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Dr. Christos Kyrou, research director of the Center for International Relations, Fairfax, Va., has more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on conflict analysis and international relations, including at American University, the University of Maryland, the University of Syracuse, and the State University of New York. His area of focus is conflict analysis and resolution and he focuses specifically on insurgencies and social networks, transformative dialogue, and environmental conflict. He has conducted seminars and provided training to representatives at the United States Institute of Peace, the World Affairs Council, and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is also an associate professor of international negotiations and conflict analysis and resolution at Dar Al Hekma University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where he teaches a summer course. Dr. Kyrou is appropriate for programming on the topics of business intelligence, international negotiations, and international peace and conflict resolution. More detailed Dr. Christos Kyrou provides trainings on conflict analysis and resolution, negotiations, business analytics and knowledge management. This include specialized skills such as structured analytic techniques, strategic negotiations, structured decision-making, visual thinking, as well as intra-organizational transformative dialogue. He is an associate professor of international negotiations and conflict analysis and resolution at Dar Al Hekma University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; the research director at the Center for International Relations in Washington, DC; and a senior analyst at the international think tank, Wikistrat. He is a lecturer for the U.S. Speaker Program of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State delivering lectures to community events and U.S. diplomatic missions overseas. He consults the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy on reconciliation projects in Colombia and the Middle East on strategic planning and monitoring and evaluation.

He works also as a curriculum manager and instructor at Sherpa Inc. and Philomathia Inc., training corporate executives in the US and overseas. Dr. Kyrou is a conflict analysis and resolution consultant and an expert on the processes that encourage insurgents to abandon violence in favor of the political process. A founding member of Mali Moving Forward and of the Sahel Strategy Forum, he is frequently invited to provide analysis to various institutions and the media on conflicts in the Sahel and the Maghreb, as well as in Colombia, Northern Ireland, Syria, and the Balkans. He has advised the Malian government on the crisis in Mali; members of the Colombian senate on the conflict with the FARC; and members of the Kurdistan Regional Government Mission to the United States on the conflict in Iraq. He also serves as a grants officer for the peace projects grant program at the international Journalists and Writers Foundation, based in Istanbul, Turkey.

For more than 20 years, he has taught courses on conflict analysis and international relations, including at American University, the University of Maryland, the University of Syracuse, and the State University of New York. He has conducted seminars and provided training to representatives at the United States Institute of Peace, the World Affairs Council, and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; to students at George Mason University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University; and to congressional staffers through the Partnership for a Secure America. He has provided consultation by invitation to the U.S. Department of State on the conflict in Northern Ireland, to the Organization of American States on the crisis in Honduras, and to humanitarian crisis response organizations, such as InterAction, on the refugee crisis in Syria.

He has received a service recognition award from American University for his contribution to the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, a scholarly contribution award from the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Peacemaker Award for commitment to building peace at the individual, local, or global level from American University's Peacebuilding and Development Institute and the nongovernmental organization, the Center for Peace Building International. In the private sector he frequently provides training on business analytics, negotiations, and decision-making in the United States, in Morocco, and Spain.