Morton Deutsch




Morton Deutsch is one of the world's most respected scholars of Conflict Resolution and the founder of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR). Professor Deutsch has been widely honored for his scientific contributions involving research on cooperation and competition, social justice, group dynamics, and conflict resolution. He has published extensively and is well known for his pioneering studies in intergroup relations, social conformity, and the social psychology of justice.

Please see the Morton Deutsch Library, as well as the Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice Site.

Please read more about Morton Deutsch's life in a chapter that he wrote in 1999: A Personal Perspective on the Development of Social Psychology in the Twentieth Century. In Rodriguez, A. and Levine, R. V. (Eds.), Reflections on 100 Years of Experimental Social Psychology, (pp. 1-34) New York, NY: Basic Books.

See also his biography by Erica Frydenberg, 2005, Morton Deutsch: A Life and Legacy of Mediation and Conflict Resolution by Erica Frydenberg, 2005.

See furthermore some pictures taken in December 2004, and more pictures from 2006!

His books include:
•  Interracial Housing
(1951)
•  Theories in Social Psychology (1965)
•  The Resolution of Conflict (1973);
•  Distributive Justice
(1985); and
•  The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice
(2000).

See also:
•  Destructive Conflict and Oppression (as short version for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 2004), and as long paper presented at the Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice Working Conference at ICCCR, NY, February 27-29, 2004.

•  See, furthermore, Deutsch, Morton, Coleman, Peter T. & Eric C. Marcus (Eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

•  See also the Foreword written by Morton Deutsch to Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict by Evelin Lindner in Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers, 2006.