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Martti Ahtisaari
was formerly the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the future status
of Kosovo. Mr. Ahtisaari was elected President of the Republic of Finland in February 1994 and held office until February 2000. Upon leaving office, Mr. Ahtisaari founded the Crisis Management Initiative, where he is the Chairman of the Board. In 2007 Mr. Ahtisaari became an
intenrational advisor to the Independent Consultative Group on the Past seeking a consensus in Northern Ireland on how to best deal with the legacy of the past.
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Jan
Egeland, Director of
the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Mr Egeland is also Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on
matters relating to the prevention and resolution of conflict. Prior
to
this he was UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Mr. Egeland has been an active participant in
a number of peace processes. He co-initiated and co-organized the Norwegian channel between Israel
and the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1992, which led to
the Oslo Accord (Declaration of Principles) of
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September 1993.
He directed
the
Norwegian facilitation of the United Nations-led peace talks
leading up to ceasefire agreement between Government of Guatemala and the Unidad
Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) guerrillas signed in Oslo in 1996. He also led the
host delegation when the Ottawa treaty to ban landmines was successfully negotiated and adopted
in Oslo in 1997.
Mr. Egeland has published a number of reports,
studies and articles on conflict resolution, humanitarian affairs and human rights. He is married with two
daughters.
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John Paul
Lederach
Professor of International Peacebuilding
Widely known for his pioneering work on conflict transformation, Lederach is involved in conciliation work in Colombia, the Philippines, Nepal and Tajikistan, plus countries in East and West Africa. He has helped design and conduct training programs in 25 countries across five continents.
He is the author of The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
(Oxford University Press, 2005), The Journey Toward Reconciliation
(Herald Press, 1999), Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in
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(USIP, 1997), and Preparing for Peace: Confliction Transformation Across Cultures
(Syracuse University Press 1995).
Lederach holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado (1988).
Seveal of Professor Lederach's
books are available for purchase by following the links from
this site. For more information place your mouse over the
links below:
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Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
The Little
Book Of Conflict Transformation (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series)
The Journey Toward Reconciliation
A Handbook of International Peacebuilding: Into The Eye Of The Storm
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Machteld
Pel,
Director of the Netherlands Court-Annexed Mediation Agency.
Machteld
Pel was instrumental in starting and supervising the court
annexed-mediation project in the Netherlands and is now
supervising the implementation and consolidation of the
referring faculty in all the courts in the Netherlands. She
has designed different courses for judges and lawyers on ADR.
She is also supervising the monitoring of the results of the
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teaches in the National School for judges on Judicial
settlement skills. She
has been an Appellate Court judge and vice-president
(commercial and family cases) for 20 years. Previously she was
a district court judge for 8 years and she has been teaching
on different subjects of Law and Judiciary skills in the
University and the school for judges in the past 20 years.
Machteld
Pel is an arbitrator and a qualified mediator and
mediator-trainer. She mediates contract, commercial,
employment, education, medical and family matters. She is a
frequent trainer, author and speaker on ADR.
Machteld
Pel's new book "Referral to Mediation" is published
on 1 April and details are available by clicking
here.
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Antonia Potter has expertise across a range of
humanitarian, development, peace-making and -building issues,
most recently specialising in women and gender in tracks one
and two diplomacy for peace-making. Educated at Oxford and the
London School of Economics, she has worked in Afghanistan,
Cambodia, East Timor, Geneva, India, New York and now
Indonesia for organisations including Save the Children,
Concern Worldwide, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Médecins
du Monde. Her publications include We the Women: why
conflict mediation is not just a job for men, (HD Opinion, October 2005) and, in
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Peacemaking (Darby and McGinty Eds, Macmillan)
Women, gender and
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Pat
Colgan
Chief Executive, Special EU Programmes Body
Pat Colgan is Chief Executive of the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) which has managed PEACE II Programme and INTERREG IIIA Programme to support projects in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland. In the 2007-2013 programming period, SEUPB will be managing the new EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (PEACE III) and the Cross-border Territorial Co-operation Programme (INTERREG IVA). |
Pat is a member of the experts panel of the European Grouping for
Territorial Co-operation established by the Committee of the Regions to facilitate cross-border, transnational and/or inter-regional co-operation between regional and local authorities.
Pat was formerly the Head of the INTERACT Secretariat in the Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning and Regional Development which provided assistance to cross border, interregional and transnational co-operation Programmes funded by INTERREG.
He has been involved in the design, delivery and evaluation of EU funded programmes and other public policy programmes in all of the Member States.
Pat has worked with the Irish Management Institute, KPMG and the former Irish Goods Council (now part of Enterprise Ireland).
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Dermot
Ahern TD, was first appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in September 2004 and re-appointed in September 2007. Prior to that he held the positions of Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (June 2002 – September 2004), Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs (June 1997 – June 2002), Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (with special responsibility as Government Chief Whip) and Minister of State at the Department of Defence (November 1991 – February 1992). A Solicitor by profession, he was first elected to the Dáil in 1987 and has been re-elected at every election since.
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