Tatsushi Arai, Ph.D. (Japan)
Title/Position: Assistant Professor of Conflict Transformation at the School for International Training (SIT),Vermont; International Advisory Board member (Global Majority)
Before joining SIT in 2006, Tats held faculty positions at George Mason University in Virginia and the National University of Rwanda. His commitment to peace work evolved from his first encounter with victims of radiation sickness in Hiroshima, Japan in 1984. Tats’s journey in conflict transformation took him to post-genocide Rwanda as an educator and NGO representative, to the Japanese branch of an international company where he tackled cross-cultural industrial disputes, and to diverse settings of multi-track peacemaking in the United States, East Asia, sub-Sahara Africa, and elsewhere. His most recent publication includes several chapters in M. LeBaron and V. Pillay, eds. Conflict Across Cultures. (Intercultural Press, 2006). Tats holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
Paul Arthur (Ireland)
Title/Position: Course Director of the Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies, School of History and International Affairs, University of Ulster; International Advisory Board member (Global Majority)
Paul Arthur holds degrees from Queens University Belfast and National University of Ireland. He has worked with the British Council on the Northern Ireland Peace Process. He has also received grants from the US Institute for Peace, Ireland Funds, Nuffield Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. He has also been involved with projects in Sri Lanka and Israel/Palestine.
Johan Galtung (Norway)
Title/Position: Director, TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network
Johan Galtung is founder and Director of TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means, with more than 300 members from over 80 countries around the world and Rector of TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU). An experienced peace worker and Professor of Peace Studies, he is widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research and one of the leading pioneers of peace and conflict transformation in theory and practice. He has played an active role in helping mediate and prevent violence in 45 major conflicts around the world over the past four decades, and is author of the United Nations’ first ever manual for trainers and participants on "Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND Approach” (UNDP 2000). He has taught Peace Studies at the Universities of Hawai'i, Witten/Herdecke, Tromsoe, Alicante, Ritsumeikan and the European Peace University, among many others. Galtung established the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) in 1959, the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and co-launched the Nordic Institute for Peace Research (NIFF) in 2000. He has published more than 1000 articles covering a wide-range of fields, including peaceful conflict transformation, deep culture, peace pedogogy, reconciliation, development, peace building and empowerment, global governance, direct structural and cultural peace/violence, peace journalism, and reflections on current events, and more than 100 books translated into dozens of languages. His most recent books include Transcend and Transform (Pluto Press, 2004), Searching for Peace the Road to TRANSCEND (Pluto, 2000 & 2002), Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization. (Sage, 1996), Collective Essays on Peace Research and Methodology (Christian Ejlers, Copenhagen) 60 Speeches on War and Peace (PRIO, 1990)]. Prof. Galtung is a consultant to several UN agencies and a constantly traveling trainer/lecturer. He holds numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Prize") from 1987.
Dina Dukhqan (Jordan) Director, Partners – Jordan, Center for Civic Collaboration
Dina obtained her first degree in Bachelor of Arts of Fine Arts from Yarmouk University in Jordan in 1996. She obtained her Masters degree from the department of Archeology at the University of Jordan. In 1999, Dina moved to work with Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF) as a Manger for the Aqaba Branch; her branch was responsible to provide group and individual loans to micro enterprises covering Aqaba governance and its villages, in cooperation with commercial banks. Currently, Dina hold the post of the Director of Partners – Jordan, where she is working on establishing Partners Jordan as a local Jordanian not for profit organization committed to advance civil society, promoting mediation, conflict management and culture of change, and encouraging citizen participation in Jordan’s social and political development.
Jeffrey Langholz (USA) Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Prof. Langholz spent five years designing and implementing environmental policy for the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC, where he focused on developing strategies for increasing citizen involvement in agency decision-making. While pursuing his PhD at Cornell, he coordinated a Sustainable Farming Systems seminar series that compared farming systems in nine developing countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He is a trained mediator with experience in two- and multi-party disputes on environmental and other topics. He has served as a consultant in Latin America and Europe for the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution. His background also includes working as a fisheries technician in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and a two-year assignment with the U.S. Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa. His research focuses on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, and much of his work takes place in and around protected natural areas, especially in the tropics. His passion is identifying and evaluating land use options that are ecologically, economically, and socially viable. His publications appear in a wide variety of trans-disciplinary journals, including Conservation Biology, Society and Natural Resources, Ecological Economics and Bioscience.
William W. Monning (USA) President, Global Majority, California
Bill Monning is the founder of Global Majority. He is an attorney and professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Director of the Mandell-Gisnet Center for Conflict Management at the Monterey College of Law. He has served as the executive director of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund. He works as a training consultant with the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has served as a negotiator and mediator on political prisoner cases in Central America and on arms control and peace negotiations in the Middle East, Latin America, the former Soviet republics, Asia, and northern Africa. Monning was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de Lima, Peru in 2004 and was recently appointed as a Senior Fulbright Scholar (2005).
Boatamo Mosupyoe (South Africa) Professor and Director of Pan African Studies, California State University, Sacramento
Dr. Boatamo "Ati" Mosupyoe is Professor and Director of Pan African Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento. She received some of her education in South Africa and her Masters and PhD. from University of California, Berkeley. She came to the USA after the loss of her three year old son, Thamsanqa and husband Simmy on the same day and at the same time when she was expecting one of her daughters. She continues to be an active member of the ANC. She worked with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and was also the chair of South African International Student Organization and a member of its national executive. In addition to being an activist, she is also a scholar who has authored three books, contributed chapters in books, and edited three others. The latest book that she edited is called "SOWETO Explodes" and chronicles the role of the youth and civil society in the struggle against apartheid. Her current research interests focus on Immigration Issues and recent African Immigrants in the US. Dr Mosupyoe has received numerous awards that honor her contribution as a teacher, a peace activist, and a community worker; to name but a few, she has been cited four times in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, received a 1999 Pierce College Outstanding Faculty of the Year award, A Roland Weis Award for her contribution to promoting awareness against Genocide. In addition to being a member of the Global Majority International Advisory member, she promotes bead work of rural South African women in the USA and the world to help alleviate poverty.
Kabir Shaikh (India) Director of Education, UNRWA
Mr. Kabir Shaikh was born and educated in India, Kabir Shaikh was awarded a CBE for services to Education in England.
Kabir is currently the Director of Education for UNRWA/UNESCO which provides education for half a million Palestinian refugee children based in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank with a staff of over 20000. For over 30 years, he worked in England where, until 2002, he was the Director of Education for Bournemouth Local Education Authority, which he set up in 1997. He has been Chief Inspector for Education in London and Chair of Association for Science for a Multicultural Society. On the international level Kabir was the Vice President of CASTME (Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators). His work has involved the Commonwealth Secretariat, UNESCO and the British Council.
Murad Tangiev (Russia) Programme Officer, UNU-ILI
Murad Tangiev is a Programme Officer at UNU ILI. He completed his MA in International Politics and Security Studies at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK, and his PhD in Political Science and Public Administration at the State University of Management, Moscow. Mr. Tangiev was working with the Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development (UK) in the Northern Caucasus as a director of Conflict Resolution Centre and coordinator of the Refugees Rehabilitation Programme (1999-2004). From 2004-2006 he was working with UNICEF in the Northern Caucasus where he was a coordinator of Peace Education and Tolerance Building Programme. He was an organizer and facilitator of a number of international conferences, trainings and workshops on conflict resolution, tolerance building, peace education, community reconciliation and psychosocial rehabilitation. Guest Speakers
Mohammad H. Al-Momani Professor of Political Science, Yarmouk University
Dr. Mohammad H. Al-Momani is a professor of political science and political economy at Yarmouk University. He earned his B.A. in Political Science / economics from the University of Jordan in 1994 and M.A. in political Science from the University of Jordan in 1996. He earned his Ph.D. in political science with distinction from the University of North Texas in 2003. Dr. Al-Momani has taught American Government at the University of North Texas, then joined the Rice University faculty in Houston where he taught Political Economy of Development and Middle East Politics. Dr. Al-Momani is a columnist in Alghad daily newspaper. He gave many interviews to newspapers including New York Times and BBC. Dr. Momani was appointed as a policy consultant in the Ministry of Political Development as well as in the Institution Council in the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. He is on the board of directors of the Jordanian Political Science Association. Dr. Al-Momani has recently finished his assignments as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Art at Yarmouk University and as a Deputy Director of Queen Rania Center for Jordanian Studies and Community Service. He is now a part time acting director of the department of training and education in Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.
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