Korbel ranked 12th best place in the world to earn a master’s degree in international relations.
Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Korbel ranked 12th best place in the world to earn a master’s degree in international relations.
Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Professor
Degree Director, Global Environmental Sustainability
Tamra Pearson d’Estrée is Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Her research interests include identity and interaction dimensions of intergroup conflicts, reconciliation, peacebuilding, Track Two diplomacy, and processes for intergroup conflict resolution, particularly in the Middle East, Anatolia, and the Caucasus, where she also has engaged in conflict resolution practice. Her current peacebuilding research explores the benefits and pitfalls of environmental peacebuilding. Her current policy research explores how immigrant integration policies and frameworks interact with community attitudes and behavior toward Muslim immigrants. She also teaches and does research on collaborative processes of environmental policy formation and implementation. Other research interests include the evaluation of international, community, and environmental conflict resolution. In addition to numerous book chapters and journal articles, she is co-author, with Bonnie G. Colby, of Braving the Currents: Evaluating Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (Springer), co-editor, with Ruth Parsons, of Cultural Encounters and Emergent Practices in Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building (Palgrave Macmillan), and editor of New Directions in Peacebuilding Evaluation (Rowman & Littlefield) and Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions: Extending Kelman’s Legacy (Routledge). She also coordinates DU’s Conflict Engagement and Resolution Initiative. She has a PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University.
Show more
ICRS, Scrivner Institute
International Studies, Global Environmental Sustainability, Public Policy
d'Estrée, T.P. (Ed.). (2023). Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions: Extending Kelman's Legacy. London: Routledge.
d'Estrée, T.P., and Fox, B.B. (2020). Incorporating best practices into design and facilitation of Track Two initiatives. International Negotiation, 26, 5-38.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2013). Conflict resolution as a profession and the need for communities of inquiry. International Journal on Conflict Engagement and Resolution, 1, 83-95.
d'Estrée, T.P., and Parsons, R.J. (Eds.) (2018). Cultural encounters and emergent practices in conflict resolution capacity-building. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2013). Conflict resolution as a profession and the need for communities of inquiry. International Journal on Conflict Engagement and Resolution, 1, 83-95.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2012). Addressing intractable conflict through interactive problem-solving. In L. Tropp (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict. (pp. 229-251). Oxford University Press.
Hancock, L.E., and d'Estrée, T. P. (2011). Culture and procedural justice in transitioning societies. Peace and Conflict Studies, 18, 116-161.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2008). Problem solving approaches. In Bercovitch, J., Kremenyuk, V., and Zartman, I. W. (Eds.), Handbook on conflict resolution. New York: Sage.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2006). Identifying the impact of interactive conflict resolution: How political influentials create frameworks for peace. In Gürling, T., Backenroth-Ohsako, & Ekehammar, B. (Eds.) Diplomacy and psychology: Prevention of armed conflicts after the cold war. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2005). The role of voice in conflict deescalation and resolution. In M. Fitzduff & C.E. Stout (Eds.), The psychology of resolving global conflicts: From war to peace. Praeger.
Lyons, T., Mitchell, C., d'Estrée, T.P., & Abebe, L. (2004). The Ethiopian extended dialogue: An analytical report, 2000-2003. Fairfax, VA: Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Elliott, M., d'Estrée, T.P., & Kaufman, S. (2004). The role of evaluation in the understanding and management of intractable conflicts. In G. Burgess & H. Burgess (Eds.), Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado.
d'Estrée, T.P., & Colby, B.G. (2004). Braving the currents: Evaluating environmental conflict resolution in the river basins of the American West. Norwell, MA: Springer.
Green, P., & d'Estrée, T.P. (2003). The positive power of voice in peacebuilding. In C. Sampson, M. Abu-Nimer, C. Liebler, & D. Whitney, (Eds.), Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding: A Resource for Innovators. Pact Publications.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2003). Capturing evidence of relationship change. In O'Leary, R., and Bingham, L. (Eds.), Evaluating Environmental Dispute Programs and Policies. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future Press. d'Estrée, T.P. (2002). Dynamics. In Cheldelin, S., Druckman, D., and Fast, L. Human Conflict: From Analysis to Action. London: Cassell.
d'Estrée, T.P. (2002). Dynamics. In Cheldelin, S., Druckman, D., and Fast, L. Human Conflict: From Analysis to Action. London: Cassell.
d'Estrée, T.P., & Shapiro, I. (2002). Interpersonal conflict. In UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers Co., Ltd.
d'Estrée, T.P. , Fast, L.A., Weiss, J.N., & Jakobsen, M. S. (2001). Changing the debate about "success" in conflict resolution efforts. Negotiation Journal, 17(2), 101-113.
Colby, B.G., & d'Estrée, T.P. (2000a). Evaluating market transactions, litigation and regulation as tools for implementing environmental restoration. Arizona Law Review, 42.
Colby, B.G., & d'Estrée, T.P. (2000b). Evaluation of mechanisms to resolve water conflicts. International Journal of Water Resource Development, 16.
d'Estrée, T.P. (1999). The Hopi-Navajo land dispute: Official and unofficial interventions. In Ross, M.H., & Rothman, J. (Eds.), Theory and Practice in Ethnic Conflict Management: Conceptualizing Success and Failure. London: Macmillan.
d'Estree, T.P. , & Babbitt, E.F. (1998). Women and the art of peacemaking: Data from Israeli-Palestinian interactive problem-solving workshops. Political Psychology, 19, 185-209.
Babbitt, E., & d'Estrée, T.P. (1996). An Israeli-Palestinian women's workshop: Application of the interactive problem-solving approach. In Crocker, C. (Ed.) Managing global chaos: Sources of and responses to international conflict. (pp. 521-529). Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace.
Conflict Sensitive Interventions
Environmental Peacebuilding
Negotiation Workshop
Negotiating Environmental Conflict & Policy
Political Psychology
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1990
A.M., Psychology, Harvard University, 1987
B.A., Political Science & Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, 1984
Copyright ©2025 | All Rights Reserved | Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Institution
