PresentersANJUM ANWAR MBE is dialogue development officer for exChange @ Blackburn Cathedral, UK where, as the only Muslim on a cathedral staff anywhere in the world, she has founded Women’s Voice. She was previously Education Officer of the Lancashire Council of Mosques and was awarded the MBE for her community activism. CHRISTINE ANTHONISSEN is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University. Her research focuses on Discourse Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis and social aspects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism. She analysed media discourses of the late 1980s considering how the South African news media managed censorship. More recent work relates to discourses in coming to terms with a traumatic past. UMESH BAWA is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Western Cape. He directs the NGO 'Children for Tomorrow - South Africa' Clinic in Langa, which offers a free psychological service for children affected by violence and trauma. He has worked in the area of trauma and violence rehabilitation in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa. His interests are in training and mental health capacitation in conflict and post-conflict countries. GAEL BECKETT is a Clinical Psychologist in Johannesburg. She works part-time at Ububele as a senior psychologist, especially in the Group Division and runs a private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist across all aspects of the family. She is completing the training at Ububele to become a Group Analytic therapist.
MARY BOCK is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in the areas of stylistics, discourse analysis and the study of spoken and written narratives. She has worked extensively with narratives from the TRC Human Rights Violations hearings. MICHELA BORZAGA is a researcher in the English Department at the University of Vienna (Austria). Currently, she is writing her PhD thesis on trauma, memory, and narrative in the contemporary South African novel from a theoretical perspective. Her research interests are in the area of contemporary South African literature, trauma and gender studies, cultural and literary theory. KAREN BROUNÉUS is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. She is a clinical psychologist with a PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the psychological aspects of reconciliation processes after civil war. ED CAIRNS is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He has spent the thirty-five years studying the psychological aspects of political violence in relation to the conflict in Northern Ireland. During this time he has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Florida, Cape Town and Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological society and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and past President of Division 48 of the APA. He has published some 120 works. His work is currently funded by the Economic and Research Council (UK), the National Institute for Health (USA) and the Equality Directorate Research Branch, OFMDFM (NI). CHRIS CHIVERS is founding director of the award-winning community cohesion and interfaith development agency, exChange @ Blackburn Cathedral, UK and the cathedral’s canon chancellor. Previously Precentor of Westminster Abbey and St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, he writes for Cape Times, Guardian and The Tablet, and broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 4. EILEEN DALLAS has, over the past 20 years, been working in a voluntary capacity as well as part of her role at Curtin University to break down barriers and change the way that Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people interact. Education, community and social activities have allowed change to occur and made inroads. She is currently the Manager of Student Development at Curtin University, Australia. GRAHAM DAWSON is a Reader in Cultural History at the University of Brighton, England. His research focuses on the politics of memory, representation and subjectivity in war and post-conflict cultures. He is author of Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles (Manchester University Press, 2007). CORA DEKKER is lecturer in Social Work and is based at the University of Applied Sciences Leiden, the Netherlands. Currently, she is also trainer of Community-based Sociotherapy in Rwanda and South-Kivu. DRC. CHRIS DE WITT started working life as a CA and management consultant. For the past 8 years however he has been in the world of ministry and is currently Student Pastor at The Message Church near the UCT Campus. He has a particular interest in reconciliation in and through the local church. Dr BETTE J. DICKERSON is Associate Professor of Sociology, American University, Washington D.C., USA. As the faculty sponosr of AU's Alternative Break: South Africa, she brings students to the Cape Town area for volunteer service-learning. Her publications include Color, Class, and Country: Experiences of Gender and African American Single Mothers: Understanding their Lives and Families. LESANG DIKGOLE is a Master of Science candidate in Electrical Engineering at UCT. He co-leads the committee for Racial Reconciliation Ministry at The Message Church, with a particular interest in the role of narrative based dialogue in promoting reconciliation. The Message Church was formed as a deliberately multi-cultural and multi-racial Christian community. Professor LOUISE DU TOIT did her doctorate at the University of Johannesburg. Her revised doctorate was published by Routledge in 2009, with the title A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unkaing of the Feminine Self. She is a NRF-rated researcher and is also involved in a research project with the Hamburg Institute of Social Research on "The Prevalence of Sexual Violence in War". Dr ANTJE DU BOIS-PEDAIN is a university lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She has published Transitional Amnesty in South Africa (CUP 2007) and Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (co-edited with François du Bois, CUP 2008). Her research interests are in the areas of transitional justice and criminal law. THERESA EDLMANN, founding Director of The Spirals Trust, has worked with the Highgate survivors since 2006. She is currently working on a doctorate in History and Psychology at Rhodes University. MARTHA EVANS is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Film and Media studies at the University of Cape Town. Her thesis focuses on nation-building in post-apartheid media under Mandela’s presidency. Her research interests include the representation of history in film and media; the interplay between national interests, globalising forces and economic imperatives in South African media; and nationalism, social cohesion and the media. JENNIFER N. FISH is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University. Her research centers on gender and post-conflict development, and appears in two book pubications: Domestic Democracy: At Home in South Africa (2006), and Women’s Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides (2009). MARGOT FRANCIS is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies, cross appointed to the Department of Sociology at Brock University in Canada. Her research interests include feminist, queer and post-colonial perspectives on settler societies, critical explorations of culture, arts and identity and integrative approaches to gender, sexuality and the body. CHRISTIAN B. N. GADE is a Ph.D. fellow in philosophy and is based at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. His research interests are in the area of conflict resolution, where they are centred on the role of the ubuntu philosophy within the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. SUSAN GLISSON, who directs the Winter Institute, is a native of Evans, Georgia. She earned bachelor’s degrees in religion and in history from Mercer University, a master’s degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary. Glisson specializes in the history of race and religion in the United States, especially in the black struggle for freedom. Glisson is the co-author (with Sam Chaltain and Charles Haynes) of First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (2006), and she edited The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement (2006). She is a contributor to Telling Stories That Change the World (2008) and to the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History (2006). ROBERTO GONZALEZ is Associate Professor of Psychology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research interest focuses on inter-group relations, prejudice, inter-group emotions, political identity, political attitudes and citizenship in both natural and experimental intergroup settings. He lectures social psychology, methodology and prejudice both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Dr. PAULA GREEN holds joint appointments as Professor of Conflict Transformation at the School for International Training (SIT) Graduate Institute and founder-director of the NGO Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, both in the USA. At SIT she created the CONTACT (Conflict Transformation across Cultures) summer institute and professional certificate programmes. A psychologist, Dr. Green leada peacebuilding, dialogue, and reconciliation seminars worldwide. SHIRLEY GUNN is the director of the Human Rights Media Centre (HRMC), a non-governmental organisation established in 2000 focusing on oral history and its multimedia dissemination for human rights awareness and activism. With focus on ethical research and media practice, projects deal with women (workers, women's struggles for child maintenance and intergenerational stories), youth, disability, survivors of gross human rights violations during apartheid, refugees, local history like the Trojan Horse story, community memorialisation and the training of community based oral historians and media practicioners. BRANDON HAMBER is Director of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), an associate site of the United Nations University based at the University of Ulster. He trained in South Africa a Clinical Psychologist and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ulster. His latest book Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health was published by Springer in 2009. Dipl.-Psych. BEATA HAMMERICH, born 1957 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Psychoanalyst in Cologne, Germany, member of the board of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. Dr SUE HAWKRIDGE is currently the principle specialist and clinical manager of the Western Cape Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town as well as in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Stellenbosch. Dr. med. ELKE HORN, born 1962 in Hardheim, Germany, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst (DPG, DGPT) and Group analyst (DAGG) in Düsseldorf, Germany, lecturer at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Düsseldorf, member of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. THÉRÈSE HULME is a narrative therapist, poet and community development practitioner working in private practice and in various poor communities in the Western Cape. Thérèse is currently completing her Doctorate in Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral therapy at UNISA. Creative work with young people lies at the heart of this cross-cultural research project. MARGARETA HYDÉN is Professor in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests are in the area of Interpersonal Violence and Narrative Studies. Professor ROSEMARY JOLLY is professor of English at Queen’s University. She has published on South African literature and culture; she also researches the connections between gender-based coercion and violence, and HIV/AIDS. Her book on the role of South African narratives in conceptualizations of human rights, and the violation of those rights, in post-apartheid culture, Cultured Violence, is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press. BRIONY JONES has recently submitted her doctoral thesis at the University of Manchester. As an active member of Oxford Transitional Justice Research, her work focuses on post-conflict reconciliation, normative and theoretical aspects of transitional justice, forced displacement, international development and qualitative methodologies in sensitive fieldwork contexts. ASHRAF KAGEE is professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University where he teaches courses in research methods and cognitive behavioural therapy. His research interests are in the areas of stress and trauma, HIV and behaviour, and empirically supported treatments. Ashraf is a member of the board of trustees of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Political Violence and Torture and a founder member of the Community Healing Network. ROSANNE KENNEDY is a Reader in the School of Humanities, Australian National University. She has published on trauma, testimony and witnessing in journals such as Studies in the Novel, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Life Writing, Biography and Aboriginal History. Most recently, she’s edited a special issue of Humanities Research on ‘Post-Colonial Witnessing’ (forthcoming 2009; http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/hrj.html), and is currently working on a book, Decolonizing Trauma Studies. KATHARINE KNOETZE is a Counselling Psychologist with an interest in mental health issues affecting individuals from refugee backgrounds. During her work as Project Co-ordinator: Trauma and Healing at Catholic Welfare and Development (February 2008 - August 2009), one of Katharine's responsibilities was the provision of psychological and psycho-social support services to vulnerable non-South Africans who were affected by the May 2008 xenophobic attacks. From September 2009, Katharine will be working at ACCES Services Inc in Brisbane, Australia to gain more experience in the field of Refugee Mental Health. Dr LONZOZOU KPANAKE is a psychologist in Canada, working with refugees from conflict and post-conflict zones in Africa. Currently, he is completing a post-doctoral training at the Division of Social Psychiatry at McGill University (Canada). His research interests are in the area of collective violence, conflict resolution, and intergroup forgivingness. BJÖRN KRONDORFER is a professor of religious studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Among his publications are, Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaisim: A Critical Reader (2009) and a forthcoming monograph with Stanford University Press, Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (2010). He authored Remembrance and Reconciliation (Yales UP, 1995) and a number of books in German on memory and cultural legacy of war and the Shoah. He has worked internationally as facilitator on intercultural encounters with students and adults, last with a group of Palestinian-Israeli-German peace workers. ANUPMA L. KULKARNI, PhD (Stanford University) is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. She is writing a book on the impact of political violence and transitional justice on democratic development. She is also Co-Investigator for the West Africa Transitional Justice Project, which studies the efficacy of transitional justice processes from the perspective of victims of human rights violations in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Dr WENDY LAMBOURNE is Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney. Her research is focused on understanding the concepts of justice and reconciliation and investigating responses to transitional justice mechanisms in the context of peacebuilding after mass violence. HENDRIK J LUBBE is a junior lecturer in law, and is based at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). Currently, he is enrolled for a PhD on Post-TRC Prosecutions at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). His work and research interests are in the area of Transitional Justice, Criminal Law and Public International Law. CLARE MAGILL is a Research Associate at the UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster (UU), Northern Ireland. She is co- author of a recent research report, Education and Reconciliation: The Perspectives of Children and Young People in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in June 2009. Clare holds an MSc in Social Research Skills with a Specialism in Researching Peace and Conflict in Divided Societies from UU (2009) and an M.A. in Modern History and Spanish from the University of St Andrews (2002). CATHERINE MALLON is Good Relations Officer with North Down Borough Council. Her breadth of experience across cultural and sectarian divides makes her an informed lobbyist, encouraging collective action in building a more inclusive public sphere. Catherine’s practice in developing communities is grounded in graduate study at the Universities of British Columbia, Cambridge, Columbia (NY), Stirling and Queen’s, Belfast. Recent collaborative work includes Cultural Diversity; Conflict Management; Sustainable Leadership; Equality; Human Rights; Environmental Sustainability and Fairtrade. JORGE MANZI is a full Professor of Psychology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). His research interest focuses on political culture, political socialization and collective memory of political events. He is the Director of the Measurement Center (Mide UC) at PUC. He lectures social psychology, advanced statistics and psychometrics. SHELLEY MCKEOWN graduated in Social Psychology at the University of Ulster in 2008. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the same institution researching the effectiveness of integrated education and cross-community initiatives in Northern Ireland. Her research is entitled “The micro-ecology of religious segregation among children and young people in Northern Ireland”. AHMED-RIAZ MOHAMED is a Masters graduate from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. His Masters dissertation explored the testimonial experiences of victims of gross violations of human rights in South Africa through a qualitative inquiry of their subjective experience of giving public testimony at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. His research interests lie in the areas of the psychological consequences of mass trauma and political violence, post-conflict reconciliation/reconstruction and peacebuilding/peace psychology among others. He is currently teaching and working on projects in the Department of Psychology at UCT. From 2010 he will be undertaking professional training in Clinical Psychology, which he hopes in the future to combine with peace psychology and peacebuilding initiatives in areas of protracted conflict. IMMACULÉE MUKASHEMA is lecturer in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the National University of Rwanda, and is based at Butare city (Rwanda’s South Province). Currently, she is lecturer and researcher. Her work interests are in the area of clinical and social psychology and mental health. ETIENNE MULLET is director of research at the Institute of Advanced Studies (EPHE), Paris, France. His research interests are in the area of forgiveness and reconciliation. CARMELA MURDOCCA is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University, Canada. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the sociology of law, race and gender with an emphasis on historical injustice and social inequality. REBECCA MURDOCH is a Masters student in the Justice and Transformation programme at the University of Cape Town. She is currently writing her dissertation on what is often termed “the unfinished business of the South African TRC” namely: reparations, prosecutions and pardons. Rebecca has been working as an intern at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation since August 2008. While at the CSVR, she has been responsible for coordinating a group of South African human rights NGOs who, together, have legally challenged the constitutionality of a presidential pardons process, recently set in place by the government, to deal with the matters relating to the past. JESSICA MURRAY obtained her PhD at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York. She is a Senior Lecturer at St. Augustine College in Johannesburg. Her research focuses on literature from Southern African and on how these texts represent women who have been victims of violence. FÉLIX NETO is professor of psychology at the University of Oporto, Portugal. His research interests are in the area of cross-cultural psychology. EILEEN NOMDO is a long-standing member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Protea, as well as The Protea Village Reunion & Land Claims Committee. She is involved with story-telling journeys amongst elders in the Manenberg community and a number of other community projects. Dr ROSS OLIVIER is currently President of Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In 1986 he was appointed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to establish the South Eastern Transvaal Council of Churches. A number of years later, in 1994, he was appointed convenor of the Journey to a New Land process and in 1999 was elected General Secretary of MCSA. From 2004 to 2008 he worked in Jackson, Mississippi in the USA during which time he was named NAACP Humanitarian of the Year for 2007. His publications include The Next Step; From Seating to Sending; 4S Program for Transformations; and Wider than the Ocean. RUSSELL ORR is a graduate in Psychology with a Masters Degree in Counselling and Therapeutic communication. Having spent time working as an assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry in London he is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology examining the Micro-Ecology of Religious Segregation in Northern Ireland. INGRID PALMARY is a senior researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a PhD in psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA from the university of KwaZulu Natal. Her research interests are in the field of gender, violence and displacement. She is coeditor of the forthcoming books Gender and Migration: Feminist Perspectives published by Zed Press and International Feminisms published by Springer. Dr. med. PETER POGANY-WNENDT, born 1954 in Budapest, Hungary. Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in Cologne, Germany, foundation member and member of the board of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. STEPHEN J. POPE is a professor of social ethics in the Theology Department of Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. He received his Ph.D. in theological ethics from the University of Chicago in 1988. He has written The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Georgetown, 1994) and Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 2007). He edited Essays on the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas (Georgetown, 2002) and Hope and Solidarity (Orbis, 2008). He has published articles on the virtue of charity, social justice, natural law and human rights, and forgiveness and reconciliation. His current research project concerns the role of religion in movements for truth, justice, and reconciliation in Latin America and Africa. His courses include, “Prophets and Peacemakers,” “The Challenge of Peace,” and “Person and Social Responsibility.” He and his wife have three children and reside in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. JOANNA R. QUINN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Western Ontario and Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Her work is in the area of traditional practices of acknowledgement in Uganda and Fiji. She has also published widely on the truth commissions of Uganda and Haiti, and others. Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych. MARIANNE RAUWALD, Psychoanalyst DPV, IPA, director of "Institut für Traumabearbeitung und Weiterbildung Frankfurt", visiting lecturer at the Child Guidance Clinic Cape Town, RSA, psychotherapeutic focus on trauma and migration, publications on trauma, sexual abuse, migration. VERN NEUFELD REDEKOP is an Associate Professor in the Conflict Studies program at Saint Paul University. His book, From Violence to Blessing: How an Understanding of Deep-Rooted Conflict Can Open Paths to Reconciliation has a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Forthcoming (Bloomsbury Academic) is Beyond Control: Towards a Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd – Police Relations. Current Research projects are “Spirituality, Emergent Creativity and Reconciliation,” and “Economic Development Based on Reconciliation and a Renewed Moral Imagination in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” GILLIAN RENNIE is an award winning journalist and editor who currently also teaches writing at the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies. Dr. DAVID REUSMANN, born 1936 in Tulchin/Ukrain, Physicist, Child-Survivor of the Holocaust, member of the Board of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. ANNEMIEK RICHTERS is a physician and medical anthropologist. She works as professor in culture, health and illness at the Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Public health and Primary care, Section Medical Anthropology, The Netherlands. Main research interest: intersections between gender, trauma, health and human rights in post-conflict contexts. Dipl.Ing. EVELINA RIJE, born 1969 in Bryansk, Russia, sales supervisor, descendant in 1st generation of a Child-Survivor of the Holocaust. Participant of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. BILL ROLSTON is Professor of Sociology and Associate Researcher with the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster. He has published widely on issues of dealing with Northern Ireland’s troublesome past, including storytelling, the viability of a truth commission, and the demobilisation of combatants. MARKUS RUDOLF is a researcher of the Upper Guinea Research Group, and is based at the Max Planck Institute in Halle/ Germany. Currently, he is working on his PhD on conflict and integration in the Basse Casamance (Senegal). His research interests are in the area of conflict, integration, collective identities, reconciliation and communication. ROBERT SCHWEITZER is an Associate Professor in Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Having graduated from UCT and Rhodes University, he developed a strong interest in transcultural issues. His recent research and publications includes papers relating to the broad issue of the experience of people entering Australia from refugee backgrounds and ethical and methodological issues involved in such research. He is currently involved in a Australian Research Council funded project looking at mental well being and treatment outcome in recently arrived people from refugee backgrounds including from parts of Africa and Burma. He has undertaken research in the areas of child abuse and the group treatment of generalised anxiety disorders. He currently serves as Deputy Chair of the Queensland Psychologists Board and in addition, maintains a small private practice in clinical psychology. SENI SENEVIRATNE is a poet, creative artist and qualified psychotherapist. Her poetry collection, Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin (Peepal Tree Press 2007) has been described as “a virtual master class between covers”. She is currently employed by a Women’s Trauma Centre in the UK and has more than twenty years experience of supporting survivors of abuse. THÉOPHILE SEWIMFURA is the coordinator of the community-based sociotherapy program in Nyamata, Rwanda, since May 2008. The previous four years he worked for World Vision as healing, peacebuilding and reconciliation facilitator. He has a BA in sociology. His main interest is peacebuilding and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. Dipl.-Psych. ERDA SIEBERT, born 1944 in Dresden, Germany, Psychoanalyst in Düsseldorf, Germany, member of the board of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. SEBINA SIVAC-BRYANT is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at University College London, with a Masters in Modern History. She was part of the research team investigating the Srebrenica massacre for the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. Her research interests are political anthropology, commemorative practices, memory, home and displacement. MARINA SOKOLOVA, born 1985 in Moscow, Russia, law student, chairwoman of ELSA (The European Law Students’ Association); descendant in 2nd generation of a Child-Survivor of the Holocaust. Participant of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. Dr. med. BERND SONNTAG, born 1953 in Braunschweig, Germany, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in Cologne, Germany, foundation member of the board of the Study Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust, called PAKH. Vice-head of the Department for Psychosomatic and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne SUSAN SPEAREY is an Associate Professor of English, and also teaches in the interdisciplinary MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies at Brock University in St Catharines, Canada. Currently, her research focuses on the ethics of readership in the context of literary and artistic responses to contemporary post-conflict histories and transitional justice initiatives. Dr KERSTIN STELLERMANN is a qualified child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist working as a consultant at the University Hospital in Hamburg, Germany. Since she graduated from medical school in 2000 she has worked in various settings around the world including Kosovo, Alaska and South Africa. She completed her doctorate in Infectious Diseases in 2004. ERICA L. STILL is an assistant professor in the English Department of Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA). Her research interests include contemporary African American literature, literary theory, and trauma studies. Her current project addresses African American and South African fiction about slavery, apartheid, and memory. HELENE STRAUSS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. She is currently working on a project on representations of intimacy and responsibility in post-TRC South African cultural texts. She has published on various aspects of South African literature and culture. E. JULU SWEN is a Journalist, transitional justice worker. He is based in Monrovia. Currently, he is Inquiry Officer and Administrator of the Inquiry Unit of the TRC of Liberia. He is interested in transitional justice work and his research interests are in the area of education, youth, and gender. MARIAN TANKINK, medical anthropologist, has written her PhD thesis at Leiden University Medical Center on health strategies of refugee women who experienced sexual violence in the context of conflict. Currently she is a researcher at HealthNet TPO, an NGO operating in disrupted areas. Her area of interest is gender violence. DOUG TANNER is a co-founder of The Faith & Politics Institute in Washington, DC, and served as its chief executive for 15 years. Currently, he is its Senior Adviser and a consultant to Fetzer Institute. His work is in race and history, theology, spirit and politics. CRISTIAN TILEAGÃ is lecturer in social psychology in the Dept. of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Current research interests are in the area of social representations of history, reconciliation and collective memory, political discourse analysis. Drawing on discursive psychology and rhetorical/ideological analysis he explores how the official political imaginary and histories of communist/post-communist past are constructed in talk and text. CHARLES H. TUCKER, a Cary, Mississippi, native, has joined the WWIRR staff as Director of Communications for the Mississippi Truth Project. He has worked in fundraising and public relations and as a newspaper reporter and photographer. Most recently Tucker served as public information officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on its mid-South Delta Initiative. He holds a degree in mass communication and journalism from Jackson State University. GABRIEL TWOSE is a graduate student at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA, currently pursuing his doctorate in social psychology. His research interests revolve around the psychological aspects of post-conflict reconciliation, particularly as related to the efficacy of truth-telling mechanisms. CHRIS VAN DER MERWE teaches Afrikaans and Dutch Literature at the University of Cape Town; currently his research is focused on Narrative and Trauma. He is the author, with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, of Narrating our Healing – Perspectives on Working through Trauma. HUGO VAN DER MERWE is the Transitional Justice Programme Manager of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. He has developed and managed numerous research, advocacy and intervention projects in South Africa and on the Continent on issues of transitional justice and reconciliation. BRENDA CARR VELLINO is an associate professor of literature at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in poetry and human rights, where she is writing a book on The Secondary Witness in Contemporary Human Rights Poetry which will focus on Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Peter Balakian, Adrienne Rich, Dionne Brand, Ingrid De Kok, and Rachel Tzevia Back. She has published two articles on poetry and human rights: on “Seamus Heaney's Poetic Redress for Post-Conflict Societies” in Peace Review (Jan-March 2008) and on Margaret Atwood’s “Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture” in Law Mystery, and the Humanities (2008). Her chapter, “Everything I Learned About Human Rights I Learned From Literature,” appears in Home-Work (2004), ed. Cynthia Sugars. VIBEKE VINDELØV, who is trained as a lawyer and a psychotherapist, is now professor at the Law Faculty, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and holds a part time position as professsor also at University of Berge, Norway in mediation. She has worked with mediation for about twenty years and is head of the department of mediation and conflict resolution at the university of Copenhagen. She has worked in Former Jugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia) and in Albania with politicians, NGO’s and academics, mediating, training and lecturing. She has been a trainer at the Folke Bernadotte Academy (under the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) since 2005, including training of UN officers. She is currently preparing an International Master in Societal Conflicts and Interventions for senior professionals to be launched by Sept. 2010. VV has written extensively on mediation in articles and books. Dr LYN VROMANS is a post-doctoral research fellow at Queensland University of Technology, working with a research team and partner organisation, which assists the settlement of newly arrived refugee people in Australia, as well as their recovery from trauma and torture. Her particular focus is to gain understandings of processes of change, the meaning of participants’ experiences and to identify external and internal resources that assist settlement towards providing culturally and contextually relevant intervention to people from refugee backgrounds. She has specific interest in narrative and dialogical processes of change and notions of communal and inter-subjective self, and has developed and implemented innovative research on narrative processes. Her work to date demonstrates her commitment to combining narrative, cross-cultural and research knowledge. Dr Vromans was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for Health for her research into narrative therapy at QUT in 2009 and has been awarded an Australian Psychological Society scholarship to further her clinical learning and research work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. MEREDITH WHEELER is Vice-Principal at Laidlaw College, Auckland New Zealand. Ph.D. in conflict studies, Temple University, Philadelphia. Volunteer work in Africa: community transformation, economic development and forgiveness. Research areas include process views of forgiveness; leadership transition and organizational change. Professor GILLIAN WHITLOCK is from English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. Her most recent book is Soft Weapons. Autobiography in Transit (Chicago 2007) and her research interests are in the production and reception of testimony in transnational networks. JENNY WILSON is an active member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Protea, co-ordinator of the Parish of St Saviour’s, Claremont, Cross of Nails Group and was awarded the Order of the Companion of the Cross of Nails in recognition of her on-going work in land restitution and reconciliation. |
