CORE INSTRUCTORS
CIIAN's domestic training program is developed and delivered
by our team of core instructors.
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Dr. Evan Hoffman
ehoffman@ciian.org
Executive Director
Ottawa
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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.
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Mr. Richard Moore
ciian@ciian.org
Associate Executive Director
Ottawa
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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.
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Mr.
Philippe Patry
ppatry@ciian.org
Domestic Training Program
Montreal
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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.
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Mr. Blaine Donais
ciian@ciian.org
Domestic Training Program
Toronto
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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.
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Mr. Colm Brannigan
ciian@ciian.org
Domestic Training Program
Toronto
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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.
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CIIAN ASSOCIATES
In
addition to our team of core trainers, CIIAN involves additional
associates and coaches who are well recognized in the ADR community.
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Mr. Jeffrey Mapendere
jmapendere@ciian.org
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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.
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Ms. Sylvia McMechan
ciian@ciian.org
Senior
Associate
Victoria
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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.
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Ms. Renée Gendron
rgendron@ciian.org
Associate
Ottawa
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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.
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Ms. Senzeni
Mapendere
smapendere@ciian.org
Associate
Ottawa
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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.
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