Indigenous Peoples & Justice Program Speakers Series presents Mr. Robert (Bob) Watts

University of Saskatchewan presents Mr. Robert (Bob) Watts
Interim Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission “Remembering for the Future”

Tuesday March 4, 2008 • 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Physics 165Robert (Bob) Watts is the Interim Executive Director of Canada’s first Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which will examine and make recommendations with respect to the Indian Residential School era and its legacy. Until 2007, Bob served as the Chief of Staff to the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine, where he was a member of the team that negotiated the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canada’s history. A former Assistant Deputy Minister for the Government of Canada, Bob is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Fellow at the Harvard Law School where he researched and lectured on the role culture plays in conflict. Bob is also a Fellow at the European Institute for Community Based Conflict Resolution. Bob was a senior associate of the Ridgewood Foundation for the Community Based Conflict Resolution, and has worked as a practitioner and trainer in both negotiations and conflict resolution. Bob has taught, debated and lectured at a number of universities in Canada. Bob is married, has three daughters and four grandsons. Bob is from the Mohawk and Ojibway Nations and resides at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario.

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