Institute Staff

Rev. Dr. Robert A. Evans

Executive Director

Bob studied at the Universities of Yale, Edinburgh, Berlin, and Basel, and received his doctorate from Union Seminary in New York.  An ordained Presbyterian pastor, he has served churches in the U.S. and in Europe and has taught on the faculty of seminaries in New York, Chicago, Uganda, Fiji, and Hartford.  He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.  As Executive Director of Plowshares Institute, he leads intensive traveling seminars in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and conducts national and international seminars on skills training in conflict transformation.  send e-mail

Alice Frazer Evans

Director of Writing and Research

Alice is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa, and Adjunct Faculty at Hartford Seminary. She is an elder in the United Presbyterian Church. Alice served for more than twenty years as the Co-Director of the Association for Case Teaching and is the author and/or editor of a number of casebooks on global issues.  More recently she has focused on the development of international case studies with special attention to the use of cases in conflict resolution training. Her undergraduate and graduate studies were at Agnes Scott College; Edinburgh University, Scotland; and University of Wisconsin.  send e-mail

Phoebe Milliken

Program Manager

Phoebe is responsible for program funding and development, with special leadership for the traveling seminar program.  She brings extensive international experience to Plowshares, having lived, studied and worked in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.  She has taught African history at both the high school and college levels, designed and managed literacy programs in Zimbabwe and Tanzania, and run a study abroad site in Namibia.  Phoebe holds a masters degree in International Education from George Washington University. send e-mail