Dr. Mitch Hammer
Professor Emeritus of International Peace and Conflict Resolution
School of International Service
American University in Washington D.C.
On October 26 & 27, the Minnesota State University, Mankato Honors Program will host
Dr. Mitch Hammer as part of the Global Solutions Lecture Series. Dr. Hammer will be
sharing his expertise in the areas of intercultural competency development in an evening
lecture open to the public and a series of workshops the following day.
Dr. Hammer is a national expert in intercultural competence, critical incident
management, and crisis negotiation and resolution. He is the founder of Hammer
Consulting, LLC., and the developer of widely used assessment and intercultural
development tools. Dr. Hammer has published Saving Lives (2007) and Dynamic
Processes of Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research and Practice (1997), which received
the “Outstanding Book Award” in 1998 by the International Association of Conflict
Management. He has consulted for a variety of government, for-profit, and not-for-profit
agencies including NASA, the FBI, and the National Institutes of Health. He served as a
consultant to the government of Japan during the 1996-1997 hostage crisis in Peru , and
he contributed to identifying Ted Kaczynski as the “Unabomber”.
Dr. Hammer was awarded “Senior Interculturalist Award of Achievement” by the Society
of Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and he has published over seventy
articles and has provided analysis for NBC News, CNN, FOX News, CTV in Canada,
NHK television in Japan, Voice of America, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press,
United Press International, Reuters, USA Today and the Washington Post.
For more information, please contact Ms. Andrea Haberman at 389-1314 or Dr. Chris
Corley at 389-5191.