Public Mediation Programme
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Alexander Rinnooy Kan
Alexander Rinnooy Kan is one of the initiators of the Public Mediation Programme at the UvA. As Chairman of the Social and Economic Council; he became one of Netherlands most known front-fighters for public negotiations and public mediation. As of September 2012, he is University Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam. He holds degrees in Mathematics, Econometrics and a PhD in Mathematics.
Aside from his current job, Alexander Rinnooy Kan is a member of several
advisory boards and committees.
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Alexander Rinnooy Kan
David Laws
David Laws (Ph.D. 1998, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is one of the
initiators of the Public Mediation Programme at the UvA. He is a senior lecturer
in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam . Before
coming to Amsterdam , he worked at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
and the Sloan School of Management at MIT and with the Program on Negotiation at
Harvard Law School . His research focuses on the relationship between
negotiation and conflict resolution, public administration, and democratic
governance. He has worked as a consultant for the New York Stock Exchange, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Air National Guard, the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources, and the Ministry of VROM.
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David Laws
Martien Kuitenbrouwer
Martien Kuitenbrouwer is one of the initiators of the Public Mediation
Programme at the UvA. She has worked in public administration and public
governance for nearly fifteen years. The past eight years, she was president of
the board of Amsterdam-West. She worked with David Laws at the UvA during those
years, developing a close working relationship between research and practice in
order to improve both education on public disputes as well as current government
practice. She is now Programme director for the Public Mediation Programme at
the UvA. Next to this, she works as a management consultant for LysiasGroup,
dealing with complex issues around decentralisation and local government and
administration. She is also member of several advisory boards and committees.
Martien Kuitenbrouwer holds degrees in International Relations from the UvA as
well as a degree in Social and economic Policy from the London School of
Economics and Political Science.
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Martientje Kuitenbrouwer
Howard Bellman
Howard Bellman is one the founding fathers of public mediation in the US. He is affiliated to the Public Mediation Programme donating and sharing his knowledge and expertise. He has designed the Masterclass cycle for Public Mediation, one of the backbones of PMP.
His work has ranged from the most ordinary civil and labor matters to international diplomacy. A significant portion of his practice has focused on high- profile, controversial multi-party cases of public concern such as national rule making, spatial planning, large-scale environmental remediation, school desegregation, financing education, and Native-American land claims.
Mr. Bellman’s clients include several state government and federal government
agencies in the US. From 1983-1986, Mr. Bellman served as Secretary of the
Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations. In 2003 he received
the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.
He is currently Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the Marquette University
Center for Dispute Resolution Education.
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Nanke Verloo
Nanke works as a researcher in the world of public disputes. She looks into the way local governments can turn situations of conflict into opportunities for inclusive urban democracy. During her PhD research she spent three years in situations of urban conflict to understand the experiences of neighbours, welfare practitioners, police officers, policy makers, and politicians.
She developed an approach to do case study research that includes the diverse storylines of parties in conflict. These case studies seek to bridge theory and practice as they inform practitioners about ways of dealing with dispute and controversy and propose a framework to make sense of conflict in cities.
Her research has been the basis for training programs in which she uses the analysis of critical moments to help practitioners to rethink their own work experiences as a case. She translated real life case studies into role-play activities that build capacity to mediate between citizens, policy practitioners, and other parties.
At the University of Amsterdam she teaches at the department of Political
Science and in the master Conflict Resolution and Governance at the GSSS. At
PMP, she is responsible for supervising case-research and works as a trainer.
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Nanke Verloo