2009 Instructors
Hedley Abernethy | Peter Adler | Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz | Hizkias Assefa | Elaine Zook Barge | David Brubaker | Koila Costello-Olsson | Robb Davis | Jayne Docherty | Roy Hange | Barry Hart | Vesna Hart | David Anderson Hooker | Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah | Vernon Jantzi | Steve Kabetu | Riva Kantowitz | Jim Leaman | John Paul Lederach | Bridget Moix | Reina Neufeldt | Marina Piscolish | Gloria Rhodes | Sam Rizk | Timothy Ruebke | Mark Rogers | Lisa Schirch | Nancy Good Sider | Barb Toews | Herm Weaver | Dan Wessner | Angela Yoder-Maina | Howard Zehr
Hedley Abernethy |
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Hedley Abernethy is the Peacebuilding Education Advisor for Catholic Relief Services’ United States Operations. A large part of his work with CRS is developing ways for Catholics in the United States to engage on Peace in the Holy Land. He is also developing a program that works with youth on peacebuilding from a global perspective. Before coming to the United States, he worked for the National Council of YMCAs in Ireland, helping to promote and develop community relations and peacebuilding programs throughout Northern Ireland. A qualified youth worker, he has researched and written a number of publications aimed at young people and youth workers. He obtained his B.S. in youth work from the University of Ulster, focusing on the use of the labels Protestant and Catholic in the Northern Ireland conflict for his dissertation. He also earned a Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia. Co-teaching: On Your Feet: Mastering Your Delivery as a Workshop Trainer |
Peter Adler |
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Peter S. Adler, Ph.D. is President of The Keystone Center, which applies consensus-building and cutting-edge scientific information to energy, environmental, and health-related policy problems. The Keystone Center also offers extensive training and professional education programs to educators and business leaders and runs the Keystone Science School in the Rocky Mountains. Adler’s specialty is multi-party negotiation and problem solving. He has worked extensively on water management and resource planning problems and mediates, writes, trains, and teaches in diverse areas of conflict management. He has worked on cases ranging from the siting of a 25-megawatt geothermal energy production facility to the resolution of construction and product liability claims involving a multi-million dollar stadium. He has extensive experience in land planning issues, water problems, marine and coastal affairs, and strategic resource management. Prior to his appointment at Keystone, Adler held executive positions with the Hawaii Justice Foundation, the Hawaii Supreme Court's Center for ADR, and the Neighborhood Justice Center. He has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, an instructor and Associate Director of the Hawaii Bound School, and President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. He has been awarded the Roberston-Cunninghame Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia, a Senior Fellowship at the Western Justice Center, and was a consultant to the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Adler has written extensively in the field of mediation and conflict resolution. He is the co-author of Managing Scientific & Technical Information in Environmental Cases (1999) and Building Trust: 20 Things You Can Do to Help Environmental Stakeholder Groups Talk More Effectively About Science, Culture, Professional Knowledge, and Community Wisdom (National Policy Consensus Center, 2002), the author of Beyond Paradise and Oxtail Soup (Ox Bow Press, 1993 and 2000) and numerous other articles and monographs Co-teaching: The Long Running Engagement: Managing the Protracted 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 has most recently worked with the parties involved in the election-sparked violence in Kenya and was previously 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 |
Elaine Zook Barge |
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Elaine Zook Barge is the Program Director for STAR (Seminars on Trauma Awareness and Resilience). She has been involved with STAR since 2002 in the development and facillitation of Spanish workshops. Previously she worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) for 20 years both in the U.S. and in Central America (El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala). Living in countries experiencing the trauma of war, poverty and violence, she worked closely with widows, displaced persons, development and human rights workers and faciliated experiential learning tours to promote relationship building and social change. Among other roles, she was Latin America/Caribbean Connecting Peoples Coordinator, East Coast Peace Associate and the Guatemala Country Director. Elaine holds an M.A. in Conflict Transformation and a B.S. in Nutrition/Community Development from Eastern Mennonite University. She recently became certified as a Compassion Fatigue Educator and a Field Traumatologist through the Figley Institute. Teaching: STAR: Breaking Cycles of Violence, Building Healthy Communities |
David Brubaker |
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David Brubaker is associate 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: Leadership for Healthy Organizations |
Koila Costello-Olsson |
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Koila Costello-Olsson is one of the founding members of the newly established Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding(PCP), based in Suva, Fiji Islands. She is also the Director for PCP. She has facilitated trainings in the area of Change management, Stress management and trauma healing and peacebuilding for the private sector, regional agencies, community, the Churches and the security forces in Fiji. She has also done work in Tonga, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. Her work has begun to work more specifically with organizational development in multi-cultural settings over the last couple of years. She has qualifications in social work, social policy and administration and is an Alumni of the CJP Masters programme in Conflict transformation and Peacebuilding. Co-teaching: Leadership for Healthy Organizations |
Robb Davis |
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Robert Davis, has over 20 years of experience in international development, with special expertise in dialogue education in the areas of maternal and child health, malaria, and research, monitoring and evaluation. He is a former Senior Health Advisor at Freedom from Hunger. 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: Developing University-Based Peacebuilding Curricula |
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 |
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. Teaching: Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies |
Vesna Hart |
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Vesna Hart is an educational consultant and trainer with special expertise in praxis of and nexus between peacebuilding, restorative justice and trauma healing work with children and youth. She has worked with educators, children and youth in post-war context of Croatia and Bosnia, as well as with educators and at-risk youth in the US. She has expertise in curriculum development and implementation; as well as in assisting organizations and schools in infusing the values and strategies of peacebuidling, restorative practices and trauma healing into existing curriculum. She holds MA in Education from Eastern Mennonite University. Teaching: Peace Education: Theory and Practice |
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: 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. |
Vernon Jantzi |
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Vernon E. Jantzi, co-founder and former director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, has helped form peacebuilding centers and networks in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. More broadly, he has worked at the interface of peacebuilding and development with government programs as well as development and peace oriented non-governmental organizations in many countries. He has a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Development from Cornell University in the United States. Co-Teaching: Developing University-Based Peacebuilding Curricula |
Steve Kabetu |
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Steve Kabetu is the Race Relations Coordinator for the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and a teacher with Global Learning Partners. In his role as Race Relations Coordinator, he is expanding the work of eliminating racism, and promoting reconciliation in culturally diverse communities. Steve is an experienced facilitator, trainer, and program designer. He has been instrumental in the design and development of several curricula on racial reconciliation. At Global Learning Partners, Steve is in the Certified Teacher program, where his work entails perfecting curriculum design skills and concepts, mastering facilitation skills and attitudes, and evaluating learning and change. At the Canadian Council of Churches, Steve is Co-Chair of the Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network (C.E.A.R.N), a program of the Commission on Justice and Peace, working to undo racism in Canadian churches. The Canadian Council of Churches is the widest ecumenical body in Canada, including churches from the Anglican, Evangelical, Presbyterian, Orthodox, Historic Protestant and Roman Catholic traditions. Co-teaching: Designing Learner-Centered Training for Conflict Transformation |
Riva Kantowitz |
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Riva Kantowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her research, examining the social-psychological effects of war within communities, has been supported by fellowships including Fulbright-Hays and David L. Boren. Dr. Kantowitz has also worked for 10 years with various organizations including UNDP, UNHCR and World Vision, Int'l. t in the Balkans, Southeast Europe, East Timor, Southeast Asia, and throughout Central America on issues related to youth, conflict prevention, and psychosocial and participatory development processes. Her current work examines social trauma and community development within Kurdish communities in Southeastern Turkey and in Greek and Turkish- Cypriot communities in Cyprus. She is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology with a concentration in International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Bryn Mawr College. Co-teaching: Conflict Sensitive Development & Peacebuilding |
Jim Leaman |
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Jim Leaman is an EMU alum, having graduated with majors in business administration and computer science. He then gained several years experience in business management here locally before enrolling at James Madison University, where he earned an M.P.A. degree focusing on nonprofit management. For the next 12 years Jim worked in missions and business in Kenya, providing educational and operational leadership and management within a large NGO. For the past four years he has been working toward a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Jim will teach several economics courses while he continues to work toward degree completion. His research and teaching interests lie in the interrelated areas of international development, global political economy, and public administration. Co-teaching: Project Management for Nonprofits and NGOs |
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: Conflict Sensitive Development & Peacebuilding |
Bridget Moix |
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Bridget Moix is the legislative secretary for the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict program at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. In that position, she has lobbied the U.S. Congress on foreign policy and security issues and directed and developed the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict policy and public education program. Prior to that, she was the executive director of Casa de los Amigos, a small Quaker Peace Center in Mexico City. She has a masters of international affairs from Columbia University. Co-teaching: Conflict Sensitive Development & Peacebuilding |
Reina Neufeldt |
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Reina Neufeldt is an assistant professor at American University. She is a 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. Co-teaching: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning |
Marina Piscolish |
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Marina A. Piscolish, Ph.D., Principal Partner of MAPping Change, LLC. is an experienced Management Assistance Provider, specializing in mediation, facilitation and training in both the public, private and not-for-profit sectors with an emphasis in environment, education and social justice issues in cross-cultural settings. Her unique expertise combines knowledge of organizational planning and development, dispute resolution and leadership to create capacity and climate for collaboration and strategic change. She earned her doctorate in Educational Administration and Policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997 and focused her studies on organizational theory and conflict studies. Prior to her move to Hawaii in 1998, Dr. Piscolish founded and directed the Office of Conflict Resolution in Education and later, the Conflict Resolution Program at the University of Delaware where she held the position of policy scientist in the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware. Currently she serves as a member of the Policy Committee for the University of Hawaii's Program on Conflict Resolution; guest lectures for the UH graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution; the UH Department of Regional Planning and Antioch University’s Master’s Program in Conflict Resolution. Additionally, Marina is a member of the Native Network, a professional network and referral service for the Federal Government and Tribes housed at the Morris K. Udall Institute for Environmental Negotiation in Tucson Arizona. She co-authored a book for Jossey Bass Publishing (2000) titled Reaching for Higher Ground: Tools for Powerful Groups and Communities. Marina has earned a reputation as an innovator of practice and a leader in the field. Co-teaching: The Long Running Engagement: Managing the Protracted Conflict |
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 a doctoral candidate in conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University. Teaching: Introduction to Conflict Transformation |
Sam Rizk |
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Samuel Rizk is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Living in Lebanon from 2002 to 2006 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 and 2008, Sam assisted Jayne Docherty in the Strategic Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Theory classes, and he will again teach and assist with these classes during the fall and spring of 2008-9. Sam is currently a visiting researcher at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. He holds an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo and a BA in Political Science from Hanover College. Co-teaching: Strategic Peacebuilding |
Timothy Ruebke |
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Timothy Ruebke is the Executive Director at the Community Mediation Center (CMC)
in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Since 1992, he has extensive experience mediating and
facilitating general community, family, workplace, group/multi-party, and
criminal circumstances. He is on the following rosters as a mediator: the
Supreme Court of Virginia (General District, Juvenile & Domestic Relations, Circuit-Civil, Circuit-Family, and Child Dependency); the USPS REDRESS Program; the USDA – Virginia Agriculture Mediation Program; and, the Virginia Department of Forestry Water Quality Enforcement Mediation Program. He is certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia as a mentor mediator and trainer and has been an adjunct faculty member for James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Tim is a previous board member of the Virginia Mediation Network (VMN) and the Restorative Justice Association of Virginia (RJAV). He is currently a member of VMN, a board member of the Virginia Association for Community Conflict Resolution and is an Advanced Practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution. He holds an A.A. degree from Hesston College, a B.A. in Social Work from EMU, and an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from EMU. Teaching: Mediation |
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: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning |
Lisa Schirch |
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Lisa Schirch is 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: Analysis: Understanding Conflict |
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.
Co-teaching: On Your Feet: Mastering Your Delivery as a Workshop Trainer |
Barb Toews |
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Barb Toews is an experienced practitioner, trainer and educator in restorative justice and victim offender dialogue in prison, community and educational settings who has been in the field since 1992. She is currently employed by the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, an organization that trains college professors to teach in prison. Her previous work with the Pennsylvania Prison Society included developing restorative justice programs in prison settings, managing and incorporating the philosophy into offender and offender family programs and collaborating with incarcerated men and women as they develop their own restorative projects. Previously, Barb was the founding director of the Lancaster Area Victim Offender Reconciliation Program ( Lancaster, PA). She also serves as a volunteer facilitator with the Pennsylvania’s Office of the Victim Advocate Mediation Program for Victims of Violent Crime and teaches at Haverford College. She authored the Little Book in Restorative Justice for People in Prison and co-edited, with Howard Zehr, Critical Issues in Restorative Justice. She holds an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University and is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. Co-teaching: Dialogue Facilitator Training: Crimes of Severe Violence |
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 |
Dan Wessner |
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Daniel W. Wessner, professor of international and political studies, holds a B.A. in history and honors in humanities from Stanford University, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Denver. His “blended learning” approach to educational development through FutureGenerations and the IC3 learning platform connects campuses and community-based studies in Peru, India, Nepal, Tibet, Iran and Vietnam. Dr. Wessner is ordained in the Mennonite Church USA and a member of the State Bar of California. |
Angela Yoder-Maina |
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Angela Yoder Maina is Chief of Party for a cross-border peacebuilding project with Pact, Inc which aims to enhance African leadership in the management of conflict within the Horn of Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has over twelve years experience working in post-conflict environments, specializing in community-focused stabilization; conflict mitigation, prevention and response; participatory planning; peace structures’ capacity building, local media development, and institutional reform. Having worked for several NGOs and USAID she is very familiar with proposal development, project management and donor relations and coordination. She earned her BA in Peace Studies from Manchester College and her MA in Pubic and Social Policy, with a concentration in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from Duquesne University. Co-teaching: Project Management for Nonprofits and NGOs |
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 |
