Alan Gross
Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, USA

agrossmbb@gmail.com

Alan Gross has mediated and trained for 20 years at many venues in the Northeast US and New York City where he is currently serving as the Special Projects Coordinator for the Safe Horizon Mediation Program.  He has previously acted as Senior Director, Training Coordinator, and 9/11 Family Mediation Coordinator for Safe Horizon.  His work with 9/11 victims was recognized with a US Department of Justice Volunteer for Victims Award.  He has also acted as ombudsman for the American Psychological Association and the New York Mayor’s Action Center, as an arbitrator for AAA, FINRA, and attorney-client fee disputes, and as mediator for the Post Office and the US Army.

Gross holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and was formerly Psychology Professor and Department Chair at the University of Maryland, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and the author of a textbook and more than 50 chapters, articles and papers related to conflict resolution and social psychology.  He has served as a business consultant, radio talk show host, and as founder of an innovative company trading in benefits from class action settlements. 

As a Founding Member of Mediators Beyond Borders, he has, with other ADR professionals, developed and delivered trainings and other means of assisting refugees and former child soldiers in West Africa. During the past two years he has trained Liberian refugees, Ghanaian attorneys and land settlement officers,  UN Special Court staff in Sierra Leone and a diverse country-wide Peace Network in Iraq.  He is currently involved in peace-building projects in Colombia, Sierra Leone, and the US Gulf Coast and is teaching a graduate level course at the New York University Center for Global Studies.

Educational Degrees

• Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA, Ph.D. (social psychology) 1967
  
• Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA, MBA 1962
  
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, BS 1959

Publications

• Author and co-author of social psychology text book and more than 50 chapters, articles and papers related to social services, helping behavior, sex roles etc.

Articles:

• Clemants, E & Gross, A.E. “Why Aren’t We Screening?” A Survey Examining Domestic Violence Screening Procedures and Training Protocol in Community Mediation Centers” Conflict Resolution Quarterly 2007,  24, 413-432.
  
• “On the Road from Academe to Conflict Resolution” in Peacemaker 101: Careers Confronting Conflict, Philadelphia:  Asch Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania 2007.  Available in pdf format.
  
• “Conflict Resolution in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Attacks: A Family Mediation Program”  Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2008, 9 (2), 317-331. Available in pdf format.