Colin Craig
Director, Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Center, Northern Ireland, Founder of Different Tracks Global, Northern Ireland, and Co-Designer of “Dialogue For Peaceful Change“
Colin Craig is a senior partner of Different Tracks Global. Colin has been involved in working in the field of peacebuilding and conflict management both locally and internationally for over 35 years. After receiving an Honours degree in education, he has worked professionally as a youth worker, a director of an Alternative to Custody Young Offenders Project, a principal officer, and as a regional consultant for an NCH in the North West of England.
In 1990, he became the center and program director for the Corrymeela Community, which is recognized internationally for its pioneering work for reconciliation in Northern Ireland. In 2000, he cofounded TIDES Training [Transformation, Interdependence, Diversity, Equity, and Sustainability] to allow him to further develop his work as a “practitioner/theorist in the developing field of conflict management. During his time with TIDES, Colin codeveloped a range of accredited training programs and worked extensively across the public and community sectors as both a consultant and mentor/coach.
In 2004, he led a design team to develop and pilot a conflict management training program called Dialogue for Peaceful Change [DPC] for Oikosnet, a global network focused on working on issues of social justice. DPC has now trained over 850 facilitators and 15 trainers worldwide. In 2007, as the lead coach/trainer/consultant, his work brought him into two exciting and dynamic partnerships with Emerald Consulting in the USA and Stichting Oikos in the Netherlands. Working together on youth and gang violence issues in Antioch California, Colin has co-designed and piloted a new systemic and collaborative building model called Leadership for Sustainable Change [LSC]. This framework links not only his concern for social justice but also a deep environmental commitment. To support this work, he launched his new company of Different Tracks Global in November of 2012.
He is the recipient of both a Winston Churchill and British American Fellowships and was awarded an MBE for his services to the community in 1996.