Welcome
I am an Associate Professor of Practice in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Senior Fellow at the Center for Justice at Columbia University. I received my PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015.
Research
The importance of engaging local communities to address big social problems is well established. My research asks what the local means and why it does—or does not—make a difference toward peace and justice. Currently, I am researching transitional justice processes in Colombia and criminal justice in Oakland and New York City. I have received support from Columbia University, the National Science Foundation, United State Institute of Peace, Inter-American Foundation, Humanity United and UC Berkeley Possibility Lab for this work. You can find more information about my research and writing on this site.
engagement
I also collaborate with diverse organizations, always with the goal of making my research useful for addressing social problems and respectful of the communities who these problems ultimately affect. I have written more about this engagement and the organizations I try to support here.
➤ contact
Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
School of Professional Studies
Columbia University
New York, NY
peter.dixon@columbia.edu
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Affiliations
Senior Fellow, Columbia University Center for Justice, which is committed to ending mass incarceration and criminalization, and advancing alternative approaches to justice and safety through education, research, and policy change.
Member of the Advisory Board, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, which seeks to learn lessons from this vast community that can be adapted to the issues and questions that are most pressing for Middlebury College.
Board Member, Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI), a peacebuilding and research NGO that connects scholars and practitioners interested in elevating the everyday lived reality of communities to inform policy solutions.
Fellow, Salzburg Global Seminar program on Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and Justice, which brings together diverse stakeholders to address the legal, economic, and social weaknesses and inefficiencies of judicial and custodial systems.
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
Banner Photo: Peter Dixon, Oakland, California