Robert Ricigliano

Rob is a consultant with Triad Consulting and the Co-Director of Masters in Sustainable Peacebuilding and Co-founder of the Partnership for Sustainability and Peacebuilding at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is also a former Executive Director of the Conflict Management Group and served as an Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School.

At UWM, Rob teaches about systems thinking, conflict, and managing complexity in dynamic environments through the Communication Department. His recent work focuses on applying system thinking and complexity science to designing effective strategies for dealing with difficult problems and making sustainable societal and organizational change. Rob has worked with officials all over the world to help resolve conflict. Mr. Ricigliano has worked with political parties in the new Iraqi Parliament and has been involved in peacebuilding interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Colombia, South Africa, and elsewhere.

In a wide variety of corporate settings, Rob has done consulting, mediation, and training in negotiation, creating a value-based client relationship, and managing difficult conversations. He has worked with managers, executives, sales and marketing teams. Rob has also worked with families and smaller leadership groups to help improve how they work together and manage important issues. Mr. Ricigliano has mediated disputes with Canada’s largest private television network and a major healthcare system.

Rob has also written widely on negotiation and peace processes including his book, Making Peace Last (2012), editing a volume of Accord entitled Choosing to Engage: armed groups and peace processes. His writings on negotiation and peace processes include A Three-Dimensional Model of Negotiation, Networks of Effective Action: Implementing a Holistic Approach to Peacebuilding, Cold War, Redux: A Critique of and Alternative to the War on Terrorism, The Choardic Peace Process, and Problems Without a Process. His J.D. is from the Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Hamilton College.