Donna Hicks

Donna Hicks, PhD, is an associate at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and previously served as deputy director of its Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution. A conflict-resolution specialist, she has facilitated diplomatic and reconciliation efforts involving the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Cuba, and has taught conflict resolution at Harvard, Clark, and Columbia Universities.

Hicks is the author of Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict (Yale University Press, 2011) and Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People (Yale University Press, 2018). She also wrote the foreword to Teaching with Dignity: How to Cultivate Classroom Ecosystems Where People Thrive.