Rachel M. Goldberg's Page

What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

I was part of the first mediation training at Oberlin College and saw great people like Janet Rifkin talk and felt a great affinity and love for the work. I also grew up with a religious background that encourages tolerance and peace as a Sai Baba devotee. And, of course, I saw how badly things went sometimes in the world and thought that there were better ways to heal humanity and our plant, animal, and environmental world.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)

I was originally trained as a mediator at Oberlin College in 1983, and have been active in the field since that time. My work and training background include: individual, organizational and multi-party interventions; and work around controversial issues like pro-life/pro-choice activism, police accountability, and Native American land claim conflict. My research includes work around incipient and active gang related activities, how worldview and values of practice effect practice work, identity effects on data collection, best practices in environmental and inter-cultural conflict resolution, and combining cutting edge psychological practices and spiritual, somatic, and emotional, as well as cognitive practices, with conflict resolution work.

I jointly founded one campus mediation center, and coordinated two. I was also senior staff for the National Association for Mediation in Education (NAME, now CRENET/ACR) and spent several years as a trainer for the Alternatives to Violence Project in maximum security correctional facilities. I am also certified to do NY State Lemon Law Arbitration and Matrimonial Fee Dispute Arbitration.

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University, in Salisbury, MD. I have also taught at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise

US, Canada, India

What is your current country of residence?

USA

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

I am currently a professor of conflict resolution and am getting my consulting practice up and running again

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~rmgoldberg/

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.php

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.visionofhumanity.com/index.php

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution, Gender, Youth, Education, Organizational Development, Psychosocial, Environment

Which are your primary skills areas?

Training, Program Design, Program Administration, Advocacy, Intervention, Research

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

I am currently developing conflict resolution models that incorporate spiritual, emotional, cognitive and somatic dimensions, as well as developing instruments to help practitioner and clients understand practitioner's values-of-practice/frames.