Michelle LeBaron

Professor Michelle LeBaron is a conflict transformation scholar/practitioner at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law whose work is animated by creativity, culture and interdisciplinarity. She has done seminal work in many types of conflict engagement including intercultural, international, family, organizational and commercial, exploring how arts help shift intractable conflicts. Michelle's current international research focuses on dialogic approaches to political and...See more

Professor Michelle LeBaron is a conflict transformation scholar/practitioner at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law whose work is animated by creativity, culture and interdisciplinarity. She has done seminal work in many types of conflict engagement including intercultural, international, family, organizational and commercial, exploring how arts help shift intractable conflicts. Michelle's current international research focuses on dialogic approaches to political and religious conflict. She was a fellow at the Trinity College Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute in Dublin in 2017, holds a Wallenberg Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa and taught for ten years at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Michelle's books include The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience, Conflict Across Cultures: A New Approach for a Changing World, Bridging Cultural Conflicts, and Bridging Troubled Waters. See less