Dan Druckman, A Global Scholar
Dan’s career has been a whirlwind of activity. It is as wide in its continental reach as it is deep in contributions across several disciplines. He has taught on most of the continents (North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia) and has contributed to literatures in a number of social science disciplines (social psychology, sociology, international relations, and political science). He is an Emeritus Professor at George Mnason’s Schar School and an Honorary Professor at Australia’s University of Queensland and Macquarie University. He has been an adjunct professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul, an affiliate faculty at Uppsala University in Sweden and a Visiting professor at numerous universities around the world. Add to this a variety of consulting contributions in the US and Australia and you have a full teaching-research-practice career.
The key theme running through this fifty-plus year career is conflict analysis and resolution. Much of this career is captured in his 2023 book Negotiation, Identity, and Justice: Pathways to Agreement. The three broad themes of this book underwrite Dan’s commitment to peace. This commitment is also evident in a recent consulting assignment on finding solutions to different approaches for solving the deterioration of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It surfaced much earlier in his career when he consulted with the US State Department on finding agreements to the conflicts on conventional force reductions in Europe and on getting the Soviets back to the START negotiating talk after they walked out in 1983. These achievements were celebrated at the 2022 Schar School Graduation ceremony with a Lifetime Achievement award. He sponsors the Druckman Fellowship for Schar graduate students.