Tom Richardson

Tom (Thomas) Richardson co-ordinates and operationalizes initiatives and projects taken on by the Dean's Office. He is enroled in the S-CAR MS program and hopes to eventually focus on the relationships between human adaptation to climate change and armed violence.

From September 2009 to August 2010 Tom worked as Programme Assistant for Disarmament and Peace, at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva. Primarily focused on three areas; multilateral disarmament diplomacy through a variety of forums; facilitating NGO involvement with the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development; and building a community of practice of actors engaged with the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) of field workers, operational agencies in Geneva, and the PBC secretariat in New York.

From January to April of 2009 Tom worked as a Research Assistant to the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, a community peacebuilding NGO. Predominantly writing briefing papers, Tom also provided local staff with basic conflict resolution tools and accompanied them on workshops in the field. Additionally, Tom wrote articles for the Daily Mirror, the leading English language newspaper in Sri Lanka.

Between September and December 2008 Tom assisted the East West Management Institute with a project concerning individual economic land rights in Cambodia. The primary out put were four picture books, written in Khmer, on domestic and international land rights published by the OHCHR and disseminated to the local population.

From June to September 2008 Tom worked as a  Program Assistant for Protect the Earth, Protect Yourself (PEPY), a grassroots education and environmental development NGO in Cambodia. Conducting research, writing and editing grant proposals, and multimedia work including website maintenance and the production of short films.

In 2008 Tom recieved a BA in Conflict Resolution from University of Bradford,sPeace Studies Department,  His dissertation, “United Nations Peacebuilding in the Post-9/11 Security Environment: Challenges and Opportunities", recieved the Eric George Tyldesley Award: best dissertation pertaining to the future of post-conflict peacebuilding.

During his undergraduate Tom facilitated a group for the Soliya Programme, an online learning and dialogue project between North America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe.  Additionally, Tom trained as a youth mentor for Peace Jam, an international initiative that seeks to help young people to develop and use non-violent methods of resolving.

Tom (Thomas) Richardson co-ordinates and operationalizes initiatives and projects taken on by the Dean's Office. He is enroled in the S-CAR MS program and hopes to eventually focus on the relationships between human adaptation to climate change and armed violence.

From September 2009 to August 2010 Tom worked as Programme Assistant for Disarmament and Peace, at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva. Primarily focused on three areas; multilateral disarmament diplomacy through a variety of forums; facilitating NGO involvement with the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development; and building a community of practice of actors engaged with the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) of field workers, operational agencies in Geneva, and the PBC secretariat in New York.

From January to April of 2009 Tom worked as a Research Assistant to the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, a community peacebuilding NGO. Predominantly writing briefing papers, Tom also provided local staff with basic conflict resolution tools and accompanied them on workshops in the field. Additionally, Tom wrote articles for the Daily Mirror, the leading English language newspaper in Sri Lanka.

Between September and December 2008 Tom assisted the East West Management Institute with a project concerning individual economic land rights in Cambodia. The primary out put were four picture books, written in Khmer, on domestic and international land r