Peacebuilding Global Consulting

International Assistance Mission - Afghanistan

Project Review - Youth Peacebuilding and Trauma Healing Project

• Peace Educational in high schools project
• Kabul, Afghnistan
• April, 2021

Global Partners for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

• Improving practices Working Group Core member since 2017
• Working group meeting facilitation, The Hague, Netherlands, October 2017
• Webinar co-host, Human Security MSP, May 2018
• Working group meeting facilitation, Vienna, Austria, October 2018
• Webinar on Human Security MSP and Community Policing
• Webinar: Analysis, Intervention & Dialogue. Making Sense of Conflict in the Age of Pandemic
• Webinar: Human Security Basics Training: What Really Makes Us Secure When Confronting a Pandemic
• Webinar: Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Human Security
• Web training - Gender Toolkit

 

Program Reviews Team Leader

• Mennonite Central Committee 5-year program reviews

• Egypt, February 2020

• Northeast Asia/Korea, July 2019

• South Sudan, June 2018

• Kenya, July/August 2008

 

Alliance for Peacebuilding

• Senior Fellow for Human Security
• Human Security Work
• Named January 2016

Social Enterprise Institute@ Elizabethtown College

• beginning September 2017 to May 2019
• Senior Fellow as a Subject Matter Expert
• Coffee for Peace, Philippines
• SCORE Against Hunger, Zimbabwe

 

CAUX FORUM: Just Governance for Human Security

• Caux, Switzerland, July 2018, July 2019
• Panelist on Healing Memories (2018)
• Panelist on Good Governance (2019)
• Workshop Facilitator:
  • Dialogue Across the Gulfs of Life(2018)
  • Deep Listening for Healing (2018)
  • Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Human Security (2019)                    

World Council of Religons for Peace-Japan

• Tokyo, Japan February 2018
• teach mediation for reconciliation
• facilitation design feedback

Lao PDR - Technical Advisor to Peacebuilding Curriculum Writing Process

• Supported 3 rounds of training to test the curriculum
• Stakeholders included:
  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Lao Front for National Construction
  • Interfaith Religious Leaders
  • Mennonite Central Committee
  • Institute for Global Engagement
  • Mittapab
• January 2014-January 2015

UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR)

• ExpRes roster of preapproved consultants
• Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding profile
• Trainer, Conflict Analysis/Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding Adviser subprofile
• November 2013

Islamic University (UIN) Center for Peacebuilding,

• UIN at Sunan Ampel, Surabaya, Indonesia
• Advising on religious based conflict and curriculum development
• May 2013 – 2015

Somaliland, University of Hargeisa/Elizabethtown College        

• Visiting Lecturer and Fellow
• Initial introductions, capacity assessment and signing MoU between UoH and EC
• Conduct short courses:
  • Peacebuildng and Civil Society for Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Conflict Analysis and Transformation
  • Designing Peace Education
  • Human Security and Peacebuilding
  • Human Security and Globalization
• Revisit previous service location
• March and December 2013, December 2014, August 2015, July 2016, October 2018, March 2020

Philippines, Interfaith Center for Conciliation and Nonviolence (ICCN)
                       -Co-Trainer

•  Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation
•  72ND Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army 10th Infantry Division, Mawab, Compostela Valley, Mindanao
•  41 Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGUs) and their Army Officers
•  May 2012

Afghanistan, Oxfam Novib
                 -Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Consultant

• Project title: Building Afghan Peace Locally (BAPL)
• Baseline survey tool development workshop
• Training on baseline survey tool use
• Baseline data analysis and report writing
• December 2011-March 2012

Afghanistan, Oxfam GB
                      -Peacebuilding Mentor

• Project Title: Promoting Community Peace Building Through Mobilization and Capacity Building of Civil Society Institutions
• Capacity building and institutional support for peacebuilding project staff
• Technical advice on best practice in the peace building sector
• Supporting civil society peacebuilding network
• Desk study of civil society engagement in peacebuilding and processes
• Develop a simplified peacebuilding manual for local contexts based on existing manuals
• 2011-2012

On Earth Peace - Ministry of Reconciliation, USA
                        -Co-Facilitator

• Restorative process facilitator and consultant

Philippines, Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute
                     -Lead and Co-Facilitator

• Active Nonviolence: Theories and Practice
• Religion: Peacebuilding In Multi-Cultural Societies
• 2001 to present

Burkina Faso/Chad Mennonite Central Committee Office
                        -Administrative Support and Transition Consultancy

• Ouagadougou Office for Burkina Faso and Chad
• Policy formulation
• Review guideline implementation
• Program separation
• January/February 2011

Philippines, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
                        -Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) Interviewer & Lead Writer

• Mindanao, Philippines Peace Practice focusing on gains and gaps in peace
• Davao City, North Cotabato, Maguindanao, Zamboanga City, Manila
• August 2009 - January 2010
• RPP Report

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
                          -External Reviewer

• December 2009

Philippines, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
                       -Listening Project Facilitator & Lead Writer

• Mindanao, Philippines Listening Project focusing on effectiveness of international aid
• Davao City, North Cotabato, Maguindanao, Lanao, Misamis, Bukidnon, Zamboanga, Basilan Island
• May-December 2009
• Mindanao Report Here

Lingana Foundation
                      -Project Integrity and Sustainability Consultant

• Ensuring ongoing integrity and sustainability of the Education for Peace and Reconciliation Project in Goz Beida, Chad through assessment of impact, progress evaluations and recommended program adjustments
• September, 2008 - February 2010

Philippines, Catholic Relief Services
                      -Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute (MPI) Facilitator

• Facilitator for Peace Governance Workshop for Local Government Units
• Facilitator for MPI -- Active Nonviolence course
• Facilitator for MPI Religion: Peacebuilding In Multicultural Societies
• Davao, Philippines, May, 2009
• MPI Website Here

 

Eastern Mennonite Seminary
                        -Adjunct Professor

• Active nonviolence instructor
• August - November, 2009

 

Philippines, Mennonite Central Committee
                       -Organizer of the Mindanao Learning Tour

• Taking MCC partners and senior staff to visit peacebuilding work in central Mindanao, Philippines
• July, 2008

Waging Peace, Canada

• Project Prospectus for peacebuilding education in Darfuri Refugee camps in Chad
• January - July, 2008

Philippines, Mennonite Central Committee
                       -Relational Maintenance

• Mennonite Central Committee (Akron Pennsylvania) and the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute during gap in personnel programming
• Facilitator and Management Committee Member, November, 2007 – June, 2008

Mennonite Disaster Service
                       -Concept Paper Writer

• Bringing Mennonite agency resources to the task of assisting US veterans and families
• November, 2007

Eastern Mennonite Seminary
                      -Prospectus on Local Peacebuilding Institute

• Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Lancaster Campus

• September, 2007