Kenneth Cloke, JD, LLM, PhD

President of Mediators Beyond Borders and Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution

Mr. Cloke is a mediator, arbitrator, consultant and trainer, specializing in resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes, and in designing conflict resolution systems for organizations. He is a nationally recognized speaker and leader in the field of conflict resolution, and a published author of many journal articles and several books, including Mediation: Revenge and the Magic of Forgiveness and Mediating Dangerously: The Fontiers of Conflict Resolution . His consulting and training practice includes organizational change, leadership, team building and strategic planning. He is a co-author with Joan Goldsmith of Thank God It's Monday! 14 Values We Need to Humanize The Way We Work, Resolving Conflicts at Work: A Complete Guide for Everyone on the Job, Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness; The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy, and The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work . His latest books are The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution and Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism.

He received a B.A. from the University of California; a J.D. from U.C.'s Boalt Law School ; a Ph.D. from UCLA; an LLM from UCLA Law School ; and has done post-doctoral work at Yale Law School . He is a graduate of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada.  He is an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University's School of Law, Strauss Institute; Harvard University School of Law, Program on Negotiation, Insight Initiative; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cape Cod Institute; and University of Amsterdam ADR Institute.  He has done work in conflict resolution in 20 countries and is President and co-founder of Mediators Beyond Borders.