19-683: The Sustained Dialogue Institute , founded by Harold H. Saunders and incorporated in 2002, is an independent tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization formed in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation . The institute provides trainings, consulting, and technical support for the Sustained Dialogue process on campuses, workplaces, and communities around the globe. Sustained Dialogue is system for transforming conflictual or destructive relationships, and implementing long-term change, developed from Hal Saunders' experience facilitating peace processes in
38-486: A Culture of Connection in The Citizens’ Century." Kettering Foundation The Kettering Foundation is an American non-partisan research foundation founded in 1927 by Charles F. Kettering that works to inspire and connect individuals and organizations to advance thriving and inclusive democracies around the globe. The foundation believes that "all people belong and have the right to engage in and shape
57-852: A Ph.D, prior to joining the United States Air Force to fulfill the mandatory service requirement, which led to a liaison role with the Central Intelligence Agency . Saunders joined the National Security Council staff in 1961, serving through the Johnson administration as the NSC's Mideast expert during June 1967 Six-Day War . He died of prostate cancer in 2016. Saunders joined the Kissinger shuttles in October 1973 as an integral part of
76-545: A project of the Sustained Dialogue Institute founded in 2003, is a training and consulting hub for the international network of campuses running Sustained Dialogues. SDCN began during Saunders' time on the board of trustees at Princeton University. Saunders and Princeton University undergraduates David Tukey and Teddy Nemeroff worked together to apply the Sustained Dialogue methodology to addressing race-based conflicts at Princeton, and their collaboration spread to
95-569: Is an independent tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization formed in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation. Saunders served as president of the institute from its founding in 2002 until June 2013 and remained Board Chair until his passing in 2016. The Institute helps citizens around the world to transform their conflictual or destructive relationships and to design and implement sustainable change processes. In 1991, Saunders facilitated Israeli and Palestinian citizen-leaders who forged and signed
114-651: The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in the following year, which Saunders helped draft. In 1979, following the revolution in Iran, Saunders coordinated efforts to secure the release of the U.S. embassy staff held during the Iran hostage crisis . In October 2010, the Dartmouth Conference celebrated its 50th anniversary of a dialogue between Russian and American citizens, which began as a critically needed back-channel at
133-750: The Kettering Foundation and co-chaired the Dartmouth Conference Task Force . He authored several works, including The Other Walls: The Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective (1985), A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflict (1999), Politics Is about Relationship: A Blueprint for the Citizens’ Century (2005), and Sustained Dialogue in Conflicts: Transformation and Change (2011). Saunders graduated from Princeton University in 1952 with an A.B. and Yale University in 1955 with
152-502: The Sustained Dialogue Campus Network . His legacy endures for negotiators and citizens equally: "There are some things only governments can do, such as negotiating binding agreements. But there are some things that only citizens outside government can do, such as changing human relationships." Saunders' legacy was reflected in the 2017 Commencement Address of Notre Dame de Namur University, "STORIES OF CHANGE: Creating
171-870: The University of Virginia , and developed into the Campus Network. Housed by the Sustained Dialogue Institute, SDCN involves students from dozens of campuses in twelve countries who work to improve intergroup relations and campus climate. The focus of any Sustained Dialogue program is relationship building across lines of difference and facilitating honest dialogue between students, faculty, staff, and administrators. SDCN trains campus communities in facilitation and Sustained Dialogue moderation, as well as inclusive leadership skills and conflict resolution. Active programs send students to annual dialogue conferences at local chapters or at SDCN headquarters in Washington, D.C. Each year,
190-584: The "brilliant" Saunders with coining the term "peace process," in connection with negotiations over conflict in the Middle East. As assistant secretary of state for the Near East and South Asia under President Carter, Saunders played a critical behind-the-scenes role during the 1978 negotiations at Camp David , culminating in the two framework agreements comprising the Camp David Accords , leading directly to
209-668: The Kettering Foundation published an additional volume to commemorate and chronicle all five decades. The Inter-Tajik Dialogue developed out of Saunders's work with the Dartmouth Conference Regional Conflicts Task Force as a series of unofficial, Track II dialogues between warring factions in the Tajik civil war . The dialogues took place in Moscow , beginning in 1993 and lasting until 2003, during which 35 meetings took place. The Sustained Dialogue Institute
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#1732863344027228-671: The Middle East as a United States diplomat. The Sustained Dialogue Institute houses the Sustained Dialogue System process and the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network. The Sustained Dialogue Institute was led by Executive Director Amy Lazarus until 2012. Following the retirement of Hal Saunders, Reverend Mark Farr became president until 2022. Sustained dialogue is a process for transforming deep-rooted human conflicts. Former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Hal Saunders developed
247-534: The Sustained Dialogue Institute awards a person whose life has "been powerfully marked by the principles and values of Sustained Dialogue." In addition to the primary awardee, SDI selects at least two members of the Sustained Dialogue Campus network to receive the award. A study published by the Journal of Peace Research showed that Sustained Dialogue had a positive effect on decreasing mistrust and increasing
266-547: The behest of President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in 1960. Although program takes its name from Dartmouth College, where the first meeting was held, it has no affiliation with the American educational institution. James Voorhees's 2002 book published by the United States Institute of Peace , Dialogue Sustained , chronicles the first four decades of the dialogue. For the Dartmouth Conference's 50th anniversary,
285-538: The historic document, "Framework for a Public Peace Process" . This inspired the 1992 birth of the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue in California, a model of Saunders' citizen-to-citizen Sustained Dialogue with domestic and global impact. The Sustained Dialogue process itself is now used on college campuses throughout the world to facilitate better community relations, under the work of
304-654: The level of trust between people of different ethnic origins. However, participation in the dialogue program increased the sense of importance of ethnic identities as well as the perception of being ethnically discriminated and had no significant effect on game behavior. Harold H. Saunders Harold Henry Saunders (December 27, 1930 – March 6, 2016) served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research between 1975 and 1978 and United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs between 1978 and 1981. Saunders
323-825: The process, which is rooted in his experience in facilitating peace processes, including the Camp David Accords and the Iran Hostage Crisis . During the Cold War , the Sustained Dialogue System served as the underlying philosophy of the Dartmouth Conferences , the longest-running citizen dialogue between U.S. and Russian (formerly Soviet) citizens. The Dartmouth Conference worked to open channels to transmit and clarify perspectives when communication among Russian (formerly Soviet) and United States officials broke down. The Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN),
342-479: The small team of American diplomats led by Kissinger, with whom Saunders worked for the next eight years. During this period from 1973 to 1975, the Kissinger team helped negotiate a number of key disengagement agreements between Egypt and Israel. In 1974, Saunders was appointed deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East and North Africa. In a 2010 article for Foreign Policy magazine, long-term Middle East analyst and negotiator Aaron David Miller credited
361-525: Was a key participant in the Camp David Accords , helped negotiate the Iran Hostage Crisis , and developed the sustained dialogue model for resolving conflicts Saunders later launched the Sustained Dialogue Institute , which uses the sustained dialogue model to address racial and other issues in the United States and abroad. Additionally, Saunders was director of international affairs at
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