A. Heidi Burgess
January 2015Co-Director, Conflict Information Consortium
Instructor, Peace and Conflict Studies and Communication
Research Associate, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching Social Sciences University of Colorado
UCB 580, Room A222, ARC Building, 3100 Marine St. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-580
Phone: (303) 492-1635, E-mail: heidi.burgess@colorado.edu Education
! Ph.D. - Sociology - University of Colorado - 1979
! B.A. - Environmental Biology - University of Colorado - 1972 Positions Held
! Instructor, Peace and Conflict Studies and the Department of Communication, University of Colorado, 2009 - present
! Co-Director, Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado, 1988 - present. Consortium positions include:
" Co-Director, Peacebuilding Taxonomy Project, 2014-present
" Co-Director, Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project, 2002-present " Co-Director, Conflict Resolution Information Source, 1999-present " Co-Director, The Governance Commons, 2010-2011
" Co-Director, Peace Frontiers Project, 2005-2007
" Co-Director, International Online Training Program on Intractable Conflict, 1998-2005 ! Adjunct Instructor, Graduate School of International Studies 2007-2009, and Conflict
Resolution Program, University of Denver, 2007 - present
! Adjunct Faculty, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Sept. 2012 - present
! Research Associate, Center for Advancement of Research And Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) 2002 - present
! Instructor, Department of Continuing Education, University of Colorado, 1999 - present ! Instructor, Iliff School of Theology, 2014 (3 day weekend short course)
! Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado 1996 - 2002 ! Research Associate, Bureau of Sociological Research, 1987 - 2002
! Public Science, Partner, 1984-1988.
! University of Colorado, Lecturer, 1986-1990
! Professional Research Associate, University of Colorado School of Nursing, 1983-1987. ! Senior Associate, ACCORD Associates, (1981-1983).
! Visiting Scientist and Lecturer, Center for Energy Policy Research and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (1979-1980) Current Activities
Current Teaching Positions
! Instructor, University of Colorado (CU), Peace and Conflict Studies and Communication, (50% FTE) Spring 2009 - present
! Adjunct Instructor, University of Denver (DU), Conflict Resolution Program 2007 - present (One or two 5 week graduate seminars per year.)
! Adjunct Faculty, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University (GMU), 2012 - present (Two online graduate seminars per year co-taught with Guy Burgess.) ! Instructor, University of Colorado (CU), Department of Continuing Education - 1999 present
(One self-paced online course.)
Courses Currently Taught
! Communication and Conflict Management (COMM 3700 and PACS 3700), Undergraduate, CU
! Intractable Conflict (CRES 4820), Graduate, DU
! Addressing Intractable Conflict (CONF 756), Graduate, GMU ! Post-Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, Graduate, GMU
! Peace and Conflict Studies 3800 -Communication and Conflict Management - taught online since 2006.
! Senior Seminar in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS 4500) to be offered online starting spring 2014.(Undergrad, CU)
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Professional Focus
My research (and much of my teaching) focus has been on intractable conflicts–those conflicts that stubbornly seem to resist all attempts at resolution. This began with the Intractable Conflict Project which started in 1990, and morphed into the Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project, which resulted, in 2002, in the creation of a very extensive online knowledge system called Beyond Intractability (www.beyondintractability.org) (BI). I created and still act as co-editor of BI with my husband and professional partner, Guy Burgess.
Before BI, Guy and I created, at the request of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, another large online knowledge base focused on “ordinary” or “tractable” conflicts and conflict resolution mechanisms. This website is the Conflict Resolution Information Source or
www.CRInfo.org. At the time of its creation, when the Internet was very young, we really believed that we had all of the online knowledge about conflict resolution accessible in one place. That is no longer true (or possible) of course, but we maintain CRInfo as a source of good, cross-disciplinary conflict and conflict resolution information focused primarily on conflicts that
can be successfully resolved through negotiation, mediation, or related processes.
Both BI and CRInfo were large collaborative projects involving over 400 contributors–both academic and practitioners–from around the world. They include roughly 5000 pages of original content, indexed links to more than 15,000 other web-based resources, and over 100 hours of audio interviews of leading scholars and practitioners in the peace and conflict fields. Each month they are used by well over 100,000 different people from around the world.
All of this work has been done under the auspices of the Conflict Information Consortium (CIC), a grant funded program of the Center for the Advanced Research and Teaching Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado. CIC was founded in 1988 as one of the
university-based conflict resolution theory centers funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. My husband and academic partner, Guy Burgess, have directed the Consortium since its inception.
Publications
Beyond Intractability. This website, which is described in more detail above, is similar in scope to a major, edited reference book for the field.
“Applying the Strategies of International Peacebuilding to Family Conflicts: What those involved in family disputes can learn from the efforts of peacebuilders working to transform war-torn societies.”Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess. in Peacemaking for Divorcing Families, a Special Issue of the Family Court Review. Forthcoming July 2015.
Conducting Track II Peacemaking. Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess. Washington DC. United States Institute of Peace Press. Dec. 2010.
Managing a Mediation Process: Web Handbook, Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess adapted the paper handbook, Managing a Mediation Process, for the web. It was published online by the U.S. Institute of Peace in 2009. The url is:
http://www.usip.org/programs/projects/managing-mediation-process
Beyond Intractability, Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess, eds. Boulder: University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. Available online at www.beyondintractability.org. Originally posed in 2003, it is constantly in revision. I am also the author of about 25 individual articles in Beyond Intractability.
“The Perfect Storm: Intractability in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?” Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess.” in Achieving Peace between the Israelis and Palestinians from a Psycho-social Point of View. Dr. Judy Kuriansky, ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Press. Forthcoming, late 2006. "Conflict Resolution and the Dismal Theorem of the Internet" Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess,
Partisan Review, Spring 2000.
Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution, Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess, 1997. Denver, CO: ABC-Clio.
“Constructive Confrontation: A Transformative Approach to Intractable Conflicts,” Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess, 1996 Mediation Quarterly 13:4.
"Environmental Mediation: Beyond the Limits," Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess in
Environmental Mediation Theory and Practice, J. Walton Blackburn and Willa M.Bruce, eds.,Greenwood Publishing, 1995.
Justice Without Violence, Paul Wehr, Heidi Burgess, and Guy Burgess, eds., Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publications, 1994. Also author of four chapters: Introduction, Theoretical Foundations, Research Questions and Hypotheses, and Theoretical Synthesis.
October 1993 Intractable Conflict/Constructive Confrontation Conference Proceedings, Edited by Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess, Conflict Research Consortium, 1994.
April 1993 Intractable Conflict/Constructive Confrontation Conference Proceedings, Edited by Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess, Conflict Research Consortium, 1993.
"Confronting Intractable Conflicts in Constructive Ways" Conflict Research Consortium Working Paper #93-37.
Improving the Environmental Problem Solving Process: Lessons from the 1988-1992 California Drought, Edited by Lloyd Burton, Guy Burgess, and Heidi Burgess. Colorado: Conflict Research Consortium, 1993. Also author of Chapter 6 in this volume: "Social Conflict Constraints on Adaptation to Environmental Change: Lessons from the 1988-1992 California Drought."
Conflict Research Consortium Annual Reports to the Hewlett Foundation, 1988-2001.
"Intractable Conflict and Constructive Confrontation" CRC Working Paper #91-6. With Guy Burgess.''
"The Summer 1990 Hewlett Centers Conference and The Fund for Research in
DisputeResolution (FRDR) Summer Conference: Conference Summaries." Conflict Research Consortium Working Paper 90-17.
"United States' Dispute Handling Systems: Traditions, Alternatives, and Current Issues," Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess, Conflict Research Consortium Working Paper 89-7.
"Mediating a Politically Volatile Dispute: A Case Study of the Foothills Water Treatment Plant Controversy" in Resolving Environmental Regulation Disputes. Larry Susskind, ed. Boston: Shenkman Books, l984.
"Negotiation in the Rulemaking Process" by Heidi Burgess, Dianne Hoffman, and Mary Lucci, in
Resolving Environmental Regulation Disputes. Larry Susskind, ed. Boston: Shenkman Books, l984.
"The Uses of Mediation: A Case Study of the Brayton Point Coal Conversion Process" by Heidi Burgess and Doug Smith in Resolving Environmental Regulation Disputes. Larry Susskind, ed. Boston: Shenkman Books, 1984.
Past Teaching Activities
! Complexity in Conflict Analysis, Graduate Course in the DU Conflict Resolution Masters Program, Taught Spring Quarter 2014
! Religious Peacebuilding, Graduate Course taught at the Iliff School of Theology, Fall Quarter, 2014.
! Online Training Program on Intractable Conflicts, Taught online continuously since 2000, although it was “morphed” into a newer course, Dealing Constructively With Intractable Conflicts in 2005.
! Sociology 5025, Conflict Management in Social Systems, Co-taught with Guy Burgess and Paul Wehr, 1994, 95, 96, 97, and 98.
! Training on Conflict Resolution and Managing Intractable Conflicts given for a variety of local and international groups.
1993-! Lecturer, University of Colorado, Department of Sociology. 1988-1990. Social and Natural Environments; Conflict Management; Contemporary Moral Issues, Social Conflict and Conflict Management.
! Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning. 1979-80
! Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Denver. l978
! Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado. 1975-78.
Grants and Contracts
2014-2015 Peacebuilding Taxonomy Project, with Heidi Burgess, Underwood Foundation ($45,000)
2013-14 Interactive Online Graduate Seminar Development, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, with Heidi Burgess, ($9,000) 2010-15 Anonymous Conflict Consortium Support Grant, with Heidi Burgess, ($30,000) 2013 Assett Development Award for Peace and Conflict Studies “Threaded Text”
($2500)
2012-2013 Love and Forgiveness in The Governing Professions subcontract with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Fetzer Institute ($21,000)
2012 - 2013 Dynamical Systems Application Project Beyond Intractability Portal Contract with Columbia University ($10,000-$15,000)
2002-present Miscellaneous Small Grants to Beyond Intractability ($30,000+)
2010 -2011 GL3 (Goal-focused, Large-scale, Long-Term Learning System on Peace and Governance), The Governance Commons and One Earth Future Foundation ($265,000)
2005-2007 Peace Frontiers Project, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($27,000) 2005-2006 Social-Psychological Frames and Intractable Conflict, Smith Family Foundation
($18,000) him
2005-2007 Conflict Resolution Knowledge Gaps Project, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, ($250,000)
2000-2005 Civil Rights Oral History Mediation Project, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
2001-2006 Co-Director, Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($750,000, $450,000)
1999-2007 Co-Director, Conflict Resolution Information Source, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($525,000, $400,000, $250,000)
1988- 2001 Co-Principal Investigator, Conflict Research Consortium, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. ($200,000, $225,000, $210,000, $200,000, $200,000) 1998- 2004 Co-Principal Investigator on Conflict Research Consortium Component of the
Framing of Intractable Environmental Disputes Project, Hewlett Foundation ($26,000, $20,000)
1996-1998 Co-Principal Investigator, “International Distance Learning Program on
Constructive Approaches to Intractable Conflict,” United States Institute for Peace (35,000)
1991 Co-Principal Investigator, “Information Exchange Program: Peace Research Component,” United States Institute for Peace” ($16,000).
1991 Co-Principal Investigator, “Justice Without Violence” United States Institute for Peace ($10,000)
Other Professional Activities
! Numerous paper presentations at the " Alliance for Peacebuilding
" Association of Conflict Resolution, " International Studies Association, " American Sociological Association,
" National Conferences on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, " Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution Conferences, " Peace Studies Association,
" Colorado School Violence Conferences.
Organizer and Chair of several sessions at the above conferences as well. ! Organizer of the 1998 Hewlett Centers Conference, Palo Alto, California.
! Organizer of the 1990 Hewlett Centers Conference, Estes Park, Colorado; The Spring 1993 ! Five Conferences on Intractable Conflict organized and held in Spring and Fall 1993, 2003,
2004, and 2005. All of these were sponsored by the Conflict Research Consortium. ! Served on Dissertation Committees in Sociology and Political Science
! Oversaw Student Internships in Communication.
! Elected to the Council of the War and Peace Section of the American Sociological Association, 1989 - 1991.
! Board Member, Peace and Change, 1989-90
! Editorial Board member, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 2004-present ! Referee/Reviewer for
" University of Hawaii Press, " Syracuse University Press, " Sage Publications,
" Conflict Resolution Quarterly, " Kumarian Press,
" Oxford University Press, and the " U.S. Institute of Peace Grant Programs.
