Mark Anstey

Mark Anstey is an emeritus professor at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa (where he taught from 1987-2008); was a Professor at Michigan State University in Dubai (2008-2011); and is a senior academy associate with Clingendael in The Hague. He is a graduate of the universities of the Witwatersrand (BA and MA) and Port Elizabeth (PhD). In the early 1980’s he was executive director of the Institute for Industrial Relations in Johannesburg, and worked with a small group of academics and human rights lawyers to initiate independent labour and community mediation services in South Africa. An active mediator from 1984-2019 he served within the regional structures of the National Peace Accord during South Africa’s political transition; and as Regional Director of Monitoring (East Cape) within the Independent Electoral Commission for the country’s historic 1994 democratic elections. He has particular interest in relationship building processes. He has been involved in training negotiators and mediators across Africa, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and in the Pacific region. His publications include: Breaking Through: Negotiating Impasses (Austin Macauley 2024); Negotiating Reconciliation in Peacemaking: Quandaries of Relationship Building (Springer 2017, with V. Rosoux); Reducing Identity Conflicts and Preventing Genocide (Oxford 2012, with I. W. Zartman and P. Meerts); Collective Bargaining in the Workplace (Jutas 2011 with J. Grogan J & T. Ngcukaitobi); Managing Change, Negotiating Conflict (Jutas 1991, 1997, 2006); Employee Participation and Workplace Forums (Jutas 1997); Practical Peacemaking (Jutas 1993); Worker Participation: South African Options and Experiences (Jutas 1990); Working With Groups (Jutas 1983).