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Diana Chigas
Professor of Practice
The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Diana Chigas is Co-Director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) project at CDA-Collaborative Learning Projects, a non-profit organization that organizes collaborative learning efforts to analyze the role of third party actors in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Diana is working with non-governmental agencies, inter-governmental agencies and donors to reflect on the impact of their programming and priority areas and strategies for enhancing its impact. She is also Professor of Practice of negotiation and conflict resolution at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Prior to joining CDA, Diana served as Vice President, Regional Director for Europe and the former Soviet Union and Director of Research and Evaluation at Conflict Management Group, where she advised international organizations, non-governmental organizations and governments in peacebuilding, negotiation and conflict resolution. At CMG, Ms. Chigas directed programs on Preventive Diplomacy in the OSCE, working with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and on-site missions on methods and strategies. She co-led the program on Conflict Management in Cyprus, which brought together citizens and elites from both sides for dialogue and joint problem-solving over nearly ten years, with the aim of catalyzing a human infrastructure for peace. Ms. Chigas has facilitated “track two” discussions and provided training and advice to the negotiating teams of the government in El Salvador and the FMLN, and with negotiators in the South African constitutional negotiations an and in the Georgia/South Ossetia peace process.