Helena Desivilya Syna is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel. She conducts research on social conflict, organizational behaviour and diversity management in organizations and communities. Her work integrates a micro-level social psychological perspective with a macro-level, social-constructivism approach, using a mixed-method approach - quantitative and qualitative methodologies and research tools. It leverages her expertise and experience in program evaluation promoting deeper and more comprehensive study of the research-practice interface.
Professor Geoffrey Corry is a dialogue facilitator at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation outside Dublin. He facilitated over 50 political dialogue workshops during the years of the peace process from 1994 through to 2006 and since then a number of large acknowledgement circles for victims of political violence. He has trained mediators and facilitators not only in Ireland but also in Colombia, Israel/Palestine and Haiti. He has served as Chairman of Glencree Centre (1984-87), Mediators Institute of Ireland (1999-2002) and Facing Forward (2006-2012). He was director of two leading national youth organisations from 1976-1988.