Diana Chigas: Biographical Note

DIANA CHIGAS is a Vice President of Conflict Management Group, where she is Regional Director for Europe and the former Soviet Union and Director for International Programs. As a negotiation specialist, she has offered strategic advice and negotiation training courses to senior diplomats and trade and government officials in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Ms. Chigas has worked with the negotiating teams of the Government and FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador, and the former Government, ANC and Inkatha in South Africa on organizing the constitutional negotiation process. Ms. Chigas has directed CMG's project on preventive diplomacy in the OSCE, focusing on supporting the development of preventive diplomacy methodologies of the High Commissioner on National Minorities and on-site missions of long duration. Currently, she is director of CMG's Conflict Resolution Project in Cyprus, where she has trained and facilitated dialogue among Greek and Turkish Cypriot policy leaders and professionals, and of the Greek-Turkish Initiative on Sustainable Peace in Southeastern Europe, a collaborative effort of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, Athens-based FINEAS, and Ankara-based Turkish Democracy Foundation. Ms. Chigas is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.