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Cathryne L. Schmitz, professor and chair, Department of Peace and
Conflict Studies, and professor, Department of Social Work, at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, is an affiliate faculty in Women and Gender
Studies and a research fellow with the Center for New North Carolinians. She
has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Washington, and
she completed her PhD in social work at Ohio State University. Her scholar-
ship focuses on organizational development and community building, analysis
of the privilege/oppression nexus, critical multiculturalism, leadership, inter-
disciplinary education, global engagement, peacebuilding, and environmental
sustainability. She is engaged in intercultural global education and knowledge
building. She has numerous publications and is currently focusing in the areas
of peace assessment, environmental justice, and organizational/community
transformation.
Tony Stanley is the principal social worker for the London Borough of Tower
Hamlets, United Kingdom. Part of the senior management team, he is lead-
ing strategic reforms for social work, and he provides practice leadership
across the local authority. Previously holding senior lectureships in social
work and sociology, he has published in both, with a particular focus on
risk. Tony has a master’s degree in sociology and a PhD in social work, both
from the University of Canterbury. Tony has a practice background in child
and family social work.
Martin Tolich is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology,
Gender and Social Work at the University of Otago. He gained his first degrees
in sociology from the University of Auckland and his PhD in sociology from
the University of California. His research specialisms are the sociology of the
workplace and qualitative research ethics. His two forthcoming books are The
Politicisation of Ethics Review in New Zealand (Dunmore Press, 2015) and
Qualitative Ethics in Practice (Left Coast Press, in press.)
Patrick Vakaoti is Fijian and has been teaching social work at the University
of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, since 2009. He completed his sociology
undergraduate training in Fiji and his PhD in social work at the University of
Queensland, Australia. He has research experience in a variety of indigenous
people studies, and he has published in the areas of Pacific youth participation
and leadership and the experiences of street-based youth. He has worked on
numerous consultancies for organizations like the United Nations Children’s
Fund, the Knowing Children program, the Pacific Leadership Programme
(Australian Agency for International Development), and the Secretariat of
the Pacific Community on child protection, youth leadership, and youth
development issues in Fiji and the Pacific Region. He involves himself in