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Peter S. Adler, PhD is a partner in Guild Consulting and former President and CEO of The Keystone Center (now The Keystone Policy Center), which applies consensus-building and cutting-edge scientific information to energy, environmental, and health-related policy problems. The Keystone Center also offers extensive training and professional education programs to educators and business leaders and ran the Keystone Science School in the Rocky Mountains.
Prior to his appointment at Keystone, Adler held executive positions with the Hawaii Justice Foundation, the Hawaii Supreme Court's Center for Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and the Neighborhood Justice Center.
He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, an instructor and Associate Director of the Hawaii Bound School, and President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. He has been awarded the Roberston-Cunninghame Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia, a Senior Fellowship at the Western Justice Center, and was a consultant to the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
Adler has written extensively in the field of mediation and conflict resolution.
He is the co-author of:
"Managing Scientific & Technical Information in Environmental Cases" (1999)
"Building Trust: 20 Things You Can Do to Help Environmental Stakeholder Groups Talk More Effectively About Science, Culture, Professional Knowledge, and Community Wisdom" (National Policy Consensus Center, 2002)
And author of:
Beyond Paradise: Encounters in Hawai'i Where the Tour Bus Never Runs (Ox Bow Press, 1993)
Oxtail Soup For the Island Soul (Ox Bow Press, 2000)
... and numerous other articles and monographs, including the just published:
Calming the Storm: A Leader's Handbook for Managing Unproductive Conflicts (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Fall, 2024)