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Yevgeny Bendersky - Program Coordinator, Momentum Program

Ms. Chayes runs the Carnegie Conflict Prevention Project whose focus is conflict prevention in Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. She also continues to serve as Senior Consultant to JAMS/Endispute, a firm that provides cost-effective alternatives to traditional litigation.  Ms. Chayes is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, where she helped develop and participates in the Kennedy School's South Africa program.

During the Carter Administration Ms. Chayes was Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, where she provided overall program and budgetary supervision, assumed special oversight responsibility for selected programs such as MX missile development, international base rights and the organization and management of Israeli air base construction under the Camp David accords.  Before her promotion to Under Secretary, Chayes was Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations. She managed program and budget for military construction, supervised manpower programs and developed new compliance programs for equal employment opportunity and environmental regulation. She was awarded the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Service.

Ms. Chayes has served as a director of United Technologies Corporation since 1981 and is a member of its Executive Committee.  She is currently serving as a Commissioner of the Vice President's Aviation Safety and Security Commission. Ms. Chayes recently served as a Commissioner with the Commission on Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces and the Joint Security Commission. She is a member of the Aspen Institute Core Group on Strategy and Arms control and a former member of United States Strategic Command's Strategic Advisory Group.

Ms. Chayes was an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown School of Law and Dean of the Jackson School of Tufts University. She is a member of the Senior Advisory Council of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, and an Advisory Board Member of both the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs. Prior to joining CMG, Ms. Chayes was President of the Consensus Building Institute, a non-profit dispute resolution organization.

Diana Chigas - Interim Executive Director
Regional Director: Europe, FSU, International Organizations

As a negotiation specialist, Ms. Chigas has offered strategic advice and negotiation training courses to senior diplomats and trade and government officials in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.  Ms. Chigas has worked with the negotiating teams of the government and FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador, with Greek and Turkish Cypriot policy leaders and professionals on dialogue and confidence-building, and with the apartheid-era government, ANC and Inkatha on organizing the constitutional negotiation process in South Africa. A graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as Developments Editor for the Harvard International Law Journal, Ms. Chigas expects to receive her M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy this year. She has worked at the law firms of Steptoe & Johnson, and Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts in Washington, D.C. as well as Sidley & Austin in New York, and Werner & Sieber in Geneva, Switzerland.  Ms. Chigas received her B.A. degree from Yale University.

Michael DeKoster - Senior Associate, IS/External Relations

Before joining CMG, Mr. DeKoster was an assistant to the Reverend Eugene F. Rivers, III in Boston and participated in the ongoing work of the TenPoint Coalition, Boston Freedom Summer, and the development of the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation.  Mr. DeKoster also worked with youth in Dorchester, MA at the Ella J. Baker House.  Mr. DeKoster received his undergraduate degree from Calvin College and his Master's degree in African-American History from Northeastern University.

Ellen Ezorsky - Development Office Associate

Ms. Ezorsky works closely with the Director of Development in creating promotional publications, organizing special events, researching potential funders, overseeing mass mailings, and maintaining the company's fund raising data base.  She also updates and maintains CMG's website and is the managing editor of CMG's newsletter.  Ms. Ezorsky has worked for both commercial and non-profit organizations where she put her varied organizational skills to use.  She has a background in fine arts and received her BA in Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Brian Ganson - Director of Education and Training and Regional Director for United States

Before joining CMG, Mr. Ganson consulted on organizational performance to a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company, concentrating on the company's global business development strategy.  Prior to this, he was Manager and co-founder of the Organization Practice with Mitchell Madison Group, a global strategy consulting firm, concentrating on organizational design and capability-building for a variety of Fortune 500 clients world-wide from 1996 to the present.  Mr. Ganson was Chief of Staff for the US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, where he managed an 800-person staff and an annual budget of $60 million on behalf of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. He has litigated cases as a Civil Rights Attorney for the Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., and worked extensively as a consultant and trainer for conflict management projects in the US and Mexico.  Mr. Ganson is the co-author of Coping with International Conflict and editor of Roger Fisher's Beyond Machiavelli. He received his AB from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, his MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and his JD from Harvard Law School.

Lauren Guth - Project Assistant to Antonia Handler Chayes

Ted Johnson - Project Manager: Community Development; Race Relations; Angola

Mr. Johnson has conducted negotiation and training workshops with government, community and corporate leaders in the North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. In his consulting practice, he served as an advisor to U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Justice Department and to the Woods Hole Research Center as a policy analyst and international legal advisor.  Mr. Johnson works with international corporations, financial institutions, and policy-making institutions as a facilitator, trainer, and change management consultant.

At Harvard University, Mr. Johnson has been a teaching assistant in the Program of Instruction for lawyers at Harvard Law School. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Lesley College where he teaches Intercultural Communication in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In his role with CMG, Mr. Johnson has worked as an advisor to the City of Boston, the Boston Public Schools and currently manages youth and community programs including the Urban Peacemaker (UP) Program, a nationally recognized community-based training program for inner city youth in Boston and Chicago. He also managed a community dialogue project that facilitated improving race relations in Springfield, MA.

Prior to his work with CMG, Mr. Johnson was an Assistant District Attorney in Orange County California where he served as a trial attorney, head of the anti-trust division, and also head of the juvenile serious offender prosecution unit. Mr. Johnson received a Juris Doctorate (JD) from Western State University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in International Relations. He has published articles in the Harvard International Treaty Series and the Harvard Law School Negotiation Journal.

Arthur Martirosyan - Program Director: Momentum, Former Soviet Union, The Caucasus

Mr. Martirosyan is the Project Director for the Georgia-South Ossetia Dialogue Project and Director of CMG's "Project on Ethnic Conflict Management in the Former Soviet Union" and of its Caucasus Initiative. Before joining CMG, he was a program associate with the Civic Education Project, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by George Soros and the Eurasia Foundation, which aims at reforming social science departments of East European and FSU universities. Mr. Martirosyan received his BA in English Literature and Translation Techniques at St. Petersburg University, Russia, and his MA in International Relations at Yale University.  Mr. Martirosyan is fluent in Armenian, Russian, and Georgian, and is conversant in German and French.

Liz McClintock - Regional Director: Africa, Middle East

Ms. McClintock has conducted training programs for public and private sector organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Africa.  She recently  developed a course with the World Health Organization that focused on improving the ability of African countries to better mobilize resources for their health sectors.  Ms. McClintock has served as a member of CMG's mediation team on a number of multi-party disputes and facilitated a cooperation forum between the World Bank and West African government officials. Currently, Ms. McClintock is overseeing the development of a comprehensive conflict resolution training program for the Organization of African Unity's Conflict Management Division. Before coming to CMG she spent four years in Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer.  In addition to speaking French, Ms. McClintock has a working knowledge of Moroccan Arabic.  She received her Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.

Carolyn Merritt - Program Coordinator:  Africa, Middle East

Ms. Merritt is a Program Coordinator for CMG. She holds a BA in Modern Languages from Trinity College and has studied in France and West Africa. Prior to joining CMG, Ms. Merritt worked with international students at an EFL school in Boston. During her free time, she dances and performs with Royal Jelly, an artistic collective she founded with friends in 1999.

Robert Ricigliano - Advisor

Mr. Ricigliano, currently an Advisor at CMG,  recently left his position as Executive Director of Conflict Management Group and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. Prior to being named Executive Director, Mr. Ricigliano was a Program Manager at CMG for seven years. In this capacity, he developed core programs in diplomatic and governmental negotiation, preventive diplomacy and intergroup conflict management. Mr. Ricigliano served as a mediator and trained CMG clients and team members in conflict resolution techniques and collaborated in theory development and curriculum design within the organization.

Mr. Ricigliano has advised parties and served as a facilitator and mediator in political and corporate disputes. His work includes working with Native American groups, meeting with UN Security Council Members as part of an effort to develop a framework for a negotiated settlement in the Persian Gulf Crisis, and co-facilitating two nationally reported and televised citizen's forums on Canada's constitutional crisis.  He continues to advise and train diplomats and other government officials from Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.  Mr. Ricigliano served on the first U.S. team ever to teach negotiation at the Soviet Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy in Moscow, and he was selected by the Secretary of the Interior to lead a first of its kind mediation of a land dispute. He has provided training to political parties and community groups in South Africa, and is working on issues of community conflict resolution. Mr. Ricigliano helped mediate an agreement ending a divisive dispute among the owners of Canada's largest private television network.

Mr. Ricigliano received his BA from Hamilton College and his JD from Harvard Law School.  He received the Danforth Certificate for excellence in teaching at Harvard.

Tom Schaub - Advisor

Tom Schaub is Managing Director of CMI Claris, a professional partnership offering services in conflict management, negotiation, and relationship management, and an Advisor to CMG.

In the public sector, Tom's practice focuses on organizational capacity building, education and strategic assistance. Tom's clients have included the UN Special Envoy for Peace to Burundi, the World Bank, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Singapore Mediation Center (SMC), the National University of Singapore, the Foreign Affairs College of the People's Republic of China, the Asia Foundation, EWHA Women's University in Seoul, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), as well as governments and NGOs in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America.

In his corporate practice, Tom works internationally with clients in the manufacturing, financial services and information technology sectors. Tom facilitates, trains, and consults on negotiation, consultative sales, and relationship and change management. Tom has worked with IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hoogovens, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Intel, Coats, and Pillsbury, among others. Tom has also served as an adjunct faculty to the IBM Executive Consulting Institute.

Before working with CMI Claris, Tom negotiated and managed contracts with the Federal General Services Administration (GSA) in Washington, D.C. Tom had also worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), first assisting community-based development projects in East Africa and later coordinating war relief in rebel-held Southern Sudan. There he founded and chaired the Torit Forum which coordinated field action among UN agencies, international relief organizations, local villages and rebel groups. He has also served with the Peace Corps and USAID in The Congo (then Zaire).

First as a student and Teaching Fellow and later as a colleague, Tom has worked and taught with Professor Roger Fisher, founder and Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and co-author of Getting to Yes.  Harvard College presented Tom with the Danforth Award for excellence in teaching. Tom has a Masters of Public Policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He speaks several African languages, is conversant in French, and is a student of eastern philosophy.

Jim Tull - Project Manager: Latin America, U.S.

Mr. Tull provides assistance and training to public, private and nonprofit organizations in the areas of mediation and dispute resolution in the United States, Canada and countries throughout Latin America. His experience in mediation and facilitation began in 1986 when he directed the training program for a New York-based management consulting organization. While at CMG, Mr. Tull has designed and directed training workshops for such diverse groups as the Interamerican Development Bank, Haagen-Dazs and IBM. He has worked on the teaching staff of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has led courses on negotiation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Prior to joining Conflict Management Group, Mr. Tull spent several years living and working in Central and South America with the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity. Serving as International Partner, he managed projects that built over 200 low-income houses in rural areas of Nicaragua, Guatemala and Colombia.  Mr. Tull's interest in negotiation theory was made very personal in Nicaragua when he was briefly held hostage by "Recompa" guerrillas and negotiated his own release, as well as the release of his office staff.  Mr. Tull received his Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Kenyon College.

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