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Catherine Barnes

Catherine Barnes
S-CAR Ph.D Alumna, Affiliate Associate Professor at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University
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Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 2000
M.S., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 1994

Biography

Catherine Barnes has extensive experience facilitating dialogue and joint analysis, as well as teaching and training adults in various aspects of working with conflict, strategies for building peace and promoting social justice.She has lived and worked in more than 30 countries particularly in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Caucasus and Eastern Europe and worked throughout 2010 in Burma / Myanmar with Hope International Development agency. With almost twenty years working with various non-governmental organizations, Catherine’s practical experience varies widely and has included:
• Interactive process design and dialogue facilitation, strategic planning and collaborative learning, including large-scale conferences and more intimate deliberative dialogue processes engaging participants from across conflict divides;
• Teaching and training in peace processes, conflict transformation, dialogue, problem solving, leadership development and empowerment for social action;
• Policy research, policy dialogue and advocacy on issues connected to war-to-peace transition processes, political negotiation, statebuilding, and civil society roles in peacebuilding.
• Program and project development and proposal preparation; strategic reviews and evaluation. 



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April 08, 2009
Civil society play roles at every point in the development of conflict and its resolution: from surfacing situations of injustice to preventing violence, from creating conditions conducive to peace talks to mediating a settlement and then promoting it, from...
Category: Journal Article
March 01, 2009
In the context of statebuilding and peacebuilding, Catherine Barnes of Conciliation Resources examines changes in 'the political settlement' in war-to-peace transitions.The paper was commissioned by the UK Department for International Development and the...
Category: Papers & Reports
January 01, 2009
The foundations for sustainable peace are laid when those in conflict agree on how to resolve the issues that have divided them and how they will live together peacefully in the future. While external actors can play a decisive role in providing constructive...
Category: Papers & Reports
January 01, 2008
Faced with the problem of how to respond to the challenges of intra-state armed conflict, international policymakers often turn to incentives, sanctions and conditionality in the hope that these tools can alter the conflict dynamics and influence the protagonists...
Category: Papers & Reports
April 01, 2007
This working paper by Catherine Barnes of Conciliation Resources analyses the UK's conflict policies.It identifies how UK approaches can be improved, for example, by using reviews to bridge existing gaps. It also describes what makes peace processes more...
Category: Papers & Reports
September 01, 2005
By definition, genocide is an intentional act. It is not an “accidental by-product” of other policies, even if some leaders try to pretend it is. Inherent in this criterion is the existence of more or less conscious agency on the part of the organizers...
Category: Journal Article
January 01, 2004
Category: Papers & Reports
January 01, 2002
The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups...
Category: Papers & Reports
January 01, 2001
Conflict in Tajikistan began to escalate during the break-up of the Soviet Union. By 1992 this Central Asian republic was engulfed in civil war. Different interest groups fought for control of the state and the principles that would guide it: secular or Islamic;...
Category: Papers & Reports
June 01, 1999
This study sets out to explore the etiology of genocide as a form of conflict. Based on comparison of ten cases (Aché of Paraguay, Ottoman Armenians, Burundi, Bosnia, Cambodia, Herero, Indonesia, Maya, Nazi, and Rwanda), a conflict theory of genocide in the 20 th...
Category: Doctoral Dissertation
January 01, 1999
On 1 February 1998, the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities entered into force. This was an important milestone because the Convention is the first legally binding multilateral instrument devoted to the protection...
Category: Papers & Reports
January 01, 1997
Category: Papers & Reports
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