Bernie Mayer, a professor at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of conflict resolution. He has facilitated many complex and controversial environmental conflicts, commercial and organizational disputes, interpersonal conflicts, public decisionmaking processes, and has extensive experience in family mediation.
Mayer is a founding partner of CDR Associates, a pioneering conflict intervention firm in Boulder, Colorado. He has provided consultation, mediation, facilitation and training for many federal, state and local agencies in the United States and Canada. He also has extensive international experience in launching dispute resolution programs and studying complex issues such as ethnic relations, conflicts between governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations, and community and family disputes.
Mayer is the author of many books and articles including The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide (Jossey Bass); Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution (Jossey-Bass), and Staying With Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes (Jossey-Bass). Beyond Neutrality and Staying With Conflict were named outstanding books of the year by the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
