BARBE
CHAMBLISS
AUTHOR
Barbe Chambliss has spent a lifetime working for peace
Barbe Chambliss is a psychotherapist and mediator. In the midst of interviewing women peacemakers around the world, she volunteered to work in Croatia with children who had barely survived the Bosnian War, which changed everything for her. Now her purpose is to wake up the conscious peacemaker in as many people as possible. She directed the Volunteer Center for Conflict Resolution in Aspen, Colorado. She has taught mediation to over 500 children and adults in rural Colorado schools. She facilitates Restorative Justice Circles in her community.
DISSERTATION
Contemporary Women Peacemakers: The Hidden Side of Peacemaking
Barbe’s PhD dissertation, entitled Contemporary Women Peacemakers: The Hidden Side of Peacemaking, ignited two decades of interviews with over 50 women across the world exploring the nuts and bolts of how peace is actually made. Midway in this journey she volunteered as a counselor in a Croatian camp providing safe haven for 80 children who had recently survived the Bosnian War. Shortly after the terrorist attacks in New York City, she compiled and distributed a “Working Compendium of 33 Non-violent Responses to 9/11″ and later served as a therapist on a U.S. military base to better understand the human dynamics of making war.
Barbe’s work is an ongoing exploration into the practice of peacemaking, which she defines simply as people treating each other with equal respect.
Barbe is a fourth-generation Coloradan. She’d rather sleep under the stars then beneath a roof, and revels in being outdoors in all seasons of her beloved Rocky Mountains. She recharges her soul and does her best writing at her yurt, perched 8,000 feet high on the edge of an alpine meadow she shares with a herd of elk, a chorus of coyotes and family of pesky marmots. For fun she sings in a Cowboy Corral and plays in a marimba ensemble. Her goal is to wake up the conscious peacemaker in as many people as possible during her life.