Dr. Craig Zelizer is Associate Director of the Conflict Resolution MA Program in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His areas of expertise include working with youth from violent conflict regions, civil society development and capacity building in transitional societies, program evaluation and design, working on conflict sensitivity and mainstreaming across development sectors, the connection between trauma and conflict, the role of the private sector in peacebuilding, and arts and peacebuilding.

He has worked extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America with diverse groups including civil society members, educators, youth, government officials, etc. To date he has worked in over 14 countries, helped train hundreds of individuals in conflict resolution processes and facilitated several long-term dialogue processes.

He was one of the co-founders and is currently a senior partner in the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (www.conflicttransformation), a leading non-profit organization dedicated to building peace through innovative research and practice. In addition to his work with ACT, he has worked for several international organizations including the International Research & Exchanges Board and the United States Institute of Peace, and received a number of fellowships and awards, including serving as a Fulbright Junior Scholar in Hungary for two years and as a National Security Education Program Fellow in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mr. Zelizer received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.A. from the Central European University and Ph.D. from George Mason University.

He serves on the Editorial Board of the African Peace and Conflict Journal and the Journal of Peacebuilding of Development. Dr. Zelizer has published several articles and reports including in Peace and Conflict Studies, The African Peace and Conflict Journal. He is co-editor (with Dr. Robert Rubinstein) of Building Peace: Practical Reflections from the Field (Kumarian, May 2009).

He is founder of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network, a leading networking website with over 7500 professionals, academics, and students interested and working on issues of international development and conflict. The website address is http://internationalpeaceandconflict.org