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Karen Beazley B.L.A., PhD Interdisciplinary Studies is Director of the School for Resource and Environmental Studies (SRES). Dr. Beazley has been a faculty member in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies since 1997. Prior to joining Dalhousie she held positions as a landscape architect with firms in Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph, an MA from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Dalhousie.
Over the past decade, Dr. Beazley has acquired extensive research experience which focuses on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem and protected area management, particularly in the Atlantic region. Her research has been supported by several grants from Nova Forest Alliance, SSHRC, the EJLB Foundation, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Greater Laurentian Wildlands Project, and the Atlantic Region Ecosystem Science Fund. She has spoken about her studies at numerous conferences in North America and the UK, and her publications have appeared in a variety of fora including Natural Areas Journal, Environmental Conservation, Wild Earth, Northern Forest Forum, Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, and a large number of conference proceedings.
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Alexandra Dobrowolsky PhD is an Associate Professor, and currently the Chair of the Political Science Department at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches in the areas of: Canadian; Comparative; and Women and Politics. Her research interests revolve around issues of representation, mobilization, citizenship, democracy and governance. Her most recent work focuses on changing citizenship regimes in relation to social policy, as well as to security and immigration in Canada and Britain, and appears in a range of national and international journals. She is the author of: The Politics of Pragmatism: Women, Representation and Constitutionalism in Canada (Oxford University Press 2000) and has co-edited: Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and Comparative Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2003) with Vivien Hart; and Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections (Ashgate 2006) with Evangelia Tastsoglou. Her chapter in the latter, written with Ruth Lister, was awarded the 2006 Jill Vicker's Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association.
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Trish Glazebrook PhD Philosophy received her doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1994. She has published Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science, and is currently editing a volume on Heidegger and science, and completing a manuscript entitled Eco-Logic: Erotics of Nature. She has published papers on Heidegger’s analyses of science and technology, ecofeminism, philosophy of technology, and international issues in environmental phenomenology. She has taught at the University of Toronto, Colgate University, Syracuse University, and Moravian College, and is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University, with cross-appointments to Women and Gender Studies, International Development Studies, and the School for Resource and Environmental Studies.
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Jill Grant PhD Regional Planning is Professor and Director of the School of Planning at Dalhousie University. She has been studying Canadian communities for over 20 years, with a special interest in the cultural values that shape community form and planning practice. Her research has included investigations of the effects of new urbanism in Canadian planning, the development of private and gates communities, the history of settlement form, and the nature of land use disputes. She has conducted research in many parts of Canada, in Japan, and in Papua New Guinea. Her current research project looks at theory and practice in planning the suburbs.
Dr. Grant has published widely in academic and professional journals, and is the author of several books, including “The Drama of Democracy: Contention and Dispute in Community Planning”, from the University of Toronto Press (1994), and “Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice”, from Routledge (2006). With Andre Sorensen and Peter Marcotullio she edited “Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions”, from Ashgate (2004). Her new edited collection, “Reader in Canadian Planning: Linking Theory and Practice” will be published by Thomson Nelson Canada in 2007.
She holds an MA and PhD from the University of Waterloo in regional planning, masters in anthropology from McMaster, and a bachelors from the University of Western Ontario.
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Nuala Kenny O.C., M.D., FRCP(C) Dr. Kenny has served on the Committees on Biomedical Ethics of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Pediatric Society, the National Council for Bioethics in Human Research, the Tri-Council Working Group on Guidelines for Research with Human Subjects and the National Science Advisory Board. She was Chair of the Values Committee of the Prime Minister’s 1997 National Forum on Health and is past President of both the Canadian Pediatric Society and the Canadian Bioethics Society. She was a founding member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Chaired their Working Group on Ethics. She is presently a member of the Health Council of Canada and a director of Canadian Doctors for Medicare.
Her present research interests include role models in the professional character formation of new physicians, ethics in health policy, pediatric ethics and end-of-life care. Her first book was “What Good is Health Care? Reflections on the Canadian Experience” published by CHA Press. Her second edited text “ Lost Virtue: Professional Character Development in Medical Education” was published by Elsevier Press in October, 2006.
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Jennifer Llewellyn LL.B., LL.M.; Associate Professor at Dalhousie Law School. Professor Llewellyn teaches restorative justice, human rights law, public law and constitutional law. She is the Director of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community University Research Alliance, a five year research project on the institutionalization of restorative justice funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. She has written extensively on the theory and practice of restorative justice. Her work in restorative justice has domestic and international dimensions. Domestically, she is an academic/policy advisor to the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program and acted as a consulted to the Assembly of First Nations during the residential schools abuse settlement negotiations. Internationally she worked with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was an expert witness on restorative justice for the Jamaican Commission of Enquiry and was a member of the Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict at Notre Dame University. She has also written and published in the area of health law.
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Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community University Research Alliance
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Brian Noble PhD is Faculty at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. An anthropologist of transcultural processes, Professor Nobles's research is on indigenous knowledge, resource, and cultural rights in shifting local-global economic and information technology regimes. His current project, Rites of Trading Rights: The Interventions of Indigenous Custom in the New Economy considers the political and moral economies of new intellectual property regimes in relation to First Peoples in Canada and elsewhere. This extends on his previous ethnographic research on cultural property and knowledge politics in relations of Museums and First Nations. Dr. Noble also has expertise in critical anthropology of bioscience and technology as public culture, with longstanding interests in museum- and mass-mediated knowledges of dinosaurs, primates, and other animalian forms.
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Daniel N. Paul, C.M., O.N.S., was born on Indian Brook Reserve, Hants County, Nova Scotia. He is an ardent spokesperson and activist for human rights. Among his many other activities he is an authour, lecturer, Justice of the Peace for the Province of Nova Scotia, and a member of the board of the Nova Scotia Police Commission.
His varied employment history includes fifteen and a half years with DIAND, the last five years as District Superintendent of Lands Revenues and Trusts. He was the founding Executive Director of the Confederacy of Mainland Micmacs and the founder of the Mi’kmaq/Maliseet News.
He has served on many provincial commissions, including the Province's Human Rights Commission, and was a member of the Nova Scotia Department of Justice's Court Restructuring Task Force. He holds an honourary degree in letters from Université Saint‑Anne. In 2002, he was awarded the Order of Nova Scotia for bringing honour to Nova Scotia. In 2006 he was inducted into the Order of Canada.
He is the author of a history book about the Mi’kmaq and other First Nations entitled “First Nation History - We Were Not the Savages - Third Edition.” He was significantly involved in the Boat Harbour Land Claim, which netted the Pictou Landing Band $35million and additional land. He has established, at his own expense, a Website that features First Nation history highlights, Paintings, and Photos.
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David VanderZwaag, J.D., LL.M., PhD, holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Ocean Law and Governance at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He teaches in the areas of international environmental law and law of the sea. He is the past Co-director of Dalhousie's interdisciplinary Marine Affairs Program (1986-1991).
Dr. VanderZwaag is currently a member of the World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) and Co-chair of the CEL’s Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts & Coral Reefs. He is a Co-founder and Co-chair of the Australian-Canadian Oceans Research Network (ACORN) and has had extensive research and lecturing experience in South and Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Australia and the Caribbean.
Dr. VanderZwaag has authored over fifty papers in the marine and environmental law field. His most recent book publications are Towards Principled Oceans Governance: Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges (edited with D.R. Rothwell) (London: Routledge Press, 2006) and Aquaculture Law and Policy: Towards Principled Access and Operations (edited with Gloria Chao) (London: Routledge Press, 2006).
Professor VanderZwaag’s educational background includes: PhD (1994, University of Wales, Cardiff), LL.M. (1982, Dalhousie Law School), J.D. (1980, University of Arkansas Law School), M.Div. (1974, Princeton Theological Seminary), and B.A. (1971, Calvin College).
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Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Ocean Law and Governance
Marine & Environmental Law Institute
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