Team

David Lord, Executive Director

David Lord has been the Executive Director of Peacebuild since January 2002. Immediately prior to joining Peacebuild, he was the field representative in Uganda and Sudan for the Carter Center’s conflict transformation program. Previous experience includes co-founding and co-directing UK-based Conciliation Resources from 1994-1999 and directing the research team at International Alert, also in the UK. From 1987 to 1991 he was an associate of the Parliamentary Centre in Ottawa and acted as advisor to the Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs in the Canadian House of Commons, advisor to the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association, and editor of Parliamentary Government, a quarterly journal produced by the Centre. He has also worked as a journalist for The Montreal Gazette, the Canadian Press news agency, MacLeans magazine and The Montreal Star. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sir George Williams University (Concordia) and a Diploma in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario.  

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Joanne Lebert, Deputy Director

Joanne served as Vice-Chair and Treasurer of Peacebuild's Board of Directors from 2005 to 2007. She led the network's operational review and strategic development process in the fall of 2007. While serving as Board member, Joanne lectured at Carleton University and worked towards the completion of her PhD in Social Anthropology (York University) with a focus on human rights, intergenerational conflict and everyday violence in post-apartheid Namibia. Prior to commencing her PhD, Joanne was a Visiting Fellow in Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford. She has worked for the OSCE in Bosnia-Herzegovina & Croatia, as a program manager with Amnesty International, as a project officer for CARE International-Zambia (Meheba Refugee Settlement), as an Angola-specialist for Africa Files, and helped establish CANADEM in 1997, returning briefly in 2005 to develop CANADEM's governance and security rosters.

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Lucie Beauregard, Office Manager

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Dominic Leger, Communications Officer

Dominic has a BA in Political Science from Laval University and a Masters degree in International Affairs with a focus on Risk Management in Developing Countries from the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux, France. His research focus was on Human Security and the security risk to humanitarian workers operating in violent conflicts. Prior to joining Peacebuild, he has worked for Amnistie internationale (francophone section), the Rideau Institute on International Affairs and at the House of Commons as a Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament. Dominic has also worked as a newspaper journalist.

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Guillaume Landry, Forum on Children and Armed Conflict Working Group Coordinator

Mr. Guillaume Landry is a researcher and child protection expert. He is currently Programme Manager for the Country Profiles Initiative at the International Bureau of Children's Rights (IBCR) and the Coordinator of the Canadian Forum on Children and Armed Conflict. In 2002-2003, he was Youth Mine Action Ambassador at UNICEF Quebec before joining ECPAT International's research team in Bangkok, Thailand focusing on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. He has acquired an impressive amount of field experience in Africa acting as Child Protection Advisor for the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as Research Specialist and Project Manager in West Africa on behalf of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, and as a researcher of the Western Sahara conflict. Mr. Landry has carried out numerous field studies in North and West Africa, the Balkans, Cuba and Brazil, in addition to acting as consultant for various agencies and Canadian and foreign universities. In partnership with the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, he recently updated the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) training module on child protection. In December 2007, Mr. Landry completed a research paper on the reintegration of children affected by armed conflict for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Guillaume Landry holds a degree from York University (Canada) and the Hebraic University of Jerusalem (Israel) in International Studies, as well as a Professional Masters degree from University of Uppsala (Sweden) in Humanitarian Assistance.

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Kate McInturff, Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group Coordinator

Kate McInturff received her doctoral degree from the University of British Columbia. She has worked at the American University in Cairo, McMaster University and, most recently, at the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is currently the coordinator of the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of Peacebuild. Her research is focused on gender, development and culture in postcolonial African states.

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Silke Reichrath, Conflict Prevention Working Group Coordinator

Silke Reichrath has coordinated the Conflict Prevention Working Group since September 2008. Before this, she worked as a Senior Project Officer for the Canadian International Immunization Initiative at the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA). She has also worked for five years at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), including two internships and two Research Officer positions in the areas of Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management. She holds a BA in French and Spanish from the University of Calgary (1997) and an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University (2000). She wrote her thesis on the participation of Mayan organizations in the implementation of the Guatemalan Peace Accords. Her interests include conflict management, participatory governance, indigenous rights, and gender equity.

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Maribel Gonzales, Small Arms Working Group Coordinator

Maribel is currently Programme Associate with responsibilities for Small Arms and Peacebuilding at Project Ploughshares, a Waterloo, Ontario based NGO focused on building peace and preventing war. She previously worked on humanitarian assistance, peacebuilding and development projects in Angola. Her research involvement has focused on land issues and the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process in Angola and on NGO coalition programmes in Angola, Canada and the Philippines. From 1996-2006 she was the Executive Director of the Canadian office of Development Workshop, a development NGO. Before migrating to Canada, Maribel worked with the government in the Philippines, UNICEF in Pakistan, and the City of Boston in the US. Maribel has a BA in Sociology from the University of the Philippines and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Dominic Leger, Peace Operations Working Group Coordinator

Dominic has a BA in Political Science from Laval University and a Masters degree in International Affairs with a focus on Risk Management in Developing Countries from the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux, France. His research focus was on Human Security and the security risk to humanitarian workers operating in violent conflicts. Prior to joining Peacebuild, he has worked for Amnistie internationale (francophone section), the Rideau Institute on International Affairs and at the House of Commons as a Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament. Dominic has also worked as a newspaper journalist.

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