Faculty
Paula Green
Dr. Paula Green is the founder and director of CONTACT and Professor of Conflict Transformation at the SIT Graduate Institute.
Dr. Green has extensive international experience in peacebuilding and taught at several graduate schools, universities, and other educational centers worldwide before coming to SIT in 1995. As a facilitator in interethnic dialogue, conflict transformation, and community reconciliation, she has worked in Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Israel and Palestine, the Caucasus, Rwanda and Eastern Africa, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, India, and many other regions. Dr. Green founded and directs the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, an NGO located in Amherst MA. In addition to consulting and training, Dr. Green has been an active board member of several international peace organizations, including the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. She is the author of numerous internationally published articles and chapters. Dr. Green co-edited the textbook, Psychology and Social Responsibility: Facing Global Challenges.
Dr. Green has been selected as an Unsung Hero of Compassion, an award given to her by the Dalai Lama.
Read Dr. Green’s commentary "Intercultural Education for Peacebuilders"
This article originally appeared in Anthropology News, Volume 48 Number 8 Nov 2007
Published by American Anthropological Association reprinted with permission (c) 2007.
Read Dr. Green’s journal article CONTACT: Training a New Generation of Peacebuilders.
Published in Peace and Change, January 2002.
Phone:
877.257.7751, extension 3433
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Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA