Board of Directors

Branka Marijan

Branka Marijan (Ph.D.) is a program officer at Project Ploughshares, where she leads the research on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her work examines ethical concerns regarding the development of autonomous…

Evelyn Voigt

Evelyn is founding member and researcher for Civilian Peace Service Canada. CPSC promotes a peace profession and accredits Peace Professionals. It has pioneered and piloted the first values- and competency-based assessment and accreditation…

Nathan C. Funk

Nathan C. Funk, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Waterloo’s Conrad Grebel University College.He has served on the boards of two Canadian NGOs, Project Ploughshares and Peacebuild: The Canadian…

Edmund Pries

Dr. Edmund Pries (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Social Entrepreneurship, Religion and Culture and Community Engagement at Wilfrid Laurier University where his teaching is centered in the area of Peace and Conflict Studies…

Erich Schellhammer

Erich Schellhammer recently retired from his position as associate professor and co-chair of the B.A. in Justice Studies, School of Humanitarian Studies, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Royal Roads University. Erich came to Canada with…

Steven Schroeder

Steven Schroeder is Teaching Chair in the Peace and Conflict Studies program at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Schroeder completed his Ph.D. in modern European history at the University of Notre…

Wendy Kroeker

Wendy teaches at the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in the undergrad Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies department and in the MA in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development program. As well, she is the Co-Director of the Cana…

Jinelle Piereder

Jinelle Piereder serves as the PACS-Can Membership & Communications Chair, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. Supervised by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jin…

Timothy Donais

Timothy Donais is Chair of the PACS-Can Board of Directors, and an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, where he teaches in the field of peace and conflict studies. His c…

Neil Funk-Unrau

Neil Funk-Unrau is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies a Menno Simons college and also, since 2015, the Associate Dean of Menno Simons College. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University (2002) and an M.A. in Peace Studies from…