Diana Chigas is Professor of the Practice of International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Co-Director of the Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy (CJL) Program. Diana has over 30 years of experience as a facilitator and consultant in negotiation and conflict resolution. Her work has included development of strategies, training and advice on preventive diplomacy in the OSCE and the United Nations, “track one and a half” and “track two” dialogue in El Salvador, South Africa, Ecuador/Peru, Georgia/South Ossetia, the Balkans, and Cyprus. As co-director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) at CDA in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2001-2016, she worked with governmental and non-governmental organizations on systemic approaches to conflict analysis and on strategic planning, reflection and evaluation to mitigate the negative impacts of development and humanitarian assistance on conflict and to improve the impacts of peace programming. Her current work focuses on understanding and addressing the nexus between social norms and corruption, analysis and strategy for addressing systemic corruption, and tackling corruption in fragile and conflict-affected states and as part of peacebuilding processes. She has worked with governmental, non-governmental and inter-governmental partners in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa as well as Europe and the US to conduct corruption analysis and support program design and monitoring and evaluation. Diana received her JD from Harvard Law School and MALD from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
She currently co-directs the Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy (CJL) Program, a research-to-practice initiative that seeks to develop more effective approaches to dealing with corruption in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, which aims to improve the effectiveness of anti-corruption programming in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, with a focus on understanding the nexus between corruption and conflict and peacebuilding, and between social norms and corruption.