We’re proud to announce that the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia (PaCSIA) has partnered with Myriad Australia Limited, enabling supporters of our work to make tax-deductible donations for the first time. This partnership is a significant step for PaCSIA. Since our founding, our work — including the Bougainville Mental Health Program (BMHP) — has […]
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Ms Casey Crocket | Consultant
Casey Crocket is a nationally accredited mediator (NMAS), conflict coach, facilitator and victim-offender mediator. She currently works in community justice with the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney General. Originally from Michigan, Casey spent the first six years of her career working as a teacher of English for non-English speaking youths in Japan, Spain and […]
Dr Polly O Walker | Consultant
Polly O. Walker is Assoc. Professor Emeritus, Peace and Conflict Studies and former Director of the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. Her work includes the comparative analysis of Indigenous and Western peacemaking, with a focus on the role of ritual and ceremony in peacebuilding. She is currently engaged […]
Dr Volker Boege | Consultant
Volker is a peace researcher and historian, with a PhD from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Volker’s two main streams of work today are on post-conflict peacebuilding and state formation; and on climate, conflict and peace. His regional focus is on the Pacific. Over the last years, Volker has worked on research projects which address […]
Dr Erica Rose Jeffrey | Director
Erica Rose Jeffrey believes in the power of movement connected to positive social change. She is an experienced facilitator, peace educator and artist. She conducts Peace Moves workshops for developing conflict transformation and communication skills through the use of movement and facilitates Creative Responses Process feedback sessions for artists and communities. The first dancer to […]
Ms Tanja Hagedorn | Director
Tanja Hagedorn is a senior professional with 25 years of experience in health, youth development, community & volunteer engagement in the USA, South Africa, and Australia. She is a skilled facilitator and mediator, committed to building inclusive processes in community settings with a special interest in inter-faith and inter-cultural dialogue. She currently is the Queensland Coordinator for Together for Humanity, facilitating diversity education through reflection, interaction […]
Dr M Anne Brown | Director
Associate Professor Anne Brown has depth and breadth of experience working on questions of peace and conflict and of governance and state formation particularly as they relate to peace. Much of this focus has concerned societal, community, or varying cultural understandings and sources of peace and security and their interactions with state-based forms of order. […]
Bougainville Transition Dialogues Phase 2 Annual Report published
Phase 2 of the Bougainville Transition Dialogues started in the middle of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and during a time when the Australian international borders were closed. This required significant changes to how we have worked in Bougainville before the pandemic. PaCSIA’s initial project application and plan suggested that travel to from Australia to Bougainville […]
PaCSIA joins call from traditional owners and human rights organisations to strip Rio Tinto of its status as global human rights leader
On 9 July 2020, 35 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and human rights organisations called on the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) to strip mining giant Rio Tinto of its status as a global human rights leader, following the company’s blasting of a 46,000 years old Aboriginal sacred site (Juukan Gorge) in Western Australia in […]
Facilitative Mediation Training in November 2016
PaCSIA will present a 5-day interactive course in Facilitative Mediation and Conflict Resolution in partnership with Silky Oaks. The course meets the training requirements of the National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS) and provides participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to mediate disputes. Facilitative Mediation is the most popular approach to mediation and is practiced […]