639-001 Joe Eldridge
Joseph Eldridge is the University Chaplain of American University and responsible for managing the programs of Kay Spiritual Life Center. For over 25 years he has been involved with Latin American human rights and development issues. He founded an NGO, the Washington Office on Latin America, and established the Washington operation of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). He has a doctor of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary.
639-002 Ariela Blätter
Ariela Blatter is an international human rights lawyer and the founding Director of the Crisis Prevention and Response Center (CPRC) at Amnesty Ainternational USA. In this role she has directed strategic operations on the crises in Darfur/Sudan, Iraq, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Haiti and Nepal. Since 2005 she has been involved in an innovative prohect to use satellite imagery as a global human rights monitoring systems for mass violations and genocide that has been used to detect war crimes in Darfur, eastern Chad and Lebanon, illegal housing demolitions in Zimbabwe and secret detention facilities in Jordon. Most recently she launched the widely acclaimed "Eyes on Darfur" project (www.eyesondarfur.org), which uses satellite technology to protect highly vulnerable villages in war-torn Darfur and eastern Chad.
639-003 Nancy Good Sider
Dr. Good Sider is an Associage Professor of Trauma and Conflict Studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. A mediator and therapist for more than 30 years, Nancy is a founding partner at Newman Avenue Associates since 1996, a counseling and consulting business in Harrisonburg where she works as a psychotherapist, mediator, and organizational consultant. Nancy specializes in trauma healing and diversity-based conflict with recent work in Bosnia, Netherlands, Sudan, India and Nepal. She has lead numerous businesses in team building, city-wide dialogues and conflict interventions. She received a Pd.D. from Union Institute and University, studying the intersection of trauma healing and conflict transformation. Her dissertation explored resilience and posttraumatic growth (PTG) in "Peacebuilders Healing Trauma: From Victim to Survivor to Provider."
639-004 Louise Diamond
Dr. Louise Diamond is an educator and consultant whose life has been devoted to building healthy and peace-full human systems of every size.
She is the co-founder (with Ambassador John McDonald) and President Emeritus of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., where she worked for many years as a professional peacebuilder in places of violent conflict around the world. She is also the founder of The Peace Company, seeking to make peace practical, popular, and profitable while showing that peace is good business.
Louise currently directs Peace Systems, where she is focused on training global leaders who can help humanity make the quantum leap in evolution that our times require. To that end she is offering How to Change the World, an advanced year-long change-leadership program wisdom-based in the truth of our inter-connectedness.
She also directs the Peace Councils Project, dedicated to making the principles and practices of peace mainstream in our society, and to accelerating the global movement for a culture of peace. In addition, she publishes The Peace Report, an online monthly newsletter linking the personal and global by reflecting on world affairs through a peace lens.
Louise is an international public speaker, trainer, conference presenter, and consultant on issues related to peace and peacemaking. She is also a conference planner, having recently designed and delivered the Building a Culture of Peace conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Louise writes extensively, bringing a peacebuilding perspective to daily life. Her recent publications include The Peace Book: 108 Simple Ways to Make a More Peaceful World, and The Courage for Peace: Daring to Create Harmony in Ourselves and the World. She has also written How to Raise a Peaceful Child in a Violent World, co-authored with Elizabeth Slade; and Multi-Track Diplomacy: A Systems Approach to Peace, co-authored with Ambassador John McDonald.
Louise received a Ph.D. in Peace Studies from the Union Institute in 1990 and an advanced CAS degree in Human Resource and Organizational Development from the University of Vermont in 1974. She is a systems thinker with expertise in applied human behavior, organizational consulting, individual and family therapy, diversity, leadership, change management, healing, and human relations training. She has worked with the whole range of human dynamics, from individual to organizational, inter-group to global. Her past clients include CARE, Heifer Project International, The World Bank, and others. Louise is also a Peace Minister with Sunray Meditation Society, where for many years she directed an international, intercultural program of training called The Peacekeeper Mission.
639-005 Mathilda Harris
Dr. Mathilda (Tillie) Harris holds a doctorate from George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), a Master of Arts degree from the University of Portland (Portland, Oregon) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California (Berkeley, California).
During the past eighteen years she has written grants, conducted capital campaigns, developed strategic plans on grant procurement and assisted individuals and institutions nationally and internationally to successfully write and receive funding from federal, corporate, private, foundation and multi-lateral donors. Some examples include: (1) the Florida Solar Energy Center to develop training grants, (2) the Organization of American States to develop distance learning in Central America, (3) colleges/schools of health and engineering throughout the nation for various projects ranging from waste management to developing modular units for disaster relief and (4) non-profit organizations ranging from the Goodwill to various non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
She has conducted national and international workshops on grant planning, writing, development and procurement at such universities as George Mason University, The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), Ohio State University, Duke University, University of North Carolina, Carnegie Mellon University, University of London, the University of New South Wales (Australia), the University of Ottawa and various other Canadian, European, South American and Asian universities and non-profit organizations.
She has served as a reader and evaluator of grant competitions for the U.S. Department of Education, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In addition, she has been a member of several national committees to review grant guidelines and propose changes to Request for Proposals such as the Organization of American States, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Department of Education (all in Washington, D.C.).
International Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) at American University is a multi-disciplinary program in the School of International Service designed for students and faculty concerned with the causes of war and the conditions for peace. 