Peter S. Adler

Peter S. Adler, PhD., lives in Honolulu. He is a planner, mediator, and consultant specializing in cooperation strategies for complex public policy issues.

Adler has been a Peace Corps volunteer, an Outward Bound instructor, and worked for te Hawai’i Supreme Court before becoming President and CEO of The Keystone Center.

He is the author of five previous books: Beyond Paradise (Oxbow Press, 1993), Oxtail Soup (Oxbow Press, 2008), India-40 and the Circle of Demons (Xlibris, 2017), Eye of the Storm Leadership (RIS, 2008), and Calming the Storm: A Leader’s Handbook for Managing Unproductive Conflicts (Roman and Littlefield, 2024).