In fall 2007, the PPC organized a number of courses for civilian, military and police peace professionals. Each course was facilitated by one or more experts from that area.
The PPC has over 200 facilitators - a group composed of retired and practicing academics, senior police officers, diplomats, humanitarian staff and high-ranking military personnel. Here are a few of the people working with the PPC right now.
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- Frans Barnard
- Frans Barnard has worked within the NGO community for more than 20 years. In this time, he has worked with children and youth who have suffered abuse, experienced war and natural disasters including tsunamis. He has conducted security reviews for NGO’s operating in complex emergencies and has had to live by those reviews as a Country Representative for CARE Canada in Chechnya. A consequence of his background is a familiarity with a broad range of NGO’s, UN organizations and National government structures. Frans is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the University of Royal Roads, Victoria, BC with an MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding.
- Donna Chanda
- Donna Chanda works within the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. She has completed nine missions as a Canadian Red Cross (CRC) delegate, including three missions in the North Caucasus, Russia, one in Afghanistan, and one as the Manager of the CRC Orthopedic Project Centre in Tajikistan. She has been involved in the 2004 Tsunami rehabilitation projects, including as the Head of Delegation for the CRC in the Maldives, and as the Organizational Development Adviser for the International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Seychelles. Her academic qualifications include a B.A., a B.S.W., and an M.Sc.
- Jeremy (Jez) Fletcher
- Mr. Fletcher is the course director for UNIMSOC V, and a former Chief Inspector with the Metropolitan Police Service, London, England. He has extensive policing experience that includes international peacekeeping with the United Nations Mission in East Timor. Mr. Fletcher’s police career includes extensive front line experience as a beat (response) officer, supervisor and manager. He served as a uniformed peacekeeper with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in East Timor between May 2001 and June 2002. He was also responsible for the recruitment, selection and post foundation training for the new East Timorese police officers.
- Colonel (Ret’d) Doug Fraser CD, BA, PSC, AWF
- During forty years of military service Col (Ret’d) Douglas Fraser worked as an infantryman and served in Germany, Ghana, Cyprus, Australia and the United States. He retired in 1993, and his final appointment with the Canadian Forces was as the Military Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York. Col Fraser is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee.
- Major (Ret’d) Serge Gagnon
- Major (Ret’d) Serge Gagnon entered the Collège Militaire Royal de Saint Jean in 1965. During 31 years of service with the Canadian Forces, he earned his Air Navigator wings as an Electronic Systems Officer, obtained his credentials in Law Enforcement and Security, and became a certified Tactical and Strategic Intelligence Analyst. He has a degree in Political Science.
- David Lightburn
- Mr. David Lightburn has a politico-military background, including 35-year military and diplomatic service, and extensive (16 years plus) experience in, and with, international organizations. He is a specialist in multi-functional peace operations, crisis management, civil-military-police relations and peace operations education and training. From 1987 - 2000, Mr. Lightburn was a member of NATO staff, including principal member of NATO’s Balkans Task Force and founder and Head of the Alliance’s Peacekeeping Section.
- Michael (Mick) O’Brien
- Michael (Mick) O’Brien has 25 years service in the Australian Army, and seven years employment with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In addition, his United Nations service includes periods as a military observer on the Golan (based in Syria), as Chief of the United Nations Liaison Office in Beirut, and as Chief of the Observer Group Lebanon. While on missions with the ICRC, he taught international humanitarian law and human rights law to the military and police in Central Asia (based in Tajikistan), in South-eastern Europe (based in Sarajevo and Skopje); in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (where he was also the ICRC’s in-country security adviser for two years).
- Major General (Ret’d) Klaas C. Roos
- Major General (Ret’d) Klaas C. Roos graduated from the Royal Military Academy in 1970 and served 36 years in the Netherlands Armed Forces. He has a variety of experience with the UN, including an appointment as Chief Operations Officer of the civilian police component of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group in Namibia (UNTAG) and Senior Operations Officer at the Defence Staff in The Hague, in charge of international peace and humanitarian operations. While serving as the Netherlands Military adviser he also served for two years as chairman of The Mine Action Support Group (MASG) in New York, a group of diplomats of 24 UN member states with the purpose of eliminating land mines.
- Ian Rowe
- Ian Rowe has a notable range of field experience through eastern and central Africa (including DRC, ROC, Somalia, Burundi, Bolivia and Mozambique). Ian’s background includes DDR, SSR, and small light weapons management and reduction. He’s worked in the post-conflict recovery programs for UN DPKO, UNESCO, UNICEF and UNDP. He has an M.A. in conflict analysis from the University of Kent, and additional training in peace and conflict resolution from the University of Geneva, the ICRC, UNICEF, UN Systems Staff College, and the Austrian Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
- Selagh Stevens
- Selagh Stevens is a former Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) professional logistician. She developed an expertise in peacekeeping logistics as she served with the Multinational Force & Observers (Egypt) and with the UN missions of UNTAG (Namibia) and UNPROFOR (Croatia). Whilst still in the military, she was seconded to UNHQ and served over three years within DPKO. To complete more than 25 years of service, she was posted to the NATO desk, and at the time of her departure, she had more peacekeeping experience than any other CAF female. Shelagh holds an honours degree in Arts from the University of Guelph.
- John Sutcliffe
- Mr. Sutcliffe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, and worked in the Canadian Army from 1973 – 2001. Mr. Sutcliffe completed two peacekeeping tours during his career; the first, a one-year period in 1997 as Force Training Officer with the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Sinai, Egypt, and the second, as a Military Liaison Officer (MLO) with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) during the winter of 2000. John is a graduate of the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College, and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre’s Peacekeeping Command and Staff Course.
- Glenn Yewer
- Mr. Yewer has had a career as a police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police for over 32 years, retiring in 2003. He volunteered and was selected to take part in a United Nations Mission, which took him to East Timor and UNTAET (United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor). Civilian Police duties within UNTAET involved teaching the new police officers in all aspects of police work. During that time, he spent four months at a remote mountain police station teaching and mentoring East Timor Police Service officers.