Charles “Chip” Hauss has been exploring ways of producing large scale social and political change through nonviolent and cooperative means since his undergraduate days at Oberlin College in the late 1960s. In all of this work, Hauss has tried to be a political bridge builder who brings “strange political bedfellows” together to help solve problems that can only be effectively addressed if they work together. Hauss is currently Senior Fellow for Innovation at the Alliance for Peacebuilding where he will help lead its Peacebuilding Starts at Home initiative which will address problems that cross issue-based and ideological lines. He is the author of nineteen books on peacebuilding and comparative politics and is currently working on a new book with Patricia Shafer, Peacebuilding Starts at Home, which will focus on intersectional social change movements in the United States. Hauss holds a BA from Oberlin (where he is an active alumni fundraiser) and a PhD from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Gretchen Sandles, live in the Washington DC area. Their family trust supports the Alliance for Peacebuilding and makes small startup grants to new peacebuilding and related initiatives.
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