Anthony Wanis-St. John is a Research Associate at the Center on International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. (2001) and M.A. (1996) from the Fletcher School, Tufts University and was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Drexel University and Notre Dame University (Beirut, Lebanon). He has also taught at Tufts University and Clark University. He was negotiation course assistant to Prof. Frank Sander at Harvard Law School and Prof. Michael Wheeler at Harvard Business School.

In 2004 he co-founded RoundTable International LLC to provide coaching, training and consulting on legal and corporate negotiations, sales and alliance management. Anthony consults with the World Bank on projects in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela on their court-annexed mediation programs. He collaborates with the World Health Organization and other UN agencies on their global health and peacebuilding work, and with the United States Institute of Peace on their educational mission. He conducts joint trainings of Arab and Israeli educators every year with the University of the Middle East project, which he helped to found in 1997.

He has trained people in negotiation and mediation skills from organizations as diverse as American Express, Visa International, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Social Justice Leadership Collaborative, Hewlett Packard, BMC Software de Mexico and many others. Anthony is also an experienced mediator of both labor management contracts and disputes among high-performing executives within companies. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French and has basic Arabic skills.

He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1965 of Palestinian and Lebanese origins.

Research Interests:

• Secrecy, decisionmaking and negotiation analysis
• Implementation of peace agreements
• Civil society and peace processes
• Cross cultural teams and decisions
• Palestinian-Israeli conflict
• Complex adaptive systems and peace processes

Selected Publications:

2006. Back Channels: Two Edged Sword of Peacemaking is under review by Lynne Rienner.

2005. “Cultural Pathways in Conflict Resolution,” in Moffitt and Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution. Jossey-Bass.

2003. Expand the pie. (with Grande Lum). Castle-Pacific.

2000. “Implementing ADR in Transitioning States,” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Vol. 5

1998. “The National Security Council: Tool of Presidential Crisis Management,” Journal of Public and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1

1997. “Third Party Mediation Between India and Pakistan,” International Peacekeeping, vol. 4, no. 4
Guest Lectures:

Fall 2003: US Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Presented at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Winter 2004: An International Coalition and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Presented to the Boston Bar Association.