Speakers and Moderators: Biographies

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Hon. David Anderson, PC, MP. Hon. David Anderson is currently Canada's Minister of Environment, and is the Member of Parliament for Victoria, BC. David Anderson entered political life in 1968, following six years with the Department of External Affairs, serving in Indochina, Hong Kong and Ottawa. From 1968 to 1972, during his time as MP for Esquimalt-Saanich. In 1972, he was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Victoria and sat in the Legislative Assembly as the leader of the Liberal Party of British Columbia until 1975. Mr. Anderson left politics in 1975 to work as an environmental consultant and law instructor at the University of Victoria's School of Public Administration. He became involved with the British Columbia Wilderness Federation and worked on various environmental problems, in particular wetland protection and marine pollution. During this time he also served on several government commissions and boards, including the Immigration Appeal Board, the Commission of Inquiry into Fraser Valley Petroleum Exploration, and as an advisor to the Premier of BC on tanker traffic and oil spills. In 1993, Mr. Anderson was elected Liberal MP for Victoria in the federal election and was appointed Minister of National Revenue and Minister responsible for British Columbia. He was appointed Minister of TransportIn 1996. Mr. Anderson was re-elected as MP for Victoria in 1997 and was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. He was appointed Minister of the Environment in 1999. In 2001, Mr. Anderson became the first Canadian to be lected as President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Mr. Anderson received his law degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and completed post graduate studies at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Hong Kong where he became fluent in Mandarin. While at UBC he was a member of the Rome Olympic and the Chicago Pan-American Games silver-medal rowing crews.

Arif Babul, Ph.D (Princeton), is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria's Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is a physical cosmologist whose research seeks to address some of the critical issues concerning the formation, evolution and the inter-relationship between cosmological structure on a range of scales: dwarf galaxies, the larger galaxies, galaxy groups and clusters, and the larger superstructure delineated by giant voids, sheets and filaments. He is the founding and the current Director of the Canadian Computational Cosmology Collaboration (C4). Dr. Babul has been actively involved in working towards forging close ties between the different Muslim communities of Victoria and between the Muslims and the other faith-based communities in Victoria. He has also helped organize several academic forums and lectures with the underlying theme of "Islams, Muslims and the Challenge of Modernity" sponsored by the Centre for Study in Religion and Society and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. See the draft text of Dr. Babul's presentation entitled Iraq Crisis and its Global Implications for Muslims.

Gregory Blue, Ph.D. (Cambridge), is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria. He has taught world history at UVic since 1990. His current research include work on the history of Western views of Chinese history and society. He has research interests in international politics, Western intellectual and cultural history, the comparative history of science, international social movements, comparative economic and social history, Chinese and Indian history since 1400, the history of colonial and post-colonial societies. He has lectured on political developments in Afghanistan since 1970. See the text of Dr. Blue's presentation entitled Regional Implications of the Iraq Crisis.

Martin Bunton, D.Phil. (Oxford), has been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria in the Department of History. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. His doctoral thesis focussed on the transformation of Palestinian property rights under British rule and will be published by Oxford University Press. His teaching focusses on the impact of European rule in the Middle East and in comparative perspective.

Paz Buttedahl, Ph.D, is the director of the Masters Program in Human Security and Peacebuilding at Royal Roads University. Dr. Buttedahl is an expert in human resource development. She has extensive academic teaching and research experience, including management of research studies in areas of strategic issues and international relations; higher education policy in the global context; the effects of South/North relationships from the perspective of interdependence and mutual vulnerability where she contributed considerably to the formulation of a conceptual framework for "human security"; and comparative studies on the management of knowledge institutions. Born in Chile, Dr. Buttedahl immigrated to Canada in 1975. She is fluent in several languages including English, Spanish, French and Portugese. Dr. Buttedahl has held teaching appointments at the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto (OISE), Simon Frase r University and Queens University in Canada, Florida State University in the USA, and Universidad Simon Rodriguez in Venezuela. She has consulted extensively with organizations such as: CIDA, OAS, UNESCO, World Education, Meals for Millions, Save the Children Federation, IPPF, APROFAM, Stockholm Research Institute and USAID.

George Chandler has been Global Education Coordinator within International Services of the Lower Mainland Canadian Red Cross since 1996. His current work focuses on building awareness and involvement of people in the Lower Mainland around international situations and issues -- in particular as part of an "Even Wars Have Limits" campaign that focuses on conflict, humanitarian law, and related issues of landmines, war-affected children, and refugees. A key element in this public engagement work is training and developing youth leaders who help mobilize and mentor other youth in taking action. He has worked with Canada World Youth and has a Masters in International and Intercultural Management from the School for International Training in Vermont.

Ernie Fraser. BA, MA, has extensive experience in senior communications and management in Canada, provincially and nationally. He is among the most experienced public sector communications professionals in British Columbia. He also has extensive experience in issue and crisis management. He has managed scores of projects involving public opinion surveys and focus groups. Ernie has held a number of senior communications positions at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and in the British Columbia public service, with the most recent being the Executive Director of Communications for the BC Ministry of Forests. He is the principal of Ernie Fraser & Associates, a communications consulting firm. He is an associate faculty member in the MBA Program in Public Relations and Communication Management at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. Responding in Iraq: Communications Strategies.

Don Galloway, LL.B. (Edinburgh) 1974, LL.M. (Harvard) 1975 is a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. From 1975 to 1991, Professor Galloway taught at Queen's University. In 1991, he was awarded the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research and completed his project on Immigration and the Liberal State at the University of Victoria. Professor Galloway remained at UVic for two years as a Visiting Professor, teaching Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts before accepting a permanent appointment as Professor. He has published several articles on criminal law, tort law, and legal theory as well as a book on immigration law. From 1998 to 2001, he took a leave of absence to serve as a member of the Refugee Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board. See Prof. Galloway's unedited presentation notes Iraq and Refugee Law .

Hon. Bill Graham, PC, MP, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Canada since 2002. Mr. Graham was first elected as Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre-Rosedale in 1993. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Graham served as Chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Mr. Graham was born in Montreal and grew up in Vancouver before going on to study at Upper Canada College, Trinity College, the University of Toronto (B.A. Hon., LL.B.), and the University of Paris (Doctorate in Law). Practiced law in Toronto, focusing on civil litigation and international business transactions, and serving on the boards of directors of various public and private Canadian corporations. Subsequently, he taught International Trade Law, Public International Law, and the Law of the European Community at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He also served as Director of the Centre of Internation al Studies at the University of Toronto. Mr. Graham has been a visiting lecturer in law at McGill University and the University of Montreal, and is an honorary life member of the Canadian Council of International Law. In recognition of his commitment to public life and cooperation among peoples and nations, the William C. Graham Chair in International Law and Development has been established at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. A past president of the Alliance française of Toronto, Mr. Graham has been recognized for his contributions to French language and culture in Ontario by being granted the Prix Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, the Médaille d'argent de la ville de Paris (City of Paris Gold Medal), the Gold Medal of the Alliance française, and the Ordre du mérite de l'Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario (Order of Merit of the Association of French-speaking Jurists of Ontario). He ha s been made a Chevalier of t he Legion of Honour and a Chevalier of the Ordre de la Pléiade.

Budd Hall, BA, MA (Michigan State), PhD (UCLA), is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. Professor Hall is the former chair of the Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. One of Canada's best-known adult educators, Budd is internationally known for his pioneering work in the development of the field of participatory research, an approach an approach to research that combines social investigation, learning and community action. He served as Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education from 1979-1991 before joining OISE/UT. His research include interests in addition to participatory action research include an international comparative study of social movement learning, an action research project on the role of universities in joint university-knowledge creation an d adult learning and global civil society. He is the founder of the Transformative Learning Centre, a joint university-community research and field development centre based at OISE/UT. He is the past President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and is currently on the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Canadian Network for Democratic Learning (CANDLE) and the North American Alliance for Popular and Adult Education (NAAPAE). He also coordinates an international working group on university-based adult education for the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany. He is also a poet. See Dr. Hall's notes on a proposal about Humanitarian and Democratic Governance: Canada and the Kurdish Universities in Northern Iraq.

Greg Hansen is a Victoria-based consultant focusing on helping humanitarian and development agencies respond to armed conflict with greater professionalism and effectiveness as their working environments become increasingly dangerous and complex. Since 1990, Hansen has worked in conflict situations in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Asia and elsewhere with a variety of international and local aid organisations and agencies of the UN. A former soldier and UN peacekeeper, Hansen periodically facilitates courses for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) on civil-military coordination. Since 1995 he has been an Associate of the Local Capacities for Peace Project, working with the "Do No Harm" methodology to address the negative impacts of aid on conflict. Mr. Hansen has written a number of articles and monographs on humanitarian policy and practice for the Humanitarianism and War Project at Tufts University. See Mr. Hansen's powerpoint notes plus his handout notes on Patterns of Impact of Aid on Conflict; The SPHERE Project; Code of Conduct for Disaster Response.

Lynn Hunter is a government relations consultant with the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, a group of environmental organizations and First Nations. She attended university as a mature student and graduated with distinction in Political Science and History from the University of Victoria in 1985. She then worked as the Vancouver Island outreach coordinator for OXFAM-Canada, an international development organization. In 1987 she travelled to Sudan and the war zone in Eritrea to do OXFAM work. She was elected to Parliament in 1988 and was the New Democrat Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands from 1988 to 1993. During that time she had many assignments using her international experience. She was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment. Since then she has been working in various capacities to address the west coast fisheries crisis.

George Irani, Ph.D, is a member of the core faculty at Royal Roads University. In 1997-98, he was a Jennings Randolf Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace where he conducted a research on rituals of reconciliation as methods of conflict control and reduction. Between 1993 and 1997, Irani was assistant professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. There he taught courses on international relations and conflict resolution. In Lebanon, he organized two conferences on "Acknowledgment, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Lessons from Lebanon," and a seminar on "Reconciliation and the Displaced Communities in Post-War Lebanon." He is the author of The Papacy and the Middle East (University of Notre Dame Press, 1989) which was translated into Arabic, French, Italian and Portuguese. Together with his wife Laurie Elizabeth King-Irani, he has co-edited a book entitled Lessons from Lebanon: The Rele vance of Acknowledgment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation to the Resolution of Protracted Inter-Communal Conflicts. Irani holds a BA in Political Science from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California.

Maureen Maloney, Q.C.,, LL.B. (Warwick), LL.M. (Toronto)is the Director of the Institute for Dispute for Resolution and a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Professor Maloney is a distinguished administrator and legal scholar. Before assuming an appointment at the Institute for Dispute Resolution in January 2000 she was British Columbia's Deputy Attorney General. Prior to that she was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria and president of the Canadian Council of Law Deans. She has published widely in the field of tax law, tax policy, women and the law, and aspects of the law affecting disadvantaged groups. Professor Maloney has also participated actively on professional legal, academic and community bodies, including the B.C. Provincial Council of the Canadian Bar Association, B.C. Law Society (Ex Officio Guest Bencher), Western Judicial Education Council, Advisory Board o f the Canadian Lawyer, University of Victoria Senate, Deans' Council, NEED Crisis Centre, Lawyers for Social Responsibility, the Victoria International Development Education Association, and Chair of the Institute for Dispute Resolution. On an international level, she has been involved in justice and human rights projects in South Africa, China and Guatemala. See Prof. Maloney's extemporaneous oral summary of the themes of the workshop.

Keith Martin, MD, MP, has his Doctor of Medicine degree (1986) from the University of Toronto. He has been an emergency room physician and general practioner since 1987. In 1986 he provided medical care in a rural bush hospital in South Africa, adjacent to the civil war zone in Mozambique. In 1992, he organized a clothing relief program that enabled British Columbians to clothe more than 15,000 African refugees. Since 1993 he has been the Member of Parliament for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca (British Columbia). Between 1994/96 he introduced Private Member's Bills banning landmines to push the government to pursue the issue that resulted in the landmark 1997 UN Landmine Treaty. He has been the Official Opposition Critic for Health (1999) and Foreign Affairs (2000). Named as one of the nation's Top 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by Maclean's magazine in , Dr. Martin's primary interests are in foreign policy, (the prevention of deadly co nflict, international health, and development), health care, conservation, and democratic reform. He has had many articles published in Canada's major newspapers on a wide range of topics including articles promoting alternatives to war in Iraq.

Mohammad Younas Mirza, was born and raised in Pakistan. After graduating in Civil Engineering, he migrated to Canada and served in tihe BC Provincial Government for thirty-three years. He is currently active in the social and cultural life of the Muslim community in Victoria. Since September 11, 2001, he has been involved in a number of interfaith dialogue initiatives.

Catherine Morris, BA, LLB (Alberta) 1978, LLM (UBC) 2001, is a lawyer and conflict resolution consultant with experience in the field of dispute resolution since 1983. She is director of Peacemakers Trust, a Canadian non-profit organization for research and education in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Ms. Morris has played key founding and leadership roles with numerous conflict resolution organizations and initiatives in Canada and internationally, including the University of Victoria's interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution. She is an Associate and a former Executive Director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution at the University of Victoria. She has been involved in research, educational and development initiatives in Thailand, Cambodia and Bangladesh. She has taught at the University of Victoria, Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Her publica tions and presentations include works on dispute resolution ethics and qualifications, conflict and culture, religion and peacebuilding, ADR in legal education, conflict analysis, and peacebuilding in Cambodia. Ms. Morris is the coordinator of the April 16 workshop. See Ms. Morris' brief opening comments: Why this workshop and Why now?

Andrew Petter, Q.C., LL.B. (UVic) 1981, LL.M. (Cambridge) 1982 is Dean of Law at the Univerity of Victoria. Professor Petter joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1986 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988. Prior to joining the Faculty, he taught as an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1984 to 1986. He was called to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1983. From 1991 to 2001, he served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and held numerous cabinet portfolios, including Attorney General. His major fields of interest are constitutional law, civil liberties and legislative and regulatory processes. He has written extensively on these topics, and has contributed chapters to several works on constitutional law. Professor Petter teaches Civil Liberties.

Andrew Pirie,, BA (Wat), LLB (Dal), LLM (Well), called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978. Professor Pirie was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1981. From 1986 to 1987 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Professor Pirie's teaching and scholarship focus on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with principal interests in the theory and practice of negotiation and mediation. He teaches courses on Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice, Mediation and Lawyers as well as Legal Process, Civil Procedure and Lawyers and Ethics. Professor Pirie served as the Executive Director of the UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution from 1989 to 1996. He has worked on disputes resolution initiatives in Fiji, Thailand and Cambodia. He is author of several publications, including Alternative Dispute Resolution Skills, Science and the Law in 2000.

Andrew Rippin, Ph.D, is a member of the Department of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. He received his Ph.D in Islamic Studies from McGill University in 1981. His research focuses mainly on the Qur'an and the history of its interpretation in the medieval period, but he has also written several introductory works to the religion of Islam. His teaching focuses on the historical foundations of the rise of Islamic civilization. Among his publications are Muslims, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices published in its second edition in 2001 by Routledge in London. He is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, a multi-volume work from EJ Brill in the Netherlands, the publication of which is in progress. He has also edited four volumes of critical essays on the Qur'an. Since September 11, 2001, he has written "What has Osama Bin Laden Done to Islam an d Where Does it Go From Here?" published in Canada and September 11th: Impact and Responses (Calgary: Detselig, 2002).

Eric Sager, PhD. is a professor in the Department of History at the Univesrity of Victoria. His areas of interest are Canadian labour history and family history. He was Director of the Canadian Families Project (1996-2001). Dr. Sager received his PhD in British history from the University of British Columbia in 1975 after completing a doctoral thesis on the peace movement in nineteenth-century England. He taught at the University of British Columbia (1974-75) and the University of Winnipeg (1975-76). Between 1976 and 1979, and in 1981-82, he was Assistant Professor (Research) with the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He taught at Erindale College (University of Toronto) from 1979 to 1981 and 1982-83, before joining the History Department at Victoria in 1983. See Dr. Sager's presentation on Mobilizing Academics: The Use of the Internet

Gordon Smith, has his PhD in political science from MIT. His last position in the Canadian government was as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister's Personal Representative for the G7/G8 Summits. Dr. Smith has also occupied a number of other senior positions at the Deputy Minister and Ambassadorial level. One of his initiatives in Ottawa was the creation of a Global Issues Bureau in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He is Chair of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) as well as being Chair of the International Network on Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Dr. Smith is also Director of the Canadian Global Change Program, chairs the board of the Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, and is a Senior Adviser to the Rector of The University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Susan Soux, MA in Anthropology, UBC, is on the faculty of Royal Roads University MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding. She is also a faculty member of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre where she has developed and delivered programmes on all aspects of peace operations. These courses have been offered in Canada, Latin America, Africa and the USA. Ms Soux spent over ten years with the United Nations peace missions (ONUSAL and MINUGUA) in Central America, and later with the UN Department of Political Affairs in New York. She worked as a human rights observer, an electoral officer, a political officer and held positions of Regional Coordinator and Chief of the Indigenous Rights Area. Prior to the UN, Ms. Soux worked as the International Coordinator for the BC/Yukon Division of the Canadian Red Cross, and in 1989 was seconded to the ICRC as the Administrator and Head of a field delegation in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. See Ms. Soux 's power point notes International Humani tarian Law and the Iraq Crisis which includes links to additional resources on International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

Jon Tinker, is the Director of International Media Programs for the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) in Vancouver, Canada. Jon Tinker was the UK's first full-time environment journalist, and was environment & development editor of New Scientist 1969-76. He founded and directed two international non-profits, both working with NGOs and media worldwide on sustainable development issues: Earthscan, UK, 1974-86, and The Panos Institutes, London, Paris, Washington DC and Budapest 1986-93. He immigrated to Canada in 1993, and became a Senior Associate at UBC's Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI). He joined IMPACS a few weeks ago, and is responsible for its programs supporting media pluralism in countries emerging from conflict or dictatorship. There are ongoing IMPACS programs in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Cambodia. IMPACS has a special focus on the media role in peacebuilding, and women's role in the media.

Marianne van der Meij, a native of The Netherlands, is an interpreter/translator by profession. She worked in the humanitarian field for almost fifteen years based in The Netherlands and in Tanzania. She immigrated to Canada in 1996, and since then has worked as Coordinator of the Settlement Programme at the Victoria Immigrant & Refugee Centre.

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