For more than 15 years, Pete has worked nationally and internationally
as a mediator and facilitator in a wide variety of negotiated
rulemaking, public policy, enforcement, grant administration,
EEO, employment and labor-related disputes. His international
work has focused on mediation, facilitation, dispute systems design
services and training in Bosnia, Croatia, Cyprus, Argentina, Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Panama, India, Sweden, Greece, Japan and
Korea. He has taught hundreds of mediation training programs,
as well as provided extensive mediation mentoring services and
dispute systems design assistance. Pete also has worked with dozens
of federal agencies in designing, establishing and conducting
ADR programs. Clients have included the White House, US Institute
of Peace, Departments of State, Interior, Labor, Defense, Transportation,
Air Force, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Personnel Management
and many others.
Before joining Carr Swanson & Randolph, Pete worked as mediator
with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1989-2001.
At FMCS he worked in the Office of International and Dispute Resolution
Affairs and was responsible for developing FMCS' international
and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs. His work included
mediation, facilitation, training, and dispute systems design
services in the United States and abroad. Before joining FMCS,
Mr. Swanson was a project developer for the Center for Conflict
Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and a consultant
in conflict resolution to the Tibetan Government in-exile in Northern
India. Mr. Swanson received his M.S. in Conflict Management and
Resolution in 1988 and B.A. in Cultural Anthropology in 1986 from
George Mason University.
Pete has several publications to his credit, including the Handbook
on Dispute Systems Design (contributing author), Administrative
Conference of the United States, 1994 and Facilitating Multi-Party
Disputes: A Training Manual, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, 1999 and State and Federal Initiatives in Alternative
Dispute Resolution, Mediation Quarterly, 1988.
Direct contact: pswanson@csradr.com, Ph: 703.818.1740
Solutions
Pete Swanson is a senior partner at Carr Swanson & Randolph. He
specializes in all aspects of mediation, facilitation, training,
partnering, dispute systems design and other dispute resolution
services. Pete has extensive experience helping a diverse range
of national and international clients with effective dispute resolution
systems design, training and the use of collaborative processes
to resolve difficult external and internal issues.