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Ari Cowan is a Senior Fellow and Theorist at SpiritRidge Institute.
Ari Cowan
Senior Fellow, Theorist
Consultant, Advisor
Ari Cowan is a social theorist, writer, and educator living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. SpiritRidge's programs and materials are based upon his work. He is the author of the Integrative Power Management Model, the Integrative Conflict Management Model and the Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration (PAR) Model, the new social technology which is the foundation for the National Violence Reduction Initiative.
For his work to end violence, Ari received the National Public Health Award from the United States affiliate of the international physician organization which received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also the recipient of the 2011 National Peacemaker of the Year Award and the Association for Human Resource Professionals' Award for Excellence in Human Resources, the highest award granted by that organization.
Ari is the Founder, Executive Director Emeritus and former member of the Board of Advisors of the nonprofit Family Health Institute, a four-year project established in 1996 under the auspices of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Washington chapter of PSR.
Ari is the author of eight human resources/health benefits management reference works. He was a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of California, Irvine Graduate School of Management (Irvine, California) for eight years. He served as a member of the Workplace Violence Task Force of the University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs, Institute for Public Policy and Management.
He was cited — along with Nobel Prize recipient and former President Jimmy Carter, 1980 Nobel Prize recipient Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and others — for his assistance in bringing the first edition of The International Bill of Human Rights to publication. He spent seven years working in a group setting with many adults in treatment for severe violence in childhood.
The late science-fiction author Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner) acknowledged Ari as "a new and original thinker." Ari's photoillustrations were featured at the 1974 World's Fair, he served as a film reviewer for The Daily Journal-American newspaper in Bellevue, Washington, and he spent two years as the film reviewer on the Seattle PBS television affiliate. Ari is a student of Irish history and culture.
