Past Featured Contributors
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This page is a complete listing of all featured contributor front-page entries at BASES wiki, in reverse chronological order.
Doug Cahn is principle of The Cahn Group, LLC, and has been a corporate responsibility and public policy executive for nearly 30 years. Throughout his career Doug has implemented corporate programs that address supply chain labor standards, human rights, environment, government relations, community relations, advocacy and communications. A pioneer in applying corporate codes of conduct to factories owned and operated by third parties in Asia, Central America and Eastern Europe, Doug also serves as a member of the Board of the Fair Factories Clearinghouse, a non-profit initiative of global retail companies, and the Board of Verité a nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to humanizing the global workplace.
Doug's article, titled Listening to Employees: The Underdeveloped Component to Assessing Compliance with Corporate Codes of Conduct in Supply Chains, argues that the single most under-utilized ingredient in implementing supply chain codes of conduct is to have credible, legitimate and trusted grievance mechanisms in place. Read the article here.
Dr. Barney Jordaan is a distinguished professor at the University of Stellenbosch Graduate Business School in Bellville, South Africa, and Director of the USB's Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement. He also serves as Founding Director of the US / UJ Center for International Law and Comparative Labor and as a founder and trustee of the Centre for Rural Legal Studies.
Barney is senior arbitrator and mediator, and has been involved in dispute resolution since 1987. His fields of interest are negotiation, alternative forms of dispute settlement and workplace relations. He is currently the only International Mediation Institute (IMI) certified mediator in Africa.
Learn more about the Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement, or Visit Barney's Profile.
Dr. Kemp is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her work focuses on social justice-related issues in large-scale industries (primarily mining). She has a particular interest in drivers that lead to improved social performance, and industry responses to community relations and development challenges.
Previous to joining CSRM, Deanna worked in corporate and operational roles within BHP Billiton, including as Manager of Social Policy in global headquarters. She is a member of the BASESwiki International Steering Group.
In Learnings from the Minerals Industry, Dr. Kemp provides an insightful overview of the climate for Project-level grievance mechanisms (GMs) in the mining industry. Read the full article now.
Mike McIlwrath is Senior Counsel, Litigation for GE Infrastructure - Oil & Gas. A long-time member of the CPR Institute, Mike hosts the International Dispute Negotiation Podcast series, where he recently opened up about one of his employer’s mediations. Gathering UK neutral Tony Allen a GE employee, Gavin Slessor, McIlwrath draws out what Slessor did to get to mediation, and make it work, as well as why GE decided to mediate the case. Find out what happened in the participants' own words, and how they feel about the results.
The Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK) is a global nonprofit USA IRC 501(c)(3) organization based in Honolulu, Hawai`i, USA, established in December 2008 with a generous grant from Humanity United (CA, USA)
