IDI Fellows

Vamık D. Volkan, M. D., DLFAPA, FACPsa, is the founder and President Emeritus of the International Dialogue Initiative.  He was born to Turkish parents in Cyprus. Before coming to the United States in 1957 he received his medical education at the School of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey. He is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry ...

Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., is the immediate Past President of the IDI and the co-editor of the IDI’s recent book, We Don’t Speak of Fear: Large Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma, published by Phoenix Publishing House in March, 2023. He is Distinguished Faculty and former Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research of the Austen ...

John Alderdice, Vice-President of IDI (with Robi Friedman), played a significant role in the negotiation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. At that time he had been Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland for some 11 years and after the elections to the new Northern Ireland Assembly he stepped down ...

Robi Friedman, PhD. Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst, President of the Group Analytic Society (International), is Vice President of the IDI (with Lord John Alderdice).  He is a co–founder of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis and its current President; Past-President of the Israeli Association for Group Psychotherapy. He writes on dreamtelling and relational disorders, works ...

Dr. Arıboğan received her bachelor’s degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, International Relations Department in 1986 and thereafter completed her master’s and PhD at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. In 1995, Dr. Arıboğan completed continuing education programs in International Security and Terrorism at St. Andrews University. From 1998 to 2003, Dr. Arıboğan taught ...