Board of Advisors 

Andrea Bartoli (USA)

 Andrea Bartoli is ICAR’s Drucie French Cumbie Chair. He has been at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University since 2007. He works primarily on Peacemaking and Genocide Prevention. The Founding Director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), a Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University, and at the University of Siena,  Dr. Bartoli has taught in the US since 1994. He chaired the Columbia University Seminar on Conflict Resolution. He is a member of the Dynamical Systems and Conflict Team and a Board member of Search for Common Ground.

He has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of St. Egidio , and has published books and articles on violence, migrations and, conflict resolution. He was co-editor of Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of International Media in Wars and International Crisis. Dr. Bartoli served as Associate Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University from 1992-99. He was a lecturer at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata, 1987-92, and director of the Center for the Study of Social Programs, 1986-92. He was president of Unita Sanitaria Locale 7, 1983-87 and a consultant to Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro, 1980-84. An anthropologist from Rome, Dr. Bartoli completed his Italian dottorato di ricerca (Ph.D. equivalent) at the University of Milan and his laurea (BA-MA equivalent) at the University of Rome.

 Daman Nath Dhunghana (Nepal)

Daman Nath Dhunghana, a former Speaker for the Parliament, played an active role in the Nepali peace and negotiations processes for the past 3 decades. He was a Founder Executive Member of Amnesty International and has been jailed several times for the cause of Human Rights and the restoration of democracy in Nepal. In 1990 he served as member of the Constitution Recommendation Commission co-drafting Nepal’s first democratic Constitution. During his long and friercely independent political and legal acreer, Mr Dhungana served as member of parliament, was appointed as National Facilitator, Advisor and Observer of Nepal’s negotiations processes from 2003 to 2009, and was the  principle advocate for the establishment of a Constituent Assembly in Nepal since the mid 90’s. The Assembly was finally established in 2008. To add to his credentials, he was President of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 1984, General Secretary of the Nepal Bar Association 1971-73 and 1976-79, Founder Executive Member of the Nepal Law Society and President of Transparency International (Nepal Chapter) from 1997 to 1998. Mr Dhungana is a founder-member of Nepal Transitions to Peace (NTTP).

Jehan Perera (Sri Lanka)

Dr. Jehan Perera is executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, an independent advocacy organization. He is also a columnist for the Daily Mirror and the Lanka Monthly Digest in Colombo. He holds a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law School and a BA in economics from Harvard College. In April 2007 he received the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti National Award for Peace, Tolerance and Harmony from the Interfaith Harmony Foundation of India.

Joe William (Sri Lanka)

Joe William is a Senior Development Officer at the Program Support Unit in Sri Lanka of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). His focus areas include Governance, Human Rights and Humanitarian issues.  He is a Presidium Member of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka (NPC) that promotes non-violent initiatives, and acts as a catalytic body to facilitate peace and conflict resolution in Sri Lanka.  He holds a Masters Degree in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford.

Padma Ratna Tuladhar (Nepal)

Mr. Tuladhar has been a facilitator and mediator of Nepal’s democratic, peace and negotiations processes since the inception of the country’s transition to democracy for more than two decades. He became a member of the National Assembly (Rashtriya Panchayat) under the party-less Political system in 1986, elected from Kathmandu District. During his decades-long fight from within and outside of the assembly for the restoration of multi-party democracy, he was arrested, detained and jailed several times during the pro-democracy movements from 1981 to 1990, and then again in 2006.

Vinya Ariyatne (Sri Lanka)

Vinya Ariyaratne, M.D., Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya. He holds a Doctorate in Medicine and a Doctorate in Community Medicine from the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine of the University of Colombo, while he has also obtained an M.Sc. in Community Medicine from the University of Colombo and a Masters in Public Health (International Health) from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Ariyaratne has been a Visiting Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK and has contributed to the corpus of medical literature through articles published in medical journals. He also served as a Lecturer in Community Medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Shirley Moulder

Shirley Moulder is a trustee of the Southern Africa Trust. She serves as a non-executive director of a number of social development organisations in Southern Africa, having been involved in human rights, peacebuilding and development work for more than 30 years.

Based in South Africa, Moulder’s professional experience includes engagement with governments, the private sector and international aid agencies, as well as serving on a number of commissions for the Anglican Church in Southern Africa and the global Anglican Communion.  She is also non-executive Director of the Amalinda Social Housing Company (SOHCO), a  Section 21 non-profit distributing company committed to the development and management of social housing in the Eastern Cape, Cape Town and Durban Metropolitan areas of South Africa.