Lisa Schirch

Lisa Schirch is a professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.

A former Fulbright Fellow in East and West Africa, Schirch has worked in over 20 countries with communities and government leaders to build peace and security.

She is the program director of the 3D Security Initiative at www.3Dsecurity.org to help make the links between community level peacebuilding work with think tanks, Members of Congress, State Department, Department of Defense, USAID, and others that shape U.S. foreign policy.

She specializes in building peace and security through sustainable development and multi-track diplomacy. Her current work explores the intersection of conflict prevention and climate change; Africom, and U.S. policies on Iran, Iraq, and border security.

She is the author of 5 books on peacebuilding and conflict prevention.

She holds a B.A. in International Relations, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.

B.A. in Political Science and International Relations, University of Waterloo
M.S., Ph.D., Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

• Negotiation –not strikes – needed for Iran
• Strategic Arts-based Peacebuilding
• The Two Wars in Iraq: Ours and Theirs
• When and Why to Use the Media for Peacebuilding
• Civilian foreign-aid agencies neglected as DoD role grows
• Redeeming the Powers, Redeeming Ourselves
• Security and Coexistence
  
• Leveraging “3D” Security: From Rhetoric to Reality
  
  
  BOOKS:
• Little Book of Dialogue on Difficult Subjects
• Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding
• Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding
• Civilian Peacekeeping: Preventing Violence and Making Space for Democracy
• Women in Peacebuilding Resource and Training Manual: Part 1 and Part 2