Dr Serge Loode combines academic teaching and research experience with a deep understanding of conflict resolution and peacebuilding practice. Originally from Germany, Serge worked as a civil law lawyer before developing his conflict resolution and peacebuilding practice. At university Serge teaches academic courses in Mediation, Negotiation and Theories of Conflict Resolution. He is also a mediator and restorative practitioner with the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in Melbourne and a mediator, trainer and assessor with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General in Queensland. Serge is a founder and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia (PaCSIA).
Serge is a highly experienced facilitator, conflict coach, conflict resolution trainer and assessor, as well as a nationally accredited mediator under the Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation System (AMDRAS). Serge mediates court-referred personal safety intervention order disputes, workplace disputes, commercial disputes and neighbourhood disputes and designs processes for large-scale community conflicts. He has worked with a variety of clients, including local and state government, police, military, businesses, primary and secondary schools and community groups.
In 2013 he facilitated an 8-months dialogue and planning process involving Australian South Sea Islanders and Aboriginal and Settler Peoples of Scenic Rim in South East Queensland which led to the 2013 commemoration of the arrival of the first South Sea Islanders on plantations in Queensland.
Internationally Serge has worked on conflict resolution, peacebuilding and development issues with people from the Philippines, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya and South Sudan. Since 2017 he has led PaCSIA’s work in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea which has supported the internationally recognised referendum on Bougainville’s future political status of 2019, and which has reached over 105,000 Bougainvilleans through the use of facilitated public dialogue.