An International ADR Perspective on Building a More Peace’able’ World
Please join us September 30th, in Sydney Australia, for this engaging presentation!
MBB President / CEO, Prabha Sankaranarayan (joining us via skype) and Steve Lancken will talk about MBB’s Liberian and Nepalese peace keeping projects and demonstrate how mediation skills are used to enhance conflict management, build capacity and support justice in troubled societies. Recent experiences from the MBB Congress in Bucharest will also be discussed, as will the opportunities for members to get involved in other international projects aimed at creating a more peace’able’ world.
Need help REGISTERING? Please contact the LEADR & IAMA office on (02) 9251 3366.
MBB has current projects are in Sierra Leone, Nepal, Kenya, Israel, Ecaduor, and Columbia, with an additional Climate Change project focusing on the use of mediation in climate agreements. MBB is also currently building relationships with Rotary International to support its international peace initiatives. Australian mediators who wish to utilize their experience in unique and challenging ways are encouraged to learn more about how MBB leverages local knowledge and skill in an international context.
About the presenters
Steve Lancken
Steve has been a member of Resolution Institute (formerly known as LEADR & IAMA) for more than 20 years, is a full time mediator and occasional international peace maker/consultant. Steve recently completed a Masters Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University and has worked on projects for MBB in Liberia and Nepal. Steve is also a full time mediator, having left the practice of law in 1999 to focus on a peace making career.
Steve looks forward to sharing his journey, from ‘suburban lawyer’ to international traveller and peace practitioner. Steve will show some video footage of the Bucharest Congress which includes excerpts from talks by Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, and Mary Montague, Irish recipient of the MBB Peacemaker of the year in 2015.
Prabha Sankaranarayan
Prabha is a conflict transformation consultant who has mediated, facilitated and trained in Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA. She has also designed and facilitated interfaith dialogues in Asia and Africa, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh. Her public and private sector work includes conflict analysis for partnerships, consultation assessment for industrial development zones, design and implementation of training packages for multinational corporations, as well as facilitation of multi-stakeholder mediations.
Prabha is actively involved in regional, national and international activities focused on civil liberties, sexual violence prevention, conflict mitigation, and trauma rehabilitation. She trains and delivers presentations (nationally and internationally) on the impact of family and community violence, the intersection of trauma and peacebuilding, restorative justice, conflict resolution, mediation and transitional justice. Prabha co-lead Mediators Beyond Borders’ seven year project in Liberia, which includes programs focused on the training, rehabilitation and re-integration of former child soldiers, gender focused interventions, cross border training and community integration activities. She is a member of the MBB Kenya Team, designing and delivering conflict transformation services among Pastoralists, and as a member of the Diamond Peace Leadership Circle, she has designed and facilitated peace leadership training for women from eighteen countries.