Andrea Bartoli is the President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue, representing the Community of Sant’Egidio, a lay Catholic association founded in Rome and now with a worldwide membership dedicated to social service and peace work. He has been a member of the Community of Sant’Egidio since 1970. He is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4); the Executive Adviser of the Soka Institute for Global Solutions (SIGS) and a member of the Steering Group of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC).

He was a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University in New York, as Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), as well as Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), of which he became a fellow. He works on conflict resolution, genocide prevention and nuclear disarmament.

His publications include Negotiating Peace: The Role of NGO’s (2013); with Robin Vallacher, and others, Attracted to Conflict, (2013); co-edited with Susan Allen Nan and Zachariah Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (2011) co-edited with Edward R. Girardet and Jeffrey Carmel Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of the International Media in Wars and Humanitarian Crises (1995.)

Andrea Bartoli has a B.A. from the University of Rome, Italy and a Ph.D. from the University of Milan, Italy. Trained as an anthropologist, Bartoli has been actively involved in conflict resolution since the early 1980s, particularly in Mozambique and South Sudan.