CMU Faculty

Stephanie Stobbe

Associate Professor of Business and Conflict Resolution Studies

Stephanie P. Stobbe, an Associate Professor in Business and Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), is a leading expert on Southeast Asian processes of dispute resolution. As an active educator, trainer, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practitioner, she has worked and conducted research in Canada, United States, South America, Europe, India, and Asia. An advocate for peace and gender equity, Stephanie contributed to the UN Development Programme and Peacebuilding Support Office through the American Bar Association, offering expert recommendations on gender-responsive peacebuilding tied to UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1889. She is a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her “service and extraordinary contribution” to Ontario and Canada, presented at the Senate of Canada.

A long-time advocate of healthy workplace practices, Stephanie worked as a conflict resolution consultant in helping businesses establish effective workplace conflict resolution policies and processes. As an academic, she has developed several courses and workshops, and taught conflict resolution in the workplace for over 20 years. Her international work includes invitations to launch the first peacebuilding program in Laos; facilitate seminars on conflict resolution, reconciliation, and institutional design in Myanmar (Burma); and lead training on cross-cultural mediation and community justice with the Thai Ministry of Justice.

Stephanie is co-author of a new book, Hearts of Freedom - Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025), and author/editor of Conflict Resolution in Asia: Mediation and Other Cultural Models (Lexington Publishing, 2018), Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos (Routledge Publishing, 2015), and co-editor of Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution (Emerald Group Publishing, 2011). She is the founder and Book Series Editor for Lexington/Bloomsbury Publishing’s Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia.

Stephanie’s award-winning recent research focuses on refugees and forced migration. She chaired the 2016 CARFMS Conference on Freedom of Movement, bringing 350 participants from over 20 countries. Currently, she is a co-investigator of a SSHRC Partnership Grant for a national research project on “Equitable Opportunities for Research and Tertiary Education for People with Lived Experience of Displacement.” Stephanie is a researcher for the Hearts of Freedom (HOF) national refugee oral history project, and is the creator and curator of the museum exhibition, HOF – Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, that has travelled to 30 different venues in every major city across Canada. For this work, she was awarded the Community Contributor Award by the Manitoba Museum.

Stephanie is an Adjunct Professor at University of Manitoba and Research Associate at Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice. She was a Visiting Professor/Researcher at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii, and awarded a Fellow of McLaughlin College at York University for her work in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and on refugees and forced migration. She has served on the Expert Advisory Board of the new Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at Auckland University in New Zealand, the ADR Institute of Manitoba Board and ADR Institute of Canada. She is the current President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). 

 

Areas of Teaching

workplace and organizational dispute resolution; conflict resolution systems design; refugees, forced migration and human rights; cross-cultural conflict resolution; mediation models and processes; indigenous or traditional conflict resolution processes; peacebuilding;

Education

PhD (University of Manitoba); MA (Antioch University); BA (University of British Columbia; University of Winnipeg)

Work in Detail

Teaching

SELECTED COURSES (UNDERGRADUATE):

CMU BUSINESS 

BUSI 1000 Intro to Business and Organizational Administration

BUSI 2020 Organizational Behaviour

BUSI 3240 Workplace Conflict Resolution

CMU PEACE AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATIVE STUDIES (PCTS)

PCTS 2143 Peace Skills - Culture and Conflict

PCTS 3240 Workplace Conflict Resolution

PCTS/POL/IDS 3950C Exploring the Refugee Challenge

Xplore: Keep Thinking Program - Refugees Today and the Earlier Southeast Asian Refugee Movement

Xplore: Exploring the Refugee Challenge

CMU CRS (MSC AT UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG)

CRS 2210 Conflict Theory and Analysis

CRS 2211 Coaching Skills Workshop (formerly Conciliation Skills)

CRS 2241 Conflict and Culture

CRS 2271 Conflict Within Groups

CRS 3220 Models for Conflict Transformation

CRS 3221 Mediation Skills Workshop

CRS 3240 Workplace Conflict Resolution

CRS 3272 (HR 3272) Refugees and Forced Migration

CRS 4200 Senior Seminar in Conflict Resolution Studies

CRS 4240 Workplace Dispute Systems Design

SELECTED COURSES (GRADUATE):

CMU MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

BUSI 5230 Human Capital Development

CMU MASTER IN PEACEBUILDING AND COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT (PCD) 

PCD 5190C Exploring the Refugee Challenge

PCD 5190 Refugees and Forced Migration

PCD 5190 Workplace Dispute Resolution Systems Design

PCD 5210 Senior Seminar in Conflict Resolution Studies

PCD 5850 Practice Skills - Culture and Conflict

Research

Selected Publications

Duschinsky, P., Lundy, C., Molly, M., Moscovitch, A., & Stobbe, S. P. (2025). Hearts of Freedom – Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Stobbe, S. P. (2023). Refugee Policies, Resettlement and Integration in Canada: Lessons Learned from the Southeast Asian Refugee Movement and Mennonite Central Committee. In F. Enns, A. Pacheco, and N. Schroeder (Eds.), Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace: Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding. Eugene: Pickwick Publications.

Stobbe, S.P. (2022). "The European Refugee Crisis and Its Human Rights Impact on Forced Migrants in Greece." In J. Simeon (Ed.), Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McLean, L. & Stobbe, S. P. (2022). The Evolution of Canadian Settlement Programming from the Mass Resettlement of Indochinese (Southeast Asian) Refugees to Present. Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Vol. 52(1).

Buckland, J., Wiebe, S., Schmidt, J., and S. Stobbe. (2022). Building Managers' and Staff Members' Capacity to Communicate About Work Performance. Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Vol. 52(1).

Stobbe, S. P. (2019). Part 8: Global Responses to Conflict - Peacebuilding Techniques or Praxis. In S. Byrne, T. Matyok, and I. M. Scott (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies. Abingdon: Routledge Publishing.

Stobbe, S. P. (Ed.) (2018). Conflict Resolution in Asia: Mediation and Other Cultural Models. Series: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Stobbe, S. P. (2016). Respecting Identity, Creating Justice, and Building Peaceful Relationships in Laos through Traditional Conflict Resolution Processes. In H. Tuso, S. Byrne, J. Senehi, T. Matyok, and M. Flaherty (Eds.), Creating the Third Force: Indigenous Processes of Peacemaking. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Stobbe, S. P. (2015). Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos: Perspective for Today's World. Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series. Abingdon: Routledge Publishing.

Stobbe, S. & Harris, J. (2013). Tracking Immigrant Professionals' Experience in Manitoba's Labour Market. Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS) Working Paper Series: Immigration & Settlement: Precarious Futures. Toronto: Ryerson University.

Stobbe, S. P. & Snyder, A. C. (Eds.) (2011). Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements (Series: Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Volume 32). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Book Series Editor

Stobbe, S.P. Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books [Bloomsbury Publishing].

1. Stobbe, S. P. (Ed.) (March 2018, July 2020). Conflict Resolution in Asia: Mediation and Other Cultural Models. Series: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2. Rinker, J. A. (November 2018). Identity, Rights, and Awareness: Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices. Series: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books.
3. Kroeker, W. (January 2021). Multidimensional Peacebuilding: Local Actors in the Philippine Context. Series: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Current Publication Projects

Stobbe, S.P. (2016 - pres). (Book Series Editor). Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

 

Performance

Museum Exhibition Creator and Curator

Stobbe, S. P. (Creator and Curator). (2023). Hearts of Freedom - Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees [Exhibition]. 

Stobbe, S. P. (Creator and Curator). (2023 - pres). Hearts of Freedom - Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees [Exhibition] Travelling Museum Exhibition Tour. https://heartsoffreedom.org/?s=exhibition

Hearts of Freedom Documentary Film

Petzold, S. (Director). (2022). Passage to Freedom [Film]. Carleton University. https://www.mcintyre.ca/titles/CU1000 

Community

President of Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Toronto, ON (Canada)

Expert Advisory Board, Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies, Auckland University, Auckland (New Zealand)

Board of Directors, ADR Institute Manitoba (ADRIM), Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC) Ethics and Professional Practice Committee, Toronto, ON (Canada)

Board of Directors, Journal of Mennonite Studies, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

Research Associate, Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

Editorial Board, Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (USA.)

Executive Committee, Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, York University, Toronto, ON (Canada)

Indochinese Refugee Movement Steering Committee, York University, Toronto, ON (Canada)

Board of Directors, Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

REMB Nominations Committee, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

REMB Refugee Committee, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

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