Update your info

Class List

Hassab Elrasoul Ali - Fairbanks, Alaska.  Email: <hassab66@hotmail.com>  (10/04)


Catalina Acevedo Catalina Acevedo has worked for the International Organization for Migrations (IOM) since 2005. She works specifically with the DDR Program that support the National Institutions in the implementation of the Accords between the Illegal paramilitary Forces and the Colombian Goverment. She worked as a Coordinator of the Information System of the ex-combatants, Tracking, Monitoring and and Evaluation Systems (SAME), and was part of the team that interview the combatants in the concentration zones during the demobilization. Currently Catalina is in charge of the Justice and Peace project that supports the implementation of the Justice and Peace Law , (the law that will judge the demobilized accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity). She also works in a project that supports the implementation of the rights the Victims.  Email: <catalinacevedo@hotmail.com>  (9/07)


Marta Balint works in London as programme coordinator for wheelchair tennis development at the International Tennis Federation.  Email: <marta_balint@yahoo.com> (3/05)


Abolghasem Bayyenat is working in the office of the trade representative of Iran, where he mainly covers the foreign trade policy and regime of Iran in preparation for the accession of his country to the World Trade Organization.  As part of his job, Ghasem is also engaged in negotiating bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements between Iran and its trade partners.  In 2004 he spent three months in Geneva at a trade policy course organized by the World Trade Organization Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation.   In his personal capacity, Ghasem writes political commentaries and reports on  domestic and foreign political developments for the Iranian press.   Email:  <abayyenat@yahoo.com> (2/05)


Jean-Paul Bigirindavyi recently completed a job as international research coordinator in the Washington office of the Center for International Rehabilitation, working on land mine and disability issues within the framework of human rights.  He continues to develop plans and seek funding for a center in Nairobi to promote peacebuilding skills among youth in the Great Lakes region of Africa.  He was one of nine winnners of a 2004 Global Youth In Action Award from the Global Youth Action Network for his Youth Intervention for Peace Project.  Email: <jpbuju@hotmail.com> (5/04)


Agnes Adama Kalley (Campbell) is partnership coordinator for ActionAid International in The Gambia, where her work integrates a rights-based approach to development and peacebuilding. She works with AAI partners at grassroots, regional and international levels in six thematic areas: women's rights, and the right to education, food security, human security in times of conflict and emergencies, a life of dignity in the face of HIV/AIDS, and democratic and just governance.  Adama received her masters degree in social work from the University of Georgia in May 2004, with focus on war related gender violence and trauma management.  Email: <adamaldel@yahoo.com> (6/05)


Karmela Devcic is foreign news editor at the largest Croatian weekly, Globus (The Globe).  Email: <karmela_devcic@yahoo.com> (5/04)


Marco Garrido is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Michigan.  Email:  <marcozgarrido@hotmail.com>   (10/04)


Peter Gichure is a lecturer in Systematic Theology, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.  Email: <pigichure@hotmail.com> (5/04)


Alisher Khamidov is in the PhD program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. 

Email: <akhamid1@jhu.edu> (5/04)


Asma Pervaiz Khan is a visiting lecturer of International Political Economy to the MS and M.Phil students at the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) in Karachi, Pakistan.  Asma completed a course on Development, Law and Social Justice from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague while she was working for Pakistan Institute of Labor Organisation and Research.  Previously she taught at Karachi University as a lecturer of International Relations.  She contributes articles on security issues (as a freelance journalist) and plans to pursue her PhD in international affairs.  Email:  <asma_pervaiz@hotmail.com>  (6/05)


John Kleiderer is the policy director of the U.S. Jesuit Conference in Washington, D.C. He is a co-editor of Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions Can Teach Us (Orbis, 2006). Key contributors to the book include Kroc Institute Senior Fellow George Lopez and Faculty Fellow Michael Baxter. John has begun work toward a Masters of Nonprofit Administration at Notre Dame and will get married in August 2006. Email: <jpkleiderer@yahoo.com> (7/06)

Anastasiya Leukhina is a PhD student in political science at Kiev-Mohyla Academy and is teaching communication, conflict resolution and negotiation to MBA students at the Kiev-Mohyla Business School.  She recently designed and conducted trainings and oversaw a human rights monitoring project aimed at discrimination at a Ukrainian NGO, and is coordinating a European Commission project on medical standards in doctors' practice.  Email:  <anastasiyal@mail.ru>  (3/05)


Tetty Uli Naiborhu is professors coordinator in the International MA Program in Peace and Development Studies, Castellón, Spain, where her responsibilities include making the academic calendar for the program and selecting and inviting professors to teach in the program.  Previously she taught in the MA Program in Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and served on the research staff of the Center for Security and Peace Studies in Yogyakarta.  Email:  <tetty_uli@yahoo.com>  (7/04)


Nguyen Dieu Huong was until recently a researcher at the Institute for International Relations in Hanoi, Vietnam.  She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Email: <nguyendieuhuong@yahoo.com> (5/05)

Karana Olivier (Dharma) is program officer for Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC.  The NED is a nonprofit organization that makes hundreds of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. He recently returned from a year in the Ituri region of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where he supervised a peacebuilding program for CARE International.  He has taught as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University and lectured on African affairs and security at the University of California and University of Notre Dame. Email: <Karanad@cs.com> (10/06)


Kim Overdyck is associate director for prevention programs at the Robinson Community Learning Center in South Bend, which includes overseeing the Take Ten conflict resolution program for local public schools. In fall 2004 she coordinated an anti-bullying workshop that drew teachers and community members from throughout South Bend. Email: <overdyck@yahoo.com> (7/06)


Serhat Tutuncuoglu is a student at Catholic University Law School in Washington.  Email: <tutuncuoglu78@yahoo.com> (5/04)


Willow Wetherall is working on a long-term parenting project with first-time teen and adult moms in South Bend, studying nighttime parenting and infant attachment.  She also continues to work part-time as a teaching assistant in the anthropology department at Notre Dame. She plans to begin a PhD in anthropology in the fall of 2006. Email: <wwethera@nd.edu>   (1/05)


Her Vang is a PhD student in history at the University of Minnesota. He writes, "My main teaching and research interests include immigration history, Asian-American history, Hmong history, U.S. imperialism, and French colonialism in Southeast Asia.   However, I continue to be fascinated by other research areas, such as genocide and democide, religious fundamentalism, indigenous knowledge and wisdom, social change movements, and theories and practices of nonviolence and peacebuilding.   I am active in several Hmong organizations in the Twin Cities, one of which is the Hmong Archives."  Her Vang visited Laos and Thailand in the summer of 2004, his first return since he left Laos in 1976 and Thailand in 1988.  "I had a blast while I was there. It was so wonderful to be back to these places and to see aunts and uncles I had never met but only heard of prior to this."  Email: <hlubpeace@hotmail.com>  (5/05)

Top of Page

Home > Alumni > Network