“…But our signing an official contract with the Soviet Duma to start a dialogue series aimed at helping the Soviet and the American people get to know one another better and offer ideas for improving Soviet-American relations gave us an opportunity to begin to work in many trouble spots in the world. In my paper “Remembering Gorbachev” published in this journal (Volkan, 2022 ) I tell the story of how signing this contract was made possible. CSMHI had projects in the Baltic Republics, Kuwait, Albania, former Yugoslavia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Turkey, Greece, and elsewhere.…”