Dr. Mitchell R. Hammer is principal in Hammer Consulting, LLC, an intercultural conflict and crisis resolution consulting firm and professor of international peace and conflict resolution in the School of International Service at the American University in Washington D.C. Dr. Hammer provides advisement and training in the areas of intercultural communication, crisis and conflict negotiation, mediation and author identification to a number of private corporations, not-for-profit organizations, state and local law enforcement agencies, and federal agencies, including NASA Johnson Space Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Dr. Hammer’s cutting-edge work has resulted in the Intercultural Conflict Style (ICS) Inventory, the Intercultural Development Inventory (co-developed with Dr. Milton Bennett), and the S.A.F.E. model of crisis negotiation. Dr. Hammer has published widely, with over 50 articles in various academic and professional books and journals. His book Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation was honored with the “Outstanding Book Award for 1997” by the International Association of Conflict Management.