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DR.
PETER ACKERMAN, Founding Chair
Dr. Peter Ackerman is one of the world’s
leading authorities on nonviolent conflict, and is the founding
Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington,
DC.
Dr. Ackerman was the Executive Producer of
the PBS-TV documentary, “Bringing
Down a Dictator,” on the fall of Serbian dictator Slobodan
Milosevic. It is the recipient of a 2003 Peabody Award and the
2002 ABC News VideoSource Award of the International Documentary
Association. It aired in March, 2002, and subsequently in Australia,
Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia/Montenegro, Spain, Sweden
and Taiwan. It has been translated into Arabic, Farsi, French,
Mandarin, Russian and Spanish.
He was also the Series Editor and Principal
Content Advisor behind the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS-TV series,
“A
Force More Powerful,” which charts the history of civilian-based
resistance from Gandhi’s campaign in India to the U.S. civil
rights movement, the dismantling of South Africa’s apartheid
system, to the fall of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. It aired
in September 2000, and subsequently in Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, Iran (via satellite from Los Angeles), New Zealand,
Norway, Palestinian Territories, Spain, Sweden and Venezuela.
It has been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Mandarin, Russian and
Spanish.
He has spoken often in public, on television
and radio, including BBC, CNN, CBC (Canada), Fox News, and National
Public Radio. He has published op-eds and articles, most recently
in Insight Magazine (9/9/02), Sojourners Magazine
(9-10/02), and Le Monde (10/28/02). He has been cited
in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report,
The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Weekly
Standard, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Washington
Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He is the co-author of two seminal books
on nonviolent resistance: A
Force More Powerful (Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press
2001), companion book to the television series, and Strategic
Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth
Century (Praeger 1994).
Dr. Ackerman holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he presently
is the Chairman of the Board of Overseers. In addition, he is
on the board of CARE, and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Executive Council of the International Institute
for Strategic Studies in London.
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JACK
DUVALL, President
Mr. DuVall is the founding Director of the
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He was the Executive
Producer of the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS television series,
“A
Force More Powerful,” and co-author of the companion
book of the same name (Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press 2001).
Mr. DuVall has spoken often at universities
and policy institutes, including Antioch College, Columbia University,
Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia), Harvard University, the Justice
Institute of British Columbia, Massey University (New Zealand),
Rice University, the State University of New York/Stony Brook,
the University of Alabama, the University of Calgary (Alberta),
the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Denver,
the University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of North
Carolina, the University of Rochester, the University of Sydney
(Australia), the University of Pennsylvania, the University of
Queensland (Australia), the University of Waterloo (Ontario),
the U.S. Institute of Peace, Vanderbilt University, and West Virginia
Wesleyan College.
His media appearances have included MSNBC’s
Nachman Show, ABC NewsChannel 8 (Washington, DC), ABC TV (Australia),
CBC (television and radio), CBS Radio, CKNW (Vancouver), National
Public Radio, NewsChannel 12 (Long Island) and RadioNation. He
has published op-eds and articles, most recently in Newsday
(3/17/03) Insight Magazine (9/9/02), Sojourners Magazine
(9/10/02), and Le Monde (10/28/02). He has been cited
in such publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, The Nation, Philadelphia Inquirer,
Vancouver Sun, and U.S. News and World Report.
Mr. DuVall is also a veteran television
executive and writer. For 16 years he developed, marketed, executive-produced,
and promoted non-fiction television programming, with clients
including the Turner Broadcasting System, The Learning Channel,
KCET/Los Angeles, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and over
30 other commercial television and non-profit organizations. Mr.
DuVall was also Vice President for Program Resources of WETA,
Washington, DC, and previously was Director of Corporate Relations
of the University of Chicago; Director of Industry Compliance,
Cost of Living Council, Executive Office of the President; and
an officer in the U.S. Air Force. His writing includes speeches
for presidential candidates in four national campaigns.
He holds a B.A. degree (cum laude) from Colgate
University and serves as a member of the board of sponsors of
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Georgia) and an associate of the Centre
for Justice and Peace Development at Massey University (Auckland,
New Zealand).
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BEREL
RODAL, Vice Chair
Berel Rodal is Vice Chair of ICNC. Since
1967 Mr. Rodal has provided executive leadership and strategic,
planning, and management advice to governments, and since 1990,
to companies. His professional experience as a senior official
in the Government of Canada included policy, planning, and executive
responsibilities in the foreign affairs, international trade,
defense, security and intelligence, economic and social domains,
and in managing across jurisdictions; his career involved him
in many of the central challenges facing government during his
twenty-two years of public service. He served in the Department
of External Affairs and in the Cabinet/Privy Council Office in
the Government of Canada; as Secretary of the Steering Committee
on national unity in the Cabinet Office during the period of the
(first) Quebec referendum; as Director-General of the Policy Secretariat
in the Department of National Defence; and as a member of Canada’s
negotiating team in the Canada-US Free-Trade negotiations.
He is Managing Director of Hillman Capital
Corporation of New York, a management consulting and investment
banking firm that provides capital, advice and assistance to emerging
companies. He also serves as a Managing Director of other emerging
technology and international development firms, and as a consultant
to the RAND and MITRE Corporations, and other strategic and public
policy bodies.
He has lectured in Canada, the U.S., Europe
and Japan on governance and the state, federalism and intergovernmental
relations, nationalism and political identity, international relations,
‘information-age’ issues, international trade, and
strategic policy/international security affairs. He is the author
of a number of publications on these subjects. His most recent
publication is the book The
Somalia Experience in Strategic Perspective.
He was born in Montreal in 1943 and was educated
at McGill University and Balliol College, Oxford. He is married
and has six children.
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SHAAZKA BEYERLE,
Vice President
Shaazka Beyerle is Vice President of the
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. She was previously
a writer, with expertise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Until 2004, she covered the Middle East and Southern Africa for
WorldView Magazine (National Peace Corps Association). She has
published articles/op-eds on people power, the Middle East, foreign
affairs, culture, literature, nonfiction, and art in Al Hayat/Dar
Al Hayat, European Affairs, Europe Magazine, Foreign Policy, The
Independent, Washington Times, Washington Diplomat, and WorldView
Magazine, and has been cited in Al Ahram, Newsday, and Reason
magazine.
She speaks often about strategic nonviolent
action, including at: Columbia University; California State University;
New Tactics for Human Rights Symposium, Ankara; State University
of New York (Stony Brook); University of Idaho - Borah Symposium;
and the World Electronic Media Forum/United Nations Summit on
the Information Society, Geneva.
She has been interviewed on BBC World News
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has lectured about
the Middle East at the World Bank and the Maryland Women's Leadership
Forum; and on journalism at the U.S. Department of State Foreign
Service Institute.
Ms. Beyerle returned to Washington, DC in
August, 2000, after having lived in Jerusalem for three years.
While overseas, she consulted twice with the Bethlehem 2000 Project
through the United Nations Development Program and the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She was also the International
Press Manager for the Jerusalem Film Festival (2000).
Prior to moving to the Middle East, Ms. Beyerle
was the founding Vice President of The European Institute, a leading
Washington-based public-policy organization devoted to transatlantic
affairs. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from George
Washington University, a B.A. in Psychology from the University
of Toronto, and conducted graduate studies at the University of
Pittsburgh.
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