Imagine Worcester: David Steele

David Steele is a Consultant in Conflict Transformation. Dr. David Steele is interviewed about his service in Iraq last year as a Senior Reconciliation Facilitator with the Baghdad office of the U.S. Institute of Peace. Dr. Steele provided training in negotiation, problem solving and interfaith dialogue for a variety of personnel from Iraqi Government agencies, educational institutions, religious groups and civil society organizations. Previously, Dr. Steele has worked as an independent consultant in conflict transformation, as a program manager in conflict management at Mercy Corps in Cambridge, MA, as program manager, then interim executive director, at Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, and as a fellow in the Program on Preventive Diplomacy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington. Over the past sixteen years, he has worked with a variety of indigenous community actors to effectively facilitate social transformation within situations of conflict in the Balkans, the Middle East, and South Asia.