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Sarah Brammeier McCrisken lives in England, where she is organisational development advisor for the Oxford City Council, providing advice and training in areas such as management development, managing conflicts in the workplace, and career counselling.  From 1999-2003 she managed Community Mediation Services in Blackpool and Brighton.  In 1999 Sarah earned an LLM degree in International Criminal Law from the University of Sussex, with a particular interest in the use of the international criminal justice process to provide space for communities/societies to move towards reconciliation, and the positives and negatives of 'in-country' procedures vs. use of international institutions (such as the detainment of Pinochet in the UK, and use of the International Criminal Court). She also works to support the use of peer mediation as well as youth mediation to bring together victims of crime and those that offend against them.  Email:  <sbrammeier@oxford.gov.uk>  (4/05)
 

Mirka Blommé is a medical doctor practising obstetrics and gynaecology at Södertälje hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.  Email:  <miable@hotmail.com>  (1/05)

Doán, Ngoc Diêp has worked as a teacher, translator, administrator and social worker in Vietnam and other countries.  She currently lives in San Francisco, where she puts all these skills to work in raising her children.  Diep earned her MA in education from Stanford in 1995, focusing on higher education in Vietnam and China.  Email:  <daidieu@yahoo.com>  (4/05)
 

Manuel Fernando Garcia-Robles works for the Inter-American Commission of Women in Washington, DC, where he oversees projects providing training, advocacy and implemention of government policies against the trafficking in persons in all 34 state members of the Organization of American States (OAS). He previously worked as a management consultant for US Agency for International Development (USAID) and US Trade and Development Agency  (USTDA) projects focused on information technology.  From 1996-2000 he served as first secretary of the Embassy of Guatemala to the OAS, and in 2001 was an election observer for the OAS in Peru.  He earned his masters in international public policy from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in 2001.  Email: <fgarciarobles@verizon.net>  (6/05)

Noah Salameh (Ghnaim) is director of the Bandar Ben Sultan Center for Peace and Regional Studies at Hebron University.   He also continues as director of the Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in Palestine (CCRR), an organization he founded.  Noah has partnered with Israeli Edy Kaufman of The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem to create the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Transformation Network (IPCTnet), dedicated to practices of conflict transformation and resoluton based on principles of non-violence, symmetry and equality, and trust-building between diverse groups within each society or between the two peoples.  URL: <www. ipctnet.org>  Email: <salamehn@hotmail.com> or <ccrr@palnet.com> (5/04)

Delia Märincean is instructor in Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.  Email:  <deliam@hiphi.ubbcluj.ro>  (10/04)

Julliet Mayinja is assistant director of the International Studies Programs office at Notre Dame, where she manages programs in Athens, Cairo, Fremantle, Perth and Jerusalem and has special responsibilities for the Innsbruck program.  She received a degree in Master of Science in Administration from Notre Dame in 1997.  E-mail: <julliett.n.mayinja.1@nd.edu>   (2/05)

Snježana Mrše is program manager for Group MOST in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.  Group MOST, an association for cooperation and mediation in conflicts , is a non-governmental organization working for capacity building for democratic changes in Yugoslavia.   Established in 1993 as a member of the Center for Antiwar Action, it became an independent organization in 1999.  Group MOST main fields of expertise are peace research and education, conflict analysis and management, organizational development and democratic changes of the educational system.  Email:  <njeza@eunet.yu>  (10/04)

Isis Nusair has a fellowship from the Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership at Saint Mary's College (across the street from Notre Dame), where she is teaching in the Women's Studies program.   Isis is a Ph.D. student in the Women's Studies Program at Clark University, completing a dissertation titled “Gendered Politics of Location: Generational Intersections of Palestinian Women in Israel, 1948-1998.”  She previously served as a researcher of Middle East and North Africa issues at the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She also worked as a researcher with the Euro-Med Human Rights Network.  Email: <inusair@saintmarys.edu> (5/04)

Helena Clementi-Rozlivkova has moved back home to the Czech Republic after six years at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.  She is completing her PhD dissertation in conflict analysis and resolution which examines relationships between Czechs and Roma/Gypsies in the Czech Republic.  Email: <hrozli@hotmail.com> (11/04)

Amy Schmitt Grace is a software specialist with the Atlanta Community Food Bank. She writes, "The food bank distributes 1.3 million pounds of food a month to Atlanta and North Georgia agencies providing food to people in need. We collaborate with local agencies to empower the community to fight hunger both locally and systematically. I track the agencies and the food received and distributed. We are currently playing a major role in Hurricane Katrina relief." Email: <llouise3@earthlink.net> (9/05)
 

Fatima Shabodien is executive director of the Women on Farms Project just outside of Cape Town.  She writes, "Its a small rural NGO with about 20 staff members and our mission is to work towards the empowerment of rural women in South Africa. Its been an exciting period and I am thoroughly enjoying the challenge. I have gone from the center of Jakarta with my 11 million (or so) neighbours to living in a small cottage on a vineyard with 4 other families as my neighbours: Guess which one I am enjoying most?"  After Notre Dame, Fatima worked as a conflict resolution trainer with Peace Visions in Cape Town and for the South African Department of Land Affairs in land reform issues.   In 1998 she was awarded the Nelson Mandela scholarship for graduate studies in UK, where she earned an M.Phil. in Development Studies at Sussex University.  Most recently she worked in Indonesia for the International Foundation for Election Systems on a USAID civil society support project focusing on human rights and conflict management.  Email: <fatima@wfp.org.za>   (2/05)

Kristin McArthur is vice president for relationship marketing at California Commerce Bank in Los Angeles.  She earned her masters in international management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Business in 1999. Email:  <kristinmcarthur@hotmail.com>  (12/04)

Geri Portnoy is cofounder and director of Yoga Del Mar yoga studio in Del Mar, California.  After teaching subjects ranging from outdoor education to math and science for over a decade in public schools, she became a full time Anusara yoga teacher.  (12/04)

Brian Reilly is director of the Economic Development Department of the city of Cleveland, Ohio.  His previous work has included included serving six years as manager of Menomonee Valley Redevelopment in Milwaukee, and creating the Johnson Foundation's sustainable development program at its Wingspread conference center.  Email: <breilly@city.cleveland.oh.us>  (6/06)

Amy Van Meter is assistant director of the Community Housing Office at the University of California, Santa Barbara, resolving landlord/tenant disputes and coordinating educational programs.  She is also involved in a campus-wide mediation project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.   Email: <avanmeter@housing.ucsb.edu>  (10/04)

 

Jorge Vargas-Cullell is a project specialist for the United Nations Development Program, based in Costa Rica and has written several Human Development Reports for UNDP on sustainable human development in Central America.  In 2004 he published a volume co-edited with Guillermo O'Donnell titled The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications.  Email:  <jvcaam@sol.racsa.co.cr>  (10/04)

 

 

Zhang, Shaoping is a Chinese teacher at Ray Chinese School in Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, and serves on the board of the Chinese School Association in the United States.  Email:  <shaopingzhang2002@yahoo.com>  (1/05)

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