Program Faculty




Dr. Fausto Sarmiento

Program Director
Associate Professor of Geography, UGA

Jeff Pugh

Coordinator and Co-instructor
Executive Director, Center for Mediation, Peace, & Resolution of Conflict - International (CEMPROC)
Instructor and Doctoral Candidate, the Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Patricia Sullivan
Associate Director/INTL Internship supervisor
Assistant Professor of International Affairs, UGA



The program will include a number of high-profile guest speakers who are scholars and practitioners dealing with international conflict resolution issues in South America. A representative list of guest speakers from last year's program includes:




Yolanda Kakabadse, former Minister of the Environment, Ecuador

Randy Borman, leader of the Cofan indigenous group in the Amazon jungle

Andres Quintero, conflict resolution specialist, Bogota, Colombia

Ambassador Linda Jewell and panelists from U.S. Embassy and USAID missions in Ecuador

Alvaro Galindo, Mediator and Professor of international law at Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Fredy Rivera, Professor of International Relations
FLACSO-Ecuador

Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador


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