Karen Feste

ph | 303.871.2418
e | kfeste@du.edu

Cherrington Hall 317
2201 South Gaylord St
Denver, CO 80208 USA

• Profile

Karen Feste, GSIS Professor and co-Director of the University of Denver interdisciplinary Conflict Resolution Institute served as Associate Dean at GSIS for 12 years (1988-2000); and as Editor-in-Chief of The Monograph Series in World Affairs (1979-1992). She was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna and Austrian Diplomatic Academy at various times between 1986-1994; and has lectured in a number of Middle East countries (Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, United Arab Emirates) over the last two decades. She was a consultant on data analysis for the Egyptian Ministry of Planning and an advisor to the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Energy in Thailand. During the early 1980s, Feste lived in Washington DC and worked for CACI, Inc. Most recently, she was a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing, China (2005) and will teach at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago in 2007.

She founded a professional graduate program in Conflict Resolution at DU in 1998, which combines courses from International Studies, Law, Business, Social Work, Human Communications, Professional Psychology, and University College's Alternative Dispute Resolution certificate. The program is supported by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. To date, more than 100 students have participated. Graduates work in a wide range of fields.

Feste's current research is focused on the linkages between US intervention and anti-American terrorism, and on ending terrorism through negotiation. At the University of Denver she teaches courses in conflict resolution, military intervention, terrorism, and quantitative research methods.