Conference Steering Committee

Representatives of the IBAVI and Spencer Center as well as the Editor and Section Editors for each of the six areas of Beliefs and Values: Understanding the Global Implications of Human Nature, comprise the Steering Committee for the conference. In the context of the above conference rationale and outcomes, the steering committee is responsible for:

1. inviting local, regional, national, and international scholars, educators, organizational representatives, policy-makers, advocates, and other relevant public figures and professionals to participate in this conference on working groups and/or in other roles;
2. reviewing symposia, roundtable, paper, and poster submissions and assembling working groups;
3. organizing and managing the interface between presentations and working group processes;
4. optimizing relevance, efficiency, visibility, impact, and outcomes of the conference;
5. seeking additional financial support for the conference as well as related pre- and post-conference activities; and,
6. promoting synergy among conference participants and processes before, during, and after the conference;

Conflict Resolution

Kathleen Malley Morrison, Ed.D.

Director, Group on International Perspectives on Government Aggression and Peace

Professor of Psychology
Boston University, USA

Roderic Owen, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy
Fellow, Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement
Mary Baldwin College, USA

Human Rights

Rini Banerjee Conway, M.I.A.
Human Rights Program Director
Overbrook Foundation, USA


Heather Ward, M.I.A.

Spencer Center Director of International Programs
Mary Baldwin College, USA


Sustainability


Jennifer Coffman, Ph.D.
Associate Executive Director
Office of International Programs
James Madison University, USA

Steven Njuguna, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Environmental Studies
Associate Professor of Environmental Science
Kenyata University, Kenya


Equal Treatment and Access

Steve Grande, Ph.D.

Spencer Center Director of Civic Engagement
Mary Baldwin College, USA


Shagufa Kapedia, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Vadodara, Gujarat, India


Global Education


Peter Fearon, LL.D. (h.c.)

Professor of Modern Economic and Social History
Pro Vice-Chancellor (fmr.)
University of Leicester, England


Lee Sternberger, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Executive Director

Office of International Programs
 Professor of Graduate Psychology
James Madison University, USA


Religious and Cultural Understanding

Fletcher Linder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director, Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies
James Madison University, USA


Peter Wogan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Williamette University, USA