Dr. Mark Anstey has an association with Michigan State University extending back to 1988. He is an Emeritus Professor of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and has taught in several South African Universities. An active labor and community mediator for over 25 years, he served on South Africa’s peace structures during the political transition period, and was Director of Monitoring (Eastern Cape) for the Independent Electoral Commission in the country’s historic 1994 elections. In the post election period he served on Ministerial task groups for transformation of the police service. He has conducted training for many large companies and trade unions, and for South Africa’s Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, and has facilitated several large scale organizational change and relationship building processes. He is the author of five books and numerous publications in journals of labor relations, negotiation and conflict resolution, sociology and social work – his book Managing Change, Negotiating Conflict is now in its third edition. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation Program of the Vienna based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He has given addresses, trained and consulted across a wide spread of African and European countries, as well as the USA.