Halmos DCRS to Host Storytelling Festival in Conflict Resolution

The Conflict Resolution Community of Practice Working Group (CRCPWG) in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) will host a Storytelling Festival in Conflict Resolution Zoom session on Friday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m. during Residential Institute.

The event will be facilitated by Lizyvette Ramos, CRCPWG President and doctoral candidate in DCRS. Alexia Georgakopoulos, Ph.D., is the faculty director of CRCPWG. The featured speakers will be Linda Cole and David Noganosh and they will share their stories.

Linda Cole is a founding board member and former president of Mediators Beyond Borders. She also has served as a Special Master, an SEC receiver, a neutral evaluator, and a Special Magistrate and settlement Counsel. She has served internationally in Bulgaria, Jordan, Kosovo, and Sri Lanka as an ADR and Mediation Specialist with USAID and teaches internationally. Cole is the President and CEO of BRDGES Academy, an online educational platform for training dispute resolution practitioners.

David Noganosh, whose spirit name Spotted Hawk, is a mediator, negotiator, and trainer from Anissinabek Nation, Wolf Clan. He is the Principal and Founder of Red Wolf Mediation, a company he founded in 2012. It is the only First Nations-owned and operated Mediation Firm in Ontario (Canada). He has actively facilitated violence prevention, conflict resolution, and anger management programs in Aboriginal and African Canadian communities for many years. He joined St. Stephen’s Conflict Resolution & Training in 2008, where he was an Associate Mediator and Trainer until 2013. Zoom: https://nova.zoom.us/s/99763420345 Meeting ID: 997 6342 034

Posted 09/15/23