Paddy Logue
Research Coordinator, Experiential Learning, Irish Peace Centres.
Prior to joining Irish Peace Centres in 2008, Paddy was Programme Manager in the Irish Government's Combat Poverty Agency with responsibility for the implementation and delivery of Measures under the EU PEACE I and II and the EU INTERREG IIIA and IVA programmes. In the seventies he worked in community development in Leeds, Liverpool and London. From 1978 to 1996, he managed a community centre in the Bogside area of Derry where he was an advocate for human rights and active in campaigns against poverty and low pay. His publications include: THEM & US, Columba Press, Dublin, 1994; THE BORDER, Oak Tree Press, Dublin, 1999; BEING IRISH, Oak Tree Press, Dublin, 2000; BEING SCOTTISH, Edinburgh University Press, 2002 (with Prof. T Devine).
Professor Kenneth Bush Research Coordinator, INCORE
Kenneth Bush is the Research Coordinator at INCORE. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from Cornell University. Prior to joining INCORE, Dr. Bush held teaching positions at various universities and was the founding professor of the Conflict Studies Program at St. Paul University, Ottawa,
Shaun Henry
Director, Managing Authority, SEUPB
Shaun has been working with the SEUPB since 2002. During the programme period 2000-2006 he was the Director of the Peace and Reconciliation Programme (PEACE II) and the INTERREG IIIA Programme. Shaun was seconded to the Ministry for Regional Development in Romania for the period 2007-2009 to advise on Canada. He has worked with a broad spectrum of development and humanitarian organisations across the world including the role as special advisor on Humanitarian Issues to the Canadian Government when it served on the UN Security Council (1998- 2000). He has had his work published on a wide range of issues including peace building, evaluation, identity-based conflict, and bad governance.
the implementation of EU structural funds. Following his return to Belfast in 2009, Shaun was appointed as the Director of the Managing Authority for the PEACE III and INTERREG IVA Programmes. Prior to joining SEUPB, Shaun worked in the Rural Development Council. Shaun also spent two years with Ireland Aid under the Department of Foreign Affairs Ireland and five years with Concern Worldwide.
Judith Thompson Ph.D
Research Associate, Karuna Center for Peace-building
Judith Thompson, Ph.D. has a background in dialogue, reconciliation, community organising, psychosocial healing, peace education, and leadership development. For over a decade she directed the award- winning international organisation, Children of War, Inc., which engaged teenagers from 22 war zones in peer empowerment processes to heal trauma and organise for social transformation. Judith has helped to launch numerous other organisations including Global YouthConnect, Cambodian Living Arts, The Rwandan Youth Healing Center, The World Council of Elders and Earth Circles, Inc. From 1999-2005, she co-directed with James O'Dea the Frontiers of Social Healing dialogue series funded by the Fetzer Institute, which served as a theory building learning community for scholarpractitioners worldwide engaged in reconciliation and dialogue. She has facilitated dialogue in post-conflict settings, most recently between Israeli and Palestinian mental health workers around the process of acknowledgment.
Dr. Richard (Rick) Davies
Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant
Richard Davies is an Independent Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant with over 20 years' experience in the field. Richard's areas of expertise encompass management of evaluations, design of M&E strategies and frameworks, M&E capacity building and methodology development. He has worked on a range of monitoring and evaluation projects throughout the world including in Indonesia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Somalia, India, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda and the Caribbean. In 1997 he founded Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS, at www.mande.co.uk; a site he continues to manage and edit. The website offers a news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods for development aid programmes with relevance to both countries receiving international aid and those providing it.
Paul Hogan
Associate Director, Butterfly Peace Garden
Paul Hogan is artist from Canada who plays with image, story and theatre in collaboration with people from communities devastated by war, natural disaster poverty and social dislocation. His work began as a street artist and performer in Toronto in the early 70s. In 1983 he co-founded the Spiral Garden at Toronto's Hugh Macmillan Medical Centre for physically challenged children. In 1994, working with the Centre for International Health at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario and local partners in Sri Lanka, he acted as a creative advisor in developing the Butterfly Peace Garden in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, which subsequently became the model for three other gardens in Sri Lanka as well as the Mango Tree Garden at Sweet Mango Pagoda in Sre Knong Village in Cambodia. Paul now lives in Thailand where he has written "Telling Eastern Tales", a collection of stories based on the lives of children he met over the last 14 years at the Butterfly Peace Garden.
Claudia Fontes
A visual artist based in Brighton, UK
Claudia believes in the power of art for bringing people together, and for the past 10 years, she has been involved, both as a practitioner and as a consultant, in researching artists' self- organisations and relational aesthetics. This interest has lead her to explore how to evaluate the intangible impact of artistic activity on society, an area of evaluation which is usually dismissed. Together with Ricardo Wilson-Grau, she evaluated the HIVOS Arts and Culture programme in Central America in 2006-2007, based on the Outcome Mapping methodology. In 2009-2010, she conducted a developmental evaluation of the International Culture Programme of DOEN's Foundation using the Most Significant Change technique, a monitoring and evaluation tool based on storytelling, developed by Rick Davies and Jess Dart. She has also explored, through her artistic practice, the use of storytelling in collective processes for the reconstruction of memory, namely in the Reconstruction of the Portrait of Pablo Miguez, a public artwork located on the waters of the Rio de la Plata and part of the Memorial Site in homage to the Victims of State Terrorism in Argentina, her homeland.
Wilhelm Verwoerd
‘Sustaining Positive Relationships’ Co-ordinator, Irish Peace Centres
Wilhelm was born in South Africa and since 2002 has been working as a Programme Co ordinator of the Survivors and Former Combatants Programme at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland. Before moving to Ireland he was a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch (1990-2001) and was a researcher within the Cape Town office of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-1998). He has worked extensively with ex-combatants and survivors from all sides of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, with the development of the Sustainable Peace Network being the main focus of his work since 2004. Since June 2008 this work has been continued with his appointment as a Co- ordinator within the Irish Peace Centres Consortium. He is the author of My Winds of Change published by Ravan Press and co-edited with Charles Villa-Vicencio, Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission published by Juta Publishing Co./ London: Zed Books. In 2008 his PhD, Equity, Mercy, Forgiveness: Interpreting Amnesty within the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was published by Peeters, Leuven.
Katy Radford
Research Fellow, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast.