Directors
Advisory Council
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Dr. Olaf Berwald, PhDDepartment of Languages (German) |
Dr. Berwald is an Assistant Professor of German at UND (Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill, M.A. Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany). His book publications include monographs on Renaissance Rhetoric, and on the German-Jewish novelist and playwright Peter Weiss (whose 1965 play "The Investigation," based on court transcripts from the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, catalyzed discussions of the Holocaust in Germany), as well as an essay collection on religion, aesthetics, and commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime. Berwald has also written a wide range of articles on ethics, exile, and critiques of mass violence in the works of Hesse, Kafka, Canetti, Nietzsche, Benn, C. Einstein, and Broch. His current research projects include a forthcoming collection of essays on "Global North / Global South Encounters," and a volume on "Black and German Dialogues." His most recent essay on human rights violations is entitled, "Recolonizing Reason: Torture and the Globalization of Indifference." |
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Dr. Patrick Carr is a faculty member of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology within the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at UND. He also serves the School as Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and as Director of Basic Sciences in the first year of the medical curriculum. Originally from Canada, Dr. Carr was educated at Brandon University and the University of Manitoba. Before arriving at UND in 1998, he lived in Washington, D.C. and Dayton, OH. Dr. Carr's interests in issues surrounding humanism and professional development in medical education fit dovetail nicely with the principles of the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies. |
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Dr. Rebecca Weaver-HightowerDepartment of English |
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is an Assistant Professor of English specializing in postcolonial studies. Just released was her book Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies of Conquest (Minnesota 2007), an analysis of how island castaway tales presented fantasies that made the expansion of empire more palatable. Her current work, Sorry Deeds, Guilty Dreams: Writing, Remorse and Reparation in the Post-Settler Colony, is a comparative project analyzing Australian, South African, Canadian and U.S. settler literatures for how certain stories helped those cultures to process the guilt from the displacement and oppression of indigenous peoples during colonial settlement. Weaver-Hightower has published on Caribbean, Irish, Australian, African, British and other postcolonial literatures, and she is the Book Reviews editor of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. She is excited about the opportunities the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies offers for collaborative work and for bringing the University of North Dakota's attention and resources to fight for global social justice. |
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Kristine Paranica, JD 314 Cambridge St Stop 8009Grand Forks, ND 58202-8009 Phone (701) 777-3664 | Fax (701) 777-6184 kristine.paranica@email.und.edu
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KRISTINE PARANICA, JD, has been the Director of the Conflict Resolution Center at the University of North Dakota since 1999 and has been providing training and education in transformative mediation, conflict management, and other processes for over 12 years. She is nationally recognized as a Certified Transformative Mediator™. Kristine has served as Adjunct Professor of Law in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the UND School of Law since 1999. She developed online courses in Leadership and Conflict Resolution through the UND Medical School and Mayo Clinic (CLS 508) and has taught that class several years; a course in Conflict Resolution: Basics of Conflict Management through UND's Continuing Education program; and a newly developed academic Certificate in Conflict Transformation at UND. As a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, she served on the Management Team and as Director of Administration for the ISCT from 2005-2008. Locally, Kristine serves on North Dakota's Joint Committee on ADR, chairing the Subcommittee on Family Mediation. She recently penned the protocol and rule for the statewide family mediation pilot project, as well as the ethics code. She also serves on the UND Council on Campus Climate and the President's Advisory Council on Women. She has been published in the North Dakota Law Review, with the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, at Mediate.Com, and has authored a chapter "Transformative Mediation: A Sourcebook" published in 2010 by the Institute and the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). She has presented several times at the International Conferences of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR); the Workplace Mediation Symposium in Houston; keynote speaker at the 2004 Conference of the Family Mediators Canada in Toronto; the First National Conference on Transformative Mediation in Philadelphia; the International Conference on Transformative Mediation: Purpose Drives Practice in St. Paul, 2006; and the 3rd in Santa Barbara in 2008. She was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Conference of Conflict Resolution Minnesota. She was a tri-chair of ACR's International Conference in San Diego in 2011 where she also presented. She has presented many times at human resources conferences, and other statewide and regional conferences in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Canada. |
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Dr. Brian Urlacher, PhD Department of Political Science Office: Gamble Hall 265 F |
Brian Urlacher is an Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut in 2007 and also earned a M.P.A. from the University of South Dakota. He worked briefly with the NGO Transparency International and then with the GlobalEd research project, based out of the University of Connecticut. He came to the University of North Dakota in 2007 and teaches courses in international relations and research methods. His research agenda explores cooperation under difficult circumstances, and he has published on topics as diverse as conflict resolution in civil wars, negotiation analysis, and public goods provision. |
