Theory to Practice Team

The "Theory to Practice" project was generously funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. It was guided by a steering committee of highly experienced scholars and practitioners, from eclectic backgrounds:

Peter Adler
Executive Director
Hawaii Justice Foundation
Honolulu, Hawaii

Laura Chasin
Director
Public Conversations Project
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Roberto Chene
Mediator
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Robert Dingwall
Professor of Sociology
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, England

Aimee Gourlay
Executive Director
Mediation Center
St. Paul, Minnesota

Deborah Hensler
Professor of Dispute Resolution, and
Director, Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation
Stanford University Law School
Stanford, California

Christopher Honeyman (Principal Investigator)
President
CONVENOR Dispute Resolution
Madison, Wisconsin / Washington, DC

Joan Kelly
Mediation Consultant
Corte Madera, California

Barbara McAdoo
Professor of Law
Hamline University Law School
St. Paul, Minnesota

Craig McEwen
Professor of Sociology, and
Dean for Academic Affairs
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine

Edith Primm
Director of Research & Development
Justice Center of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Leonard Riskin
Professor of Law, and
Director, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution
University of Missouri Law School
Columbia, Missouri

Andrew Thomas
Executive Director
Center for Dispute Settlement
Rochester, New York

Stephen Toben
Vice-President for Programs
Flora Family Foundation
Palo Alto, California

William Warters
Associate Director
Program on Mediating Theory and Democratic Systems
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Nancy Welsh
Assistant Professor of Law
Dickinson Law School
Pennsylvania State University
Carlisle, Pennsylvania