Hen Wilkinson, M.Sc.
Director, Community Resolve
The Netherlands
Email: hen.wilkinson@bristol.ac.uk
Skype: hen.bristol1
Web:
www.communityresolve.com
Hen
Wilkinson, co-founder and director of Community Resolve since in 2001,
had a full and varied career in both the public and private sectors
before training as a community, workplace and special educational needs
mediator in the 1990s. Since then, she has worked as a conflict trainer,
facilitator and lecturer in conflict transformation theory and
practice, applying ideas from around the globe to local and
organizational practice. Her key interest in bridging theory and
practice has led to ongoing work both as a practitioner and as an
academic. In 2012, she was an Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) 3rd Sector Knowledge Exchange Fellow in partnership with the
University of West of England. She is currently completing an
ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Bristol on the challenges of
maintaining positive social relations in the face of local turbulence,
while developing digital resources around issues of conflict and
resilience through Community Resolve (www.communityresolve.com).
Community Resolve (www.communityresolve.com)
is an organization rooted in a decade of practice in Bristol in
building positive team, organization and community relations. Their work
with UK community tensions starts from an understanding of non-violent
conflict as an inevitable part of human relationships, and full of
potential for creative development. This approach challenges individuals
to recognize their own part in their interactions, and to build on
their own experiences to turn insight into action. Community Resolve
forms a bridge between theory and practice, with long-standing
collaborations with the University of the West of England and other
universities and organizations around the UK