Tania Sourdin's Page

Tania Sourdin: 3egil1qbmbq6e; Share

Tania Sourdin's Friends

View All

Latest Activity

Tania Sourdin is member #2028 of Peace and Collaborative Development Network. Feb 22

Profile

What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: Practitioner and researcher in the area - interested to hear about how others are faring.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): Tania Sourdin is Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, and Director of Conflict Resolution and Practice, together with Professor Nadja Alexander. ACPACS is a national centre located in Brisbane and Melbourne, and also provides services in Sydney.
Professor Sourdin has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, commercial litigation, trade practices and consumer issues. Her doctorate involved extensive empirical work, which was subsequently adopted by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its inquiry into the Adversarial System. Her work since that time has included extensive reviews of Tribunals and Courts as well as external Dispute Resolution Services.

Professor Sourdin is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a part-time Member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal and a senior member with the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal. Tania is also a mediator active in a range of commercial and workplace and matters. She is a member of National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (for two terms) which advises the Commonwealth Attorney-General on ADR and chairs the Reserach and Judicial Education Committees. Professor Sourdin has led national research projects and produced important recommendations for reform. In 2007 she completed work on the National Standards for Mediators project. She has experience in designing innovative and internet based courses, and has particular expertise in training and educating mediators, investigators, conciliators, tribunal members, judges, architects, lawyers and others concerning alternative dispute resolution processes. She has worked across Australia, in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, the UK and Italy. As well, Professor Sourdin is the author of three books, has contributed chapters for others and published widely on conflict resolution, artificial intelligence, technology and organisational change.

What is your current country of residence?: Australia

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Professor of Conflict Resolution

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box): http://www.uq.edu.au/acpacs/index.html

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box): http://mediate.com

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Education

Which are your primary skills areas?: Training, Evaluation, Intervention, Research

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Artificial Intelligence and supported decision making
Evaluating Mediation (Court related)
Evaluating Mediation (Community sector)
Collaborative practice

Comment Wall (14 comments)

You need to be a member of Peace and Collaborative Development Network to add comments!

Join this network

At 8:17am on August 20th, 2008, Priyaranjan said…: Hi Tania,
Me from New zealand. I want to enhance my career in devlopment studies with conflict resolution Coild you suggest me which is the best way to get university degree.I did bachelor in computer application from nepal.

At 7:33pm on May 19th, 2008, Diane Bretherton said…: Dear Tania, Thanks for linking me to the network and for making me feel welcome.

At 7:04pm on April 4th, 2008, Chris LeGore said…: Thank you for your answer to my message. It is good to hear that there are people out there working for the highest ordered cause of altruist peace. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions with which I may be able to help.

As far as mediation and negotiation is concerned, I feel that simple math tells us that the courts cannot keep up with the need for justice in all areas of life. Therefore expertise in these areas will only come in higher and higher demand in the future. I approach M&D as an integral part to my legal education. I would be very happy to correspond with you and any and all of your students.

Chris

Chris

At 1:12pm on April 3rd, 2008, Khuram Gull said…: helllow tania,
Greeting from Kosovo, i am working here with United Nation Peace Mission, as a International Police officer. I would like to get some guideline in the future in the field of conflict resolution, peacekeeping mission stuff. ok bye... khuram Gull

At 1:37am on March 25th, 2008, JP Vaijaeyonth said…: thank you for your human touch !!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are unique in human remember that always so we too follow you.
have good days ahead.

At 10:09pm on March 20th, 2008, Chris LeGore said…: Hello.

It seems we share some common interests so I wanted to make my introduction. I'm Chris from New Orleans. I'm studying Comparative legal systems at Tulane Law School and am very interested in Human Rights and Mediation and Negotiation. Given our common interests it would be good to start communication so we can refer to each other for advice in the future. Please take a minute to view my page and leave a message if you like.

peace.

At 4:12am on February 23rd, 2008, Tania Sourdin said…: Dear Imran
We welcome students from around the world and have a range of programs in the postgraduate area. I would suggest that you visit our website at http://www.uq.edu.au/acpacs/index.html
then email me at T.Sourdin @uq.edu.au if you would like further information.

Best wishes

Tania

At 3:38am on February 23rd, 2008, imran khan laghari said…: Dear Tania

From your profile it is clear that you are very experienced in conflict area. I am human rights student at Bangkok Thailand. But I am very keen to do research and work in conflict area. As you know Pakistan also suffering from conflict situations not only Pakistan but all south Asia. So can you kindly guide how I will proceed with this further?
hope to listen your side soon

Regards
imran

At 3:43am on February 22nd, 2008, Bobichand Rajkumar said…: Dear Tania,
Thank you very much indeed for your kind response.
I participated in the two-year master’s programme in Applied Conflict Transformation Studies (ACTS) during 2005-2007 at Pannasastra University of Cambodia in partnership with Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT), Cambodia, and Responding to Conflict (RTC), UK. ACTS is a world-wide collaborative initiative which has its regional centres at Belgrade for Balkan and Middle East Region, at Phnom Penh for Asia-Pacific Region, in Kenya for Africa region, and at Oxford for Western Europe.
The course is taken part-time over two years.
The course focuses on the actual work of the practitioner. Participants use action research methodology throughout the course to learn from, explore and create new theory based on the work they are involved in.
I did my action research on Ethnic Conflict in Manipur and its Transformation: Exploring ways of influencing ethnic armed group leaders and civil society leaders and bringing change in their attitude and behaviour to bring about change.
I further look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Bobichand
E-mail: bocha_nm@yahoo.com

At 2:59am on February 22nd, 2008, Yadab Prasad Bastola said…: Thanks Tania
for your response .I would like to keep in touch with you. I want be a your student for conflict resolution. Hope you will accept me.
Regards
yadab Bastola
Nepal