Contributors

Eva Sørensen http://www.ruc.dk/~eva

Eva Sørensen, PhD and Doctor Scientarium Administrations, is professor in public administration and democracy at the Institute of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University, and professor II at University NORD. Her research areas cover political leadership in the age of governance; policy innovation; citizen involvement and co-creation in local neighbourhood governance; metagovernance and network governance; and changing role perceptions among citizens, professionals, politicians, and public administrators. She has published several books and research articles on these topics and has given more than 300 keynote addresses at scientific conferences and conferences for practitioners in public institutions, including citizens, politicians, employees and administrative leaders all over the world. Throughout her career she has received numerous guest professor and guest scholar positions at universities around the word and in 2011 won Best Article in American Review of Public Administration. Her paper, Institutional Design for collective and holistic leadership, co-written with Jacob Torfing was also highly commended at the Emerald Literati awards 2020.

Gemma Bone Dodds https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/people/gemma-bone-dodds

Gemma Bon Dodds is a Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), working on the PUFFIN Project focussed on helping public sector financial institutions shift financial flows towards the green transition. She works on economic system change, with specialisms in banking, finance and wellbeing economics. She is a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab, a Fellow of the RSA and a Trustee of Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland. Gemma's ESRC-funded PhD (May 2019) was in economic geography entitled ‘Diverse economies of debt: The possibilities for socially useful finance in peer-to-peer finance and reward-based crowdfunding’. Gemma is the founder and director of All In Agency, a research and systems design consultancy focussed on creating an economic system that supports a just, healthy and sustainable world.

Mike Hardy https://theila.org/about/board/

Professor Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University (CTPSR); twice honoured in the UK (OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a CMG: Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George, 2010) for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. In 2002, he was honoured by the Palestinian Welfare Association for work with NGOs in Gaza and WB, and more recently, became the first non-Indonesian awarded a Doctorate by orasi Ilmiah by Muhammadyah Indonesia.

Mike is Board Chair of the International Leadership Association a trustee of The UK Faith and Belief Forum. At Coventry University, Mike chairs the Research and Impact Advisory Board for Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations and directs the RISING Global Peace Forum at Coventry From 1995 until 2011, with diplomatic and advisory roles with UK Government, Mike was a senior Director with the British Council with responsibilities for the Council’s global cultural relations programme for intercultural and interfaith dialogue, youth engagement and so-called ‘soft-power’ global strategic partnerships; his diplomatic work included overseas postings, in Egypt, East Jerusalem and Indonesia.

Mike completed a major review of literature on Cohesive Societies for the British Academy (2019). His prize winning co-edited volume Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Extremism and Western Islamaphobia was published in 2017. His latest work based on extended interviews with global influencers: Leadership in times of Disconnection focuses on the evolution of transformative leadership and its importance for peaceful relations in our turbulent world.

Jacob Torfing http://www.ruc.dk/~jtor

Jacob Torfing is Professor of Politics and Institutions at Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University and research director of the Roskilde School of Governance, a political and management-focused research centre that has prmoted studies of collaborative governane in networks and partnerships. His research interests include changing forms of public governance; co-creation in networks, partnerships, and collaborative arenas; democratic anchorage of networked governance; enhancement of public innovation; and leadership and management of collaboration and innovation processes. Jacob Torfing’s work aims to catalyse change in the public sector that enhances service quality and increases democratic participation and ownership. As well as this, he participates in a number of Nordic and European research projects, all of which focus on the co-creation of innovative solutions to complex societal problems. Recently, his focus has shifted towards climate-related issues. Jacob Torfing has published widely in journals and has written and contributed to 17 books. In 2016, he published Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector, a book that provides a comprehensive understanding of how multi-actor collaboration may drive innovation and produce public value. He is the winner both the Research Communication prize and the Elite Researcher prize at Roskilde university. His paper Improving policy implementation through collaborative policy making, co-written with Chris Ansell, received the best paper award from Public Management Review in 2018, and his paper Institutional design for collective and holistic leadership, co-written with Eva Sørensen, was highly commended at the Emerald Literati Awards 2020.

Matt Hawkins https://www.compassioninpolitics.com/about_us

Matt Hawkins the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Compassion in Politics. He has led a number of social and environmental justice campaigns. He was part of the Nobel Peace Prize winning team at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) which successfully lobbied the UN to introduce a ban on nuclear weapons.

Most recently, he managed the Equal Civil Partnerships Campaign which secured the introduction of civil partnerships for mixed-sex couples.

Tor Hernes www.cbs.dk/en/staff/thioa

Tor Hernes, PhD, is Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark and is Adjunct Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway. His research focuses primarily on organizations, process, and temporality, with a particular interest in an event-based understanding of time. In his recent work, Tor Hernes has examined organizational continuity and change – how actors construct different combinations of near and distant horizons extending both into the future and the past. He directs the Centre for Organization and Time at CBS, which invites multiple understandings of time to help organizational research address more complex and dynamic phenomena of organizing. His book, A Process Theory of Organization, won the George R. Terry Book award at the Academy of Management Conference in 2015. His forthcoming book, Organization and Time, is scheduled to appear at Oxford University Press in the fall of 2021.

Garrett Thomson https://www.wooster.edu/bios/gthomson/

Garrett Thomson received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and is the Elias Compton Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster in Ohio, U.S.A. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace and was formerly the CEO of the World Subud Association from 2005-2010. His research covers human relationships, well-being, education, and peace. With Scherto Gill, he recently co-authored Ethical Education: Towards an Ecology of the Human Development (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which aims to place human relationships at the centre of ethics and education and provides a new vision for how ethical education might be centred around for student’s well-being. Garrett Thomson is also the author of numerous other books including Introduction to Modern Philosophy (1993), The Longman Standard History of Ancient Philosophy (2005), On Philosophy (2002) and On the Meaning of Life (2003) and a series of introductory texts on Descartes, Locke, Kant, and Leibniz.

Ali Moussa Iye

Ali Moussa Iye, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace. He joined UNESCO in 1997 as Coordinator of the Programme of Culture of Peace in the Horn of Africa and then of the Programme on the Fight against Racism and Discrimination. He was then a Chief of UNESCO’s History and Memory for Dialogue Section where he ran the Slave Route Project and the General and Regional Histories Project, including the UNESCO General History of Africa. An expert in Political Anthropology, Ali Moussa Iye’s research explores endogenous democratic institutions in the Horn of Africa and reflects on the challenges of cultural and political pluralism and intercultural dialogue in modern societies. His writing also focuses on the slave trade and its social, cultural, and historical legacies around the world. He is the author of books including Le Verdict de larbre: Le Xeer: essai sure un démocratie endogène africaine (2014), and has co-edited Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions A Pluralist Perspective (2020). Ali Moussa Iye is also the founder of a new think tank called “AFROPERSPECTIVE: A Global Africa Initiative”.

Scherto Gill https://scherto.com/ scherto.gill@ghfp.org

Scherto Gill, DPhil, is Senior Fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (GHFP) Research Institute, Associate Professor at the University of Sussex, and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). She directs a UNESCO/GHFP Initiative on Transformative Education and Collective Healing, and leads the G20 Interfaith Forum‘s Education Working Group. Through research, grassroots projects and published work, Scherto actively explores ways to implement innovative ideas such as deep dialogue, ethics of caring, positive peace and holistic well-being in social transformation. Amongst her publications that explore relational approaches to peace, education and social transformation are: Being Peace, Making Peace (Spirit of Humanity Press); Why Love Matters: Values in Governance (Peter Lang); Education as Humanisation (Routledge); and Critical Narrative as Pedagogy (Bloomsbury).

Kenneth Gergen https://www.swarthmore.edu/kenneth-gergen

Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD, is a founding member and President of The Taos Institute and a Senior Research Professor at Swarthmore College. He is also a Senior Fellow at the GHFP. Gergen’s writings have been highly influential in the development of social constructionist theory, its implications for social inquiry, and its applications to professional practices. His later writings on relational process offered an alternative to both Western individualism and Eastern communalism, and opened new ways of thinking and forms of practice from the local to the global level of significance. His major writings include, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, An Invitation to Social Construction, Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community, and most recently, Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (with S. Gill). Gergen lectures throughout the world, and has received numerous awards for his work, including honorary degrees in both the U.S. and Europe.

Ottar Ness https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/ottar.ness

Ottar Ness, PhD, Professor of Counselling at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Adjunct Professor at VID Scientific University and Advisor at the National Competence Centre for Mental Health Care (Napha). He leads the Research Centre ´Relational Welfare and Well-being´. He has been working as a family therapist for the Norwegian Family Therapy Agency. He earned his PhD in social sciences from the Taos Institute and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In 2018, he was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University’s Program for Recovery and Community Health. His research also explores relational welfare, New Public Governance, Public value leadership, recovery, and recovery-orientated services along with a focus on citizenship, public value, social justice and well-being for politically and socially marginalized persons. Recently, he co-authored Co-creation of Public Values: Citizenship, Social Justice and Well-Being (IGI Publisher 2021), Collaborative Action Research: Co-constructing Social Change for the Common Good (Sage, 2020) and co-edited Action Research in a Relational Perspective (Routledge, 2020). In his research, Ottar Ness incorporates theories of science, qualitative research methods and the use of participatory action research and citizen science methodologies. He has published numerous articles in the fields of mental health and substance abuse recovery.

Dina Von Heimburg https://www.ntnu.edu/ipl/relational-welfare

Dina Von Heimburg is Assistant Professor at Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is the Deputy Director of the research group Relational Welfare. Dina's research interests are focused on public health and health promotion, with a particular focus on social justice, social inclusion, and sustainable societal development. She is particularly interested in co-creation and relational welfare as approaches to local public health work, and how the settings of everyday life meeting places in the community can influence the development of health and well-being. Dina's main position is in Levanger municipality, where she works as a public health coordinator. Dina is currently a PhD student in sociology at Nord university (public sector PhD), and her PhD project is an action research on "It takes a village: social inclusion among families with children in kindergarten".

David Cadman https://davidcadmanatwork.com/about/

David Cadman's work is centred upon teachings of love and compassion, wholeness and connectivity. For many years David held professorial titles or fellowships in universities both in the UK and America. He is currently a Harmony Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity St David, where he is exploring principles of Harmony in Education, in Food and Farming, in Wellbeing, and in Business and the Economy. Together with his colleague Scherto Gill and colleagues in China and America, he is presently involved in a research project titled ‘A Narrative of Love’. Formerly Chairman of The Prince’s Foundation and a Trustee of the Prince’s School of traditional Arts, he is Harmony Adviser to The Prince’s Foundation based at Dumfries House in Scotland, and a Fellow at the GHFP Research Institute.

Patrice Brodeur https://patricebrodeur.com/

Patrice Brodeur is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Montreal (Canada). He holds a BA in Religious Studies and an MA in Islamic Studies from McGill University as well as an AM in Religious Studies and a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion (Islam and Judaism) from Harvard University. He also studied two years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one year in the Shari`ah Faculty at the University of Jordan. His career highlights include a Junior Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Montreal (2005–2015), leading an interdisciplinary research team on contemporary Islamic thought as well as on various forms of dialogue. He also set up the Research Department at the Intergovernmental Dialogue Centre KAICIID (2013–2015), where he led the team that developed its Peace Mapping Project (http://peacemap.kaiciid.org/#) and, as Senior Adviser since 2016, its Dialogue Knowledge Hub (https://www.kaiciid.org/dialogue-knowledge-hub). Patrice has published than 50 articles, book chapters and books. He lectures academically to a variety of audiences and conducts trainings on dialogue in five languages in over 50 countries around the world.