PRESIDENTS OF THE IPRA FOUNDATION:
Linda Johnston , pres. 2008-
Dr.
Linda M. Johnston is the Executive Director of the Siegel Institute for
Leadership, Ethics, and Character and a Professor at
Kennesaw
State
University in
Atlanta,
Georgia. Her research interests include sports-related
violence, ethics, bullying, racial and ethnic conflict, health-related
conflict, narrative and discourse theory, and world view theory. She is
a trained mediator, negotiator, ombuds, and facilitator. She works both
domestically and internationally. She has received grants from the Southern
Poverty Law Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. She had a
Fellowship to begin a dialogue between Egyptians and Americans. She has
also done work in
Ukraine,
Republic of
Georgia,
Barbados,
Nigeria,
Egypt,
Ecuador,
Zambia, and in the
U.S. Dr. Johnston is the President of the
International Peace Research Association Foundation, serves on the Peace
Research Grants Committee, and administers the Senesh Fellowship Program.
She served on the Board of Hands Along the Nile. She currently serves on
the Nobel Peace Prize committee for the American Friends Service Committee,
teaches at the UN School of Peace in
Costa Rica, as well as the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for
Peace and Conflict Studies in
Zambia. Currently she is the
president of the International Peace Research Association Foundation.
