Madhawa Palihapitiya

Madhawa "Mads" Palihapitiya is a conflict resolution practitioner, evaluator, researcher and lecturer based at the McCormack Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston. He heads the Conflict Early Warning and Analytics Program (CEWAP) at the McCormack Graduate School's Center for Peace Democracy and Development, which provides early warning analysis for the TRUST Network. Mads is also the Associate Director of the statutory state dispute resolution office called the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration (MOPC). Mads has over twenty years of experience in the conflict resolution field, with significant work in the areas of conflict early warning, dispute resolution, collaborative governance and program evaluation. He is also the conflict early warning consultant for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Signal Program. Mads has published work in conflict early warning, technology for violence prevention, dispute resolution and program evaluation.