Anuradha Chakravarty, a Ph.D. candidate in government at Cornell University, worked on a comparative study to explore the influence of truth commissions and trials in transitional societies on prospects for democracy in those countries. The project is based on 18 months of fieldwork in Rwanda.
Francesco Giumelli, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Italian Institute of Humanistic Sciences in Florence, Italy, researched the goals of the European Union’s and the UNs’ sanctioning policies. The objective is to include the EU alongside the UN as a relevant sanctioner in the international system.
Reina C. Neufeldt, Regional Technical Officer, Catholic Relief Services Southeast Asia Office, explored the relationship between religious and ethnic identity in inter-group conflict and peacebuilding. She investigated if, and how, a ten-year interfaith dialogue process in Mindanao, the Philippines, affected group identity outside of religious identity.
Fr. Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P., director of Center Ubuntu in Bujumbura, Burundi, focused on the importance of healing memories and dealing with the past in an effort to involve the Burundian population and engage the Church in the processes of transitional justice, peacebuilding, and reconciliation.
Ernesto Verdeja, assistant professor of political science at Wesleyan University, completed a book manuscript on political reconciliation and worked on a project comparing genocide in Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda.
