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Head of Peace Education and Co-Manager of the Peace Foundation Aotearoa - New Zealand. Christina has trained thousands of student peer mediators and teachers during her 28 year association with the Peace Foundation school programs.  As Head of Peace Education, she leads a national team of program facilitators as well as office staff, interns and volunteers. Christina has introduced the Peace Foundation's programs to schools in Fiji, Hong Kong, Iceland, Los Angeles and Japan.  Christina continues to remain passionate about her work. She considers it a privilege to work in education institutions teaching peaceful conflict resolution and peer mediation skills … what she loves most. Furthermore, she says, “I have the opportunity every day to remind myself… I must practice what I preach!”

Donna-Marie Fry has an experienced background in education and has worked for and volunteered with Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Organizations for more than a decade. For the last 5 years, Donna has been increasingly focused on peacebuilding and peace education, from completing consultancies in the evaluation of a peace education program through youth perspectives, training and curriculum development for peacebuilding, development of Interreligious Dialogue online courses, and mapping peace education in Myanmar. Donna is particularly interested in exploring if feminist research methods can address power imbalances and local ownership in peacebuilding.

Dr Terence Bevington is a spirited and committed educator who relishes the role of learner as much as teacher. In his 25 years working in education and as Director of Conexus Conflict Consultancy and the Restorative Lab, he has built a strong reputation as an enabler and challenger. The focuses of Terence’s work are restorative practice, peace practice and evaluation. He has published and presented internationally on all three subjects. In his research and his practice Terence seeks to inspire thoughtful action.

Caroline is an experienced program manager, specializing in working in conflict-affected countries. She has led and worked in multidisciplinary and international teams. Caroline currently focuses on advising governments and organizations operating in Syria on how their interventions can support peace and stability. In addition, she works to connect the political and diplomatic tracks to realities on-the-ground, and to support civil society organizations in the Middle East.

Phill is the Director of Education at World BEYOND War. He is a multiple award-winning practitioner-scholar with a Ph.D. in International Conflict Analysis and over 20 years leadership, programming, and analysis experience in the areas of peace & conflict, education & training, youth & community development, and counselling & psychotherapy.

Whitney McIntyre Miller, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and the Co-Director of the Panther Experiential Philanthropy Project at Chapman University. She teaches in the master's and doctoral programs in leadership at the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies. Whitney centers her scholarship on peace leadership and community development and leadership and is recognized as the lead scholar of integral peace leadership. She has an active, ongoing partnership with the Euphrates Institute and its Peace Practice Alliance program, which utilizes the principles of integral peace leadership to develop community peace leaders around the globe. Whitney has traveled to over 60 countries for teaching, research, and leisure and loves leading study-abroad programs.

Sylvia is a facilitator of, advocate for, and believer in peace leadership. For fifteen years, Sylvia has participated in and facilitated talking circles in various communities across the United States, Latin America, and Asia. From these talking circles emerged Sylvia's commitment to and practices of nonviolent communication, community building, and conflict transformation. This commitment brought Sylvia to obtain a BA in Peace Studies from Goucher College, and continue to Southeast Asia working with nonprofits across the region focused on youth-led peacebuilding. She is a Co-Founder and Board Member of Sarus, a peacebuilding nonprofit that inspires, equips, and accompanies peace leaders in Asia. Sylvia then deepened her studies by obtaining an MA in Coexistence and Conflict and MBA in Social Impact at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, where she focused on peace leadership and organizational capacity building. Afterwards, she expanded to philanthropy as a Program Officer at the Island Foundation funding organizations supporting women and girls, youth, immigrants, and domestic and international communities. She currently serves as the Head of Programs and Strategy at the Euphrates Institute.

Sylvia holds a deep passion for building and nurturing communities that collectively transform conflict and systems with curiosity, connection, and courage.

Stephanie Knox Steiner, PhD is Assistant Professor and Peace Education Program Coordinator in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Ecopsychologies specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She co-founded the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship program, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. Her deepest aspiration is to contribute to a more just, peaceful, loving, caring, joyful, compassionate world through scholarship, teaching, writing, research, and living. Her current teaching, research, and writing interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, re-enchanting education, and transrational ways of knowing such as community dreamwork.

Anne Kruck is Advisor for Peace Education Approaches at the Berghof Foundation. She currently works for the “Service Center Peace Education” in Germany, where she delivers teacher trainings, creates learning media and consults schools on implementing peace education holistically in the classroom and in the school culture. She has worked with partners in many countries, e.g., India, Jordan, Iran and Lebanon, facilitating trainings for multipliers and developing learning materials and curricula on the topics of peace education, peacebuilding and global learning. She is also a guest lecturer for peace education at the University of Tübingen.

Moses Sugun Abolade is a Peacebuilding Consultant who creates content, facilitates training, manages peacebuilding programs and reports peace and conflict stories in Nigeria. Since 2018 Moses has designed and facilitated more than 25 peacebuilding programs impacting 4000+ beneficiaries who are young people, vulnerable groups, potential and skilled peacebuilders and policymakers. As the Founder and Executive Director of Peace Education and Practice Network (PEPNET), he has a mission of increasing access to peace education through innovative methods. 

Moses is well known for designing and facilitating peace-related content on televisions and radio (and other media platforms) in Nigeria. He is the Program Coordinator for Peace Zone: A Peace Media project implemented on KAFTAN TV, Peace Education Training Manual (PETMANUAL), PEACETOL: A Literature Book for Peace, Peace Education and Management Training (PEMAT), Annual Peace Education and Practice Conference (PEPCON), Peace Education for Secondary Schools (PESS-Manual) and Handbook among others.

Moses is Nigeria's Youth Lead for Community of Democracies (CoD) and a United States Institute for Peace (USIP) Generation Change Fellow, to mention a few.

Scott Frank is an executive at a Fortune 10 company, chair/president of several non-profits, married with six children, and believes that we can have peace on earth in the foreseeable future. 

Scott's co-authored book “Less Stress, More Joy: The Peace Harmony Joy Approach” is a roadmap to achieve this. The Peace Harmony Joy Alliance non-profit he co-founded based on the book and his experience with other non-profits has a mission to awaken peace, harmony and joy within people, with others close to them, within their communities, and with the world through teaching, connecting, and facilitating..

Charles “Chip” Hauss has been exploring ways of producing large scale social and political change through nonviolent and cooperative means since his undergraduate days in the late 1960s. In all of this work, Chip has tried to be a political bridge builder who brings “strange political bedfellows” together to help solve problems that can only be effectively addressed if they work together.

Chip is currently Senior Fellow for Innovation at the Alliance for Peacebuilding where he helps lead its Peacebuilding Starts at Home initiative which focuses on what the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation refers to as “America’s neglected needs.” He also serves on the boards of Build Up and the National Association for Community Mediation, is actively involved in Zebras Unite (where he holds the title, “Fairy Godfather We Didn’t Know We Needed,” and is a visiting scholar at George Mason University’ Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution

Chip is the author of nineteen books on peacebuilding and comparative politics. His most recent book, From Conflict Resolution to Peacebuilding, is a readable introductory textbook in peace and conflict studies. He is currently working on a new book with Patricia Shafer, Peace is a Verb, which will focus on intersectional social change movements in the United States.

Chip holds a BA from Oberlin and a PhD from the University of Michigan.