1994
Democratic Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives, 1998, running the "first non-adversarial campaign in the history of American politics"; lost primary election to Congressman Dennis Moore (D-KS)
Conducted mediation training in Israel, October 2001, less than one month after the World Trade Center attack
Resides with wife Susan in Sarasota, Florida.
Father of one, grandfather of two.
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