Barbe Chambliss Ph.D.

Barbe Chambliss, is a psychotherapist, professional mediator, and organic farmer dedicated to discovering and bringing forth conscious acts of peace in a progressively chaotic world. She directed the volunteer Center for Conflict Resolution in Aspen, Colorado. She has taught mediation to over 500 children and adults in rural Colorado schools and facilitates Restorative Justice Circles in her community.

Chambliss’s PhD dissertation, entitled Contemporary Women Peacemakers: The Hidden Side of Peacemaking, ignited two decades of interviews with over fifty women across the world, exploring the nuts and bolts of how peace is actually made. Midway in this journey, she volunteered as a counselor in a Croatian camp providing safe haven for eighty children who had recently survived the Bosnian War. Shortly after the terrorist attacks in New York City, she compiled and distributed a “Working Compendium of Non-violent Responses to 9/11," and later served as a therapist on a U.S. military base to better understand the human dynamics of making war.

Her work is an ongoing exploration into the practice of peacemaking, which she defines simply as people treating each other with equal respect. Her goal is to wake up the conscious peacemaker in as many people as possible during her life.