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1046 Bristol Road
Birmingham
B29 6LJ
Telephone +44 121 415 5641
Fax +44 121 415 4119
e mail
enquiries@respond.org |
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Consultancy
RTC’s
team of consultants is made up of RTC staff and associates. All
are experienced practitioners and facilitators who draw on
their own experience of living and working in conflict
situations.
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Trainers
Joan McGregor
is a Senior Peace and Conflict Advisor with responsibility
for
managing, developing and tutoring on RTC
courses. Joan is an experienced trainer from South Africa,
and has been active in non-violent resistance to apartheid
and bringing about political liberation as well as the
reconstruction of society.
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Dr Marwan Darweish
is a Senior Peace and Conflict Advisor with responsibility
for managing, developing and tutoring on RTC courses. He has
substantial experience in education and training, including
planning and designing, facilitation, organisation and team
leading, and has particular experience of Israel/Palestine.
Marwan has a PhD from the Department of Peace Studies at the
University of Bradford.
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Dr Vesna Matovic
is RTC’s
Peace and Conflict Advisor with responsibility for the
management and development of the Applied Conflict
Transformation Studies programme. Vesna is Serbian and has
worked for many years in the Balkans as a consultant,
trainer and facilitator on conflict issues. Prior to her
position at RTC, Vesna was a Programme Coordinator with
Nansen Dialogue Network.
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Associates
Dehka Ibrahim Abdi
is a peace
practitioner based in Mombasa, Kenya, working as a
consultant to government and civil society organisations.
She is a founding member of the Wajir Peace and Development
Committee, the Coalition for Peace in Africa, and ACTION
(Action for Conflict Transformation. In 2007 Dekha was
awarded the Right Livelihood Award by the Swedish
parliament.
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Paul Clifford
has worked in some of the world’s most violent conflicts,
including Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Kosovo. He has worked
directly on the conflict as a mediator and facilitator of
talks, and as an adviser to governments and groups who are
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Emma Leslie,
based in Cambodia, has worked for RTC as a WWC course tutor
as the lead project worker on the Strengthening
Partnerships for Peacebuilding project (2001) and on
various consultancies. She currently serves as the
Secretariat for the ACTION Asia network and as the Course
Director for the Applied Conflict Transformation Studies
(ACTS) program in Asia.
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Dr Diana Francis
is a freelance facilitator, trainer and consultant. She
specialises in working with groups of people involved in or
affected by political (especially inter-ethnic) conflict,
facilitating training, dialogue and strategy workshops. She
was President of the International Fellowship of
Reconciliation for eight years, and is currently Chair of
the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support. She has
worked extensively in the post-communist world (especially
the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus region of the former
Soviet Union), and also in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Richard Smith
is an independent researcher and facilitator on a range of
conflict and development related projects at community and
policy level. Previously he worked as the Peacebuilding
Manager at the Centre for the Study of Violence and
Reconciliation. With a background in activism and
international development he has carried out work in several
conflict situations around the world, including Sierra
Leone, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somaliland, Kenya,
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Angola and Mozambique.
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Bridget Walker
is a former
Co-director of RTC. She has an MEd in Adult Education &
Community Development and has been working in the
development sector for over 20 years. Her background is
largely in international development and has extensive
experience of working in humanitarian relief and
conflict-affected areas. Bridget now works freelance and
delivers training and facilitation in the following areas:
strategic planning, evaluation, organisational development
and gender training.
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Simon Fisher
was the founder of RTC and director until 2005. Simon has
worked in many countries as adviser, facilitator, trainer
and mediator with local and international agencies, with
governments and at the UN and has wide, first-hand
experience of conflict, development and change. Simon’s
priority for many years has been to help develop and sustain
active networks of committed peace workers at global and
regional levels. His books include: Working with
Conflict: skills and strategies for action, and
Spirited Living: waging conflict, building peace. |
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Sunday Okello Angoma
is from
Uganda and is currently studying for a PhD in
Post-Conflict Social Reconstruction with a
focus on Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan from the
University of Birmingham. He attended the Strengthening
Policy and Practice course in 2001 and has since tutored on
WWC from 2004 – 2006. He has also worked with RTC in Uganda,
Cambodia and Serbia. Sunday’s areas of expertise are
northern Uganda, Southern Sudan, and the Great Lakes Region.
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Sue Williams
is a consultant to the Reflecting on Peace Practice
Programme of the Collaborative for Development Action. Sue
has been engaged with conflict and peace processes for 25
years having worked with INCORE, RTC and Quaker Peace and
Service. Since 2000 she has been an independent consultant,
specialising in political mediation, in training in conflict
analysis, management, and intervention, and in strategic
reviews and evaluation of projects. She has worked in
support of initiatives in various countries including:
Kenya, Afghanistan, Uganda, Senegal, Guatemala, Niger,
Myanmar, Colombia, Cambodia, Congo, and Sri Lanka. |
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Donna Copnall
is a freelance consultant and facilitator with an extensive
NGO background. She has worked with Afghan NGOs and
networks for 15 years and has specialised in the process of
capacity building and organisation and human resource
development. Through her work with organisations and
networks such as RTC, Peace Direct, and ACTION for Conflict
Transformation, Donna has worked to support the development
of peace networks and facilitated programmes and workshops
in Asia, Africa and South America with the aim of empowering
people to transform conflicts for peace and justice.
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Mary Lou Leavitt has been active
in the field of peace campaigning and non-violence training
since the late 1970’s. She was employed by Quaker Peace &
Service in the UK from 1980 to 1999, initially as a
campaigner/ educator on peace and disarmament issues and
later as Peace Secretary and Assistant General Secretary for
British Quakers at the national level. Mary Lou is a former
Co-Director of RTC. She retired as Co-Director in March
2006 and now works freelance as a trainer, facilitator and
programme planner/ evaluator in the field of Conflict
Transformation.
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