Miki Kashtan is a certified trainer with the global Center for Nonviolent Communication and a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication. She leads workshops and intensive retreats and offers mediation, meeting facilitation, consulting, coaching, and training for organizations. She supported the US Department of Peace campaign with monthly conference calls between 2005 and 2009. In 2007 Miki facilitated the 3rd Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace in Japan, and in 2008 the 1st Summit of the African Alliance for Peace, a regional segment of the global group. Miki hosts the Conflict Hotline, a monthly live call-in TV show, and blogs at http://baynvc.blogspot.com. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley and her articles have appeared in Tikkun magazine and elsewhere.