SIT Associate Professor of Conflict Transformation Tatsushi (Tats) Arai is publishing a new book, Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace, to be released on March 1 in paperback format by Routledge.
Arai received his PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, where he taught conflict theories and cultural dimensions of public policymaking before joining SIT in 2006. Previously, Arai taught international relations at the National University of Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide.
As a trainer, mediator, and dialogue facilitator, Arai has led a number of peacebuilding workshops for government personnel, members of international organizations, and civil society leaders from around the world, especially the Middle East, the African Great Lakes, East and South Asia, and North America. His most recent activities include field research in Pakistan and public speaking and dialogues aimed at transforming the underlying discourse of the war on terror in the West, as well as the growing networks of organized militancy in the Afghan-Pakistan context. He also serves as a dialogue facilitator of Strait Talk, a series of semi-annual conflict resolution dialogues aimed at fostering a new generation of peacebuilders from Taiwan, Mainland China, and the United States.
Arai’s current research focuses on comparative peacemaking across regional contexts and the trans-generational effects of cultural and structural factors that promote war and peace. His other publications include Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace (Routledge, 2009), and chapters in Conflict across Cultures: A Unique Experience of Bridging Differences (Intercultural Press, 2006.
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