Update of speakers and working group facilitators

Conflict Resolution in Schools: Learning to Live Together

Newly registered speakers at the conference include:

-Valerie Dovey, South Africa, now Senior Associate, Centre of Conflict Resolution and independent peace education and conflict resolution practitioner.

-Valerie Clements, UK, Peace Education Adviser with Quaker Peace & Social Witness.

Previously coordinated a peer mediation programme and taught from preschool to tertiary level in several countries.

-Tricia Jones, USA, Past-President of the International Association of Conflict Management, served as a member of the Research and Evaluation Committee for the National Association for Mediation in Education, and the Standards Committee for the National Institute for Dispute Resolution. Currently on the Planning and Advisory Committee for Ohio’s Department of Education Research Symposium in Conflict Resolution.

Working group 1

-Jennifer Batton, USA, Director of Education Programs for the state of Ohio's Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management. As the Director of Education Programs, she works to provide grants, professional development, publications, technical assistance, and research to all of Ohio's pre-schools, Head Starts, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.

-Helmolt Rademacher, Germany, Pedagogue, teacher, teacher-trainer and mediator, head of the project: "Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention in Schools" in the "Hessisches Landesinstitut für Pädagogik" (HeLP), Frankfurt.

Working group 2

-Richard Cohen, USA, Founder and Director of School Mediation Associates. Trains educators and students around the world to mediate disputes and is the author of a number of highly regarded books about peer mediation.

-Claude Moreau, Canada and France, Director of Centre International de Résolution de Conflits et de Médiation (CIRCM).

-Helen Johannessen, Norway, Daily manager of the Norwegian National Programme on Peer Mediation.

Working group 7

-Sobhi Tawil, Head of the capacity building programme at UNESCO's International Bureau of Education and lecturer in education, conflict and development at the University of Geneva.

-Alexandra Harley, Curriculum Change and Social Cohesion project officer at UNESCO's International Bureau of Education, Geneva.

Working group 8

-Margaret Percy, Italy, Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Florence.

-Agata Dziewulska, Italy, PhD Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence.

Working Group 10

-Namtip Aksornkool, Senior specialist in literacy and women's education at UNESCO, Paris.

-Valerie Nyirahabimana, Kenya, Independent education consultant.

-Anke van Dam and Marjan Kroon, Netherlands, Education specialists, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.