Joan C Lopez Author

Joan C. Lopez is Program Manager of the Youth, Peace, and Security Program at the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), housed at Columbia University's Climate School. His work is situated on the border where processes led by community leaders meet with the production of spaces of peace in areas where violent conflicts are rampant. He focuses on understanding the ways community leaders organize to make sense of violent conflicts, and on how they construct practices and technologies to respond peacefully to the dynamics of such conflicts. In addition to his work at AC4, he teaches in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Master's program at Columbia University, as well as in the cultural anthropology program at City College, CUNY.

Beth Fisher-Yoshida is Professor of Professional Practice and program director of the MS in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, at Columbia University, where she teaches classes in negotiation, conflict resolution, and conflict systems analysis. Dr. Fisher-Yoshida is also Co-Executive Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) and Director of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) program, both housed in the Earth Institute at Columbia University. In her role at YPS she has been working to develop systemic approaches to building more effective communities through youth leadership in Medellín, Colombia. Dr. Fisher-Yoshida has authored many chapters, articles, books, reflecting her research and practice in negotiation and participatory action research (PAR).