I approach that question across dispute resolution, psychology, institutional design, education, and emerging technological challenges.
I approach that question across dispute resolution, psychology, institutional design, education, and emerging technological challenges.
My doctoral research examined peer mediation in refugee shelters from the perspective of the participants themselves. Using grounded theory, the study identified self-efficacy as the core category connecting participants’ experiences. The findings suggested that peer mediation could do more than provide a mechanism for resolving disputes: participation could create meaningful roles, strengthen confidence and conflict competence, generate trust, and enable community members to assume greater responsibility for conflicts affecting them.
Peer Mediation in Refugee Shelters: What Constitutes Peer Mediation From the
Participants’ Point of View?, Doctoral dissertation, European University Viadrina, 2024.
Psychosocial Peer Mediation as Sustainable Method for Conflict Prevention and Management Among Refugee Communities in Germany, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 2022.
My work with David Hoffman examines interdisciplinary research on interventions shown to reduce the influence of unconscious bias, including awareness, motivation, individuation, perspective-taking, intergroup contact, stereotype replacement, and mindfulness.
Follow the Science: Proven Strategies for Reducing Unconscious Bias, with David Hoffman, Harvard Negotiation Law Review.
My work explores how negotiation, mediation, stakeholder analysis, systems thinking, and collaborative problem-solving can be used not only to address disputes but also to equip students to engage broader societal challenges.
Inaugural ADR and Social Entrepreneurship Course, with Harshit Rathore, Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2025.
Develop Students Who Can Tackle Complex Societal Issues: Course Design Strategies to Foster Problem-Solving and Collaboration Skills, with Joy Qiao, Harvard Business Impact, 2025.
Artificial intelligence raises questions not only about productivity and employment, but about human experience and agency. My research examines meaningful work through the lens of self-efficacy and considers how AI may support or diminish experiences of competence and meaningful action.
Meaningful Work in Peril? Preserving Self-Efficacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, with Sebastian F. Winter, AI and Ethics, 2025.
My current work builds on these strands to examine what conflict processes leave people, communities, and institutions capable of doing afterward. I am particularly interested in the relationship between self-efficacy, agency, conflict capacity, and the conditions that enable meaningful participation.