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Janice Stein is Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She has an international reputation as a Middle East area specialist and is a pioneer in at least three fields of political science: negotiation theory, foreign policy decision-making and international conflict management.

As a Middle East specialist, Professor Stein has provided compelling explanations of the patterns of conflict and cooperation, and of war and peace, between Egypt and Israel from the 1960s to the present. Professor Stein was also the first scholar to establish the pivotal importance of prenegotiation to international bargaining. She articulated the connection between the negotiation of the terms of a negotiation itself, and its ultimate success or failure.

Professor Stein has advised the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the United States Institute for Peace. She has also been Chair of the Research Advisory Board of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chair of the advisory Board to the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development. She is on the editorial board of several scholarly journals, including Foreign Policy, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her latest book is entitled The Cult of Efficiency.

"My Fellowship with the Trudeau Foundation has enlarged and enriched the circle of ‎colleagues who share an abiding interest in public space. Public space is fragile – at times, ‎endangered – and we need to work hard to safeguard and enlarge it so that citizens can ‎talk to one another. The Trudeau Foundation is a wonderful enabler of people who are ‎trying, in so many different ways, to push out the boundaries of public space.‎"

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