Board of Directors
Chris Crockett
Mr. Crockett is a Managing Director of ARC Global Partners and leads its Marketing and Investor Relations departments. In 1990 Mr. Crockett established the U.S. private equity business for the Capital Trust Group and remained with that group and its affiliates until 2006. Mr. Crockett was also a co-founder of Bridge East Capital, a $100 million private equity firm and is an advisor to Seacoast Capital. From 1975 to 1990, he was an international banker for Citibank and Bank of Boston, living and working in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Greece and the United Kingdom. Mr. Crockett was a board member/observer of O’Cedar Holdings, Au Bon Pain, eFashion Solutions, Marketmax and The Peace Appeal Foundation. He received his BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Virginia and his MS from the Johns Hopkins University.
Colin Jones
Colin Jones has worked as a senior management consultant and has a career which includes 20 years in full-time ministry in the Anglican Church and various directorships in both the Not-for-Profit and private sector.
he has been a director of the Independent Development Trust, a national social development agency, Chief Executive Officer of Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch and director of the Anglican Church’s HIV and AIDS programme in Southern Africa. Colin has also held various appointments including chairperson of Iziko Museums of South Africa (appointed by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Science and Technology), commissioner on the Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers (appointed by former-President Mandela) and trustee of the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust. His international activities include vice-chairmanship of The Nobel Peace Laurreates Foundation (Norway) and trusteeship of People to People International(USA) among others.
He is now a trustee at Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in South Africa.
Derek Brown
Derek Brown is Executive Director of the Peace Appeal Foundation. The foundation’s work is presently focused in South Asia, where it provides ongoing assistance to peace initiatives and multi-stakeholder dialogues in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Derek is an internationalist with a deep commitment to social justice. He has nurtured many social and public innovations accross the world by enabling innovators and changemakers in diverse societies. Prior to joining the Peace Appeal Foundation, Derek was Vice President and Associate Chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a global institution investing in leading social entrepreneurs in over 50 countries. Derek holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a BA in History from Yale College.
Hannes Siebert
As an international peace process and negotiations adviser and facilitator, Hannes has worked in many of the world’s most conflict-ridden societies. He is currently facilitating and advising on aspects of the peace and negotiations processes in Lebanon and Nepal, working with national stakeholders in the development and implementation of national peace structures, authentic negotiations processes and local/regional conflict interventions.
In South Africa he served as director in the National Peace Secretariat, the multi-party body mandated to implement its 1992 National Peace Accord. Post-1994 he assisted the Special Presidential Task Force in key in-tractable conflicts, focusing on de-militarization of youth militia.
With 5 Nobel Peace Laureates, he initiated the establishment of an international foundation in 2000 in support of their “Appeal for Peace and Non-Violence”; In 2001, as an associate and fellow at the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at NYU, he coordinated the West-Dar al Islam Media Dialogues program – facilitating dialogue between major media institutions in the U.S. and Middle East; and in 2003 he developed Peace Tools, a comprehensive set of innovative tools for conflict transformation and negotiations processes.
James Wine
Jim Wine is an American writer and media producer living in Sweden, with a background in poetry, international politics and social change project design. He serves on several foundation boards of directors in the United States and Sweden and coordinates the international activites of the Peace Appeal Foundation.
Jayne Seminare Docherty
Jayne Seminare Docherty is a professor of conflict studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. She has also taught at George Mason University and Columbia College (South Carolina). Professor Docherty earned her Ph.D. at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and she holds an undergraduate degree in religious studies and political science from Brown University. She also studied theology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Professor Docherty consults with organizations and communities in transition, working with them to harness the positive energy of conflict and minimize its negative effects. Her current area of focus for research, writing and practice is improving the use of negotiation in unstable situations so that the results yield durable but flexible systems for creating long-term and sustainable peace with justice. She has also conducted research – especially action research projects – for nonprofit organizations; consulted on designing, monitoring and evaluating projects and programs; worked with universities on curriculum development; and conducted trainings on conflict analysis, negotiation, and program design.
In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for the Peace Appeal Foundation, Professor Docherty has served as Chair of the Research Section (2004-2007) of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and on the Council for the International Peace Research Association.
Professor Docherty is the author of two books:
• Learning Lessons from Waco: When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Negotiation Table (Syracuse University Press)
• The Little Book of Strategic Negotiation: Negotiating During Turbulent Times (Good Books)
She is also contributed four chapters to The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: The Desk Reference for the Experienced Negotiator (American Bar Association) and she is the author of numerous articles in journals such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Nova Religio, and the Marquette Law Review. Her work on culture and negotiation has been incorporated into three different textbooks used in law schools around the country.
Jeff Seul
Jeff Seul, vice-chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation, is a partner in the international law firm Holland & Knight, where his practice is focused on domestic and international business matters, including mergers and acquisition and other strategic transactions.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Jeff Seul was vice president, general counsel and secretary of Groove Networks, a software company founded by Ray Ozzie, who created Lotus Notes and is now Microsoft's Chief Software Architect. Mr. Seul joined Groove Networks in early 2000, before the company launched its first product. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, and its products are now part of the Microsoft Office system.
Mr. Seul taught at Harvard Law School for several years before joining Groove Networks. He has written extensively in the fields of negotiation and conflict resolution and has served as an arbitrator, mediator or advisor in a broad variety of disputes. Mr. Seul was a senior associate of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs while at Harvard. Mr. Seul practiced with law firms in San Francisco and Boulder from 1988-95.
At the request of the co-facilitators of Nepal's peace process, Mr. Seul recently led a team of lawyers and law professors in the production of an 80-page report that surveys international law and scholarly opinion regarding the various approaches states have used to enforce the rights of victims of human rights abuses and war crimes and stabilize peace at the end of a civil war.
