Wallace Warfield is a reflective practitioner, trained in the area of public administration and public policy, making use of a full range of theory in the analysis of conflicts and various approaches used to manage, mitigate, and resolve such conflicts. He teaches laboratory-simulation, practicum, and theory courses and his field work has involved interventions and training in complex, multi party conflicts involving communities and organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Along with other ICAR faculty, he has conducted research and training projects in conflict settings in Africa and South America. In the latter case, the focus has been on conflict zones of peace in Colombia.

Warfield is on the Editorial Board of Negotiations Journal and is also the author of a number of publications in the field of conflict analysis and resolution. He is a past President of the Society of Professionals In Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) and a member of the Board of Reference of the Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University

Prior to his affiliation with ICAR, Warfield served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). At ACUS, he was responsible for helping Federal agencies build alternative dispute resolution processes into their administrative systems, developing and implementing training for government contracting offices, boards of contract appeal judges, administrative law judges and others in the Federal sector. Before his work with ACUS, Warfield worked for the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Relations Service holding the positions of Acting Director and Associate Director for Field Coordination in the national office and Acting Regional Director, Deputy Regional Director, and mediator in the New York office.

Before joining the Department of Justice, he served as the Deputy Director of the Lower West Side ( New York) Community Corporation and prior to that, he was a street gang worker with the New York City Youth Board.

Graduate Courses

"Introductory Laboratory/Simulation" (CONF 713)

"Community Laboratory/Simulation" (CONF 714)

"Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution" (CONF 501)

"Theories of Conflict Analysis and Resolution" (CONF 601)

"Applied Practice and Theory Practicum" (CONF 690/890)

"Leadership Roles in Conflict and Conflict Resolution" (CONF 745)

Selected Publications

"Triggering incidents for racial conflict", in Community disorders and policing: conflict management in action, Whiting and Birch, London, 1992

"Public policy conflict resolution: The nexus between culture and process", in Conflict resolution theory and practice: integration and application, Manchester University Press, 1993

"The development of pedagogy and practicum", with Juliana Birkhoff, Mediation Quarterly, Vol. 14, N0. 2, Winter 1996.

"Building consensus for racial harmony in American cities: a case model approach", Missouri Journal of Dispute Resolution , Vol. 1996, No. 1, 1996.

"The potential of local zones of peace in moving from civil war to civil society", Peace Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1997.

“Reconnecting systems maintenance with social justice: a critical role for conflict resolution”, with Mara Schoeny, Negotiation Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, July 2000.

“Paradox and promise: ethical dilemmas in conflict resolution training”, paper presented at the USIP symposium on Best Practices in Conflict Resolution Training, June 2000.

“Is this the right thing to do? A practical framework for ethical decisions”, in Into the eye of the storm: a handbook of international peacebuilding, Jossey-Bass, 2002.

“Ethnic, racial, and gender profiling in conflict intervention: threat or opportunity”, with Susan Dearborn, ACResolution, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Fall 2003.

Into the eye of the storm: a handbook of international peacebuilding