| Joel Federman, Ph.D., is a social theorist and activist. He is a faculty member
at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), where he teaches in
the "Transformative Leadership" program, and at Saybrook
Graduate School and Research Center, teaching courses in its "Social
Transformation" concentration. He has a doctorate in political philosophy
from the University of Southern California, and currently lives in San Francisco.
His writing and teaching focuses on helping people to reinvision their individual
and collective potential, to see themselves shaping a better world. He is currently
writing a book, The Politics of Universal Compassion, that explores the
possibility of achieving a global revolution of values. He publishes a website
of his writings, at www.topia.net
He also
does consulting, research and writing in the related areas of violence prevention,
media violence, diversity education, peace and conflict studies, and cross-cultural
conflict resolution. He is the author of Empowering
Diversity, a middle school violence prevention curriculum commissioned
by the Santa Barbara County Board of Education.
A former Co-Director of the Center
for Communication and Social Policy
at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
Dr. Federman was project director for the
National
Television Violence Study. For that
three-year effort (1995-98), he coordinated
a team of more than 200 individuals at four
major research universities -- the Universities
of California, North Carolina, Texas and
Wisconsin—to produce the most comprehensive
study of television violence to date.
Dr. Federman was also project director
and co-author of the Choices
and Consequences Evaluation, a 1999
study of a middle school violence prevention
curriculum developed by Court TV, the National
Middle School Association, Time Warner Cable,
and AT&T BIS. In 1998, he initiated
the Center's Civility
Clearinghouse, a web-based resource
for information regarding the topic of civility.
Dr. Federman has led numerous cross-cultural
conflict resolution workshops, including
a year-long Palestinian-Jewish dialogue
at the University of Southern California.
He is a former member of the board of directors
of the
Peace and Justice Studies Association,
a national consortium of university-based
peace and conflict studies programs. His
writing has been published in the Los
Angeles Times; Alternet; the Encyclopedia
of Communication and Information; the
Yearbook of the UNESCO International
Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on
the Screen; Campaigns and Elections; and
Humanities in Society. He has appeared
on CNN, the NBC and CBS Nightly News, and
C-Span.
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