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Miguel Alvarez is a long-time activist and assistant to Bishop Ruiz. He has organized and led numerous social organizations throughout Mexico. Currently, he is involved with SERPAZ (Services and Technical Help for Peace) and the organization Peace with Democracy. Bishop Samuel Ruiz of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, played a key role in brokering peace between the Zapatistas and the Mexican Government. He has generally been very vocal in defending indigenous populations and calming conflicts in Central America. He was awarded the Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) Award in 1996 and the Simon Bolívar International Prize from UNESCO in 2000.
Habbouba Aoun, Co-ordinator of the Landmines Resource Center in Beirut has worked since the ceasefire in Lebanon to support survivors and prevent casualties from cluster munitions by educating the local population. She has been involved with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) since 1998, providing research for the ICBL’s annual Landmine Monitor report. Aoun has worked extensively on mine-risk education and victim assistance. She is a member of Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Balamand in Beruit. She was recently honoured by the United States government for her work ‘on humanitarian relief, empowering women, children and youth, and in conflict resolution’.
Pat Anderson is an Alyawarre woman renowned nationally and internationally as a powerful advocate of disadvantaged people, with a particular focus on the health of Indigenous peoples of Australia. She was Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, the peak national Aboriginal health organisation. She was co-author of the Little Children are Sacred report into abuse of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory. Most recently Pat was awarded the Public Health Association of Australia’s Sidney Sax Public Health Medal.
Amiya Bagchi is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. He was a member of the State Planning Board, West Bengal, until 2005. He has consulted to the ILO, UNCTAD and UNDIESA His books include The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (1982), a four-volume history of the State Bank of India (1987–97) and Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and the Republic of Korea (1987), Capital and Labour Re-defined: India and the Third World (2002); The Developmental State in History and in the Twentieth Century (2004) and Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital, (2005).
Dr Zvi Bekerman teaches in the School of Education and the Melton Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1999 he has been conducting a long-term ethnographic research project in the integrated/bilingual Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel. He is the editor with Seonaigh MacPherson of the refereed journal Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. His recently published books include, with Nicholas Burbules and Diana Keller Silverman, an edited volume entitled Learning in Places (Peter Lang, 2006); with Claire McGlynn, a volume entitled Addressing Ethnic Conflict through Peace Education (Palgrave McMillan, 2007); and with Ezra Kopelowitz, Cultural Education-Cultural Sustainability: Minority, Diaspora Indigenous and Ethno-Religious Groups in Multicultural Societies (Routledge, 2008).
Marie Brennan is a Professor of Education at the University of South Australia, where she completed a five-year term as Dean of Education and Head of School from 2002–07. Her previous academic jobs were at the University of Canberra, Central Queensland and Deakin Universities. Prior to being an academic, Marie worked for almost twenty years in the Victorian Education Department in a range of positions. Marie is active nationally in promoting the education sector, as well as conducting research, supervising doctoral students and providing leadership in the School of Education. Her research interests have a particular focus on injustice.
Fernanda Borges is Founder and President of the Partido Unidade Nacional (PUN), Chair to the Committee on Constitutional Issues, Justice, Government Legislation Public Administration and Local Government and the leader of the Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights. Borges was appointed Minister of Finance in 2001 for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor. Prior to this, she worked as an Economic Adviser, Head of Finance, Budget and Economic Affairs and Special Assistant to the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, a Financial Adviser to the Right Reverend Bishop of Dili, and as a commercial banker in Sydney for ten years.
Susan Buck-Morss holds the Jan Rock Zubrow Professorship in the Social Sciences, and is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government, Cornell University. Her books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh University Press, 2009), Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (The MIT Press, 2000); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989); and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1977; 2nd ed., 2002).
Ian Campbell, a physician and international health consultant, facilitates participatory design and evaluation of home and community-based approaches to a range of health issues. He currently co-ordinates Affirm Facilitation Associates, a global community of practice connecting local faith-linked responses to HIV with change in health systems and organizations. Campbell was the Chief Medical Officer at The Salvation Army Chikankata Hospital in Zambia from 1983 to 1989. Since 1990 he has engaged with many partners worldwide, often with UN collaboration, to transfer concepts and practices relating to human capacity development in response to HIV and other health and life-competence issues.
Elias Chacour is the Archbishop of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and all Galilee. He is an author and peace activist, promoting reconciliation between Arabs and Israelis. He has received the prestigious World Methodist Peace Award (1994) and the Niwano Peace Prize (2001). He is the author of two books, Blood Brothers and We Belong to the Land, the second which recounts his work in the development of Mar Elias Educational Institutions, from humble beginnings to major schools for educating Palestinian young people and for helping to bring about reconciliation in a land of strife. This book has been translated into eleven languages.
Dan Doyle was founder and is Executive Director of the Institute of International Sport, inaugurated in 1986. At the core of each Institute program is education and cultural awareness to enable future world leaders to design workable solutions. The first World Scholar-Athlete Games were held in 1993 at the University of Rhode Island, and brought together high school students from 108 countries for 12 days of competition and collaboration. Since then, the Institute has administered the World Scholar-Athlete Games in 1997, 2001 and 2006, drawing approximately 2,000 young people at each event, with representation from a total of 192 countries.
John Eales, AM, is an Australian former rugby union player, businessman and author. After a ten-year sporting career, including the last six as captain of the side, he retired from the Australian Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies, in 2001, as arguably the most successful captain in Australia’s history. John is a founder of the Mettle Group, a firm specializing in leadership training. He also is a director of International Quarterback, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, Lifehouse Cancer Centre in Sydney, and consults to BT Financial Group among other organizations. He is the author of Learning from Legends: Sport and Learning from Legends: Business.
Professor Toni Erskine is Director of Research in International Relations at Aberystwyth University, and the Lurie-Murdoch Senior Research Fellow in Global Ethics at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is Chair of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association. She was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University. Her most recent publications include Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities' (Oxford University Press, 2008) and ‘Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations', in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is currently working on institutional moral agency and international relations.
Kushil Gunasekera is head of the Foundation for Goodness, an NGO that responded to the impact of the 2004 tsunami in Gunasekera's home village of Seenigama by building a model village with thirty innovative programs catering for all sections of the community. He has worked with renowned Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan to raise the funds for this model village and he has subsequently developed a scaled-down version in a neighbouring village that he thinks can be replicated in all parts of the world.
Dr Zabidi-Hussin is currently Professor of Paediatrics with special interest in Paediatric Neurology and Ethics Education, at the Universiti Sains Malaysia. He was the former Dean of the School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia from 1999–05 during which time he spearheaded the formal inclusion of Ethics Education, Communication Skills and Personality Development into the medical curriculum. He is a member of the founding committee of Malaysian Bioethics Commission formed in 2009 and has participated in international ethics conference such as the recent Ethics and Clinical Setting Congress involving Indonesian Medical Schools and the University of Washington, held in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Paul James is Director of the Global Cities Institute (RMIT) and Director of the UN Global Compact—Cities Programme. He is on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and an editor of Arena Journal. He has delivered invited addresses in over twenty countries and is author or editor of twenty-three books, including most importantly, Nation Formation (Sage, 1996) and Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism (Sage, 2006). His other recent books include the first twelve volumes of a projected sixteen-volume series mapping the field of globalization (Sage, 2006, 2007, 2009). He is Director (Research) of Global Reconciliation.
Dame Carol Kidu is the first female cabinet minister in Papua New Guinea, serving as Minister for Community Development. Since assuming the role in 2002 she has radically changed the policy emphasis from minimal top-down service delivery to engaged community partnerships. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 2005. In 2007, the magazine Islands Business named her ‘Person of the Year. In 2009, she was made a knight of the Légion d'honneur by France, for ‘her dedication to helping women, young girls, children, the physically and mentally impaired and her commitment to fighting discrimination.
Tim King is an international author, activist and President/CEO of The David Group International, a peace and reconciliation NGO. As such, Tim has created a ‘New Earth Fellowship’ to sponsor Harvard Divinity School graduate students in contributing critical research in documenting peace and reconciliation efforts around the globe. Tim is an ordained minister of the Christian Universalist Association. He and his wife Gwynne presently live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Dr Dragan Klaic is a Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam and Visiting Professor in Cultural Policy at Central European University in Budapest, teaches also regularly at Leiden University, Bologna University, Bilgi University Istanbul and University of Arts Belgrade. He was Director of the Theater Instituut Nederland 1992–2001, President of EFAH 2001–04 and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project. He is author of several books including Terrorism and Modern Drama (with John Orr, 1990), The Plot of the Future (1991), Europe as a Cultural Project (2005) and Mobility of Imagination, a companion guide to international cultural cooperation (2007).
Paul Komesaroff is a practising physician and professor within the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University. He has an international reputation in health-care ethics, and has a major impact in the field of medical ethics. He is Director of the Monash Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Chair of the Health and Development Alliance and Ethics Convener of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Executive Director of Global Reconciliation. He is Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Among his recent books are Experiments in Love and Death (2008), Objectivity, science and Society (2008) and Pathways to Reconciliation (2008).
Alphonso Lingis is an American philosopher, writer and currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of many books including The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994) Foreign Bodies (1994) Trust (2004) and The First Person Singular (2007).
Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom is co-founder and co-director of Clergy for Peace, an Israeli/Palestinian interfaith initiative of Christians, Muslims, and Jews working for justice and peace in the Middle East. Rabbi Milgrom completed three years of active duty and sixteen years of reserve duty in the Israeli Army, the last eight of which were spent as a conscientious objector. He works with Rabbis for Human Rights on behalf of the Jahalin Bedouin. An American born rabbi, Jeremy Milgrom has lived in Israel since 1968. He has been involved in important initiatives in the Israeli peace camp and has been a pioneer in interfaith partnerships with Christian and Moslem Palestinians.
Dr Meas Nee is a Social Science/Rural Livelihood and Organizational Assessment Specialist to the Mekong Think Tank. He has successfully completed various consultancies in relation to training, project evaluation, project development; strategic planning and conduct research studies for many local and international NGOs in partnership with oversee universities. He had published four books: Toward Restoring Life in Cambodian Villages (1995), Learning for Transformation (2001), Understanding Cambodian Villages beyond the War (2003), and Cambodia Roads to Development (2009). He was employed by Village Focus International as a country director from January 2006 to April 2009. Presently, he is Executive Director of Village Focus Cambodia.
Dr Sari Nusseibeh is Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and President of al-Quds University, East Jerusalem (1995–present). He taught at Birzeit University from 1978 until 1991, when he was placed under administrative detention in an Israeli jail for three months. In 2003 he co-founded IPSO (the Israel/Palestine Scientific Organization), and continues to serve at its co-chairman. He was selected (2005, 2007) by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the hundred leading world public figures. His latest book, Once upon a Country, with co-author Anthony David, has received numerous positive reviews, and has been translated into many languages.
Katarina Pejovic is a dramaturg and intermedia artist. She has authored and co-authored theatre projects, intermedia projects, video works, documentary movies and experimental audio works that were presented at various festivals (Ars Electronica, Steierischer Herbst, Eurokaz, LIFT, Wiener Festwochen, BITEF, etc.). She has initiated or took part in different cultural-political-social projects (Mobile Theatre Network, hEXPO, Zagreb Cultural Capital of Europe 3000 etc.); and organized festivals and collaborated with numerous groups and platforms (Cosmo-Kinetical Theatre Red Pilot, KPGT, 42, Zeramulix etc.). She is the co-founder of Bacaci Sjenki (Shadow Casters) as well as co-author of most of its projects.
Professor Porter has taught at University of South Australia (where she is now), Flinders University of South Australia, the University of Ulster and the Southern Cross University. She was Research Director at INCORE (International Conflict Research) at the University of Ulster. Her books include Peace Building: Women in International Perspective; Feminist Ethics; Building Good Families; and Women and Moral Identity and she is co-editor of Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Transforming Conflict and Building Peace; and Activating Human Rights and Researching Conflict in Africa. Within the Hawke Research Institute, Professor Porter is Director of the Centre for Peace, Conflict and Mediation.
Professor Mohammed Shaheen is a leading figure in public health in Palestine, and holds a PhD in public health. He is co-founder and former dean of the School of Public Health. He plays a leading role in promoting the rights-based public/community health model in Palestine and the region and serves as a Vice-President of Child Watch International. He also serves as a regional consultant and as promoter of the public health model in dealing with the psycho-social challenges facing Palestinian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan. He leads efforts to promote justice, peace and reconciliation within and across Palestine.
Dr Modjtaba Sadria is a professor at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations in London. His main areas of research related to social and cultural transformations in Muslim societies, with a particular focus on cities. He is the co-ordinator of the Central Asia Study Group, an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional study group hosted by the AKU. He also co-ordinates a study group on Autonomy in Muslim Thought. Between 1989 and 2007 he was at the University of Tokyo, and Central University of Tokyo as Visiting Researcher and Professor. Dr Sadria's numerous publications include Multiple Modernities in Muslim Societies (edited volume, 2009).
Ed Smith, former England cricketer, is a writer and journalist. He was the fifteenth Smith to be selected for England, but the first to have written a book on baseball. His books include Playing Hard Ball and On and Off the Field, short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Cricket Society Book of the Year Award in 2004. He has contributed reviews to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and the Sunday Telegraph. His most recent book, entitled What Sport Tells Us about Life (2008), is a discussion of the role of sport in society, and its moral and ethical lessons.
Professor John Sugden is teaches the Sociology of Sport at the University of Brighton where he has worked since 1996, and he is Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster. His books on international boxing and on sport in Northern Ireland have won national and international awards. Professor Sugden is also well known for his pioneering work on sport in divided societies, his studies of the world governing body for football, FIFA, and for his investigative research into football’s underground economy. John is Director of the University of Brighton’s flagship international community relations project in Israel, Football for Peace.
Dr Michalinos Zembylas is in Education at the Open University of Cyprus. His areas of interest are educational theory and curriculum studies and he does research on the affective politics of peace and intercultural education and social justice pedagogies. He has published Teaching with Emotion: A Postmodern Enactment (2005), Five Pedagogies, A Thousand Possibilities: Struggling for Hope and Transformation in Education (2007), and The Politics of Trauma in Education (2008). He has also co-edited Peace Education in Conflict and Post-conflict Societies (2009), ICT for Education, Development and Social Justice (2009), and Advances in Teacher Emotion Research (2009).