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Karen Stromgren Blanchard
PhD, California Institute Of Integral Studies
MIA, School For International Training
BA, University Of Connecticut

Associate Professor and Chair
Intercultural Service, Leadership, And Management
A member of the SIT Graduate Institute faculty since 1988, Karen Blanchard developed and taught SIT Graduate Institute’s first course in conflict transformation. She has managed programs for the US Peace Corps and the Intergovernmental Organization for Migration in Switzerland and Eastern Europe, and has consulted for the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding on a project in Bosnia. She currently teaches a course entitled Journeys of Forgiveness at SIT Graduate Institute and also directs a short-term training program for Southeast Asian development professionals.