Ronald S. Kraybill

Ronald S. Kraybill is a professor in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. Inspired by the pioneering work of Dave Worth and Mark Umbreit in Ontario, Kraybill conducted the first Victim-Offender Reconciliation meetings in the US in 1977 in Elkhart, Indiana. He was the founding director of the Mennonite Conciliation Service in 1979, which marked the first major institutional commitment of Mennonites to practical involvement in conflict resolution. From 1989 to 1995 Kraybill was director of training at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, and from 1995 to present has been based at Eastern Mennonite. In 2004 he established Riverhouse ePress, a website [http://www.RiverhouseEpress.com] and publisher of Style Matters: The Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory; Structured Dialogue: Cool Tools for Hot Topics, Group Facilitation: Tools for Facilitating and Training Exercises to Learn Them, and other inexpensive print and edocs on conflict resolution and peacebuilding.