Herbert Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, has won a 1997 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

Kelman was recognized for his development of a process that enables opposing parties to settle longstanding, seemingly unsolvable disputes. The process, which he calls interactive problem-solving, uses a third party to help the two sides explore feasible, just resolutions that address human, rather than political, issues.

Kelman's work is based on principles of social psychology and human behavior.

He was instrumental in teaching such a process to those involved in the recent breakthroughs in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

Kelman is the author of more than 200 articles and chapters on topics ranging from international relations to psychotherapy, and has written five books. His 1965 book, International Behavior: A Social-Psychological Analysis, is considered by many to be the definitive text on the social psychology of international relations.

The three other winners of awards this year are Larry Rasmussen, an ethics professor at Union Theological Seminary who won for his book, Earth Community, Earth Ethics; British composer Simon Bainbridge, who won for his orchestral work Ad Ora Incerta -- Four Orchestral Songs from Primo Levi; and Mike Rose, education professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, for his book Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America.

The Grawemeyer Award, founded by H. Charles Grawemeyer, carries a prize of $150,000 and is given in recognition of those who "help make the world a better place."

Other Harvard faculty who have won Grawemeyer Awards include Samuel Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead University Professor; Howard Gardner, professor of education; Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies; Victoria Purcell-Gates, associate professor of education; and Ivan Tcherepnin, director of the Electronic Music Studio.