Affiliated Scholars
Program Manager, Center for Neighborhood Development, Levin College
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
M.S.W., University of Michigan
B.A., Goshen College
Dr. Mark Chupp is program manager of the Civic Engagement Initiative at the CSU Center for Neighborhood Development. His responsibilities include designing systems for increasing citizen participation and democratic decision-making, intervention in inter-group conflict, and facilitating appreciative inquiry in organizations and communities. In Northeast Ohio, he designed and facilitated appreciative inquiry processes for a racially diverse neighborhood of over 30,000 residents, a large urban high school and the US Department of Education Cleveland Regional Office for Civil Rights. He also co-founded Appreciative Inquiry: Program for Community and Social Change, a statewide training program for community leaders, nonprofits, and public officials. This project included the publication of a training manual. In the area of community development, Dr. Chupp conducted an assessment of Lorain, Ohio, examining the role of City Council, the City’s Community Development Department, and local community development corporations. He also co-developed with Neighborhood Progress, Inc. the community organizing training program for local community development corporations.
Dr. Chupp has also served as an international consultant and trainer in civic engagement and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, Egypt, Columbia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador. He has served as international election monitor in Nicaragua. In addition, he has designed and facilitated training programs in citizen participation for public officials from Croatia on behalf of USAID. Dr. Chupp provided leadership in the establishment of the Culture of Peace Program as part of an effort to create a UN Local Zone of Peace in post-war El Salvador. He previously founded and directed nonprofit organizations in community mediation and violence prevention. Dr. Chupp has published numerous theory and practice oriented articles, manuals and book chapters. Dr. Chupp is an adjunct faculty at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute of Eastern Mennonite University, which is an international training program drawing human rights workers, NGO leaders, and peacebuilders from over 50 countries around the world.