Instructors
2012 instructors
Want to get a sense of CSOP Teaching Faculty? Click here for short videos by previous CSOP teaching faculty.
Stuart Clark
Stuart Clark has spent over 30 years working on issues related to food as a lecturer in food technology in New Zealand, an agricultural development worker in Bangladesh, Nepal and Ethiopia, a farm worker in Canada and the founder of the public policy unit at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Over the past decade he has led successful public policy advocacy campaigns to untie Canadian food aid and to make food security one of Canada’s top international assistance priorities as well as unsuccessful campaigns regarding agricultural trade rules at the WTO, the Human Right to Food in Canadian foreign policy and the creation of international food reserves to reduce international food price volatility.
Click here to hear an interview with Stuart Clark.
Ouyporn Khuankaew
Ouyporn Khuankaew is a Buddhist feminist peace trainer who has been working with activists in South and Southeast Asia since 1995. She incorporates Buddhist practice, feminism, and non-violence in all of her work. In 2002, Ouyporn co-founded International Women’s Partnership for Peace and Justice(IWP) which runs its own center and works with activists in Burma, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. IWP training uses anti-oppression feminism, non-violent action and spirituality as a foundation for activists and activism. The training topics include Buddhist peace building, non-violent action, counseling for trauma survivors, leadership for social change, gender and sexuality, feminism and Buddhism for change, and meditation retreat for activists. She leads an annual international meditation retreat for people exploring Buddhist spirituality as a path to sustain their life and activism. She has a Masters degree in informal education.
Ivo Markovic
Ivo Markovic is a Bosnian Franciscan, a musician and a professor of pastoral theology at Sarajevo University. He is a peace activist who moves easily and intentionally across the boundaries that divide people. Ivo began his work as a peace activist during the 1991-1995 war in the Balkans. Even as his father and other family members were killed in the war, Ivo worked for peace in his own village and throughout the region. Shortly after the war, Ivo founded the Inter-Religious Service “Face to Face” to encourage dialogue and reconciliation among the religious groups within Bosnia. One of the most successful initiatives of Face to Face is the inter-religious choir, Pontanima, comprised of people from the national and religious communities in Sarajevo. Instead of fighting each other, the choir chose to sing together the symphony of Abrahamic religions. In 1998, Marković was awarded Tanenbaum’s prestigious Peacemaker in Action Award for this work.
Ovide Mercredi
Ovide Mercredi is the former Chancellor of the University College of the North. He is a Cree, a lawyer, a negotiator, an author, a lecturer in Native Studies, and an activist on behalf of First Nations in Canada. He was a sessional adjunct professor on Aboriginal peoples at the University of Sudbury, the University of Lethbridge, and McMaster University. Mercredi held the position of National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1991 to 1997. Among Chief Mercredi’s many honours and awards are the Order of Manitoba, nomination for the Gandhi Peace Prize, and honorary law degrees from Bishop’s University, St. Mary’s University, and Lethbridge University. Click here to see a video of Ovide Mercredi.
Sophia Murphy
Sophia Murphy is a political economist with twenty years experience working on food security, agricultural trade, and development issues. She works as an independent consultant and as senior adviser on trade and global governance issues for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis. Sophia has worked in public policy at local, national, and multilateral levels. She has published extensively and has lectured at a number of universities. She previously worked for the United Nations in Geneva and the Canadian Council for International Co-operation in Ottawa. Sophia has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a Master’s with distinction in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics. She is bilingual in English and French.
Karen Ridd
Karen Ridd is a dynamic educator, facilitator and speaker with experience throughout North America and overseas, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Thailand and Cambodia. Karen is presently a sessional instructor in the Conflict Resolution Studies department of the University of Winnipeg, an associate of Training for Change in Philadelphia and as well as an associate trainer for Resolution Skills Centre. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts (1984), a Master of Arts in Peace and Justice (2009), a Diploma in Mediation Skills, and has been working and studying in the field of conflict resolution since 1986. Karen began her affiliation with Mediation Services in 1995, when she became the Training Coordinator, responsible for carrying out and developing trainings, as well as overseeing the program as a whole. Karen presently lives in rural Manitoba, and is the delighted mother of Ben and Daniel. She has received numerous honours for her work, including the 1992 Government of Canada 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation Governor-General’s Award, the 1990 Canada YM/YWCA Peace Medal and the 1989 Manitoba International Human Rights Achievement Award.
Click here to see a video of Karen Ridd.
Anna Snyder
Anna Snyder is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University’s Menno Simons College located at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include women’s peace organizations, women refugees and peacebuilding, and conflict among peacemakers. She has published several articles on her research, as well as Setting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building (2003), the first book in “Ashgate’s Series on Gender in a Global/Local World”. Her most recent research, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), was a qualitative study of women refugees and migrant workers building peace in camps on the Thai/Burmese border. Anna’sconflict resolution practice has focused on local healing and reconciliation efforts between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples on the issue of residential schools.
Click here to hear an interview with Anna Snyder.
Barry Stuart
Barry Stuart, currently a partner in CSE Group, is internationally known for his work
as the first Canadian judge to incorporate circle-sentencing processes into part of the formal justice process with Aboriginal communities in the Yukon. Over the last 40 years he has worked as a judge, trainer, mediator, negotiator, professor, and consultant in Canada, the US and internationally. His principal interest is in developing constructive ways to engage the energy in conflict to generate sustainable outcomes and effective relationships. As a law professor he has taught at several universities, and led numerous courses on negotiation and Participant Driven Collaboration. He is the author of numerous books and articles including Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community, co-authored with Kay Pranis and Mark Wedge. Barry Stuart’s work as a has been recognized and honoured across Canada and around the world. Click here to hear a recent interview with Barry Stuart on CBC’s The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti.
Please click here to see bios of previous CSOP Instructors.
