Brian McQuinn
Conflict Resolution and Prevention Specialist
United Nations Development Programme
Brian McQuinn brings 10 years of conflict resolution and reconciliation experience in community-based conflicts from living and working in areas like Bosnia, Rwanda, Timor-Leste, and Nepal. His focus has been on dialogue and mediation processes in difficult situations involving identity and deeply-held values. As a dialogue practitioner and researcher, he brings a range of experience – from supporting peace processes in East Timor and Nepal to training and mentoring facilitators involved in inter-ethnic/inter-religious dialogue in the Balkans, Indonesia, and Rwanda.
Brian has been working closely with the conservation community since 2001 to adapt principles and practice in the conflict resolution discipline to conservation conflicts. He began his inter-disciplinary work in conservation with the Jane Goodall Institute on a study examining protracted conflicts in conservation settings. Brian is a co-founder and steering committee member of the Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration.
Brian currently works for the United Nations Development Programme as a Conflict Prevention Advisor but was previously the Assistant Director of the Conflict Resolution Program at former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an Honored Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution and earned his Master's degree from the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute.