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Administration

Earl Davey, PhD
Vice-President, Academic (CMU)
Academic Interests: Philosophical Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Music Education
Phone (204) 953-3873
e.davey@uwinnipeg.ca

Richard McCutcheon, PhD (Anthropology) (McMaster)
Dean of Menno Simons College
Dean of Social Sciences (CMU)
Phone (204) 953-3871
Personal web page
r.mccutcheon@uwinnipeg.ca

Ruth Taronno, MA
Associate Vice-President, MSC
Practicum Director
Phone: (204) 953-3845
r.taronno@uwinnipeg.ca

Neil Funk-Unrau, PhD Social Sciences
(Syracuse)
CRS Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Cross-cultural Conflict; Identity Conflict; Restorative Justice; Public apology processes, Residential school dispute resolution
Phone (204) 953-3847
Personal web page
n.funk-unrau@uwinnipeg.ca

Ruth Rempel, PhD History (Toronto)
IDS Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor, International Development Studies
Academic Interests: History and International Development; International Debt and Trade Problems; African History & Development in Africa; Militarization and Development
Phone (204) 953-3851
Personal web page
r.rempel@uwinnipeg.ca


Full-time Faculty

Jerry Buckland, PhD Economics (Manitoba)
Professor, International Development Studies
Academic Interests: Economics and International Development Studies; Rural and Agriculture Development; Non-governmental Organizations and Community Development.
Phone (204) 953-3859
Personal web page
j.buckland@uwinnipeg.ca

John Derksen, PhD History (Manitoba)
Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Religion and conflict; Islam and Christianity; African conflict resolution traditions; Reformation history.
Phone (204) 953-3849
Personal web page
j.derksen@uwinnipeg.ca

Lois Edmund, PhD Psychology (Biola)
Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Large group conflict; Transformative Practice; Conflict transformation pedagogy; the parameters of successful transformative mediation practice and the integration of psychology with theology.
Phone (204) 953-3863
Personal web page
l.edmund@uwinnipeg.ca

Richard McCutcheon, PhD (Anthropology) (McMaster)
Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Phone (204) 953-3871
Personal web page
r.mccutcheon@uwinnipeg.ca

Kirit Patel, PhD (Guelph)
Assistant Professor, International Development Studies
Phone (204) 953-3852
k.patel@uwinnipeg.ca

Paul Redekop, PhD Sociology (York)
Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Phone (204) 953-3858
Personal web page
p.redekop@uwinnipeg.ca

Laura Reimer, PhD cand. (U. Manitoba)
Instructor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Advancing social justice, healing and better public policy, peace building and the design of just and effective policies and practices.
Phone (204) 953-3854
Personal web page
l.reimer@uwinnipeg.ca

Karen Ridd, MA Peace and Justice (Winnipeg)
Instructor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Nonviolence, Nonviolent Direct Action, Interpersonal Conflict Resolution, Culture and conflict, Alternative Pedagogy, Voluntary Simplicity
Phone (204) 953-3872
Personal web page
k.ridd@uwinnipeg.ca

Jonathan Sears, PhD Political Studies (Queens)
Assistant Professor, International Development Studies
Academic Interests: African Politics & Culture; Democratization & Peacebuilding; Political & Development Theory; Political Economy; Religion & Development; Development Policy.
Phone (204) 953-3857
Personal Web Page
j.sears@uwinnipeg.ca

Anna Snyder, PhD Social Sciences (Syracuse)
Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Women and Peacebuilding; Culture and Conflict; Conflict within Social Movements; Peace Theory.
Phone (204) 953-3860
Personal web page
a.snyder@uwinnipeg.ca

Stephanie Stobbe, PhD Peace & Conflict (Manitoba)
Lecturer , Conflict Resolution Studies
Academic Interests: Interpersonal disputes, cross-cultural issues, Laotian traditional conflict resolution methods, mediation in southeast Asia, workplace conflict resolution, organizational conflict resolution systems design.
Phone (204) 953-3850
Personal web page
s.stobbe@uwinnipeg.ca

Raymond Vander Zaag, PhD Geography (Carleton)
Assistant Professor, International Development Studies
Academic Interests: Rural Community Development and NGO Development Practice; Identities of Development; Agricultural Research and Development; Relationship of Post-development and Faith-based Approaches to Development.
Phone (204) 487-3300
Personal web page
rvanderzaag@cmu.ca


Staff

Grace Leppky
Reception/Faculty Secretary
Phone: (204) 953-3855
g.leppky@uwinnipeg.ca

Angie Muvingi
Executive Assistant
Phone: (204) 953-3844
a.muvingi@uwinnipeg.ca

David S. Pankratz
Director: Institute for Community Peacebuilding
Phone: (204) 953-3865
d.pankratz@uwinnipeg.ca

Phoebe Burns
Youth Peacebuilding Program Coordinator:
Institute for Community Peacebuilding
Phone: (204) 953-3862
p.burns@uwinnipeg.ca

Monica Derksen
Student and Community Relations Coordinator
Phone: (204) 953-3846
mo.derksen@uwinnipeg.ca

Gina Loewen, MA
Academic Advisor
Phone: (204) 953-3848
g.loewen@uwinnipeg.ca