Lawyer and Notary, graduated at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Master degree in Public Policies by the Universidad Rafael Landívar, and Doctorate degree in Social Sciences by FLACSO. Permanent professor of the Faculty of Agronomy, USAC in the Area of Social Sciences and Rural Development. External consultant of ASIES in several research projects related to the peace process and to public policymaking initiatives. Weekly columnist of Siglo XXI. Adrian has been delegated by the USAC and FLACSO for several dialogue spaces for public policymaking for rural development through participatory processes. He has also participated in multistakeholder dialogue processes like Visión Guatemala, Grupo Barómetro and Plan Visión de País. He was the Coordinator of the Dialogue Table installed by the government for reaching consensus on a comprehensive rural development policy, and the facilitator of the Judicial Forum organized by the Secretariat of Agrarian Affairs.
Lawyer (UBA), mediator, specialist in public conflicts and Master in Neurolinguistics. He has teached at: Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de VIC and Universidad Complutense in Spain, Universidad Católica de Asunción, Universidad de Sonora in Mexico. Alejandro has also been a teacher for the National Cooperation Spanish Agency in Antigua Guatemala, and in Lima, Peru. He was a professor in the Master on Conflict Resolution at the Universidad de Lomas of Zamora, in the Postgraduate course on Conflict Management at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, and in the Postgraduate course on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Law School, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Nató is the author of the books "Mediation x 7", "Victims of drugs", "Community mediation. Conflicts in the urban social scenario" and "Geography of the conflict". He acted as People Defensor in Buenos Aires City. President of the Study Center on Democracy and Social Peace, Mexico. Representative of The Carter Center in Bolivia.
Graduate in Social Psychology and doctorate in Political Sciences. She is the Director of the Center for Peace and Human Rights of the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She belongs to the steering committee of the Center of Studies of America. Ana María is a professor at the Sociology School of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Director of the Center for Peace and Integration (1995-2002), Consultant for the World Bank on governance and conflict issues in Venezuela, and for the IDB for designing and evaluating programs and operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Fisheries Engineer. Ph D. studies in Sustainable Development. Master in Development Planning and Public Finances. Diploma on Strategic Management. Consultant in Design Processes for Environment and Natural Resources Polices Dialogue and Conflict Management.
Graduate in Education Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. Former director of the Master Degree in Organizational Psychology, University of Belgrano. Postgraduate professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Psychology and Economics Schools. Permanent professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of Belgrado. Postgraduate professor at the University of San Andrés. Invited professor of FLACSO for the postgraduate program on Education Management. Organizational consultant of the National Office for Curriculum Management and Teaching Formation of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Consultant on change processes and organizational development at several companies (Petrobras, Siemens, Zurich, Ford, Microsoft, HP, ELEA, among others), and at the Social Development Secretariat in Buenos Aires, and non-governmental organizations (Poder Ciudadano, Amnesty, CELS, Joint D.C., Cáritas, among others). Former director of AMIA. Currently, Augusto is the director of Bernardo Blejmar & Asociados, consultant firm on organizational behaviour and development. He has also provided advisory to UNICEF, UNDP, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Partners of America, Fundación FORD, World Bank. Coordinator of the facilitation team of Diálogo Argentino.
Braulia Thillet de Solórzano Dialogue practitioner
Political scientist. Doctorate studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. University professor on Political Science at Universidad Rafael Landívar, Universidad del Valle and Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and at the Master in Development of Universidad Mariano Gálvez. Researcher at FLACSO with several publications on participation, democracy and communal land, among others. Braulia has worked for several cooperation projects at the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración Pública in San Jose, Costa Rica; Federación de Municipios del Istmo Centroamericano, Femica; and INAP. During the last four years, she has been Director of the Program Participation and Democracy.
Carlos Mota Margain Dialogue practitioner. DD Project Consultant.
Bachelor in Business Administration (Universidad Iberoamericana) and MBA at Stanford University, California. He is specialized in Systemic Thinking at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He is a member of the Academic Counsel of Universidad Marista and professor of postgraduate studies in High Management at Universidad Iberoamericana. Founder and associate director of Human Management Systems, S.C., a company specialized in Organizational Transformation and Transcendental Evolution. He is focused in assessment, design, conduction and facilitation of processes for organizational change and evolution, as well as in Strategic Planning and Future Scenarios, Systemic Thinking and Significant Conversations. Mota is a specialist on human dialogue and collaboration processes with a strategic orientation. He has developed a model: “Transcendental Evolution” that looks for the generation of superior, integral and sustainable outcomes through the integration of the Being, Doing and Transcending of people, communities and organizations.
Graduate and Master in Anthropology of the Escuela de Antropología e Historia (Mexico, 1975), Master in Political Science of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Mexico, 1978). Since 2003, Carlos is the Executive Director of Fundación PROPAZ in Guatemala. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Director of the Dialogue Program Culture: Resource Development for Peace Building - OEA/PROPAZ, Unit for Democracy Promotion, OAS. In 1999 and 2000, he was responsible of the sistematization area at the Propaz Program, OAS. He has participated in several national, Central America and international events on political, regional, international relations, political theory, democratization and conflic resolution issues. Carlos has published several books. Among them: "Peace Building, Conflict Resolution and Public Sphere Strengthening"; "New Roads to Conflict Resolution, OAS/UPD; and “In search of Human Security in Central America”. He has participated in the Regional Responsibilities and the United Nations System, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). He is a member of the Advisory Board on Indigenous People and Plurality of the Government of Guatemala.
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Psychiatrist (UBA). Professor and researcher at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and at the Nursing and Health Sciences College of the University George Mason; clinical professor on Psychiatry at the Medicine School of George Washington University. From 1993 to 2001 he was Director of the Center for Psychiatric and Behavioral Healthcare (Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Services) Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California. Until 2004 he was editor in chief of theAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry. He was also editor of several publications like Family Systems and health; Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentaries in Mental Health; Journal of Family Pshychotherapy; Journal of Marital and Family Therapy; Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina (Argentina); Sistemas Familiares (Argentina); Nova Perspectiva Sistemica (Brazil); Terapia Familiar (Brazil); Familiendynamik (Germany); Terapia Familiare (Italia); Connestioni (Italia); Psicoterapia y Familia (México); Systemica (España). Since 1998 he belongs to the Task Force on Human Rights, American Orthopsychiatric Association.
Carmen Sanz de McCormack Dialogue practitioner. Consultant of the DD Project.
Social psychologist, expert in role-playing techniques, community and family mediator, Master in NeuroLinguistics, trainer and teacher in alternative conflict resolution. Coordinator of the Community Program for Alternative Conflict Resolution in Morón Municipality, Buenos Aires. Coordinator of the mediators team in the House of Justice of Merlo, Program of Descentralized Defenses, Civil General Defense of the Courts of Morón. President of Mediating Metalogues Civil Association.
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