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CONTACT Faculty and Staff

Faculty

• Tatsushi Arai
  Associate Professor, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
  Dr. Tatsushi Arai is an associate professor of peacebuilding and conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont and a visiting scholar at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, where he earned his doctorate in 2005. Previously, Dr. Arai taught international relations at the National University of Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide.
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• Suzanne Belleci
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Associate Director of World Studies
  Marlboro College
  Suzanne Belleci, MA, has taught peace and conflict studies at the Arab American University of Jenin, Palestine and master's degree courses on intercultural communications, organizational behavior, and peacebuilding at SIT Graduate Institute.
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• Kevin Clements
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Director
  National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
  Kevin Clements, PhD, is currently the Director of the National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Otago University in New Zealand. Dr. Clements comes to Otago from the University of Queensland, were he was a professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Director of the Australian Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.
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• Diana González
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Health Educator
  University of Vermont
  Diana González, MA, is a trainer and facilitator specializing in educational settings and in providing workshops to train trainers. She has worked with restorative justice programs, in mediation centers, and in public and private schools. Diana’s work spans the local to global.
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• Paula Green
  Professor, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
  Program Director
  Paula Green is a professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute, and the founder-director of Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT), a graduate certificate program of the SIT Summer Peacebuilding Institute held annually for peacemakers from around the world.
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• George Lakey
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change
  Swarthmore College
  George Lakey is the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change at Swarthmore College. He has been an activist in social movements for fifty years, published seven books, and founded and led a number of nongovernmental organizations.
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• Lerio “Baht” Latumbo
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Deputy Director
  Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Phom Penh, Cambodia
  Baht is a widely experienced trainer/facilitator and consultant in the field of nonviolence, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding.
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• Patricia Worlock Moore
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Paddy Moore, MA, MPA, is a mediator specializing in health care, environmental and public policy issues. She has held senior leadership positions in state human service agencies in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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• Jackie Ogega
  Faculty
  Graduate Certificate in Conflict Transformation program
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Jackie Ogega is the African Women’s Project Director at the Religions for Peace International Secretariat in New York.  Jackie has extensive experience and skills in gender, peace-building and development and has worked with multi-sectoral partners including the United Nations, civil society, academic institutions and governments.
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• Jan Passion
  Faculty
  Graduate Certificate in Conflict Transformation
  Peacebuilding Associate, Karuna Center
  Consultant, Unarmed Civilian Protection
  
  Jan Passion earned his master’s in international and intercultural management at the School for International Training in 2000. Jan has been working in the field of peace and nonviolence for over 30 years.
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• Joseph Sebarenzi
  Faculty
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Joseph Sebarenzi earned a doctorate in international human rights law from the National University of Ireland, a master’s degree in international and intercultural management from SIT Graduate Institute, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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• Adin Thayer
  Director of the Graduate Certificate in Conflict Transformation program
  Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Peacebuilding Associate
  Karuna Center
  
  Adin Thayer, MSW, Psycho-Social Certificate Associate Director, is a clinical social worker in Northampton, MA, and a Karuna Center Peacebuilding Associate. She has worked for over 25 years in a variety of settings, including hospital outpatient psychiatry, community mental health, college counseling, and private practice.
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• Ryland White
  Associate Professor
  Ryland White, associate professor, has been a member of SIT Graduate Institute faculty since 1993. She teaches courses in training design for experiential learning, training for social action, dismantling disability, and ethics and intercultural training design.
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• Kenneth Williams
  Associate Professor
  Kenneth Williams completed his doctorate in organization and leadership at Columbia University, and his master's degree at the London School of Economics.  He teaches courses in Organizational Behavior and Team Development; Organizational Behavior and Leadership; Social Identity; Research, Decision-making and Analysis; Qualitative Research Methodology; Quantitative Research Methodology using SPSS and Excel; Leadership, Community and Coalition-Building.
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Staff

• Rebecca Bell
  Program Manager
  CONTACT: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
  Rebecca Bell is a graduate of SIT Graduate Institute’s Program in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management, where she earned her Master’s degree in 2001.  She is also a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. 
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