Advisory Circle
The Advisory Circle includes several distinguished and notable persons appointed to advise on policies, projects, strategies to meet the aims of the DEEP. It also assists in the promotion of the network and its activities and the management of DEEP resources and publications as well as identifying sources of funding and grants for DEEP.
Members
Paul Komesaroff
Paul Komesaroff MB, BS, BSc (Hons), PhD, FRACP, AM is a physician, medical researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, where he is Professor of Medicine. He is also Executive Director of the international NGO Global Reconciliation and a former President of Adult Medicine in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). His work spans a wide range of disciplines, encompassing clinical practice, laboratory, clinical and social science research and ethics. The latter addresses the impact of new technologies on health and society, consent in research, the experience of illness, end of life issues, psychological effects of trauma, and cross-cultural teaching and learning. His international work covers reconciliation and healing after conflict and social crisis, the nature and impact of foreign aid, and capacity building in global health. In addition to the roles mentioned above, Professor Komesaroff is a present or past member or chair of numerous committees in professional societies, institutions and government in Australia and internationally. He is a board member of various NGOs and is a Past President of the Australasian Bioethics Association. He is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and Ethics Editor of the Internal Medicine Journal. He is the author of more than 450 articles in science, ethics and philosophy, and author or editor of sixteen books, including Riding a crocodile: a physician’s tale (2014), Experiments in love and death (2014 and 2008), Continent aflame (2020), Pathways to reconciliation (2008), Objectivity, science and society (2nd ed. 2009), and Troubled bodies (1996).
Anna Hamling
Anna Hamling, PhD, is a Full Professor in the Department of Culture and Media Studies at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. She is the author of four monographs in four different languages (Polish, English, Spanish and Russian) on the comparative studies of LN Tolstoy’s and Miguel de Unamuno’s religious essays, three edited volume on the topic of nonviolence, numerous chapters on the theories of nonviolence and over sixty diverse articles and encyclopaedia entries covering various topics on Spanish and Latin American art. Her most recent edited volume Women and Nonviolence published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing has been released in May 2021.
Makere Stewart Harawira
Dr. Makere Stewart-Harawira is a Professor of Indigenous, Environmental and Global Studies in the Department of Educational Policy, at the University of Alberta at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is of New Zealand Maori and Scots ancestry and is an enrolled member of the Waitaha Taiwhenua ki Waitaki tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand, a tribe with a long history of peace teachings. Makere is particularly interested in global transformation, climate change, multispecies justice and our co-habitation of planet earth. Indigenous ontologies are integral to this pursuit. As global society struggles to transition to new modes of co-existence, the critical contributions of Indigenous communities and traditional knowledge as well as collaborative, transdisciplinary work are integral to this process. A critical issue in the journey towards pursuit new modes of co-existence and governance is multispecies justice and the prevention and resolution of conflict. Makere Stewart-Harawira’s published works include Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities, 2018; Returning the sacred: Indigenous ontologies in perilous times in Williams, Roberts & McIntosh, Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches, 2012; The New Imperial Order. Indigenous Responses to Globalization, 2005. Dr. Stewart-Harawira serves as an Expert Member on a number of Commissions for the International Union for the Conservation, including the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, joint Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws and Human Rights, and the Commission on Ecosystem Management and as a Board Member for the Keepers of the Water NGO, Canada.
Anthony Williams Hunt
Anthony Williams-Hunt is a notable and highly respected Semai (a Malaysian Aboriginal people) leader who has devoted most of his life to campaigning, advocating, and defending the rights of his people to their lands and livelihoods. He has been involved with Orang Asli advocacy for more than three decades. Popularly known as Bah Tony (his Semai name) by the Orang Asli (Malaysian Aborigines) communities throughout the country, he is the first Orang Asli graduate from University of Malaya, Malaysia’s premier tertiary institution, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics awarded in 1979. Bah Tony is also the first male Orang Asli admitted into the legal fraternity. After 26 years working as a bank executive, he resigned from his position to practice law. In 1999, he began his law studies on a part-time basis. In an interview with the media, Bah Tony revealed that he wanted to be a lawyer to seek justice for his people through the courts and other legal avenues. As a lawyer and social justice activist, Bah Tony has been involved in several Orang Asli land claim cases as a legal representative as well as in supporting roles. He served as the President of the Peninsular Malaysia Orang Asli Association from 1987 to 1991 and is currently the Deputy Chairperson of the Malaysian Bar Council’s Committee for Orang Asli Rights.
Janet Gerson
Dr. Janet Gerson is Education Director, IIPE (International Institute on Peace Education), and former Co-Director, Peace Education Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, where she worked with Dr. Betty Reardon and with the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MC-ICCCR). As an activist, Gerson attended the1995 UN-NGO Women’s Forum in Beijing; as an NGO representative, she was active in Violence Against Women Working Group, supported the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice, made numerous presentations at CSW (Conference on the Status of Women); and participated in WINGHS (Women’s International Network for Gender and Human Security) and FeDem (Feminist Activists Working for Demilitarization). She taught for fifty years including peace education, conflict processes, transformative learning, futures envisioning, and Theater of the Oppressed, creativity, and dance. A political theorist, writer, peace educator and facilitator, her work bridges theoretical, practical, and educational dimensions of peace and conflict. Gandhi's and King’s philosophies and practices are influential in her research focused on the interrelatedness of peace, justice, democracy, tribunals, nonviolence, conscientious citizenship, and social movements. Her book, co-authored with Dale Snauwaert, Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice: Democratizing Justice in the World Tribunal on Iraq is forthcoming. gerson@i-i-p-e.org