Saturday, January 30, 2010

Noa Zanolli

Noa Zanolli

Dr. Noa Zanolli is Swiss, a teacher/trainer, cultural anthropologist, mediator/facilitator, and consultant. She was the former director of education and research at the Iowa Peace Institute and worked in conflict resolution and mediation education, primarily in Europe and the U.S. She has also worked for many years in international development, humanitarian assistance, and peacebuilding, primarily in Africa. She has recently published a short fictitious dialogue: I have a Dream: A Conversation between President George W. Bush and Sheikh Osama bin Laden (ISBN: 978-0-595-50299-8 (pbk) and ISBN: 978-0-595-61455-4 (ebk). The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding: Stories and Lessons, a memoir written by John W. McDonald, Chairman of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, with Noa Zanolli has just been published by Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group), .
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