LEADERSHIP AND FACULTY

Dr. Barry Hart is Professor of Trauma, Idenity and Conflict Studies in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. Dr. Hart has led trainings and developed trauma and peacebuilding programs in Northern Ireland, Liberia, Uganda, Burundi, and the Balkans. Professor Hart led a three-year STAR (Seminars on Trauma Awareness and Resilience)project in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, where members of local non-governmental organizations and religious groups studied and practiced trauma healing and peacebuilding. He also organized and led a working group on trauma healing at the United Nations conference on civil society and the prevention of armed conflict. Currently, he is helping develop an institute for peacebuilding at the Univerersity of Hargeisa in Somaliland. Dr. Hart has published numerous articles in books and journals and his most recent book is, Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies, 2008. He was among the founders of the Caux Scholars Program and has served as its Academic Director since 1997.

Dr. Mohammed Abu-Nimer is Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, DC. Among the subjects he has researched are conflict resolution and dialogue for peace among Palestinians and Jews in Israel and application of conflict resolution models in Muslim communities. As a practitioner, he has intervened and conducted workshops in Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Philippines (Mindanao), Sri Lanka, and the U.S. He has published numerous articles on these subjects and is also the author of four books, the latest of which is: Unity In Diversity: Interreligious Dialogue in the Middle East, 2007. 

John Katunga is Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) regional technical advisor for peacebuilding and justice in the East Africa region, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He provides technical guidance and assistance to CRS peacebuilding and justice programs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Katunga’s education and experience have focused on conflict analysis, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluating, and peacebuilding initiatives and processes. He has served as acting executive director of the Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa, a pan-African peace resource organization, and he was a research scholar for the Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, where he received the Distinguished  African Scholar Award.
 
Michelle LeBaron serves as Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.  She has done seminal work in many areas of conflict resolution including intercultural, international, family and commercial.  Professor LeBaron’s recent scholarship focuses on spirituality and the arts as they animate and inspire conflict transformation. She is the author of Bridging Troubled Waters:  Conflict Resolution from the Heart and Bridging Cultural Conflicts: A New Approach for a Changing World, both from Jossey Bass, and Conflict Across Cultures: A Unique Experience of Bridging Differences, with Venashri Pillay.