Dr. Evan Hoffman
ehoffman@ciian.org

Executive Director 
Ottawa

Evan Hoffman holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). His doctoral research focused on the question of why mediation sometimes produces a durable peace and this research culminated in the creation of a new model for durable peace. Evan also completed a Master's Degree in Post-war Recovery Studies at the University of York, UK in 2001 and an undergraduate degree in psychology at Carleton University, Ottawa in 1999. In 2001 he earned a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) from the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation (CIIAN).

From 2004-2009 Evan was an 'Analyst and Policy Advisor' for CIIAN's International Peace and Prosperity Project (IPPP) in Guinea-Bissau. The IPPP was a political violence prevention project testing the application of lessons learned and best practices to develop a model for fragile, failing, and failed states.

Presently, he is the Executive Director of CIIAN. Evan is also an Associate Faculty member of the MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding program at Royal Roads University, Victoria where he teaches a course on the prevention of deadly conflict, and an Adjunct Professor with the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution at Antioch University McGregor where he is the Chair of the Concentration in International Mediation.

Mr. Richard Moore
ciian@ciian.org

Associate Executive Director Ottawa

Richard Moore is the Associate Executive Director of the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation and one of its core instructors.

Richard's experience in dispute resolution is built upon a foundation of almost thirty years in the practice of law coupled with two decades of mediation and conflict resolution work.  He is retired from his law practice and now works exclusively in conflict resolution. His services include conflict coaching, mediation, facilitation, arbitration, conflict management system design and consulting. He has a wide range of clientele in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.

Mediating since 1990, he has conducted over twenty five hundred mediations including mediations in complex and multi party conflicts. Areas where he has mediated include:  employment and workplace issues, business disputes with small, medium and large enterprises, health care and hospital issues, human rights, First Nations, estates, professional responsibility, personal injury, insurance, construction, family and property disputes.

In conflict management system design work, he has consulted internationally in Guyana and the Philippines in projects introducing mediation into the High Court of Guyana and the Philippine Supreme Court. He also trained judges, lawyers and others mediation techniques and lead community outreach programs to introduce mediation to the local communities. He has taught mediation skills to traditional Amerindian chiefs in Guyana and to civil society leaders in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. He is a founder of the Canadian National Capital YM-YWCA Community Mediation and Peace Building Program and Chair of its Advisory Council.

For many years he was an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa Law School and taught negotiation and professional responsibility for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Richard is a director of ADR Institute of Ontario and Past President of the Carleton County Law Association.  He has had significant community volunteer involvement and in 1992 was presented with a Civilian Commendation from the Ottawa Police Services Board and in 2003 with the Gordon F. Henderson Award for volunteerism in the community. 

Richard had been granted the designations Chartered Mediator (C. Med.), Certified Family Mediator (CFM) and Chartered Arbitrator (C. Arb.) from the ADR Institute of Canada and the Registered Practitioner in Dispute Resolution (RPDR) from the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation. He has also been granted the distinction of Certified Mediator by the International Mediation Institute headquartered in The Hague.

Mr. Philippe Patry
ppatry@ciian.org

Domestic Training Program
Montreal

Lawyer, Philippe Patry is an experienced trainer and alternative dispute resolution consultant/practitioner. 

Philippe first practiced as a Crown Prosecutor at la Cour municipale de Montréal. He specialized in domestic violence cases and managed the Elizabeth Frye Shoplifting Rehabilitation Program for Women.

Later appointed as a Board Member at the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), he presided over hearings both at the Refugee Protection Division and the Immigration Appeal Division. In that later capacity, he was not only instrumental in implementing and managing the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program, but he also conducted more than three hundred ADR sessions.

After earning a Certificate in ADR at the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation (CIIAN) in 2005 and completing a Master’s Degree in Post-war Recovery Studies at the University of York, UK in 2006, Philippe has also been granted the designation of Chartered Mediator (C. Med.) from the ADR Institute of Canada in 2009.

Philippe has since consulted internationally in Guinea-Bissau for the International Peace and Prosperity Project (IPPP), a demonstration case on violence prevention. Among others, he contributed in designing and convening Senior Track II Dialogue on National Reconciliation as well as in supporting the reflection and activities of the Military Reconciliation Commission.

For the past three years, Philippe has also provided ADR training to the Dispute Resolution Officers for the IRB’s ADR Program as well as individually tailored coaching to newly appointed IRB Members.

Mr. Blaine Donais
ciian@ciian.org

Domestic Training Program Toronto

Blaine Donais B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (ADR), RPDR, C. Med., author of Workplaces That Work and Engaging Unionized Employees, both published by Canada Law Book, is President and Founder of the Workplace Fairness Institute. 

He has represented professionals as a labour lawyer since 1995. He is an expert in both the practice and theory of assisted labour/management negotiation, mediation/arbitration and facilitation. He is Adjunct Professor of Workplace Dispute Resolution at York University and University of Toronto (Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources) and is Visiting Lecturer for La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia and Queensland University, Brisbane Australia. He teaches Human Resources professionals, Labour leaders and others in
Human Rights, Labour and Employment law, Human Resources, Collective Bargaining and Conflict Resolution. He acts as Conference Chair, Speaker and Seminar Leader for various conferences including Insight Info, The Canadian Institute and Lancaster House.

Mr. Colm Brannigan
ciian@ciian.org

Domestic Training Program Toronto

Colm Brannigan is a full time mediator and arbitrator. He is a Director of the ADR institute of Ontario and co-chair of its Technology Section.  

Colm is a Chartered Mediator and has an LLM in ADR from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He was one of the first Canadian mediators to be certified by the International Mediation Institute in the Netherlands and is also a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Roster of Mediators.

In addition to extensive writing on ADR topics, Colm has participated in numerous professional development programs and is a part-time instructor in law at Humber College in Toronto. He is also the moderator/founder of “Mediate-Canada” an ADR listserv on Google Groups.

Mr. Jeffrey Mapendere
jmapendere@ciian.org

Mr. Jeffrey Mapendere is a conflict analyst with extensive expertise in security and rebel groups analysis. As a conflict resolution practitioner, Mr. Mapendere has conducted high-level political analysis and worked on a variety of projects in Mozambique, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Jamaica, and Guyana. Mr. Mapendere also designs electoral dispute resolution systems for a variety of electoral environments and is a mediator.

Most recently, Jeff has held posts as a Senior Adviser – Security Arrangements for the United Nations Mediation Standby Team and as a Field Office Director for the Carter Center's Election Observation Mission in Sudan.

Mr. Mapendere has an MA in conflict analysis and management from Royal Roads University in Canada. He also earned a graduate certificate in conflict resolution, a BA in Psychology, and a BA in Psychology and Criminal Justice, all from Carleton University in Ontario, Canada.

Ms. Sylvia McMechan
ciian@ciian.org

Sylvia McMechan began as a pioneer in the Canadian conflict resolution field in 1990, when she became the first program officer for the Fund for Dispute Resolution in Ontario. Two years later she assumed the role of director of Canada’s Network for Conflict Resolution, which she continued until accepting a position as core professor in the peace and conflict studies at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. For the past decade, Sylvia has been in private practice as a mediator and facilitator of collaborative processes, with a focus on multi-party engagements that frequently involve natural resource disputes and include government agencies, aboriginal communities, and corporate interests.

Sylvia holds a bachelor degree in environment and resource studies, a master’s degree in conflict resolution and is now studying in a doctoral program, focusing on public policy and social change. She also teaches graduate courses on mediation, consensus-building, and negotiation.

Ms. Renée Gendron
rgendron@ciian.org

Associate
Ottawa

Renée Gendron holds a Masters degree in sociology with a specialisation in governance. She earned a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) from the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation (CIIAN) in August 2009. Presently, she is conducting doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Hille. Her research involves the creation of a new conflict and grievance analysis model that is being applied to the conflicts in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.

Renée facilitates leadership courses for CIIAN and she was the Dialogues Project Coordinator, an innovative joint peacebuilding project between CIIAN and other organizations which combined theatre and conflict resolution in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Renée was also an expert coder for the International Peace Institute's program on Compliance with Security Council Resolutions. She coded compliance to United Nations Security Council resolutions for the civil wars in Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Renée has also conducted independent research on the globalisation processes and their effects on conflicts in the Caucasus. Moreover, she has researched and written articles on the impacts of clans on state building and peacebuilding processes, the role of resource scarcity on the task of preventing violent conflict, and on Fourth Generation (4G) Early Warning systems.

Ms. Senzeni Mapendere
smapendere@ciian.org

Associate
Ottawa

Senzeni Mapendere holds a Masters of Arts in Leadership and Training from Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada. 

She has facilitated Leadership training workshops in the USA and in Canada.  Senzeni ‘s training expertise is also drawn from twenty years of Foreign Service experience  in Africa, Asia,  Australia, Eastern Europe and North America.