McCabe Hall 209
Office hours: 1-6 Thursday, 12-7 Friday, or By Appointment
Telephone: (202) 885-1600
                 (202) 885-1543
E-mail: kyrou@american.edu

Ph.D. State University of New York
M.E. Plymouth State University
B.A. Educational Institute of Agricultural Technology of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Biography
Christos Kyrou is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service (SIS) at American University. He is the founder and active director of the Environmental Peacemaking Program at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland (CIDCM), and he also works as a Project Manager at the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD) in DC.

He holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, a Masters of Education in Environmental Science from Plymouth State College of the University System of New Hampshire, a Certificate in Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a BS from the Educational Institute of Agricultural Technology of Thessaloniki, Greece.  He is originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, and he became an American citizen in 2000.

At the IISD he is a co-leader of “Talking One generation Ahead” (TOGA) a Sustained Dialogue project in Northern Ireland involving young, emerging leaders of five prominent political parties.

Recent Courses Taught

• Environmental Peacemaking
• Conflict Analysis and Resolution
  
• Dialogue: Approaches & Applications
  

Research Interest

• Environmental Peacemaking
• Environmental Security
• Environment and Human Rights
• International Negotiations
• Sustained Dialogue
• Mediation
• Victims of Violent Conflict
• Culture and Conflict
• Conflict Analysis
• Insurgency Movements
• Peace Education
• Northern Ireland, Bosnia & Herzegovina (Mostar), The Basque Country, Cyprus, Greece/Turkey, Palestine/Israel, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, DRC, Great Lakes Region, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa, Caucasus, South Asia, Mexico, Haiti, Peru, Colombia.