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Please join the Global Engagement Center in welcoming Fulbright alumni ambassador Brian Polkinghorn to campus on Friday, March 8, at noon in the Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418. Interested faculty members can hear about Dr. Polkinghorn’s personal experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Israel and inquire about how they might become Fulbright scholars themselves. We hope to see you there.   

Brian Polkinghorn is a distinguished professor of conflict analysis and dispute resolution at Salisbury University. In 1994, Dr. Polkinghorn was the co-founding faculty member of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova Southeastern University. In 2000, he designed and launched the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution and became the executive director of the Bosserman Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University. He has worked in the field of conflict intervention since 1985 as a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, trainer, researcher, academic program and curriculum developer, conflict coach, dispute systems designer, and ombudsman. He has published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and books and has been the principal or co-principal investigator on several dozen research projects. Dr. Polkinghorn has also received more than 80 grants. He has practiced in a dozen countries primarily in the areas of environmental policy dispute intervention, labor-management, cross-border cooperative enterprises, leadership development, and support of peace talks. He is an alumnus of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University as well as the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at Syracuse University, and was a fellow with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University Law School. Dr. Polkinghorn is currently a Fulbright alumni ambassador with the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the scholar division of the Institute of International Education.