Mark Chupp teaches community development at Case Western Reserve University. He has focused the past 25 years on community building, community organizing and inter-group conflict transformation. Mark initiated one of the first efforts to adopt Appreciative Inquiry for nongovernmental, public and community contexts. Mark designed an appreciative inquiry process on promoting comfortable race relations in a traditional Slavic neighborhood, experiencing a large increase in African American residents. Mark lived in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and is an international consultant and trainer. He also teaches in the Eastern Mennonite University Summer Peacebuilding Institute and has published many articles, manuals and book chapters.

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