Rick Wallace
Rick brings over 20 years of international and Canadian experience with specialized knowledge in conflict resolution, multi-party negotiation, international human rights law and indigenous peoples rights.
With a background in non-profit management and the United Nations, Rick has 14 years experience as a peacebuilding consultant providing mediation, facilitation, training and process design in conflict resolution, negotiation, restorative justice, strategic planning and leadership.
As a former international humanitarian and development worker, community-based mediator, NGO coordinator, writer, researcher and university lecturer, Rick brings a unique and highly diverse set of experiences with a focus on creating consensus, developing skills and programming to negotiate difficult complex situations, and building new capacities and processes for transforming conflict into partnership.
Rick has a PhD from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK. He holds a LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the University of Lund (Sweden), and obtained his Master of Arts (MA) in Adult Education from OISE at the University of Toronto.
Rick is the author of Merging Fires: Community-based Peacebuilding between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Books (1)
Synopsis:
The past two decades have witnessed the emerging role of grassroots social movements and community-based peacebuilding as key sites of transformative political and cultural engagement. Merging Fires offers case studies of grassroots alliance building between non-Indigenous activists and three Indigenous communities:
the Chippewa of Nawash,the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Anishinaabe Grand Council of Treaty #3. These Canadian examples offer insights into the challenges, limitations and complexities of transformative, community-based alliance building and raise critical questions about power, knowledge and pedagogy at the grassroots level.
While this analysis is uniquely Canadian in scope, Merging Fires is of great political relevance in light of the Idle No More movement as well as similar decolonizing initiatives occurring globally. Rick Wallace’s research methodologies and ethics of solidarity are starkly different from many mainstream academic approaches, and his documentation of on-the-ground efforts at peacebuilding fills an important gap in the field.
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178 pages | 6.00" x 9.00"
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