About the Author

Bernie Mayer, a professor at the Werner Institute, Creighton University, and a founding partner of CDR Associates, has been working in the conflict field since the late 1970s as a mediator, facilitator, trainer, researcher, program administrator, and consultant. He has worked on many complex environmental conflicts, organizational and labor-management disputes, interpersonal conflicts, planning and development issues, public decision-making processes, and ethnic disputes. He has an extensive background in family and child welfare mediation as well. Bernie is also on the faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Bernie has worked with corporations; labor unions; Native American governments and associations; federal, state, and local agencies; public interest groups; professional associations; schools; child welfare programs; mental health services; and universities. He has consulted on conflict and conflict intervention throughout the United States and Canada and extensively in other international locations as well.