Ms. Penelope Harley
Penelope Harley is an experienced mediator and adjunct professor. She obtained her degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics with a concentration in the field of International Relations from Oxford University in 1986. While there, she wrote a thesis titled Palestinian Education Under Occupation, for which she was awarded the Muhammed Yarbush Award for Arab Studies. After graduation, she went to Jerusalem as a Rotary Foundation Scholar to study Arabic at Birzeit University on the West Bank.
From 1987 to 1999, Penelope Harley worked at the Education and Training Department of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and as Pastoral Head at the Grey Coat Hospital School in London, where she pioneered an academic tutorial system and developed Health and Social Education curricula. She has traveled extensively in the Middle East (specifically West Bank & Gaza, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen).
In 1999, Ms. Harley moved to the United States in order to obtain her J.D. from Hamline University School of Law. She joined the faculty there in August 2002 as the Dispute Resolution Institute's inaugural Postgraduate Fellow. Ms. Harley's responsibilities at the University included continued oversight of the mediation clinic and dedication to ongoing research in the field of dispute resolution. Ms. Harley remained at Hamline teaching ADR until her move to Colorado in 2005, where she is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Denver. There, she teaches classes on restorative justice and reconciliation in international affairs in the Conflict Resolution Program and in the School of International Affairs, including a course of her own design, Restorative Justice: Practices and Principles, which incorporates innovative teaching techniques.
From January 2005 to April 2006, Penelope Harley served as the Training and Dissemination Expert of Promotion of International Commercial Arbitration and other Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques in MEDA Countries.