ASIA PACIFIC MEDIATION FORM (APMF) - Key Persons
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- VP ( Course Development ) / Institute of Crisis and Risk Management ( ICRM ), HONGKONG
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- Professor / University of Hawaii, USA
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, and Nguyen Hieu Trung (Project Coordinator) received the award and spoke about the project. Project RENEW was initiated by Chuck Searcy, who had fought in the American/Viet Nam war. It was launched in 2001 and is supported by government and international non-government organisations to address the post-war consequences. It is the only comprehensive mine action model in Vietnam that integrates all activities under one single management umbrella. The project leverages existing local resources and focuses on building local capacity, skills and resources to reduce threats due to unexploded ordnace (UXO) accidents.
Dame Alice Joan Metge, DBE is a social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer. She was educated at the University of Aukland and the London School of Economics where she earned her Ph.D in 1958. Metge is a past winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand's Te Rangi Hiroa Medal for her research in the social sciences. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987 for services to anthropology. She continues to advance peace initiatives via her work as a member of the Waitangi National Trust Board, a conference presenter, adviser, and as a mentor to mediators and conflict management practitioners. A scholar on Māori topics, she has been recognised for promoting cross-cultural awareness and has published a number of books and articles in her career. She has likened the relationship among the people of New Zealand to "a rope [of] many strands which when woven or working together create a strong nation" (as paraphrased by Silvia Cartwright).
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- Mediator, Educator, Trainer, Coach, AUSTRALIA
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After 36 years as an academic at the University of South Australia, Dr Dale Bagshaw is now an adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, where she was previously an Associate Professor, Head of School, the Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research Portfolio Leader, and the Program Director for the Masters/Graduate Diploma in Mediation and Conflict Resolution (from 1993) and the Doctor of Human Service Research. From 1993 - 2009 she was also the Director of the Centre for Peace, Conflict and Mediation and conducted research, consultancies and mediation/conflict resolution training programs for many organisations in Australia and overseas. Since retiring from UniSA in 2009, Dale has also been appointed as a Visiting Professor and Examiner with the Mediation and Conflict Intervention programs in the School of Law and Business, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. At the 10 th National Mediation Conference in 2010, Dale was dubbed ‘the grandmother' of mediation in Australia. She convened the SA Dispute Resolution Association in 1988 and was President for 10 years; established the first postgraduate mediation programs in the country in 1993; convened the 1st National Mediation Conference in 1991; and was a founding member, President and Vice President of the World Mediation Forum and is currently a member of the WMF's Advisory Council. As the inaugural and founding President of the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum (APMF) formed in 2001 at UniSA in Adelaide, she has been unanimously re-elected at the APMF biannual conferences in Singapore, Suva, Kuala Lumpur and at the APMF Asia Pacific Mediation Leadership Summit in Bangkok in 2011. She has trained mediators (including judges) in England, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Malaysia, the Philippines and Fiji, has led many international and national research projects, published internationally in many peer reviewed books and journals, has been on the International Editorial Board for the Conflict Resolution Quarterly since May 2004 and is a reviewer for four other prominent journals.
In May 2009, Dale was appointed a member of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for Dispute Resolution, Singapore Management University, located in the School of Law (http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/centre/cdr/) and in November 2009, she was appointed as an Expert Advisor to the National Resource Management Learning Network, located in Bangkok and serving the Asia Pacific region (http://www.recoftc.org).
In her semi-retirement Dale continues to publish, supervise UniSA's PhD students, conduct research and mediation/conflict resolution training programs and consultancies, and has been a Keynote Speaker at many national and international conferences. She has published widely in books and peer reviewed journals. Her latest book is Bagshaw, Dale and Porter, Elisabeth (Editors) Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region. Transforming Conflicts and Building Peace, Routledge: London and New York, 2009.
After 36 years as an academic at the University of South Australia, Dale is now an adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, where she was previously an Associate Professor, Head of School, the Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research Portfolio Leader, and the Program Director for the Masters/Graduate Diploma in Mediation and Conflict Resolution (from 1993) and the Doctor of Human Service Research.
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Dr José Manuel Ramos-Horta was awarded the inaugural APMF peace prize in 2001 for his peace-work in East Timor.
José Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL is the United Nations' special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS). He was appointed to this position on 2 January 2012. Previously, he was special envoy to fellow Lusophone country, Guinea-Bissau, and was the President of East Timor from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012, the second since independence from Indonesia. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as president after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, becoming an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first foreign minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of prime minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting prime minister by then president, Xanana Gusmão. Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second prime minister of East Timor. On 11 February 2008, Ramos-Horta was injured when he was shot during an assassination attempt.
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- Mediator / ADR Practitioner / International Coordinated Systems Program, Hawaii IDR Group LLC / HONOLULU, HAWAII, USA
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Jessica Carter is a negotiator, mediator and educator in New Zealand. Within a large group of mediator professionals, she is responsible for ethics in mediation, training and development, quality assurance and ensuring that the quality of mediation practice meets the highest standards. New Zealand uses telephone mediation for a number of cases and Jessica has delivered specialised telephone mediation training and presentations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
Jessica teaches mediation and negotiation, skills and ethics, and has delivered programmes to mediators, business leaders, lawyers, students, and community groups - in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. She is a guest lecturer in negotiation, ethics and dispute resolution, and has undertaken training in extreme negotiations, responding to crisis and managing tense communications.
Jessica is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Dispute Resolution, the International Mediation Institute, and an accredited NMAS mediator in Australia. She is a member of the South Pacific Chapter of Mediators Beyond Borders International and has completed Phase 1, 2 and 3 training with the International Association of Hostage Negotiators. Jessica received her mediation and negotiation education at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts, and International Ombudsman Association training in Geneva. She holds a Master of Dispute Resolution from the UWS School of Law, Australia and a Master of Arts Management from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, New Zealand
Jessica Carter is a negotiator, mediator and educator, and Senior Advisor Mediation Practice at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in New Zealand
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- Judge, National Court, Papua New Guinea
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- Judge / Judicial Department of Fiji / FIJI
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- Professor / Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen / GERMANY
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- Representative of Kusanone Mediation No Kai
Ms. Eriko Okanouchi has been working voluntary ever since to promote mediation as a citizens activity. The activities and mediation concepts used have been adapted to fit the specific characteristics of Japanese communication style and have been gradually recognized in the community supported by local city council with grants in 2009 and 2010.
Born in the traditionally male-dominated society in Japan Ms. Eriko Okanouchi has, since childhood, been seeking for the answer to the question why people suffer so much hating each other while wanting to care for each other at the same time. Although not entirely sure about the answer on that question she knew deep down there was something that could help people to develop and maintain good relationships.
In 2006 in Fuji she finally found the answer at the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum Conference, which let her to establish the Japanese Grass-roots Mediation Forum ("Kusanone Mediation no Kai" in Japanese) in 2008.
In May 2011, Kusanone Mediation no Kai opened a Community Mediation Room collaborating with the Child Abuse Prevention Citizen Network in Tama (area), while worked for an elementary school in 2010, and has been working for a junior high school promoting mediation since 2011.
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Shadia Marhaban was the only woman delegate to the 2005 Helsinki peace talks that ended 30 years of conflict between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement. As a presidium member of the Aceh Referendum Information Center, she was forced to flee to the United States in 2003, when the central government declared martial law in Aceh. Shadia became a fervent human rights activist in the US, continuing to represent SIRA as its international relations chief. Upon her return to Aceh after the Helsinki peace accord, she served for a year as special anti-corruption adviser to the governor. More recently, as president and co-founder of the Aceh Women's League, Shadia helps female former combatants return to civilian life. She also chairs the national caucus for implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which requires parties in a conflict to support women's participation in peace negotiations and reconstruction. Shadia has advocated for women's peacebuilding involvement in South Thailand, Mindanao (Philippines), Timor-Leste and Nepal. Working with former Finnish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, she has travelled across South and Southeast Asia promoting women's engagement in post-conflict management. Shadia studied international relations at Jakarta's National University and is a 2011-2012 Fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, researching post-conflict management, gender, and political transformation.
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Guilhermina Marçal is a Roman Catholic Canossian sister. She was born in Same (East Timor) and has been working for the promotion of social, economic and cultural rights in that country.The Catholic Church in East Timor has been at the heart of the humanitarian operations in the wake of the country's political crises and ethnic violence. Sister Guilhermina's story of bravery and outstanding service to the people is one of many. When people fled violence, looting and arson attacks between April and June 2006, they sought shelter in a convent run by the Canossian Sisters. More than 8,000 people were formally registered at the site, but convent head Sister Guilhermina Marcal said the number swelled to up to 13,000 at night. She and other convent nuns ran the camp by themselves for the first four months. Sister Guilhermina said the convent camp had problems with malaria, dengue fever, and diarrhea. She also said 1 in 7 of the IDP's in her camp had HIV or AIDS. She was appointed in 2010 to the Commission for the Timorese National Police (PNTL) Promotion by the East Timor State Secretary for the Council of Ministers.
Guilhermina Marçal is a Roman Catholic Canossian sister. She was born in Same (East Timor) and has been working for the promotion of social, economic and cultural rights in that country.The Catholic Church in East Timor has been at the heart of the humanitarian operations in the wake of the country's political crises and ethnic violence. Sister Guilhermina's story of bravery and outstanding service to the people is one of many. When people fled violence, looting and arson attacks between April and June 2006, they sought shelter in a convent run by the Canossian Sisters. More than 8,000 people were formally registered at the site, but convent head Sister Guilhermina Marcal said the number swelled to up to 13,000 at night. She and other convent nuns ran the camp by themselves for the first four months. Sister Guilhermina said the convent camp had problems with malaria, dengue fever, and diarrhea. She also said 1 in 7 of the IDP's in her camp had HIV or AIDS. She was appointed in 2010 to the Commission for the Timorese National Police (PNTL) Promotion by the East Timor State Secretary for the Council of Ministers.
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- Legal Counsel, Mediator, Conciliator, High Court of Bombay / INDIA
Thilan is a Dutch lawyer and accredited mediator who has worked as a barrister in the Netherlands and as a lawyer, a manager and a negotiator/mediator for the United Nations in Geneva, Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and The Hague on human rights and international humanitarian law issues. Thilan, originally from the Netherlands, currently lives in Australia and works as a Human Resources Manager for the South Australian Government. Throughout her career Thilan has intervened in all types of conflicts in all kinds of settings. In addition she is experienced in coaching and delivering training on conflict related issues. Thilan is a member of the International Bar Association and volunteers as a board member of the South Australia and LEADR SA.
Thilan Legierse is a (Dutch) lawyer and an accredited mediator. She started her career as an intern representing the International Commission for Jurists at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. She worked for five years as a barrister and a solicitor for Okkerse and Schop Advocaten in the Netherlands,
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- Associate Professor / General Medical Education Center, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University / JAPAN
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- Resident Magistrate / Judicial Department of Fiji / FIJI
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- Founder and Chair of the Association of War - Affected Women
Visaka is the founder and chair of the Association of War-Affected Women and Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action in Sri Lanka. Struggling to end the civil war, she was able to bring women together across the conflict lines to work for peace.
Visaka educates soldiers and community leaders about international standards of conduct of war specifically to raise awareness about the importance of soldier's identification tags and treatment to prisoners of war. She also work on disseminating the content of UN resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, calling for the inclusion of women at all levels of peace building and decision making. She trains women to run for political office and also on power sharing.
She was awarded the prestigious Humanitarian Award for 2006 by Inter Action of Washington DC an NGO consortium comprising 160 non-governmental organisations. In coordination with the ‘1000 Peace women across the globe' movement, she was nominated for a collective Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
She is a network member of Inclusive Security Women Waging Peace, as well of the global advisory council of Women Thrive World Wide, a member of Global Network of Women Peace Builders and governing council of National Peace Council of Sri Lanka.
Visaka Dharmadasa holds a degree in negotiations and mediation skills from the United States Institute for Peace, Washington, and in women and security from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
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