Raouf Ahanger is associate editor of Kashmir Images, an English daily newspaper published in Srinigar, Kashmir, India, where he writes editorials and analyses of political developments.  He is also a research scholar at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) in Chandigarh, India, where he is working on a project about the genesis of militancy in Kashmir.  Raouf serves as secretary general of the Mass Communication Professionals Guild and secretary of the Kashmir Foundation for Peace and Developmental Studies (KFPDS) in Srinagar.  He has previously worked as anchor person, script writer and director for various news-based current affairs programs for local television.  Email:  <raoufrasool@rediffmail.com>  (3/05)

Anna Arroyo is a masters student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, a program she deferred when accepted to the Kroc Institute.  Email:  <runrite@hotmail.com>  (10/04)

Oldrich Bures earned his PhD in political science from Palacky University, Czech Republic, in December 2005, with a dissertation titled United Nations Peacekeeping in the 21st Century: Bridging the Capabilities-Expectations Gap.  He is now a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and European Studies of Palacky University and also continues his research work with the Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Project of the Kroc Institute and the Fourth Freedom Forum.  Olda's recent publications include "Private Military Companies: A Second-Best Peacekeeping Option?" in International Peacekeeping 12, no. 4 (Winter 2005) and "EU Counterterrorism Policy: A Paper Tiger?" in Terrorism and Political Violence 18, no. 1 (Winter 2005).  Email:  <lboro_1999@yahoo.com>  (12/05)

Mark Canavera is studying for a master in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.  During the summer of 2004 he interned for three months with Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale in Kitgum, northern Uganda, analyzing the data collected on former child soldiers in northern Uganda and also assisting with HIV/AIDS education and other psycho-social support for vulnerable women and children in this conflict region.  Email:  <gourmantche@yahoo.com>  (11/04)



Pay De Guzman is research/information and communications officer for SEACA, the South East Asian Committee for Advocacy, in Quezon City, Philippines. She coordinates a regional research project on the Political Space for Advocacy, looking at the pace within which civil societies and social movements are able to lobby their governments. She also coordinates a research project on South East Asia Regional Transboundary Issues. In 2004 a book Pay co-authored, titled The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines, was released in the Philippines. In January 2005 it was certified a 'national bestseller' and is on its second printing.   Email:  <paydeguzman@yahoo.com>  (8/06)



Munah Hyde is a community development project officer with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), an implementing partner of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sierra Leone. UNHCR funded some 297 Community Empowerment Projects for 2005, designed to resettle and reintegrate returnees and refugee populations of war-ravaged communities in the south and eastern regions in Sierra Leone. These include programs addressing the construction and rehabilitation of social infrastructure, agriculture, income generation, gender-based violence and capacity-building. Munah writes, "my tasks include project management and implementation, supervision and coaching of field staff and management of the Development Training Unit."   Munah previously served short consultancies with Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) Country Office in Sierra Leone and with ActionAid International Sierra Leone.  Prior to this she spent 3 months (September-December 2004) with United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, as an intern in the Witness and Victims Support Section.   Email:  <munahyde@yahoo.com>  (2/06)


Brenda Fitzpatrick is a consultant with the Peace and Reconciliation Program of Catholic Relief Services/Philippines, working in the Mindanao Regional Office in Davao, where she has responsibility for documentation of peace, advocacy and development initiatives.  In fall 2004 she served a three-month internship with Catholic Relief Services funded by the Kroc Institute.  During summer 2004 she completed a 10-week internship with the conflict resolution program of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia  Email:  <brendajfitzp@yahoo.ca>.    (12/05)


Lola Ibragimova is an intern with the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE) in Washington DC, working on the project Civic Bridges - Central Asia, which deals with conflict prevention and NGO networking in Central Asia. Email:  <loib156@yahoo.com>  (9/04)


 

Elizabeth Jordan is program assistant at the Ruth Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan. She writes, "The Foundation highly values engaging diverse communities, promoting dialogue, and reducing social/economic/racial disparities. This means that the grants I work with are often tied to "Peace Studies" type issues. I will also help to develop a convening program designed to bring together various local agencies and organizations to tackle issues in a coordinated fashion. Last but not least, my new position will allow me to delve further into the development of a Truth, Responsibility, and Transformation process for Flint (which I had previously been doing in my spare time)." See further wedding photos of Elizabeth and Antwan.  Email: <jordanel@msu.edu>  (9/05)


Jean-Marie Kamatali is a visiting professor at Kent State University in Ohio, where he teaches "Genocide and Crimes against Humanity," "Comparative Justice Systems," "Human Rights and Third World Development, "International Conflict Resolution," and "Reconciliation vs. Revenge: Searching for Transitional Justice."  He has recently served as visiting fellow at Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis and adjunct faculty at Indiana University South Bend, where he taught a course on gender and human rights.  Jean-Marie is the former dean of the law school at the National University of Rwanda.  Jean-Marie has co-authored three books and a number of articles on human rights, transitional justice and international criminal law, including Justice et Gacaca, L’experience Rwandaise et le Genocide (Justice and Gacaca, the Rwandan Experience and Genocide) (Presses Universitaires de Namur, Belgium, 2003) and "From ICTR to ICC: Learning from the ICTR experience in bringing justice to Rwandans" (forthcoming) in the New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Fall 2005.   He continues to live in South Bend.  Email:  <kamajeam@yahoo.com>  (7/05)


Zo Sai Kunga serves on the advisory board of the Free Burma Coalition, and in July he and five other members of the Burma Strategy Group received training from the US State Department in diplomacy and negotiation skills.  Kunga's application for political asylum in the US was approved in July 2004, and now he awaits travel documents from the INS in order to be able to travel to the border regions of Burma to train militants in nonviolent tactics of change.  Email:  <stanleyhualngo@yahoo.com>  (1/05)

Mirak Raheem is a researcher in the Conflict and Peace Analysis Unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  He coordinates a project, “Monitoring Factors Affecting the Sri Lankan Peace Process,” which considers various aspects of the process - peace talks, politics, economics, relief and reconstruction, and social perceptions of the process - in order to inform the decision-making of the donors to the peace process.  He is also scheduled to teach in a diploma course on conflict resolution for public servants, members of the armed forces and local politicians.  Mirak recently invited Kroc professor John Darby to Colombo for a CPA conference he organized on the "International Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Peace Process," which brought together academics, policy makers and activists.  Email: <mirakraheem@yahoo.com> (7/05)

Rebecca Steinmann has a six-month internship at World Vision Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, where she is doing research and writing for the Peacebuilding and Advocacy Department  She also volunteers as a mediator with a community mediation organization.  Email:  <rebeccasteinmann@yahoo.ca>  (7/04)

Deniz Ugur is working on a three-month internship with the Association of Liberal Thinking in Ankara, Turkey, where he is editing publications and helping to organize an inter-faith conference in November 2004.  He is supported by Kroc funding.  Email:  <denizugur90@hotmail.com>  (9/04)  Resume 1/05

Josh Vander Velde completed a six-month internship with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions in Jerusalem and remains in Israel, where he is studying Torah and Talmud and later thinkers from the Jewish mystical tradition.  Email:  <joshuavander@yahoo.com>  (7/04)