| Dartmouth Conference | |
|---|---|
 A meeting of a Dartmouth Task Force in Moscow, 2008 | |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Conferences |
| Frequency | Irregularly |
| Country | United States – Soviet Union |
| Years active | 54 years, 149 days |
| Inaugurated | October 28, 1960 |
| Founder | Norman Cousins |
| Most recent | 30 October 2015 |
The Dartmouth Conference is the longest continuous bilateral dialogue between American and Soviet representatives.[1] The first Dartmouth Conference took place at Dartmouth College in 1961. Subsequent conferences were held through 1990. They were revived in 2014 and continue today. Task forces begun under the auspices of the main conference continued to work after the main conference stopped. The Regional Conflicts Task Force extended the sustained dialogue model, based on the Dartmouth experience, to conflicts in Tajikistan and Nagorno-Karabakh. Dartmouth inspired a number of other dialogues in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, many of them under the auspices of the Sustained Dialogue Institute and the Kettering Foundation.
- ^ Saunders, Harold H. (1999). A public peace process : sustained dialogue to transform racial and ethnic conflicts (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. xvi. ISBN 0-312-21939-3.