EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL PEACE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Leader Strategic Goal 3
Christopher holds a doctorate in Peace Studies and International Development from the University of Bradford. His research focuses on identity, narrative and emerging perspectives on genocide, and includes fieldwork with Banyamulenge soldiers in central Africa and within the diaspora. He is interested in evaluating the development of narrative analysis as a qualitative study of participation in genocide, and the overlap of mass violence, identity and climate change. His work extends to reconciliation and memory around legacies of violence. Chris is an experienced diversity and inclusion specialist and has worked on decolonizing workplaces and using the concept of intersectionality in this context.
Christopher currently holds a position with the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, and lives with his family in Massachusetts, USA.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Founder
- Founding Member
- Member of the Leadership Board
Gal, the son of a holocaust survivor, founded EGP in 2013. Gal lives in Israel and has witnessed the tragedies of war first hand and came to realize that each one of us, including our "enemies", is born into a certain social background, swirl of forces and systems that makes us who we are, including our identities, values, beliefs and behaviors. And that the key to a peaceful world is educating for peace.
Gal is also the founder of a global educational project called Magical Moments Around the World.
Gal's passion is to bring about a peaceful world, of people sharing the world in peace.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Board
- Co - Leader Strategic Goal 1
- Specialist
Juan Felipe is a specialist in peace education, peacebuilding and diversity & inclusion with a bachelor's degree in history and a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Lyon. He has worked as education project leader for different institutions and is a columnist for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He has many years of teaching experience at universities in Europe and Colombia, and enjoys giving trainings and seminars on his topics of expertise.
Juan Felipe strives to find ways to improve people's well-being through education, non-violence, and conflict transformation. He currently works as a Civil Peace Advisor for the GIZ in Kenya and lives in Nairobi with his wife and two sons.
Lisa is a PM&E expert accompanying strategic processes at project and program level. Lisa also designs creative tools, teaches about PM&E approaches, and connects people through her podcast about how attitude and concrete values influence how we work and live together.
PM&E - planning, monitoring and evaluation - is more than an approach and big toolbox for Lisa - it's an attitude which is part of daily life. And a part of knowledge management, learning and organizational development.
Conflict transformation has been a conscious part of Lisa's life since 2010, when she studied in Colombia, experiencing how armed conflict affects society. Since then she combines PM&E, creativity and practical approaches with her knowledge about Latin America and conflict transformation methodologies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Board
- Scientist
- Co - Leader Strategic Goal 1
Maria Paula is a political scientist with more than five years of experience in the field of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. She has worked as consultant for NGOs in Bolivia designing pedagogical resources on conflict transformation directed at indigenous communities. She performed as Program Coordinator for Creative Learning, in such role she developed educational programs for the International Peace and Security Institute (IPSI), including summer trainings on peace and security issues in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the USA. Before joining Creative Learning, she was part of the research team that analysed the proposals made by civil society for the most recent peace process between the Colombian National Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Board
- Founding Member / Co - Leader Strategic Goal 3
Michael taught at Utah Valley University until his retirement in 2021. There he founded and directed the Peace and Justice Studies Program. In addition to teaching conflict analysis, conflict transformation, peace, justice, and reconciliation theory and practice; he taught political theory and ethics. Michael also directed a number of study abroad and field research programs, taught, and conducted peacebuilding work in various locations around the globe, including Haiti, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, West Africa, Central Asia, Russia, and West Africa. He is the author of journal articles, book chapters, the author of a book in democratic theory and co-editor of an ethics textbook. He is currently at work on a book that explores robust cosmopolitan democracy, morality, peace, and sustainability as intrinsically related in a necessary whole. He is the co-editor of the book series, Peace Studies: Edges and innovations (Cambridge Scholars Press).
Samy is a web entrepreneur and always strives to give the best of himself to accompany his clients and help them realize their projects. And most importantly: in a good mood!
Samy has recently joined the EGP adventure and considers it an opportunity for him to work on a project of this type that he considers to be of general interest.
Samy lives in Heidelberg, Germany with his wife and 2 children.