Sandra Cheldelin is the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR). Throughout her career in the academy she has been an active reflective practitioner. A licensed psychologist and expert in organizational conflict, she conducted large and small scale mediations, coached senior executives to create healthy work environments, resolved interpersonal, intergroup and inter-organizational conflict, designed institution building mechanisms and supported collaborative leadership. She has worked with more than 150 organizations including colleges, universities, medical schools, treatment facilities, corporations, associations, religious institutions and community organizations. She has been keynote speaker and invited lecturer on workplace issues of violence, change, race, gender and conflict. She has facilitated large-scale interethnic and interfaith community dialogues on topics of fear, terrorism, violence and suspicion. Cheldelin has convened large and small groups for a variety of purposes including the development of a national policy on policing for victims of violent crime, creating a 10-year institutional strategic plan, and designing and implementing neighborhood strategies for building community resilience. She is coauthor (with Ann Lucas) of Conflict Resolution, (Jossey Bass, 2004) and co-editor (with Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast) of Conflict: from Analysis to Intervention (Continuum, 2003). She serves on a variety of conflict resolution related boards.

Cheldelin has had faculty appointments with each of her administrative positions at several colleges and universities including Provost at the McGregor School of Antioch University, Academic Dean at the California School of Professional Psychology (Berkeley campus), and Director of Educational Development at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She came to ICAR in the fall of 1996 and served as Director for nearly 3 years beginning January 1999.

She is in the initial stages of writing a book for new academic administrators on critical legal issues facing the academy (co-authored with Linda Schwartzstein). She is also in the initial stages of co-editing (with Wallace Warfield and Dan Rothbart) a book with a working title When Practice Works.

Graduate Courses

Laboratory and Simulation: Interpersonal and Small Group Conflict (Conf 713)

Reflective Practice (Conf 713)

Gender and Conflict (Conf 723)

Organizations and Conflict (Conf 731)

Applied Practice and Theory (Conf 690/890)

Appreciative Inquiry (Conf 795)

Trauma and Resilience (Conf 695)

Selected Publications

Cheldelin, Sandra I. and Lucas, Ann. Conflict Resolution, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004

Cheldelin, Sandra I., Druckman, Daniel and Fast, Larissa, (Eds.), Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention , London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003

Cheldelin, Sandra I. “Mediation and Arbitration” Chapter 13 in Cheldelin, Druckman and Fast (Eds.) Conflict: From Analysis to Intervention, London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003

Cheldelin, Sandra I. and Lyons, Terrence, “Facilitation and Consultation” Chapter 15 in Cheldelin, Druckman and Fast (Eds.) Conflict: From Analysis to Intervention, London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003

Cheldelin, Sandra, Greenberg, Melanie, Honeyman, Christopher, and Volpe, Maria, “An Experiment in Practice to Theory in Conflict Resolution,” Guest Editors Negotiation Journal, October 2002 and February 2003 issues

Cheldelin, Sandra I., “Handling Resistance to Change," Chapter 3 in Ann F. Lucas and Associates, Leading Academic Change: Essential Roles for Department Chairs, San Francisco , Jossey Bass, 2000

Cheldelin, Sandra and Warfield, Wallace with January Makamba, Reflections on Reflective Practice , Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution Working Paper, April 2004.

Cheldelin, Sandra I., “Reflections on After September 11: Finding and Building Common Ground in a Community of Differences.” White paper and final report on 2 year post 9.11 Fairfax County Community Dialogue project. George Mason University , February 2004

Cheldelin, Sandra, Producer, Introducing Dialogue, a 30 minute DVD reflecting the Community Dialogue project demonstrating four dialogue models. Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2004.

Cheldelin, Sandra, Producer, Dialogues for the Workplace, a 30 minute DVD reflecting use of dialogues in the workplace to discuss issues of difference and diversity. Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2004.

Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention

Academic Administrator's Guide to Conflict Resolution