Full CV

BA, University of Auckland, 1970

LL.B. (Hons), University of Auckland, 1971

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Practice Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, 2008-Present

Previous Appointments:

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Law, Victoria University of Wellington, 1976 - 2008

Director, NZ Centre for Conflict Resolution, 1996-2008

Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Jan to May 2004

Visiting Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Jan to Dec 2005

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 1998, 2000, 2001

Visiting Professor, La Sapienza, l’Universitá di Roma I, 2000

Other Positions

Association for Conflict Resolution (and previously Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution)

Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (Mediator Panel list) – until departure for Singapore

New Zealand Council member, Council for Security Co-Ooperation in the Asia-Pacific (Track II advisory body to the ASEAN Regional Forum)

Pre-approved contractor: New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NZAID – Aid and International Development Agency): conflict resolution and capacity building panel

United Nations Public Administration Network (capacity building panel)

Member, Scientific Committee, World Mediation Forum – for the Congresses in 2003 (Buenos Aires) and 2005 (Switzerland)

Member, Steering Committee, Asia Pacific Mediation Forum

Member, Public Sector Mediators’ Association (New Zealand)

Previously: Governing Council and member: Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research

Editorial Activities

International Advisory Board [founding member], Asian Journal on Mediation

International Editorial Board [founding member], Journal of South Asian Development

Revista Italiana di Conflittologia, Napoli, Italy

Courses Taught in SMU

Negotiation

Conflict Resolution

Ethics & Social Responsibility

Research Areas

Mediation (International and Domestic)

Online Dispute Resolution

Multiculturalism, Law and Dispute Resolution

Current Projects

Multiculturalism and Procedural Pluralism

ICT and Conflict Management

Mediation and Public Norms

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Ian Macduff (2008), Chapters on “High- and Low-Context communication” and “Power distance and Formality in Mediation” in The Hwee-Hwee & Joel Lee (eds), in An Asian Model of Mediation Singapore (forthcoming)

Ian Macduff (2008), “Other Gernikas: The Case of Sri Lanka”, to be published in conference proceedings of the 17th International Convention on Culture and Peace, “Gernika, the Guernica and the other Gernikas. Peace Symbology” (forthcoming)

Ian Macduff (2008), “Health as a Bridge for Peace” Capacity Building for Co-Operation in Building Peace” – to be published in a book of conference proceedings, Prof Guy Rajendram (ed) Eastern University of Batticaloa (forthcoming)

Ian Macduff (2006), “Die Mediation der Geschichte: Von der Wiedergutmachung bis zur bürgerlichen Identität“ Perspektive Mediation: Beiträge zur Konfliktkultur , p. 217 (2006/4)

Ian Macduff (2006), “Your pace or mine: Culture, Time and Negotiation” Negotiation Journal 22: 31-45

Ian Macduff (2004), “Terrorism and Conflict Resolution”, Published Working Paper 18/04, Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand

Ian Macduff (2003), “What would you do – with a Taniwha at the table?” Negotiation Journal, 19(3) 195 (2003)

Ian Macduff (2003), “Part II - What would you do – with a Taniwha at the table?” Negotiation Journal, 19(4) 291 (2003)

Ian Macduff (2003), “La Salud come Puente para de la Paz: Desarrollo de la Capacitacion para la Gestion de Conflictos y la Transformacion Social”, Revista La Trama, http://www.revistalatrama.com.ar

Ian Macduff (2002), “What am I doing here? Mediators and Mandate,” Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Newsletter, No 3, 2002

Ian Macduff, Dr Rajat Ganguly (eds) (2002), Ethnic Conflicts in South and Southeast Asia: Causes, Dynamics, Solutions (Sage, New Delhi , 2002)

Ian Macduff (2001), “Mediating Distance: Online Tools for Reconciliation?” ADR Online Monthly, http://www.ombuds.org/center/adr2002-7-Macduff.html

Ian Macduff (2001), “ Capacity Building in Conflict Transformation: Integrating Responses to Internal Conflicts” Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, http://www.jha.ac/articles/a073.htm, 15 October 2001

Ian Macduff (1999), Contributing author to P. Spiller (ed) Dispute Resolution in New Zealand (Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1999) (Chapter on “Cross Culture Dispute Resolution” and co-author of “Introduction” and chapter on “Negotiation”)

Ian Macduff, Amanda Wolf (1999), “Negotiating the Principles and Applications of Environmental Justice: Implications of Participation” in Richardson & Bosselmann (ed) New Tools for Environmental Justice (Kluwer, 1999)

Ian Macduff (1999), Editor “Communique” (Bulletin of the International Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research), Issue 1: 1999 (Vol XXIX)

Ian Macduff (1999), Guest editor, Special issue of the SIETAR International Journal Vol 1, No. 2, issue on “Culture, Identity and Conflict”

Ian Macduff (1996) Co-author (and member of National Working Party on Mediation), Guidelines on Family Mediation (Butterworths, 1996)