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Training and Facilitation Faculty
David C. Bangert, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management at the College of Business Administration at the University of Hawaii. Bangert spent 17 years in international business managing a $900 million development project in Saudi Arabia. Bangert combined a Ph.D. in Decision Science and MS in Engineering from Harvard University and an MBA at the University of Hawaii. At Harvard, he was an active participant in the Harvard Negotiations Roundtable. He has designed and delivers programs in Business Strategy, Leadership, and Negotiations for MBA and Executive programs at the University of Hawaii, College of Business Administration, the Czechoslovak Management Center, and Center for Creative Leadership. Both in service to the community and as an independent consultant, Bangert is an active facilitator, trainer, and strategic planner, working with diverse organizations ranging from the Department of Defense, Government of Taiwan, Queen's Health Systems, Korea Airlines, Aloha United Way, Motorola, Waianae Coast Coalition, and the Governor's cabinet of the State of Hawaii. He is currently working with the Department of Defense on the organizational readiness of military healthcare professionals to adopt new information technology to extend the reach and improve the quality of care delivered.
John Barkai, J.D., is Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law and Director of Clinical Programs. At the law school, he teaches courses on negotiation and ADR, criminal litigation, and evidence. He is past president of the Neighborhood Justice (Mediation) Center of Honolulu's Board of Directors and past chair of the Hawaii State Bar Association's ADR section. His main research interests are ADR in the courts and cross-cultural disputing. Professor Barkai is working with Hawaii Judiciary's Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution on a research project to study settlements in Hawaii's courts. He also teaches ADR courses for the University of Hawaii's school of Business, the Asia Pacific Center for Executive Development, and the Japan America Institute of Management Science.
Bruce Barnes is currently the only (Associate) Professor of Conflict Resolution in the University of Hawai' system, recently serving as acting director of the Program on Conflict Resolution and as principal investigator in the Univ. Hawai'i System ADR pilot project in 2000-2001. He holds an MEd and JD from Hawai'i and the LL.M (Master of Laws)-from Columbia. His international experience includes two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria, and training Peace Corps Volunteers at the former Peace Corps training center in Hawai'i for service in Tonga, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. His international conflict resolution training work has occurred primarily during the last 10 years, with projects in Samoa, Australia, Canada, Micronesia (Pohnpei, Kwajalein, training representatives of all Micronesian states) and New Zealand. In Hawai'i he is a well-known mediator, facilitator and arbitrator. He is a trainer for the Mediation Center of the Pacific in Honolulu and has conducted dozens of trainings and workshops on third-party practice and workplace conflict resolution in general, for state, federal and local agencies in Hawai'i.
David Chandler, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and served as Chair of the University of Hawai'i Program on Conflict Resolution from 1993 to 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and teaches courses on the Sociology of Law, Sociology of the Family, conflict analysis, mediation and negotiation (in the Law School with Professor John Barkai.) He is a practicing mediator and facilitator, and is working with the Mediation Center of the Pacific, the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution of the State Courts, and the University of Hawaii Alternative Dispute Resolution Project. He has conducted mediation and negotiation training in Hawaii, Canada, Israel, and Micronesia. His current research is on disputes in academic communities and innovations in training and teaching.
Susan M. Chandler, MSW, Ph.D. is Interim Director of the College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center and a professor of Social Work at the University of Hawaii. She served as Director of the Department of Human Services for the State of Hawaii in 1995 until 2002. She received bachelors degree in Labor Relations at Cornell University; her Masters in Social Work at the University of Hawaii and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994, she received a Certificate in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Dr. Chandler's teaching and research expertise is in the area of social welfare policy, child welfare, mental health issues, program evaluation and organizational development. She is a trained mediator and facilitator. The Public Policy Center also has a graduate certificate and there are many opportunities to work with organizations and communities using facilitation and deliberative dialogue skills
Betty Ching, MSW, ACSW is in private practice. She provides consultation and services in the areas of communication, facilitation and mediation to business and government sectors, religious and educational groups and non-profit agencies. She is a teaching affiliate with the graduate division of the School of Social Work in the areas of Family Systems and Conflict Resolution and is currently President of the board of EPIC `Ohana Conferencing. She has served as volunteer mediator and trainer and board member in the Mediation Center of the Pacific (formerly Neighborhood Justice Center) and the Peer Review Committee of the Honolulu County Dental Society.
Donna R. Ching, Ph.D. has been an Extension Specialist in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Hawaii-Manoa since 1987. During that time, she has enjoyed working with a variety of non-profit, for-profit and community organizations providing workshops in the area of group process, leadership and strategic planning. She has written two workshop manuals. One is for her workshop on "Facilitating Strategic Thinking and Planning" and the other is for her workshop on "Learning to Lead Collaboratively." She facilitates community meetings and has expertise in facilitating organizations in strategic planning and problem solving. She also coordinates a statewide agricultural and rural community leadership program.
Linda Colburn has served as a neutral in a variety of ADR settings over the last 20 years. She has applied dispute resolution skills to intra family, business, and work setting disputes. Technical assistance to non profit boards of directors has ranged from conflict resolution (among and between board members/ board members and executive directors/staff) to general board development and capacity building. Public policy mediation experience has involved facilitation and resolution of intra/inter departmental conflicts as well as process design and facilitation of briefings, scoping meetings, draft EA/EIS sessions requiring community engagement. As Operations Manager for the State of Hawaii's compliance with a Federal Consent Decree, Colburn convened cross sector teams to address policy and practice conflicts involving the departments of Education, Health, Human Services, Attorney General, Family Courts, Plaintiff Attorneys, the Executive Branch, the State Legislature and parents seeking redress to special education matters. She currently serves as sole proprietor of Where Talk Works which serves clients throughout the state of Hawaii.
Charmaine Crockett is a human rights advocate and writer, has had a varied background including being a B grade actress in her 20s, justice maker and wall street analyst in her 30's and an international human rights worker in her 40s'. She is sufficiently angst enough to commit the next four months to complete her certificate in conflict resolution, work and travel a stint in southeast Asia and, most importantly, finish the second draft of her young adult novel of which she has been procrastinating on, much to the disappointment of a publisher, for five years.
Karen Cross is Program Manager for the University of Hawai'i Program on Conflict Resolution and Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She manages the academic, research, and service work of the multidisciplinary Peace Institute and the Program on Conflict Resolution, which has a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution and an undergraduate Peace Studies Certificate and major, along with the University of Hawaii Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, which provides conflict prevention, management and resolution services to the university community.. She provides culturally appropriate process design, facilitation, mediation, and a range of conflict resolution training to organizations throughout the state. She often works with schools, university groups, government agencies and the non-profit sector over time to build governance, problem-solving and facilitative capacity. She serves on the boards of the Association for Conflict Resolution Hawaii, the Center for Global Nonviolence, and Consultants for Global Partnership. She co-created "Facilitating in Pacific Ways," a regionally responsive training for facilitators in preparation for the 2004 and 2005 United Nations University Global Seminar held with the University of Hawai'i.
Dolores Foley, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai`i. Her research and consulting areas focus on community planning, citizen participation, and governance of non-profit and community organizations. She teaches courses on community planning, social policy, and collaborative problem solving. She has published articles on organization change, collaboration and social issues in the International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, the International Journal of Drug Policy, Action Learning: Research and Practice, and the Journal of Administrative Theory and Practice. She is the coordinator of the College of Social Science Public Policy Center's Deliberative Dialogues Project and the Hawaii National Issues Forums. She is a board member on the National Issues Forums Institute.
Kem Lowry: PCR's current Director and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning. He is involved in the mediation of public policy issues in Hawaii. He has also served as a consultant to several state agencies, the United Nations, Asia Foundation, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Agency for International Development and is the author of published research on evaluation, dispute resolution and natural resource management. He is a mediator and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Hawaii State Judiciary and the Board of Mediation Center of the Pacific.
Neal Milner, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii and former director of the Program on Conflict Resolution. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches courses on health politics and on law and politics. He has published books and articles on social transformation, mediation ideology, mental health politics, the police, exorcism, and regulation of alternative medicine. His most recent research is on the role that rights language plays in stimulating peoples' imagination of physical, social, and political space. Along those lines, he has written about controversies in Hawaii regarding same sex marriage, condominium ownership and Native sovereignty. This work reflects his interest in the ways rights language mixes with other ways of observing and justifying in everyday life. As a mediator, he has worked on a variety of issues in the state and at the University.
Marina A. Piscolish, Ph.D., Principal Partner of MAPping Change, LLC. is an experienced Management Assistance Provider, specializing in mediation, facilitation and training in both the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Her unique expertise combines knowledge of organizational planning and development, dispute resolution and leadership development to create a climate for collaboration in organizations, support visioning and change processes and address organizational conflict. She earned her doctorate in Educational Administration and Policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997 and focused her studies on organizational theory and conflict studies. Prior to her move to Hawaii in 1998, Dr. Piscolish founded and directed the Office of Conflict Resolution in Education and later, the Conflict Resolution Program at the University of Delaware. She served as a policy scientist in the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware and now serves as a member of the policy committee for the University of Hawaii's Program on Conflict Resolution. She co-authored a book for Jossey Bass Publishing (2000) titled Reaching for Higher Ground: Tools for Powerful Groups and Communities.
Carolyn Stephenson. Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1980. Associate Professor of Political Science. She is a member of the Policy Committee of the Program on Conflict Resolution, and directs the Hawai'i Model United Nations. Before coming to UH in 1985, she was Director of Peace Studies at Colgate University, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Radcliffe. She worked with UNESCO's Culture of Peace program in 2001, and in 2002 was a Fulbright Fellow teaching conflict resolution in Cyprus. Dr. Stephenson's major research is in three areas: 1) alternative international security systems, including mediation, sanctions, nonviolent action, and peacekeeping, 2) non-governmental organizations and United Nations conference diplomacy in the areas of environment, women, and disarmament, and 3) gender, conflict and conflict resolution. She teaches international organization, international conflict resolution, nonviolent political alternatives, and international environmental policy, among other courses.
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