Christopher Honeyman

Chris Honeyman is Managing Partner of Convenor Conflict Management, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He is Senior Advisor of Project Seshat, after chairing its steering committee and serving as Principal Investigator for four years. Chris has served as an advisor to numerous academic and practical conflict resolution programs in the U.S. and other countries, and as a mediator, arbitrator and in other neutral capacities in more than 2,000 disputes since the 1970s. He has been co-director of the long-running Canon of Negotiation Initiative since its inception. From 2007-2013 he was co-director of Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, a major project to revamp the content and methods of negotiation teaching worldwide. From 2004-2009 he served as lead external consultant to ADR Center (Rome), the largest dispute resolution firm in continental Europe. And from 1990-2006 he was director of a succession of Hewlett Foundation-funded research-and-development programs, of national or international scale. He is co-editor of The Negotiator’s Desk Reference and six other books, and author or co-author of more than 100 published articles, book chapters and monographs on dispute resolution ideas, infrastructure, quality control and ethics. He has held a variety of committee and advisory roles for the ABA, IMI and other organizations.