Anthony Wanis-St. John
Advisor

awanisstjohn@yahoo.com

Anthony Wanis-St. John is an Assistant Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University’s School of International Service. He is a Research Associate with the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. (2001) and M.A.L.D. (1996) from the Fletcher School, Tufts University and was a Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. He can be reached at wanis@american.edu and awanisstjohn@yahoo.com

He has extensive experience mediating disputes within partnerships, corporations and government agencies as well as between unions and management. He has taught in graduate programs at UMASS Boston’s Dispute Resolution Program; Tufts University, The Fletcher School; Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and in the executive education program at Harvard Law School. Anthony consults with the World Bank on international ADR programs throughout Latin America and consults on peacebuilding projects in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Recent publications include:

• ”Back Channel Negotiations: International Bargaining in the Shadows,” Negotiation Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (2006)
• ”Cultural Pathways in Negotiation,” in Moffitt and Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
• ”A Culture of Justice: Guatemala’s Post-Conflict Judicial Modernization,” World Bank, April 2004 (for World Bank’s “Scaling-Up Poverty Reduction” Conference in Shanghai, May 2004)
• ”Implementing ADR in Transitioning States,” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Vol. 5 (2000)
• ”The National Security Council: Tool of Presidential Crisis Management,” Journal of Public and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998)
• ”Third Party Mediation Between India and Pakistan,” International Peacekeeping, vol. 4, no. 4 (1997)

Ongoing research projects include the role of civil society in peace processes and the Iran-EU nuclear negotiations. Additional research interests include implementation problems in peace processes; culture and negotiation; complex adaptive systems; and global health and conflict resolution.