Organisation
John Winslade
The Conflict Management Expert Centre is a non-profit organisation officially
established in October 2004. The Expert Centre is a foundation with a
committee responsible for daily affairs and a Board of Advisors, consisting
of people who have a national or international reputation in the field
of conflict management. At this moment the Board of Advisors has the following
members:
John Winslade, Ad Kil and Thomas Trenczek.
John Winslade PhD is an Associate Professor at California State University
San Bernardino. He also teaches a mediation course at Cal State Dominguez
Hills University and at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Until 2003,
he was Director of Counsellor Education at the University of Waikato and
he still returns regularly to New Zealand to work part-time at Waikato
University, including a Masters course on mediation in the School of Education.
He is a member of the editorial board of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly
journal. With Gerald Monk, John was the author of the groundbreaking text,
Narrative mediation: A new approach in conflict resolution (2000,
Jossey Bass). He has since written a series of articles on narrative mediation
and has taught workshops on this subject in the USA, Canada, Australia,
the UK and Denmark. In june 2005 John Winslade will give a workshop on
narrative mediation for the Conflict Management Expert Centre in the Netherlands.
Ad Kil
Ad Kil is director of study of the Masters course Conflict Management
of the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. His expertise is in
the field of conflict management, mediation and change management. He
regularly publishes articles on these subjects and is co-author of the
Handboek Mediation. In the United Kingdom Ad Kil did a Masters course
Business Administration in Legal Practice (Nottingham Trent University
Law School), a Masters course Managing Human Resourses (University of
Hertfordshire Business School) and in the Netherlands a Masters course
Human Resource Development (University of Twente). He is visiting professor
of Human Resource Development in Law Firms at Nottingham Law School in
the United Kingdom.
Thomas Trenczek
Dr.iur. Thomas Trenczek is Professor of Law at the University of Applied
Sciences in Jena, Germany, where he teaches Criminal and Juvenile Law
as well as Mediation and Conflict Management. He holds both German Law
degrees, a Ph.D. (Dr. iur.: summa cum laude) as well as an M.A. in Social
Sciences of the University in Tübingen. He has worked as a criminologist
at the Institute for Criminology of the Tübingen University as well
as the Criminological Research Center of Lower-Saxony in Hanover. In 1987/88
has spent a year of research at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
(USA) where he also got his initial mediation training.Prof. Trenczek
has worked as a law clerk and in the state attorney’s office, in
a law firm as well as in governmental bodies. From 1988-1991 he was secretary
general of the German Association of Juvenile Courts and Court Services.
In 2001/2002 he has been a visiting scholar at the Corrs Westgarth Dispute
Management Center and the T.C. Beirne School of Law of the University
of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Prof. Trenczek is an accredited mediator
of the Queensland Supreme Court, he is member of the Mediation Services
Office at the Hanover district court, a cofounder and on the board of
the WAAGE conflict resolution center in Hanover.