The Ghost in the Picture Room

Louise Diamond is an educator and consultant whose life is devoted to helping people live in peace. She is the cofounder and president of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, which works in places of ethnic conflict around the world. Diamond has published, with Ambassador John McDonald, Multi-Track Diplomacy: A Systems Approach to Peace (used as a textbook at twenty universities in five countries), produced a film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and written numerous articles for professional and community journals. A frequent presenter at international conferences, she lives in Lincoln, Vermont.