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Washington, D.C.
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The Association for Conflict Resolution will award
the Peacemaker Award to Ambassador John W.
McDonald at its 9th Annual Conference
in Atlanta, GA, October 7-10, 2009.
McDonald was nominated for the honor based on his
work on peace-building projects around the world
during his diplomatic career, his co-founding of an
organization that focuses on conflict resolution in
nation and international ethnic conflicts, and his
diverse career achievements in supporting creative
conflict-transformation projects.
Established in 2001, The Peacemaker Award honors
significant and sustained contributions by an
individual or organization to the cause of peace.
The award recognizes the efforts of an individual or
organization to bring peace through various conflict
resolution approaches to ethnic, religious and civil
conflicts that have raged domestically and outside
the United States. McDonald joins a notable group of
Peacemaker Award recipients that includes Lee H.
Hamilton, Sen. George Mitchell and Conflict
Resolution Network Canada.
McDonald spent 20 years of his diplomatic career in
Western Europe and the Middle East, and worked for
16 years on United Nations missions around the
world. A former senior adviser to George Mason
University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and
Resolution and president of the Iowa Peace
Institute,
McDonald co-founded the "Institute for Multi-Track
Diplomacy" (IMTD) in Washington, D.C in 1992,
focusing on national and international ethnic
conflicts. Through IMTD, McDonald has worked on
creative conflict transformation projects in Cyprus,
Israel-Palestine, Georgia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, East
Africa, Liberia, Nepal, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Jordan,
Libya, India, Pakistan and Kashmir. Recognizing the
strong link between access to water and peace, he
also founded "Global Water" in 1982 to address
international drinking water and sanitation issues.
The Association for Conflict Resolution’s 9th
Annual Conference theme is “Convening the Whole of
Community: Integrating Approaches and Practices to
Address Conflicts in a Chaotic World.” The
conference will be held at the Hilton Atlanta in
Atlanta, Ga. The keynote address and panel
discussion will be held on Thursday, October 8
from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. For more
information, visit
www.acrnet.org or call (202) 464-9700.
Calendar Listing
Association for Conflict Resolution’s
9th Annual Conference, “Convening ‘Whole
of Community’: Integrating Approaches and Practices
to Address Conflicts in a Chaotic World:
October 7-10, 2009
Atlanta, GA
For more information including registration, details
about the more than 100 unique workshops, and events
being held:
http://acrnet.org/conferences/ac09/index.htm
About the Association for Conflict Resolution
The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is the
professional organization dedicated to enhancing the
practice and public understanding of conflict
resolution. ACR represents and serves a diverse
national and international audience that includes
approximately 5,000 mediators, arbitrators,
facilitators, educators, and others involved in the
field of conflict resolution. ACR also publishes
Conflict Resolution Quarterly Journal and
ACResolution. For more information about ACR,
visit
http://www.ACRnet.org. |
