Northern Ireland native brings conflict resolution expertise to Lipscomb
Janel Shoun |
Lipscomb University announces Mari Fitzduff, international conflict expert, author and consultant on conflict programs around the globe, as the second speaker in its Common Ground, Common Good spring 2009 speaker series, a program to spark community conversations about the challenges facing the new White House administration in its first 100 days.
Lipscomb’s Institute for Conflict Management is hosting the talk by Fitzduff, titled “From the Global to the Local: Lessons from Northern Ireland and Around the World on Building Peace in Tennessee” at 1 p.m., Feb. 13, in Willard Collins Alumni Auditorium, on the Lipscomb campus at One University Park Drive. This event is free and open to the public.
Fitzduff, director of the masters of art program in coexistence and conflict at Brandeis University, is a native of Northern Ireland and from 1990 to 1997, she served as chief executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, which was at the forefront in developing governmental policies and local community programs to tackle many decades of violent conflict.
Her many publications include “Beyond Violence: Conflict Resolution Processes in Northern Ireland,” which won an American Library Association Notable Book Award.
Fitzduff has more than three decades experience in conflict resolution policy and practice development. She has consulted on conflict programs in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Basque country.
Recently, she served as director of UNU/INCORE, one of the world's leading organizations for international research and consultancy work on coexistence and conflict matters around the world.