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INVITED
SPEAKERS - last updated Monday, 01 March 2010
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Justice
Albie Sachs, South Africa
Justice
Albie Sachs, appointed by President Mandela to SA's first
Constitutional Court, has recently completed his fifteen-year term
on the Court. His book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law [OUP]
deals with the workings of the judicial mind in dealing with complex
problems like terrorism and torture, truth and reconciliation, the
enforcement of social and economic rights, whether the law has a
sense of humour, and same-sex marriages.
On
turning six, during World War II, Albie Sachs received a card from
his father expressing the wish that he would grow up to be a soldier
in the fight for liberation.
His
career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen,
when as a second year law student at the University of Cape Town, he
took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later
he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where the Freedom
Charter was adopted. He started practice as an advocate at the Cape
Bar aged 21. The bulk of his work involved defending people charged
under racist statutes and repressive security laws. Many faced the
death sentence. He himself was raided by the security police,
subjected to banning orders restricting his movement and eventually
placed in solitary confinement without trial for two prolonged
spells of detention.
In
1966 he went into exile. After spending eleven years studying and
teaching law in England he worked for a further eleven years in
Mozambique as law professor and legal researcher. In 1988 he was
blown up by a bomb placed in his car in Maputo by South African
security agents, losing an arm and the sight of an eye.
During
the 1980s working closely with Oliver Tambo, leader of the ANC in
exile, he helped draft the organisation's Code of Conduct, as well
as its statutes. After recovering from the bomb he devoted himself
full-time to preparations for a new democratic Constitution for
South Africa. In 1990 he returned home and as a member of the
Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC took
an active part in the negotiations, which led to South Africa
becoming a constitutional democracy. After the first democratic
election in 1994 he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to
serve on the newly established Constitutional Court.
In
addition to his work on the Court, he has travelled to many
countries sharing South African experience in healing divided
societies. He has also been engaged in the sphere of art and
architecture, and played an active role in the development of the
Constitutional Court building and its art collection on the site of
the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg.
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Alain
Lempereur Professor, Public and Private Policy Department
Negotiation and Mediation Chair, Founder and Professor Chair ESSEC
Business School Paris Singapore, France.
Alain
Pekar Lempereur is the Negotiation and Mediation Chair Professor
at ESSEC Business School - Paris & Singapore, in the Public and
Private Policy Department. Member of the Board of Overseers, and of
the Faculty Senate, he coordinates the Interdisciplinary Forum
"Questioning the Crisis", which includes more than 50
ESSEC faculty.
In 1995, he founded ESSEC IRÉNÉ (Institute for Research
and Education on Negotiation in Europe) that he headed until
the end of 2008; he also served as the Academic Director of the
ESSEC Executive MBA (1999-2001). Former Special Fellow of the
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), he was
a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, at the University
of Mannheim and the Cyprus International Institute for Management.
His books are devoted to mediation (Méthode de Médiation
with Jacques Salzer & Aurélien Colson; La Médiation:
Modes d'emploi with Stephen Bensimon; Modèles de médiateurs
et Médiateur-modèle), negotiation (Méthode de négociation
and Négociations européennes, with Aurélien Colson, and La
Négociation, RFG, with James Sebenius; Callières. De la Manière de
négocier),
communication (Argumentation, Legal Argument), and leadership
(Faciliter la Concertation, with Lawrence Susskind and Yann
Duzert ; Leadership responsable). He published articles
in international journals, such as the European Review, the
Negotiation Journal, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review,
International Negotiation, etc. His current research is devoted
to responsible leadership, reconciliation and the levels of
transformation required in post-conflict situations. His new
book is The First Move: A Negotiator’s Companion (with Aurélien
Colson, Wiley, 2010).
He has facilitated programs of research, training and
consulting on negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution for
government and business leaders all over the world; he advised
national and international administrations, including the European
Commission and Parliament, the OECD, UNDP, and WHO. He helped
develop reconciliation and leadership programs in Africa, namely in
Burundi and in D.R. Congo, where he served as a senior facilitator.
He has also been a consultant for companies, like the Boston
Consulting Group and McKinsey.
A graduate in Law and Philosophy from the University of Brussels and
a Fulbright Fellow, he received his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School.
He and his wife, Michele, have three children, Daria, Henri, and
Emery.
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Associate
Professor Dale Bagshaw, PhD, Australia
Associate
Professor Dale Bagshaw, PhD, is the inaugural President of the Asia
Pacific Mediation Forum (2000-ongoing), a past President of the
World Mediation Forum, the inaugural Chairperson of SADRA
(1988-1998), and the Convenor of the 1st National Mediation
Conference (1993) and the 2nd International Mediation Conference
(1996). In 1993 she established post-graduate courses in Mediation
and Conflict Resolution at the University of South Australia and was
the Program Director until she retired in July 2009. She was also
the Director of the Centre for Peace Conflict and Mediation (CPCM)
and its precedents at UniSA (1995-2009). Dale has published widely,
conducted mediation training programs in 8 different countries and
has recently co-edited a book – Bagshaw, D & Porter, E (2009).
Mediation in the Asia Pacific Region. Transforming Conflicts and
Building Peace. Routledge: London and New York.
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Laurence
Boulle, Director, Mandela Institute for Global Economic Law
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Laurence
Boulle is currently Director of the Mandela Institute for Global
Economic Law and Issy Wolfson Professor in the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is also Professor of Law in Bond
University, Queensland. He is a former chair of Nadrac and member
(part-time) of the National Native Title Tribunal. He has practiced
and published in mediation and ADR for 20 years, his most recent
publication being Mediator Skills and Techniques: Triangle of
Influence (with M Nesic, Bloomsbury Professional, London, 2010). He
has brought a dispute resolution perspective to international trade
and investment law in The Law of Globalisation (Kluwer Law
International, The Netherlands, 2009.) He is currently focusing on
dispute resolution in the World Trade Organisation and in
cross-border investment disputes.
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Jennifer
McIntosh, Ph.D Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University,
Melbourne Clinical Child Psychologist, Family Therapist, Research
Consultant. Family Transitions , Australia
Jennifer
McIntosh (better known as Jenn) is a clinical and developmental
psychologist, family therapist, and researcher based in Melbourne.
She is Director of Family Transitions, a research and clinical
practice devoted to the study and treatment of family trauma and
transition, and Adjunct Associate Professor at La Trobe University,
Melbourne (School of Public Health). Jenn's academic posts include
Consultant & Practice Editor of the Journal of Family Studies,
and the Editorial Board of the Family Court Review. Jenn is well
regarded for her advocacy on the rights of children to psychological
safety, particularly in the face of family trauma and change. Her
interests as a researcher and educator in childhood trauma arise
from studies and work in Australia, the UK and the USA, focussing on
the experiences of children subject to family trauma and loss,
particularly examining the effects of parental deprivation and
conflict in early childhood. Jenn's research over the past fifteen
years has focused on children in high conflict divorce. She has
pioneered the development of a Child Informed approach to Family
Dispute Resolution, and continues to deepen clinical practice in
this arena in response to longitudinal research outcomes. She
trains, supervises and teaches internationally about this approach
to Child Inclusive Mediation, and is involved in replication studies
with Indiana University and the UK Children First program. Current
research includes studies into the impacts on infant and child
development of post separation parenting and care arrangements, and
the study of attachment issues in Family Law.
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Barbara
Wilson PhD, MSc, CQSW, MCM (UK), United Kingdom
Barbara
Wilson has been a family mediator since 1990 and became a full-time
independent practitioner and consultant in 1999. She worked
originally in the family, civil and criminal courts and subsequently
as a therapeutic social worker. She has conducted over 1,800 family
mediations, including multi-party cases. She receives referrals from
LSC mediation franchises (http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/), as well
as directly from legal practitioners and private individuals.
Barbara holds a Doctor of Philosophy by Publication Degree from the
University of Portsmouth, a Master of Science Degree in Advanced
Professional Development in Clinical and Health Science, a
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work and a Diploma in Social
Work. Barbara is particularly interested in theory-to-practice
issues and writes for a number of professional journals. She teaches
various modules of Graduate Certificate and MSc Conflict Resolution
courses run by the Institute of Family Therapy, (under the aegis of
the University of London), and provides post-qualifying workshops
for experienced mediators. Barbara is also registered with Ofsted
(http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/) as an Independent Adoption Support
Agency, and works with birth parents and others affected by
adoption.
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