Bruce E. Barnes

Bio. for 2010- Bruce E Barnes

Bruce E. Barnes is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawai'i. Bruce currently teaches courses on negotiation, mediation, facilitation, ADR system design, international law and conflict, conflict management for educators, and culture and conflict resolution, and serves as academic advisor for the Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution at University of Hawai'i. Bruce was given the Social Sciences College Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002-2003 and again in 2009-2010. Bruce completed a 10-year term as chair of the Mediation Centers of Hawai'i, a non-profit composed of 5 mediation centers on all major islands of Hawai'i in 2010. His international background includes Peace Corps service in Africa in Nigeria and serving as a Peace Corps trainer for countries in SE Asia and the South Pacific based in Hawai'i in the 1970s. Bruce has published a number of articles and book chapters on culture and conflict resolution in the Asia Pacific region.

He is author of a book, "Culture, Conflict and Mediation in the Asian Pacific" (Revised Ed 2007) by University Press of America. Bruce has conducted conflict resolution training and workshops in Micronesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, Viet Nam, Samoa, Canada and the US. Bruce received his Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon State University, MEd. from Hawai'i, JD from Richardson School of Law (Univ. Hawai'i) in 1977 and LL.M degree in comparative law and dispute resolution in Asia, from Columbia University in 1985. In 2010 fall term he was the Esau Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Mennonite University of Canada, part of the University of Winnipeg. In the Spring of 2011 he has received a Fulbright Research Chair award to

chair a comparative research project in Western Canada and Northwestern USA.

His recreational activities include windsurfing, longboarding, skiing, outdoor beach activities with his family (particularly his 3 year old son) and enjoying the Pacific basin cultures in his travels for work and pleasure. He plays slack key guitar and enjoys singing and playing Hawaiian music with a group of friends that meet at friends' houses periodically around the island of O'ahu.