Dr. Pamela Steiner is a Senior Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University.
Over the last 25 years, her work has contributed, through Track 2 workshops, to improving relationships among Armenians, Turks, and Azerbaijanis and between (Jewish) Israelis and Palestinians. She also convened and facilitated a large public meeting/workshop with Hasan Cemal, grandson of one of the architects of the Armenian genocide and author of the Turkish best-seller, 1915, The Armenian Genocide. Steiner has also convened and facilitated a unique workshop for Germans regarding their personal and collective relationship to the Holocaust and to their sense of being German. During these years, Steiner practiced psychotherapy, mostly with traumatized individuals. Her bibliography of articles and her 2021 book, Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations since 1839.
Dr. Steiner holds an Ed.D. in Developmental Psychology and an M.Ed. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Government from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Smith College. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the development of the adult decision-making mind (School of Education) while working on what constitutes leadership in our challenging world (Kennedy School) and Track 2 conflict resolution (Harvard University). She was a co-founder of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center of International Affairs (1995-2003). She is certified both in group psychotherapy and a new approach to trauma healing, “Somatic Experiencing.” For 12 years before that, she was a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
