Dr. Paula Green is founder and Executive Director of Karuna Center for Peacebuilding ( www.karunacenter.org), a US-based NGO focused on international conflict transformation, inter-communal dialogue, and reconciliation. She serves as Professor of Conflict Transformation at the School for International Training, where she directs CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures), an annual Peacebuilding Institute and Graduate Certificate Program for peacemakers from around the world. Dr. Green has decades of experience as a psychologist, educator, and consultant in peacebuilding in many regions of Africa, Asia, the Mid East, and Europe, as well as within the US. She was winner of the Unsung Heroes of Compassion, an award that was given to her by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in April 2009.