Leadership Team
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Greg Bourne (Co-Director) Primary responsibility for overseeing organizational operations, fund-raising and partnership development, assisting Team Leaders and leading specific projects. Greg has been working in the fields of conflict resolution, collaborative problem solving, civil society, education and leadership development, nationally and internationally, for more than 20 years. He co-founded the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as its Executive Director (1986-1996). Until joining CGNK, he served as Managing Senior Mediator, Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University Sacramento. Contact: gbourne@nonkilling.org |
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Karen Cross (Co-Director) Primary responsibility for overseeing organizational operations, fund-raising and partnership development, assisting Team Leaders and leading specific projects. Karen managed the academic, research, and service work of the multidisciplinary Program on Conflict Resolution and Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawai`i for over 22 years. She provides culturally appropriate process design, facilitation, mediation, public policy dialogues, and conflict resolution training to organizations and agencies throughout the community, state and internationally Contact: kcross@nonkilling.org |
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Luis Javier Botero (Education & Training Team Leader) Primary responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of education and training initiatives for leaders, schools and communities. Luis was Nonviolence Adviser to the Governor of Antioquia (Colombia) for 7 years and led the State's Nonviolence Program between 2001 and 2007. He also organized the 5th International Nonviolence Conference (Medellín, 2002) and was the first Level II and III Nonviolence trainer in Latin America. First recipient of the “Gene Sharp Nonviolence Activist Award”, Bethlehem, 2005. Contact: lbotero@nonkilling.org |
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Joám Evans Pim (Research Team Leader) Primary responsibility for identifying, leading and/or overseeing research initiatives, including symposia, collection of critical data related to nonkilling, research committees and related activities. Joám followed graduate and undergraduate studies in Journalism, Anthropology and Politics. He was Professor of Media Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Director of the Arab and Islamic Studies Program at Menéndez Pelayo International University. He is also Founding President of the Galizan Institute for International Security and Peace Studies and Board member of the Brazilian Institute for Nonkilling. Contact: jevans@nonkilling.org |
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Tom Fee (Monitoring & Networking Team Leader) Primary responsibility is to monitor global nonkilling activities and leadership; document progress to prevent and reduce killing; identify nonkilling strategies, evidence and stories; research and analyze lethality trends; identify and develop effective networks and partners; and advocate and implement sustainable strategies to support nonkilling practices and principles. Tom started his career in peacemaking leadership, nonviolence, law and social justice advocacy and conflict resolution with the American Friends Service Committee in 1972. He mediates complex public policy conflicts, managed and founded several innovative organizations, coaches and counsels leaders in philanthropy, government, business, universities and NGOs. Past leadership highlights: National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Washington, DC, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Public Policy Center, University of Hawai`i, NJ Center for Public Dispute Resolution, the Agreement Zone, Harvard Program on Healthcare Negotiation, World Foundation for Environment & Development. Contact: tfee@nonkilling.org |
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Katherine Li (Project Development Team Leader) Primary responsibility for developing the Nonkilling Hawai‘i initiative, as well as the overall Nonkilling Cities effort. She also supports planning efforts for research colloquia as well as other initiatives. Katherine has conducted extensive research on nonkilling and related issues. Recently, she compiled an annotated bibliography and summary of more than 1400 doctoral dissertations related in some way to nonkilling. Her research interests also include Global Citizen Education and Conflict Transformation. She has a BA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai'i and an MA in International and Comparative Education from the Department of Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Contact: kli@nonkilling.org |
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Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Action-Policy Team Leader) Primary responsibility for identifying policy initiatives to reduce killing in different settings, developing action strategies and implementing nonkilling interventions. Chaiwat teaches Violence and Nonviolence in Politics at Thammasat University in Bangkok and was a Senior Research Scholar with the Thailand Research Fund. He also served as Vice-President of the Strategic Nonviolence Committee, National Research Council of Thailand; Vice-President of the Foundation for Children Development; and Director of the Peace Information Center. Contact: csatha@nonkilling.org |
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Marge Porter (Lead Administrator) Primary responsibility for supporting Leadership Team general operations. Marge has worked with nonprofits and in the business sector in office administration and graphic design for over twenty years. Contact: mporter@nonkilling.org
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