Adam Kahane
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Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social impact organisation that partners with governments, corporations, and civil society organizations on challenges such as education, health, food, energy, environment, development, justice, security, and peace.
Adam is a leading organizer, designer and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address such challenges. He has worked in more than fifty countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.
In September 2024 he joins the IAS for a one-month writing residency.
Research Interests
Peace and conflict studies, collaborative problem-solving, systems and scenario thinking
Peace and conflict studies, collaborative problem-solving, systems and scenario thinking
For more than 30 years, Adam Kahane has helped teams of diverse stakeholders collaborate to address their most important and difficult systemic challenges, including in relation to democracy in South Africa, peace in Colombia, educational reforms in Mexico, health equity in the Unites States, Indigenous self-determination in Canada, security in Europe, child nutrition in India, good governance in Thailand, and, at larger scales, drug policy, food sustainability, and climate resilience. All of these situations have involved working together across deep differences, including of perspectives, positions, affiliations, interests, and identities. In many contexts, amplified by the polycrisis, such differences seem to be spreading, deepening, and hardening, and leading to increasingly violent and intractable conflicts at all scales. This project will outline multiple possible scenarios for the future of these dynamics, with a view to reframing and enriching options for enabling peaceful cohabitation.
Publications clés
Adam Kahane, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2010).
Adam Kahane, Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future, (Berrett-Koehler, 2012).
Adam Kahane, Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust (Oakland: Berrett-Koehler, 2017).
Adam Kahane, Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together, (Berrett-Koehler, 2021).
 New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Adam Kahane (Reos Partners, Canada / Paris IAS Fellow). |
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