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Sinan
Antoon
Harvard University
Sinan
Antoon holds a BA in English from Baghdad University (1990),
an MA in Arab Studies (Culture and Society) from Georgetown
University (1995) and is currently a doctoral candidate in
classical Arabic literature at Harvard University. He taught
Arabic and Arabic literature at Indiana University, Middlebury
College and Harvard University. He recently received a Mellon
grant to research and write his dissertation (The Poetry of
Ibn al-Hajjaj). He is also a senior editor with the Arab Studies Journal. Antoon's poems and articles (Arabic and English) have
appeared in Jusoor, al-Yawm
al-Sabi`, Majallat al-Dirasat al`Arabiyya, al-Safir, al-Quds al-`Arabi,
Uno Mass, the Georgetown
Journal, the Journal
of Palestine Studies, al-Ahram
Weekly (Cairo) and The
Nation. He has contributed translations to two anthologies
of Mahmud Darwish's poetry, The
Adam of Two Edens (Jusoor and Syracuse UP, 2000) and Unfortunately
it was Paradise, (California University Press, 2003).
Recent articles include “ Mahmud Darwish’s Allegorical
Critique of Oslo in JPS (Winter 2002) and “The Subversion of a Genre: Qasidat
al-Nathr in Iraq” in Modern
Iraqi Literature: Critical Essays, edited by Saadi Simawi
(forthcoming). He
recently finished the manuscript of his first novel, I`jam,
(Diacritics) which will be published in Beirut early next year
and is translating it into English.
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Professor
Alberto Araoz
University
of Massachusetts, Boston
Professor Alberto Araoz, originally from Argentina, and
currently at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, was for
a number of years with the United Nations, the International
Labour Office, and more recently the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization, UNIDO. In his position of deputy
director-general of UNIDO, he had opportunity to lead a
multinational, multicultural team, to carry out missions in a
good number of countries, and to interact daily with diplomats
from the many member countries of UNIDO. He continues to be
called as a consultant to various UN agencies, conferences and
projects. He has engineering degrees from Argentina and
Cornell (USA) and studied economics at Oxford University (UK).
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Dr Zareen Karani Araoz
Managing Across Cultures
Dr Zareen Karani Araoz, originally from India, is president of
Managing Across Cultures, a cross-cultural management
consulting firm. She was international president of the
Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR
International) and the founding director and professor of the
pioneering graduate program in Intercultural Relations at
Lesley University, that trained professional cross-cultural
trainers. She has trained diplomats (including briefing
ambassadors) as well as a large number of UN and NGO groups.
She was an NGO Rep to the UN, invited to address the UN NGO
Assembly on "Culture and Conflict". She has
consulted with and trained corporate leaders in 20 countries.
She holds a Law Degree, a Masters in German and a Masters in
Education from India and a Ph.D. from the US.
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Anis
H. Bajrektarevic
IMC
– University of Applied Management Sciences, Krems, Austria
Anis
H. Bajrektarevic graduated from the Faculty of Law of the
University of Sarajevo in 1988, and continued with
postgraduate studies and specializations in Belgrade, Zagreb,
Budapest and Vienna (Diplomatische Akademie Wien). As a
licensed lawyer he held a private law practice, was elected
president of the Young Lawyers Association, and was a member
of the governing body of the Bosnian Bar (1990 – 1994).
Later, he moved to the Bosnian Foreign Ministry (former
Vice-Consul to Germany). After a 1994 court practice at the
Austrian Higher Court (OLG Wien) he was attached to the Dr
Bruno Kreisky Foundation as a research fellow at the Institute
for Modern Political History Analyses (1995-1998). From
February 1996 to December 2001 he served as a legal officer at
the International Centre for Migration Policy Development,
based in Vienna. He has served on a consultancy basis at the
Dr Karl Renner Institute (as legal and political advisor for
CEE/SEE countries, 1997 – 2000); the Foreign Policy
Institute of the Johns Hopkins – Washington (1993–95); the
Malaysian Trade Chamber (1995–97); the Council of Europe,
Directorate of Legal Affairs – Strasbourg (1996–98); and
currently advises the American Bar Association CEELI –
Washington as a pro-bono expert. Bajrektarevic is currently
attached to the IMC Export Dept., where he teaches several
subjects and has recently been appointed as chairman of
International Law and Global Political Studies.
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Nike Carstarphen
Alliance for Conflict Transformation, Barcelona
Nike Carstarphen has provided conflict resolution and
intercultural facilitation, mediation, training and education
with diverse groups in the U.S. and Europe. She has taught at
American University and George Mason University and has
published in Negotiation
Journal and elsewhere.
She is completing her doctoral dissertation in intergroup
relationship building at the Institute for Conflict Analysis
and Resolution, George Mason University.
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Professor
Raymond Cohen
Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Professor Raymond Cohen has taught in the Department of
International Relations at the Hebrew University since 1973.
He has written on diplomacy, intercultural communication, and
conflict resolution. Among his books are International
Politics: The Rules of the Game (1981), Theatre of
Power: The Art of Diplomatic Signalling (1987), Culture
and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations: A Dialogue of the
Deaf (1990), Negotiating Across Cultures (1991
& 1997), Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of
International Relations (with Ray Westbrook, 2000). Much
of his work has been an attempt to understand the cultural and
psychological dynamics underpinning the Arab-Israel conflict.
He is now resigned to the fact that the enemies seem to be
determined to endlessly recycle old pathologies, learning
nothing from the past.
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Yuliya
Anatol evna Druzhinina
Moscow State Linguistic University
Yuliya Druzhinina is a 5th year graduate student of
linguistics and intercultural communication at the Moscow
State Linguistic University. She is currently conducting
research for her Master’s Degree on language and diplomacy.
She also works as a teacher in the department of International
Relations and the department of Interpretation at her
university. She also teaches Russian language to American
students from the University of South Florida, USA.
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Dr
Elena A.A. Garcea
Department of Philology and History, University of
Cassino, Italy and European Federation for Intercultural
Learning, Brussels
Dr Elena Garcea
lectures on the origin of language and communication, cultural
dynamics in prehistoric Africa, and ancient Near and Middle
Eastern history at the University of Cassino, Italy. She also
coordinates a European Master’s program on Conservation and
Management of Cultural Resources. She has done field research
in Sudan and Libya and has been visiting scholar to Mali, USA,
Germany, France, Switzerland, and Turkey. Her research
interests focus on the relations among cultural dynamics,
human behavior and material culture of past and present
populations from Western and non-Western countries. Garcea has
provided training for EU funded programs (European Social
Fund) in the fields of intercultural communication,
intercultural awareness, and intercultural negotiation. She
also serves as chairperson on the Board of Directors of the
European Federation for Intercultural Learning, in Belgium.
She has published several books, including La comunicazione
interculturale: Teoria e pratica, Rome, 1993, and over
eighty articles in major international journals.
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Dr Eduardo
Gelbstein
DiploFoundation and United Nations Institute for Training and
Research (UNITAR)
Dr
Eduardo Gelbstein is an independent author, lecturer and
consultant on information technology and security management
topics, and also on the effective design and use of Internet
technologies. He is currently a lecturer for DiploFoundation,
Malta and a Senior Fellow of the United Nations Institute for
Training and Research (UNITAR). Gelbstein was the director of
the United Nations International Computing Centre from 1993
until February 2002 during which time he led the
re-engineering of the International Computing Center, the main
ICT service provider to UN system organisations in Geneva, New
York and Rome. His prior experience spans the private and
public sectors as well as academia. His latest book, Information
Insecurity, was published by the United Nations
Information and Communications Technology Task Force in
September 2002.
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Dr Sandra Gillespie
University
of Aizu, Japan
Dr.
Gillespie is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Language
Research at the University of Aizu, Wakamatsu, Fukushima
Japan. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English
Literature and Drama from
the University of Toronto, a Masters Administration and
Policy Studies from McGill
University, and a Doctorate in Theory and Policy
Studies in Education from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation South-South Transfer: A
study of Sino-African exchanges won
the 2000 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from
the Comparative and
International Education Society and has been published
by Routledge. Her current research interests include the role
of technology in language education and intercultural
exchanges.
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Professor
Peter Serracino Inglott
University of Malta
Professor Peter Serracino Inglott has lectured in philosophy
at the University of Malta since 1971, and has served as
Chairman of the Mediterranean Institute at the University of
Malta since 1987 and Director of the International Ocean
Institute – Malta Operational Center since 1998. He was the
Rector of the University of Malta from 1987 to 1988, and 1991
to 1996, and Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and
Technology from 1987 to 1996. He has lectured as a visiting
professor in Paris, Ottawa, Cincinnati, Milan, Venice and
Palermo. Professor Inglott has served in various capacities
with a number of organisations, including the Maltese
Broadcasting Authority, the Association of Commonwealth
Universities, the Commonwealth of Learning, the Commonwealth
Science Council, the Mediterranean Society of Philosophy, and
UNESCO. He is the author of numerous books and articles mainly
on the border area between philosophy and the human sciences.
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Professor
Dietrich Kappeler
DiploFoundation
Professor
Dietrich Kappeler served as director of
the Diplomatic Studies Programme of the Graduate Institute of
International Studies in Geneva
from 1993 to 1998. He was the founding director of the
Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University
of Malta, 1990-1993. Kappeler has extensive experience in
diplomacy and international relations, and lectures and writes
on international law, diplomatic and consular law, law of
international institutions, human rights and humanitarian law,
diplomacy, and constitutional and administrative law of
Switzerland. He is currently the president of the
DiploFoundation.
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Dr Valentin Katrandzhiev
DiploFoundation
Dr
Valentin Katrandjiev is Knowledge Management Coordinator with
the DiploFoundation in Malta. His expertise encompasses areas
of foreign policy analysis and the role of culture in
international relations. He is involved in web content
creation and management, conceptual development of Diplo
Internet-based information portals and project coordination.
From 2001- 2003, he was a researcher with the Mediterranean
Academy of Diplomatic Studies in the field of crisis diplomacy
and negotiation. Katrandjiev majored in international
relations and received his Ph.D. from the Russian Peoples'
Friendship University in Moscow, 2000.
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Dr
Eun Y. Kim
CEO International
Dr Eun Y. Kim is
president of CEO International (www.yinyangamerica.com), an
international management consulting firm based in Austin,
Texas. With an undergraduate degree from Seoul National
University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin,
Kim has worked in both U.S. and Asia as a management
consultant. As an expert in global leadership, change
management, and intercultural communication, Kim has designed
and conducted executive education programs for multinationals,
and helped more than 10,000 global managers effectively manage
across cultures. She has also consulted business and political
leaders on transcultural leadership, executive eloquence, and
dealing with media. She
is an author of six books business and cross-cultural
communication, including The Yin
and Yang of American Culture:
A Paradox, A Cross-Cultural Reference of Business
Practices in a New Korea, and a 1991 Korean best-seller
“Image-making (46th printing).” She has just
completed her 7th book, “Global Intelligence:
Seven Pillars for New Global Leaders.”
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Dr
Diana Lewis
Centre for Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford
Dr Diana Lewis researches and teaches English linguistics at
the University of Oxford. She has worked in several countries
teaching English language, business communication and
cross-cultural communication. Her academic background is in
Modern Languages (B.A.), Information Technology (M.Sc.) and
English linguistics (D.Phil.), and her current research
interests are in language variation and change, contrastive
rhetoric and computer-mediated communication.
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Dr Caroline
Linse
Minsk State Linguistic University
Dr
Caroline Linse is currently a Fulbright faculty member at
Minsk State Linguistic University in Minsk, Belarus. She is
interested in the cross-cultural adaptation of sojourners who
travel overseas for purposes of study and work. She is also
very interested in the process that children use to learn
about other cultures. Linse received her doctorate from the
Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Lewis R. Macfarlane
US Foreign Service,
retired
Lewis Macfarlane brings
practical experience and a lifetime of reflection to this
conference. After receiving his B.A. from Stanford University
and postgraduate study at the University of Chicago, he joined
the U.S. Foreign Service.
Assignments included U.S. Consul and Consul General in
Zanzibar, Tanzania, and Lubumbashi, Zaire, and Counselor/Chargé
d’Affairs in the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
and Kathmandu, Nepal. In the Department of State, he served in
the Bureaus of African Affairs and Personnel, and the
Executive Secretariat. Since 1994 he has directed
TechSolutions International, an international business concern
focused on meeting basic human needs through joint venture
development and exports.
He has also been active on various nonprofit boards, as
member and leader of election teams to India and Nepal, and as
South Asia Editor, the Asia Pacific Business Journal.
He has continued to study effective diplomacy,
international development, and governance.
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Ambassador Heinrich
Reimann
Ambassador of Switzerland to
the OSCE, UN and other international organisations in Vienna
Ambassador Heinrich Reimann
currently represents Switzerland at the OSCE, the UN and other
international organisations in Vienna. From 1985 to 1989 he
served as Swiss ambassador in Teheran, and from 1989 to 1993,
in Algeria and Mauritania. He was the Assistant State
Secretary for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Switzerland and Secretary General of the
International Conference on the Protection of Victims of War
in Geneva in 1993. From 1997 – 2001 he served as Swiss
ambassador to the Netherlands. From 1997 – 2001 he was the
Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the OPCW, and from
2001 – 2002, Chairman of the 6th Session of the
Conference of States Parties to the OPCW. Reimann obtained his
PhD in law from the University of Zurich, and has published in
many scientific journals and in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of
International Law.
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Heather
Robinson
Success Across
Borders
Heather
Robinson heads the firm Success Across Borders, a
self-organizing network of consultants who since 1988 provide
training and organization development to clients across the
globe including DaimlerChrysler, Saab Aerospace, Adobe, Robert
Bosch, Pratt & Whitney, BAE Systems, Stork/Fokker,
Alenia-Aerospazio, EADS, ThyssenKrupp, and Jenoptik.
The dual national child of a Swiss mother and an
American father, she has lived in India, Turkey, Switzerland,
Germany, South Africa, England, Greece, Israel and Pakistan,
her husband’s country of origin, and now resides in the US.
She has several titles in the McGraw Hill Training
Resource Guides, the Human Resource Press’ Intercultural
Training Guide, and has published articles on German-American
teamwork cited in Robert Gibson’s Intercultural Business
Communication (2000 Cornelson & Oxford University
Press). She has a
BA in Biology from the University of California and an MA from
Antioch University, USA, where her area of concentration was
Strategic Planning and Systems Design.
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Wynne
Russell
Department of
International Relations, The Australian National University,
Canberra
Wynne Russell is currently completing a PhD in the Department
of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies, at the Australian National University in
Canberra. Her dissertation, entitled "Identity Diplomacy:
A Study in Diplomatic Representation and the Ordering of
International Society," focuses on a protracted exchange
of insults that occurred between Russian and Baltic diplomats in
the early 1990s. The dissertation argues that this seemingly
marginal spat, which revolved around the question of which
nations had the right to call themselves "European,"
in fact throws into stark relief the role that diplomatic
debates over national identity play in the formation and
maintenance of status groups--'clubs,' if you will--in
interstate society. She has presented papers on various
aspects of the thesis at the European Consortium for Political
Research/International Studies Association conferences in 1998
and 2001, as well as at the Australian Political Science
Association conference this year. She holds a B.A. in Chinese
language and literature from Yale University and an M.A. in
Chinese and Russian history from Brown University. Russell
spent six years working as a Soviet analyst for the US
government.
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Dr
Raymond Saner
Center for Socio-Eco-Nomic
Development, Geneva
Dr Raymond Saner has 20 years of experience as a trainer and
consultant in the fields of globalisation, leadership
development and international negotiations with multinational
companies, governments and international institutions. He has
worked as a consultant to the United Nations and its
specialised agencies and other intergovernmental organisations
as well as for multinational companies and enterprises in
developing and transition economies. Saner also teaches at the
Centre of Economics and Business Administration at the
University of Basle, Switzerland, and conducts negotiation
seminars for management executives and diplomats in Asia,
Europe and the Americas. Saner’s academic record includes
graduate studies in Switzerland, Germany and the USA. He has
authored numerous articles, edited books, chaired
international conferences and served on committees of academic
organisations. He is an active member of the Academy of
Management, the International Institute of Administrative
Sciences and the Society for the Advancement of
Socio-economics. Saner is president and partner of
Organisational Consultants Ltd., a consulting firm
specialising in international management, organisation
development and business diplomacy. He is also a director of
the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development in Geneva,
Switzerland focusing on socio-economic research and reform in
the public sector.
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Dr Biljana Scott
Centre for Linguistics and Philology,
University of Oxford
Dr
Biljana Scott studied Chinese and Linguistics and divides her
time between teaching and photography. Her research interests
all revolve around the nature of categorisation and extend
from complex predicates and syntactic recategorisation on the
one hand to visual tropes in photography on the other. Her
current focus is on political spin, as realised both verbally
and visually.
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Professor Paul Sharp
Alworth Institute for International Studies, University of
Minnesota, Duluth
Professor Paul Sharp is the director of the Alworth Institute
for International Studies at the University of Minnesota,
Duluth. He has published two books on foreign policy and
numerous
articles on theoretical and practical aspects of diplomacy.
Sharp recently served as a guest editor for three articles on
academics and practitioners in International Studies
Perspectives and has just completed a study of Taliban
diplomacy under Mullah Zaeef at the embassy in Islamabad. He
is presently working on two books, Diplomacy and the
English School and Outlaw Diplomacy, and is the
founding Chair of the Diplomatic Studies Section of the
International Studies Association. He may be contacted on this
or other business at psharp@d.umn.edu.
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Marina Tuneva
Balkan Peace Center, Skopje
Marina
Tuneva graduated from the Faculty of Journalism in Skopje,
Macedonia in 1997 and then entered postgraduate studies in
Peace and Development at the Balkan Peace Centre in Skopje.
There she received a specialist degree in Peace and
Development and now she is completing her Master's degree in
"Media coverage of conflicts and media as a tool for
conflict resolution: Case study Macedonia". She delivers
training courses in conflict resolution, peace building and
intercultural communication and in war/peace journalism. In
the framework of several conflict resolution projects she has
produced multiethnic radio and TV shows in Macedonian media.
She has also published a book on "Crisis Journalism"
and papers and reports on the role of the media during
conflicts.
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Dr Lichia Yiu
Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic
Development, Geneva
Dr
Lichia Yiu has more than fifteen years of consulting and
teaching experience in leadership development, cross-cultural
communication and organisational change in Asia, North
America, Western Europe, and Africa. She works with UN
organisations and national governments on building internal
capacities for transformation and performance improvement. Yiu
works also with multinational companies on issues related to
developing transnational leadership, building cross-border
teams for technological innovation and on business development
in emerging markets. Yiu is the president of the Centre for
Socio-Eco-Nomic Development in Geneva, Switzerland and partner
of Organisational Consultants Ltd. Hong Kong. She is also a
faculty member of the Department of NGO Management of the
National Cheng-chi University of Taipei and a member of
professional organisations including the Academy of Management
and the International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
She has published 7 books and more than 40 articles. Her
current research interests are human capital formation and
quality of training and education, chaos and complexity theory
and its application to large social system change, business
diplomacy and multi-stakeholder relationships, and global
leadership.
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Dr
R.S. Zaharna
American University,
Washington, DC
Dr Rhonda Zaharna is director of the Graduate Program in
Public Communication for Professionals at the School of
Communication, American University in Washington, DC.
She has written and lectured extensively international public
relations and specializes in communication issues affecting
Arab and American relations. Since the mid-seventies, she has
served as a media advisor and communication consultant with
international corporations, non-governmental organizations and
diplomatic missions, including the United Nations, World Bank,
and USAID. She recently testified before the U.S. Congress on
American public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world.
Zaharna was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Najah University in
the West Bank (1996-1997). She holds an undergraduate
degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and
graduate degrees in Communication from Columbia University.
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Dr Yunxia Zhu
UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand.
Dr Yunxia Zhu is Associate
Professor in International Communication at UNITEC, Auckland,
New Zealand. Her current research focuses on intercultural
communication, rhetoric and persuasion, discourse analysis,
and genre study. She has published
papers in book chapters, and in a number of international
journals such as M/C – A Journal of Media and
Culture,
Journal of Asia Pacific Marketing and Logistics, Journal of
Business Communication, Business Communication
Quarterly,
Discourse Studies, TEXT, Global Business
Languages, and
Document Design. Her book Business Communication in China was published by Nova Science
Publishers, New York in 1999.
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