Dartmouth Conference

Dartmouth Conference
Dartmouth Conference
	A meeting of a Dartmouth Task Force in Moscow, 2008
Status	Active
Genre	Conferences
Frequency	Irregularly
Country	United States – Soviet Union
Years active	54 years, 149 days
Inaugurated	October 28, 1960
Founder	Norman Cousins
Most recent	30 October 2015

The Dartmouth Conference is the longest continuous bilateral dialogue between American and Soviet representatives.^[1] The first Dartmouth Conference took place at Dartmouth College in 1961. Subsequent conferences were held through 1990. They were revived in 2014 and continue today. Task forces begun under the auspices of the main conference continued to work after the main conference stopped. The Regional Conflicts Task Force extended the sustained dialogue model, based on the Dartmouth experience, to conflicts in Tajikistan and Nagorno-Karabakh. Dartmouth inspired a number of other dialogues in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, many of them under the auspices of the Sustained Dialogue Institute and the Kettering Foundation.

^ Saunders, Harold H. (1999). A public peace process : sustained dialogue to transform racial and ethnic conflicts (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. xvi. ISBN 0-312-21939-3.

[1] Saunders, Harold H. (1999). A public peace process : sustained dialogue to transform racial and ethnic conflicts (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. xvi. ISBN 0-312-21939-3.

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