2008 Instructors
Roxy Allen | Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz | Hizkias Assefa | Catherine Barnes | Vladimir Bratic | David Brubaker | Mark Chupp | Robb Davis | Jayne Docherty | Roy Hange | Barry Hart | David Anderson Hooker | Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah | John Paul Lederach | Bill Lowrey | Reina Neufeldt | Amy Potter | Gloria Rhodes | Abikök Riak | Sam Rizk | Jeanette Rodriguez | Mark Rogers | Lisa Schirch | Nancy Good Sider | Cheryl Talley | Gopar Tapkida | Herm Weaver | Howard Zehr
Roxy Allen |
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Roxy Allen is project coordinator at the Great Place to Work(r) Institute, whose mission is “to build a better society by helping companies transform their workplaces.” She helps to choose the companies for FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work for(r) and the 50 "Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America" list published in HR Magazine. In addition to its lists, the Institute offers services and tools to help companies build trust and become more effective organizations. She graduated from the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding in 2007 with a master's degree in conflict transformation and organizational leadership. Co-teaching: Systems Approach to Organizational Conflict |
Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz |
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Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz is the director of the Office on Crime and Justice for Mennonite Central Committee. She serves as consultant and trainer for restorative justice programs having a victim offender mediation component. She has worked in the field of victim offender mediation since 1984. She has co-authored a curriculum entitled "Victim Offender Conferencing in Pennsylvania's Juvenile Justice System" and The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools. She received her B.S. in social work from Eastern Mennonite University, where in 2002 she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award. She holds a master of social work from Marywood University. Co-teaching: Restorative Justice: the Promise, the Challenge |
Hizkias Assefa |
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Hizkias Assefa is a professor of conflict studies at Eastern Mennonite University and is an active peacebuilding practitioner and trainer in many parts of the world. Operating out of his base in Nairobi, Kenya, he works as a mediator and facilitator of reconciliation processes at the political and community levels in a number of civil wars in Africa, Latin America, and Asia including Rwanda, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, and Guatemala. He is currently involved in facilitating mediation between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army in the conflict in Northern Uganda. He has served as consultant to the United Nations, European Union, and international and national NGOs on conflict resolution and peacebuilding under situations of humanitarian disaster. He holds an LLM from Northwestern University, MS. in economics and a Ph.D. in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. Teaching: Philosophy and Praxis of Reconciliation |
Catherine Barnes |
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Catherine Barnes is an independent consultant working on conflict issues through training, facilitation and research. She has extensive experience facilitating dialogue and joint analysis, as well as teaching and training adults in various aspects of working with conflict, reconciliation and promoting social change. She is currently serving as Conciliation Resource’s Policy Adviser and has been special advisor to the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). She is author and editor of numerous publications on conflict prevention, minority rights, and civil society roles in peacebuilding, including Owning the process: public participation in peacemaking and The politics of compromise: the Tajikistan peace process. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Teaching: Peace Processes: Multi-Track Approaches |
Vladimir Bratic |
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Vladimir Bratic is assistant professor of media and communications at Hollins University. He is the author of several academic papers and reports on the role of the media in conflict and peace. He graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy and Philosophy at the Palacky University in the Czech Republic. He obtained a Master's degree in International Relations and a PhD in Mass Communication from Ohio University. . Co-teaching: Using Media to Promote Peace |
David Brubaker |
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David Brubaker is assistant professor of organizational studies at Eastern Mennonite University. He has 20 years of experience in workplace mediation, training and organizational consulting. David also has 10 years of management experience, including five years as Executive Director of a community development organization in Arizona. He is the author of numerous articles on conflict transformation and chapters in several books. He earned a BS in business administration from Messiah College, an MBA in global economic development from Eastern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona specializing in religion and organizations. Co-teaching: Systems Approach to Organizational Conflict |
Mark Chupp |
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Mark Chupp teaches community development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His work over the past 20 years has focused on community building and inter-group conflict transformation. Mark is an international consultant and trainer in civic engagement, appreciative inquiry, and conflict transformation, having worked in Northern Ireland, Egypt, Columbia, and throughout Central America and Mexico. He 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 has published numerous theory and practice oriented articles, manuals and book chapters. Mark holds a Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in social welfare from Case Western Reserve University. Teaching: Qualitative research for Social Change |
Robb Davis |
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Robert Davis, Senior Health Advisor at Freedom from Hunger has twenty years of experience in international development, with special expertise in dialogue education and health education curriculum design, particularly in the area of child survival and malaria. He is a specialist in participatory learning methods and training and is a Global Learning Partners Master Trainer. Previously, he has worked for the Mennonite Central Committee, Catholic Relief Services and World Vision and has consulted to the World Bank, Catholic Relief Services, the Peace Corps, UNHCR, and other international and national non-governmental organizations. He holds a master in public health and a Ph.D. in population dynamics from the Johns Hopkins University School of School of Public Health. Co-teaching: Designing Learner Centered Training for Conflict Transformation |
Jayne Docherty |
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Jayne Docherty is professor of conflict studies at Eastern Mennonite University. She holds a Ph.D. in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. She consults with organizations and communities in transition, working with them to harness the positive energy of conflict and minimize its negative effects. She specializes in conducting research – especially action research projects – for nonprofit organizations; designing, monitoring and evaluating projects and programs; consulting with universities on curriculum development; and conducting trainings on conflict analysis, negotiation, and program design. Her most recent publications include four chapters in The Negotiator’s Fieldbook and The Little Book of Strategic Negotiation. Co-teaching: Theory: Frameworks for Conflict Transformation |
Roy Hange |
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Roy Hange spent ten years in the Middle East working in the encounter zones between Islam, Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity. He worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Egypt (1982-1985); he was the first MCC Country Representative in Syria (1991-97); and with his family, he lived and engaged in high level religious dialogue in Qom, Iran (1998). He worked at communication and peacemaking across the political, religious and cultural divides in these communities. He brings to the task of peacemaking a decade of local knowledge of conflict dynamics in the Middle East and years of interpretative encounters between these three communities in Muslim, Christian and political contexts. He was a guest lecturer in the SPI course, Religion: Source of Conflict, Resource for Peace, from 2002 to 2006. He continues to speak and write on the subject of religious peacebuilding. He is currently co-pastor of Charlottesville Mennonite Church, overseer of the Harrisonburg District of Virginia Mennonite Conference, and an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church. Roy Hange has an MDiv. from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. Teaching: Faith-based Peacebuilding: Beyond Realpolitik and Secularism |
Barry Hart |
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Barry Hart is an associate professor of trauma and conflict studies at Eastern Mennonite University. He has worked in Liberia, Northern Ireland, among Hutu refugees in Tanzania, and in Haiti as a trainer/evaluator for a conflict transformation program of the Organization of American States. He has worked in the former Yugoslavia as a trainer in conflict transformation and prejudice reduction, and more recently in trauma awareness and recovery. He is presently the academic director of the Caux Scholars Program in Caux, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. Co-teaching: Identity & Conflict Transformation |
David Anderson Hooker |
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David Anderson Hooker is an associate professor at Eastern Mennonite University. He is a mediator and peace builder with over 20 years experience. He specializes in managing complex, multi-party, and public policy conflicts and has worked in Bosnia, Croatia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Cuba. He currently serves as Vice president for Community Building with the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Atlanta Civic Site. In that role he is visioning and managing the development of affordable housing, commercial and light industrial development strategies for historically disenfranchised communities in the Atlanta inner city. In 2004, he was a Fellow with the National Peace Foundation in Washington, D.C. and was a Visiting Professor at Africa University's ( Mutare, Zimbabwe) Institute for Peace Leadership and Governance. He is the former Senior Program Associate for the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR) in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Emory University's School of Law (J.D.), the Candler School of Theology (M. Div.), the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (MPH and MPA) and Washington University in St. Louis (M.A. Minority Mental Health). Teaching: Multi-Party Problems: Negotiation, Conflict Resolution & Consensus Building and Building Communities: Social, Economic, & Spiritual Development |
Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah |
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Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is President and Managing Director of Kommon Denominator, Inc. She advises and works on strategic projects related to conflict prevention and mitigation, training and education, and capacity building on the national and international levels. She has designed and delivered highly successful small and large-scale interventions in corporate, community and international settings. She is a skilled facilitator and is a Virginia Court Certified mediator. She is a board member (Past Chair) of Partners for Peace, Washington, DC, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, the Board of Directors of Northern Virginia Mediation Services (Past President), a member of the original advisory board for Peace x Peace, and member of Board of Directors, Institute for Victims of Trauma, McLean, VA, and the Advisory Board, Smart Security Project, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA. She is also a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and Virginia Mediation Network. She teaches graduate level courses on cross cultural mediation, conflict resolution practice and protracted conflicts and is currently part-time faculty at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, affiliate faculty at the Women’s Center at George Mason University and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Peace at American University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Teaching: Analysis: Understanding Conflict |
John Paul Lederach |
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John Paul Lederach is professor of international peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was the founding director of the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University where he has been named a Distinguished Scholar. He works extensively as a practitioner in conciliation processes, active in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast and Central Asia. He is widely known for the development of culturally appropriate approaches to conflict transformation and the design and implementation of integrative and strategic approaches to peacebuilding. He is author of 16 books and manuals, including Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies, The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, and The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado. Co-Teaching: The Moral Imagination: Building the Art & Soul of Peacebuilding |
Bill Lowrey |
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Bill Lowrey is director of peacebuilding and reconciliation for World Vision International. He helped develop, nourish and train peacebuilding sub-regional networks in more than 30 countries and helps facilitate a global peacebuilding and advocacy network known as PAXnet. In recognition of his facilitation of the People-to-People peace process in Sudan that brought an end to an eight-year war between the Dinka and Nuer people, he received the “Peacemaker Award” from the National Peace Foundation in Washington, D.C. and the “Peace Activist Award” from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding in New York City. He has been a lecturer, trainer and consultant in conflict resolution and organizational development and is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He holds a Ph.D. in intercultural organizational development from the Union Institute and University. Co-teaching: Conflict Sensitive Development & Peacebuilding |
Reina Neufeldt |
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Reina Neufeldt's scholar-practitioner work focuses on peacebuilding, development, and ethno-religious conflict. She has worked on peace and justice issues with NGOs since 1994. For the past seven years, she worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), supporting peacebuilding capacity building, design, monitoring, evaluation and learning. She was most recently based in Southeast Asia as CRS' Regional Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding. Neufeldt has co-authored "Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual" (2001) and "Reflective Peacebuilding: A Planning, Monitoring and Learning Toolkit" (2007). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the School of International Service, American University, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Co-teaching: Design, Monitoring & Evaluation for Peacebuilding |
Amy Potter |
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Amy Potter is Associate Director of CJP's Practice Institute. She develops programs and does conflict transformation work with a variety of organizations. She is an experienced mediator, facilitator and trainer. Since 2006, she has directed the Coming to the Table project. She holds a M.A. in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University. Teaching: Coming to the Table |
Gloria Rhodes |
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Gloria Rhodes is an assistant professor of sociology and conflict studies at EMU, where she coordinates the undergraduate program in Justice, Peace, and Conflict Studies. She served as Administrative Director of the Summer Peacebuilding Institute from 1996-1999. She has lead semester and summer cross cultural programs in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Russia. She is currently conducting dissertation research on conflict resolution and conflict transformation approaches to practice. She is a doctoral candidate in conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University. Teaching: Introduction to Conflict Transformation |
Abikök Riak |
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Abikök Riak is director of grants acquisition and management for Asia , Middle East and Eastern Europe for World Vision U.S. She previously worked with World Vision as peacebuilding coordinator for the Asia Pacific region and as program officer for the Sudan program. She was also a researcher and technical writer for the Institute for Food and Development Policy. Her publications include chapters entitled "Mainstreaming LCP in a Federal Organisation" and "What Are We Trying to Develop? Lessons Learned from the Philippines in Community Leadership" in the recently published book, A Shared Future: Local Capacities for Peace in Community Development, by Michelle Garred, Editor. She has a B.A. in economics and history from Bluffton College and an M.A. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Co-teaching: Conflict Sensitive Development & Peacebuilding |
Sam Rizk |
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Samuel Rizk is in his second year of PhD studies at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Living in Lebanon for the past 4 years he was a founding member and executive director of the Forum for Development, Culture and Dialogue – a regional NGO based in Beirut, working on issues of conflict resolution, community empowerment and interfaith dialogue. During that time he also helped establish the Arab Partnership for Conflict Prevention and Human Security and coordinated its work in relation to the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). Previous experience includes work with the Middle East Council of Churches in Egypt and Lebanon as well as the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies in Cairo. At SPI 2007, Sam assisted Jayne Docherty in the Strategic Peacebuilding Class. Sam Holds and MA in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo and a BA in Political Science from Hanover College. Co-teaching: Theory: Frameworks for Conflict Transformation |
Jeanette Rodriguez |
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Jeanette Rodriguez is a U.S. Hispanic/Latina theologian, professor in and chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University. She is author of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican American Women; Stories We Live; Cultural Memory: Resistance, Faith and Identity (co-authored with Dr. Ted Fortier) and numerous articles on U.S. Hispanic theology, spirituality, and cultural memory. She also co-edited A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology with Dr. Maria Pilar Aquino and Daisy Machado. In addition, she is a licensed clinician dealing with family systems, grief, and trauma; an anti-racist and diversity trainer, and serves as vice-chair of the National Board of Pax Christi. Co-teaching: Women, Leadership & Peacebuilding |
Mark Rogers |
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Mark Rogers is an experienced facilitator, trainer, mediator, program designer, and peacebuilder. He has taught courses in peacebuilding at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica and the American University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute. Mark has participated in conflict assessments for USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and the World Bank. Previously, Mark served as Senior Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding with Catholic Relief Services. He has also worked in Burundi as country director for Search for Common Ground’s largest and oldest program. Mark recently co-authored a manual, Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Programs. He holds a Master of International Administration from the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont. Co-teaching: Design, Monitoring & Evaluation for Peacebuilding |
Lisa Schirch |
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Lisa Schirch is an associate professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. A former Fulbright Fellow, she has worked in every region of the world as a researcher, trainer, and facilitator in the fields of conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Within the field of peacebuilding, she specializes in alternative US security strategies, the use of media and the arts, development, human rights, women, rituals and ceremonies, civil-military relations, civilian peacekeeping and facilitating dialogue in identity-based conflicts. She is the director of the 3D Security Initiative, a public education project using media to promote security through development and diplomacy. She is the author of four books: Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding; The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding; Civilian Peacekeeping: Reducing Violence and Making Space for Democracy; and Women in Peacebuilding Training Manual. She earned a B.A. from the University of Waterloo in political science and international relations and her M.S. and Ph.D. from George Mason University in conflict analysis and resolution. Teaching: Strategic Nonviolence: Advocacy & Activism Co-teaching: Using Media to Promote Peace |
Nancy Good Sider |
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Nancy Good Sider is associate professor of trauma and conflict studies at EMU. A mediator and therapist for more than 30 years, Nancy is a founding partner at Newman Avenue Associates where she works as a mediator, organizational consultant/trainer, and licensed psychotherapist. At CJP, Nancy is a trauma specialist and works in diversity-based conflict (race and gender). Her dissertation explored resilience and posttraumatic growth (PTG) in “Peacebuilders Healing Trauma: From Victim to Survivor to Provider.” She holds an MSW degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. from Union Institute & University.
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Cheryl Talley |
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Cheryl Talley is an associate professor of psychology at James Madison University. She teaches introductory courses in biopsychology and conducts research in behavioral neuroscience. Her devotional practice of Yoga and meditation has influenced her interest in mind/brain questions including the effects of trauma on the human psyche and the potential for making peace which she firmly believes resides in every human being. Using recent scientific findings from cognitive neuroscience to quantum physics, she weaves information from modern and ancient sources to investigate the biological basis of conflict and the psychological/spiritual sources of peace. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Virginia Co-teaching: Trauma Awareness & Transformation |
Gopar Tapkida |
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Gopar Tapkida is the West African regional coordinator of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) peace network. Previously, Gopar served as the coordinator of MCC peace work in Nigeria. Currently, Gopar promotes interfaith peacebuilding between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and Ethiopia. He is also an adjunct instructor of religious and identity-based conflict at Jos ECWA Theological Seminary and Evangel Theological Seminary (in Nigeria) and at African Peacebuilding Institute (API) in Zambia. His recent publication includes a chapter entitled "Christian-Muslim Relations in Nigeria: Mennonite Central Committee and Multi-Faith Peacebuilding" in the book Borders and Bridges: Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World. Gopar received his undergraduate degree in pastoral theology in Nigeria and an MA in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University. He is married to Monica and has three daughters. Co-teaching: Identity & Conflict Transformation |
Herm Weaver |
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Herm Weaver is a conference minister for the Mountains States Mennonite Conference. He worked for 13 years at Eastern Mennonite University as associate professor and chair of the Department of Psychology and he continues to be involved in teaching and training events. He is also a singer/songwriter who has been telling stories with his music to a wide range of audiences for several decades. His research efforts have been aimed primarily at examining the role of the creative arts in the experience of reconciliation. He is co-founder, along with John Paul Lederach, of Dream the Light, a grassroots effort aimed at fostering language learning among high school students as a way of breaking down barriers. He holds an M.S.Ed. from The University of Akron and a Ph.D. from The Union Institute and University. Co-Teaching: The Moral Imagination: Building the Art & Soul of Peacebuilding |
Howard Zehr |
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Howard Zehr is professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University. He worked for 17 years with the Mennonite Central Committee in the areas of crime and justice in the United States and internationally. His book, Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice, has been a seminal work in the growing restorative justice movement. He is also editor of Critical Issues in Restorative Justice and of the Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Co-teaching: Restorative Justice: the Promise, the Challenge Teaching: Real World Restorative Justice: What are we Learning from "the field?" |
