Board of Directors
Peacebuild is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors currently comprised of five members who set policy and establish strategies for the network. Directors are elected by Peacebuild members at the Annual General Meeting.
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| Chair Margaret (Peggy) Mason Group of 78 |
Treasurer Tiffany Kizito Wilfrid Laurier University |
Member Nathan Funk University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel University College |
Member Abdul Kader Baloch Plan international Canada |
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| Member Gregory Lawrie Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. |
Member Karen Hung Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |
Member David Beer More information to come |
Member Martin Fischer Doctoral candidate NPSIA |
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| Member Don Hubert Associate Professor, Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa |
Member Nadja Pollaert More information to come |
Member Gordon Scott More information to come |
Member Tara Tavender More information to come |
Chair
Margaret (Peggy) Mason - Group of 78
Mason has been an Advisor to the Canadian Foreign Ministry on the control of small arms, chaired the UN 2001 Group of Governmental Experts study on small arms regulation and was a member of the Canadian delegation to the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects (NYC, July 2001). Since 2002 she has been a member of the Biting the Bullet Consultative Group Process, a "track two" process of government officials, academics and NGO experts, which recently met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in preparation for the July 2005 Biennial Meeting of States in NYC to consider their progress in implementing the UN Programme of Action against the proliferation and misuse of small arms.
Since November 2002, Peggy Mason has been a Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Relations (NPSIA) at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada where she has taught a graduate seminar on International Organizations.
Ms. Mason chairs the Ottawa-based foreign policy NGO, the Group of 78. She is a very active member of the Campaign Against Ballistic Missile Defence.
In February 2005 Ms Mason participated in an Expert Workshop sponsored by Foreign Affairs Canada on verification and compliance issues in relation to weapons of mass destruction and, in cooperation with the Polaris Institute of Ottawa, she has begun work on Space Security.
Treasurer
Tiffany Kizito - Wilfrid Laurier University
Tiffany Kizito is currently pursuing a Masters in International Public Policy at Wilfrid Laurier University and working as a Balsillie Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a Bachelors (Honours) degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto (UofT). In 2007, Tiffany participated in a month long peacebuilding and conflict transformation program in Caux, Switzerland while also writing weekly articles for the Ottawa Citizen about her experience. Previous experience includes working with the G8 Research Group at U of T, working at War Child Canada and CPCS Transcom, an infrastructure development consulting firm.
Member
Nathan Funk - University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel University College
Nathan C. Funk (Ph.D., American University, 2000) is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel University College, with previous appointments at American University and George Washington University. His writings on international conflict resolution include two co-edited volumes, Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam (2001) and Ameen Rihani: Bridging East and West (2004), and the forthcoming book, Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East (2008). His current research focuses on the role of cultural and religious factors in conflict as well as in peacebuilding capacity development.
Member
Abdul Kader Baloch - Plan international Canada
bdul Kader Baloch is a certified Accountant who has worked in the development finance field since 1997. He currently works with Peacebuild member Plan international Canada Inc as a grants accountant, but has previous experience in east and central Africa. Some of his areas of specialty include: budget development, financial project management, donor compliancy and regulation reporting, training and capacity building of finance personnel, and internal audit and assurance.
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Gregory Lawrie - Brookfield Renewable Power Inc.
Gregory is currently working as a manager of corporate accounting for Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. and oversees the accounting and financial reporting activities of the Company. His role includes managing the controls over financial reporting, the budgeting and financing process as well as dealing with complex accounting and reporting issues and requirements. Previously he spent over eight years in public accounting providing audit and consulting services to large and small organizations. He is a Chartered Accountant with over 9 years of experience in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Karen Hung - Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Karen is currently completing training with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as a Political/Economic Foreign Trade Officer. She is a Chartered Accountant with over five years of audit and tax experience and holds a Bachelor of Administrative Studies from York University and a Masters in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics. Karen previously worked in the Toronto, London and Washington DC offices of KPMG, in addition to completing an internship with the UK Social Investment Forum, a British non-profit organization which promotes socially responsible investment within the financial community. She has also served as a volunteer teacher for several projects in Costa Rica and China.
Member
Martin Fischer - Doctoral candidate
Martin Fischer is a doctoral candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. His dissertation investigates the UN Security Council’s decision-making process on the authorization of UN peace operations to use military force to protect civilians. He has worked for a broad spectrum of organizations involved in the prevention and management of conflict, including the Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung in Ethiopia, the Friedrich Naumann-Stiftung in Indonesia and the UNDP in Ukraine. Martin is a member of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict’s Early Warning/Early Response working group. His most recent publication, co-authored with David Carment, is “R2P and the Role of Regional Organizations in Ethnic Conflict Management, Prevention and Resolution“ Global Responsibility to Protect, Vol. 1.3 (2009), 261-290 (lead article).
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Don Hubert - Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa
Don Hubert is Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and a Senior Associate at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the City University of New York. Prior to 2007, he led policy development on Canada’s human security agenda at the Department of Foreign Affairs for nearly a decade including responsibility for small arms proliferation, natural resources linked to armed conflict, the “responsibility to protect,” and corporate social responsibility. He served as Deputy to the Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2004 and was a consultant for the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty 2000. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge and has been a research fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University and the Watson Institute at Brown University. He is currently completing a book entitled Human Security: Global Politics and the Human Costs of War to be published by Routledge in 2010. His publications include The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy; The Responsibility to Protect: Supplementary Volume of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty with Thomas Weiss; and Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace, with Rob McRae.
