About this Event
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Mae Canolfan Materion Rhyngwladol Cymru (WCIA) ac Academi Heddwch Cymru yn falch o gynnal sgwrs gyda'r Athro Mazin Qumsiyeh, gwyddonydd Palesteinaidd, awdur a Chyfarwyddwr Sefydliad Bioamrywiaeth a Chynaliadwyedd Palesteina. (Bydd y sgwrs yn Saesneg. )
Siaradwyr:
Cadeirydd – Hayley Morgan – Prif Weithredwr, WCIA
Yr Athro Mazin Qumsiyeh - Cyfarwyddwr Sefydliad Palestina ar gyfer Bioamrywiaeth a Chynaliadwyedd
Yr Athro Colin McInnes – Arweinydd Ymchwil Academi Heddwch Cymru
Proffiliau Siaradwyr
Yr Athro Mazin Qumsiyeh yw Sylfaenydd a Chyfarwyddwr (heb dâl) Sefydliad Bioamrywiaeth a Chynaliadwyedd Palesteina, Prifysgol Bethlehem (gweler palestinenature.org a'r llyfryn deng mlwyddiant, yn ogystal ag adroddiadau blynyddol yma). Mae'r sefydliad yn ymgorffori Amgueddfa Hanes Naturiol Palesteina.
Cyn hynny, bu'r Athro Qumsiyeh yn gwasanaethu ym mhrifysgolion yr Unol Daleithiau gan gynnwys Tennessee, Duke ac Yale, gan arbenigo mewn Cytogenetics. Mae wedi cyhoeddi dros 180 o bapurau gwyddonol, dros 30 o benodau llyfrau, cannoedd o erthyglau, a sawl llyfr gan gynnwys “Sharing the Land of Canaan” a “Popular Resistance in Palestine”.
Goruchwyliodd nifer o brosiectau yn amrywio o lunio'r Strategaeth Bioamrywiaeth Genedlaethol a'r Cynllun Gweithredu ar gyfer Palestina i rymuso prosiectau gyda ffermwyr, menywod a phlant, a oedd o fudd i ddegau o filoedd. Mae ef wedi derbyn gwobr Sefydliad Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation award, gwobr Takreem award, a gwobr Ceisiwr Heddwch y Flwyddyn (Peace Seeker of the Year award), ymhlith eraill.
Mae gan Mazin fwy na 10,000 thanysgrifwyr i'w gylchlythyrau rheolaidd, ac mae’n ysgrifennu'r blog ‘Popular Resistance blog’.
Yr Athro Colin McInnes
Mae gan Colin McInnes gadair athro personol yn yr Adran Gwleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol ac mae'n arweinydd ymchwil academaidd Academi Heddwch Cymru. Cyn hynny, roedd yn Ddirprwy Is-ganghellor Ymchwil, Cyfnewid Gwybodaeth ac Arloesi, yn Ddeon yr Ysgol i Raddedigion ac yn Bennaeth Adran. Mae ei ymchwil yn ymwneud â gwleidyddiaeth iechyd byd-eang, yn enwedig o ran llywodraethu, diogelwch, risg, HIV ac AIDS a pharodrwydd pandemig. Mae wedi cyhoeddi'n eang ar iechyd byd-eang ac ar ddiogelwch, gan gynnwys 6 llyfr gan awduron unigol a chydawduron a dros 50 o erthyglau wedi'u dyfarnu. Ef yw prif olygydd yr Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics.
Mae Colin yn Gymrawd Academi'r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, yn Gymrawd Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru ac yn Gymrawd o'r Gymdeithas Frenhinol ar gyfer y Celfyddydau. Rhwng 2007 a 2018, fe oedd cadeirydd UNESCO HIV/AIDS a Diogelwch, ac yn 2017 derbyniodd y Wobr Cyflawniad Arbennig yng Ngwobrau Ymchwil Cymdeithasol cyntaf Cymru, am ei 'gyflawniad personol rhagorol mewn ymchwil'.
Yn 2019, penodwyd Colin gan Lywodraeth y DG i gadeirio Comisiwn Cenedlaethol UNESCO'r DG, ar ôl bod yn Gyfarwyddwr Anweithredol ar gyfer Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol a Dynol y DG. Mae wedi cynrychioli'r DG ar Fwrdd Gweithredol UNESCO, ei Gomisiwn Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol a Dynol ac yn ei Chynhadledd Gyffredinol. Roedd ar baneli REF 2014 ac REF 2021 ar gyfer Gwleidyddiaeth ac Astudiaethau Rhyngwladol yn ogystal â bod yn aelod panel rhyngddisgyblaethol ar gyfer REF 2021.
Roedd Colin yn ddarlithydd yn yr Adran Astudiaethau Rhyfel, Academi Filwrol Frenhinol Sandhurst; Cymrawd Ymchwil Gwadd yn King’s College London; a Chynghorydd Arbennig i Bwyllgor Amddiffyn Tŷ'r Cyffredin. Bu hefyd yn Gadeirydd Cymdeithas Astudiaethau Rhyngwladol Prydain; aelod o Fwrdd Ymchwil Strategol a Phwyllgor Cynghori Rhyngwladol ESRC; aelod o grŵp arbenigol WHO ar Ddiplomyddiaeth Iechyd Byd-eang; a Chyfarwyddwr Fforwm Ymchwil Diogelwch Cynghorau Ymchwil y DG. Yn 2019 roedd yn Ymgynghorydd i Sefydliad Iechyd y Byd, gan ddatblygu eu fframwaith ar gyfer cydweithredu sifil-milwrol mewn argyfyngau iechyd. Ar hyn o bryd mae Colin yn eistedd ar ystod o baneli cynghori sy'n cwmpasu gwahanol agweddau ar Gysylltiadau Rhyngwladol ac mae'n aelod o amrywiaeth o fyrddau golygyddol. Bu'n cynghori Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru ar ddatblygu strategaeth iechyd ryngwladol, a'r Cyngor InterAction (grŵp o dros 40 o gyn-arlywyddion a Phrif Weinidogion) ar faterion iechyd byd-eang.
Hayley Morgan
Dychwelodd Hayley adref yn 2018 ar ôl byw y tu allan i Gymru am bron i ugain mlynedd yng Ngweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica, Chad, Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd Congo, Gweriniaeth Congo, Ffrainc, Malta, Sbaen a Thwrci. Yn ystod y cyfnod hwn, bu'n gweithio yn y sector preifat ac yn Opera Cenedlaethol Paris cyn treulio bron i ddegawd yn rheoli ac arwain prosiectau gyda Doctors Without Borders mewn ardaloedd gwrthdaro ac ôl-gwrthdaro. Roedd byw ar draws y byd yn caniatáu iddi ddysgu Ffrangeg a Sbaeneg ac Arabeg sylfaenol wrth gael y fraint o ddysgu'n helaeth am wahanol ddiwylliannau a chyd-destunau, yn ogystal â gweld effeithiau gwrthdaro a chynnwrf, ymfudo gorfodol a chadernid anhygoel gan y bobl y cyfarfu â hi a'u byw ochr yn ochr â nhw. Ar ôl dychwelyd i Gymru, ymunodd Hayley â'r trydydd sector yng Nghymru, gan sefydlu prosiect gyda TGP Cymru i gefnogi'r gymuned Roma trwy Brexit a'r argyfwng Covid. Mae'n ymuno â WCIA ar ôl nifer o flynyddoedd yn Llywodraeth Cymru yn gweithio ym maes iechyd, ar ymateb y Wcráin ac yn fwyaf diweddar mewn cydraddoldeb strategol.
Gyda chymysgedd o ryngwladoldeb, gwaith datblygu, profiad y trydydd sector a'r gymdeithas sifil, mae Hayley wedi canolbwyntio ar fywyd sy'n llawn awydd i ddysgu am y bobl a'r hanesion y tu ôl i'r penawdau newyddion, yn llawn chwilfrydedd cyfnewid gyda phobl a gweithio i ddod â phobl ynghyd ar draws diwylliannau, gan alinio ei gwerthoedd â rhai'r WCIA. Ar hyn o bryd mae'n ymgymryd â gradd Meistr ran-amser mewn Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol lle mae ei thraethawd hir yn canolbwyntio ar rwystrau i heddwch.
Wrth ymuno â WCIA, mae Hayley yn dod â'i phrofiad o fyw ar draws y byd a chartref yng Nghymru, gan gyfuno ei hangerdd dros ddod â'r ddau hyn at ei gilydd. Ar ôl cymryd straeon a chariad at Gymru dramor, mae hi bellach yn edrych i weithio gyda chymunedau ac unigolion i gynyddu dealltwriaeth a chysylltedd rhyngwladol ymhellach yng Nghymru.
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The Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA) & Academi Heddwch Cymru are proud to host a conversation with Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, Palestinian scientist, author and Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability.
Speakers:
Chair – Hayley Morgan – Chief Executive, WCIA
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh - Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability
Professor Colin McInnes – Research Lead, Academi Heddwch Cymru
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh is Founder and (unpaid) Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, Bethlehem University (see palestinenature.org and the 10 year anniversary booklet and annual reports here). The institute incorporates the Palestine Museum of Natural History.
Professor Qumsiyeh previously served at US universities including Tennessee, Duke and Yale, specialising in Cytogenetics. He has published over 180 scientific papers, over 30 book chapters, hundreds of articles, and several books including “Sharing the Land of Canaan” and “Popular Resistance in Palestine”.
He oversaw a number of projects ranging from formulating the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Palestine to empowerment projects with farmers, women, and children that benefitted tens of thousands. He is a recipient of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation award, the Takreem award, and the Peace Seeker of the Year award, among others.
Mazin has more than 10,000 subscribers to his frequent newsletters (ask me to forward some samples) and writes the Popular Resistance blog.
Prof Colin McInnes
Colin McInnes holds a personal professorial chair in the Department of International Politics and is academic research lead for the Academi Heddwch Cymru (Wales Peace Academy). He was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation, Dean of the Graduate School and Head of Department. His research concerns the politics of global health, especially relating to governance, security, risk, HIV and AIDS and pandemic preparedness. He has published widely on global health and on security, including 6 single/co-authored books and over 50 refereed articles. He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics.
Colin is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. From 2007-2018 he held the UNESCO Chair in HIV/AIDS and Security, and in 2017 he received the Special Achievement Award at the inaugural Wales Social Research Awards, for his ‘outstanding personal achievement in research’.
In 2019, Colin was appointed by the UK Government to chair the UK National Commission for UNESCO, having previously been its Non-Executive Director for Social and Human Sciences. He has represented the UK on UNESCO’s Executive Board, its Social and Human Sciences Commission and at its General Conference. He was on the REF 2014 and REF 2021 panels for Politics and International Studies as well as being an interdisciplinary panel member for REF 2021.
Colin was a lecturer in the Department of War Studies, The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London; and Special Adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee. He was also Chair of the British International Studies Association; a member of the ESRC’s Strategic Research Board and International Advisory Committee; member of WHO’s expert group on Global Health Diplomacy; and Director of the UK Research Councils’ Security Research Forum. In 2019 he was a Consultant to the World Health Organisation, developing their framework for civil-military collaboration in health emergencies. Colin currently sits on a range of advisory panels covering various aspects of International Relations and is member of a variety of editorial boards. He advised Public Health Wales on its development of an international health strategy, and the InterAction Council (a group of over 40 former Presidents and Prime Ministers) on global health issues.
Hayley Morgan
Hayley returned home in 2018 after having lived outside of Wales for almost twenty years in the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, France, Malta, Spain and Turkey. During this time, she worked in the private sector and at the Paris National Opera before spending almost a decade resource managing and leading projects with Doctors Without Borders in both conflict and post-conflict areas. Living across the world allowed her to learn French and Spanish and basic Arabic whilst having the privilege of learning extensively about different cultures and contexts, as well as witnessing the impacts of conflict and upheaval, forced migration and incredible resilience from the people she met and lived alongside. On returning to Wales, Hayley joined the Welsh third sector, setting up a project with TGP Cymru to support the Roma community through Brexit and the Covid crisis. She joins the WCIA after a number of years at Welsh Government working in health, on the Ukraine response and most recently in strategic equalities.
With a mixture of internationalism, development work, third sector and civil society experience, Hayley has focused on a life filled with the desire to learn about the people and the histories behind the news headlines, filled with the curiosity of exchanging with people and working to bring people together across cultures, aligning her values to those of the WCIA. She is currently undertaking a part-time masters in International Relations where her dissertation focuses on barriers to peace.
In joining the WCIA, Hayley brings her experience of living across the world and home in Wales, combining her passion for bringing both of these together. Having taken stories and a love for Wales abroad, she now looks to work with communities and individuals to further increase international understanding and connectedness in Wales.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Council Chamber, Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
