We resource leaders by:  

·         Consulting with them as they seek to resolve conflicts and build sustainable peace;

·         Intervening to help resolve existing conflicts at their invitation;

·         Conducting dialogue projects among diverse political leaders with a view to developing a more collaborative discourse;

·         Conducting action research in and through our leadership development and reconciliation gatherings; and,

·         Publishing the results of our action research.

Senior Fellows

A multi-disciplinary faculty of Senior Fellows teach and mentor in the leadership development and conciliation projects of the Institute.  Our Senior Fellows include leaders in business, law, medicine, diplomacy, government, and public discourse.

Senior Fellows of the Institute include:

Dean James Alfini* - President and Dean of South Texas College of Law

Hon. Christopher Ashby* - former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay

Dr. Andrea Bartoli* - Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University.

Hon. Robert W. (Todd) Becker* - Ambassador of OSCE & Deputy Head of OSCE Mission to Croatia

Dr. Robert Creech* -Professor of Christian Ministry and Director of Pastoral Ministries at the Truett Seminary at Baylor University.   Dr. Creech served as a founding board member for the Institute. He has been involved with seven other nonprofit organizations and brings over thirty years of pastoral experience to the Institute.  He is the former senior pastor at University Baptist Church, Clear Lake where he served for twenty years.  His international work has taken him to fourteen countries.

Dr. James Furr* - Associate Professor in Christianity, the John Bisagno Chair of Evangelism, and Director of the Antioch Institute at Houston Baptist University.  His research interests include change leadership, community transformation and Christian ethics.

Elliot Gershenson - President & CEO Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston  

Don West Graul* - practicing divorce mediator with forty years experience. Trained in Structured Divorce Mediation, he is also a member of Collaborative Family Lawyers of Houston.

Lord Raymond Hylton* - Parliamentarian, House of Lords. Chairman N. Ireland Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders; Chairman, Center for Conflict Relief & Reconstruction; Vice Chairman Partners in Hope, re Children at Risk in Moscow. Promoted just legislation regarding the treatment of minorities, care for the handicapped and the prosecution of UK child abusers overseas.

Dr. Robert Krueger* - former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Burundi, former Dean of Undergraduate Education, Duke University  

Tihomir Kukolja* – Director – ROM Balkan Leadership Development and Peace Gathering (Based in Fuzine, Croatia)

Dr. James M. Lindsay* - Director of the Studies Program, The Council on Foreign Relations.  Formerly Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, & Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin  

Larry Martin* - Senior Vice President of Education and Dean of the International Justice Mission Institute.

Erin Mazursky - Executive Director, STAND - A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition

Jack Modesett - Developer, Chairman of the Board - Christianity Today

John Montgomery - founder Bridgeway Capital Management

Dr. Gale Stokes* - Gale Stokes is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History Emeritus at Rice University, where he specialized in the history of Eastern Europe, especially the Balkans and Serbia. Dr. Stokes is the author of a prize winning book on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, along with nine other books and many articles and shorter reviews.

Dr. Richard Stoll* - Professor, Rice University. A specialist in international conflict, Dr. Stoll has recently participated in a National Science Foundation (NSF) effort to collect data on militarized interstate disputes.  He is now engaged in an effort to predict the outbreak of serious international conflict using events data.

Dr. Vern Swisher – CEO Career Recovery Resources, Inc., Houston, Texas

William Talbott - retired clinical psychologist actively consulting in applied social/behavioral research. His areas of expertise include risk and threat assessment, crisis intervention, disaster/trauma interventions, and he has experience in curriculum development and professional training.

Mustafa Tameez* - Principal in a leading public affairs firm, recognized for grassroots political work and ethnic outreach efforts. Mr. Tameez promotes civic engagement and is on the board of directors for the Houston Zoo and South Asian Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Samuel Totten* - Co-Editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Arkansas, U.S. State Department's Atrocities Documentation Project - Darfur  

Michael Treadwell – Consulting and International Project Management

Dr. John C. Van Wagoner* - Scientist with the upstream research lab of a major oil company

Fellows & Interns

Fellows and Interns do much of the preparatory work for the Institute’s educational projects, participate in and lead the projects and conduct action research. 

Fellows and Interns undertake a cycle of action research: (1) learning by doing, (2) reflection and dialogue among leaders of the project,  (3) individual and collective analysis, (4) synthesis of theoretical constructs, innovative principles and practices, and (5) publication of the results.

The Institute is accepting applications for Fellowships from qualified post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers and for Internships from qualified college students or college graduates who have not begun forma post-graduate education.  To apply, please forward a resume and statement of interest to RButler@2Peace.org.