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Cath, Larissa and Estela all came to Notre Dame in April 2004 for the conference “Tending the Helper's Fire," which was sponsored by Idealist.org and hosted by the Kroc Institute.  The conference focused on mitigating trauma and stress for non-governmental organization staff and volunteers.

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Xabi Aguirre is a senior analyst in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.  His job involves strategic analysis to identify the main areas of crime and plan the investigations of the most notorious leaders for War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity.  He is working on investigations of Darfur, Uganda and the Democratic Republic Congo, as well as monitoring several other situations relevant to the ICC. His other responsibilities include recruiting and supervising junior analysts and developing advanced investigative techniques. And he reports: "Since 1999 I have been the father of a wonderful Basque-Bosnian-Dutch boy."  Email: xabier.agirre@icc-cpi.int. (8/06)

 

 

Bertha Amisi is a PhD candidate in political science and a teaching fellow at Syracuse University.  She was recognized as the outstanding teaching assistant for political science for 2004-05.  Email: <bkamisi@maxwell.syr.edu> (7/05)

Barb Baker is pastoral associate for social justice at St. John Neumann, a large Catholic parish in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she works to educate parishioners about Catholic social teaching and encourages and supports them to take action based on that teaching.  She serves as treasurer of the national council of Pax Christi, as well as on Pax Christi's anti-racism team, Brothers and Sisters All.  Email:  <barbb@mninter.net>  (12/04)

Catherine Byrne is assistant professor of social psychology, with a focus on social justice, at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Cath earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2002.  Her dissertation was titled Responses of Victims to Perpetrators' Justifications, Excuses and Apologies: Accounts in the Context of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  After the PhD, she completed a post-doctoral position at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania.  Email: <cbyrne@ucsc.edu> (12/04)

Dan Chong is a PhD candidate in international relations at American University's School of International Service in Washington DC. Email: <chong.home@cox.net> (3/05)

Mimi Conradi Gerstbauer is assistant professor of political science and director of peace studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.  Mimi teaches courses in international relations, Latin American politics, and introduction to peace studies. Her recent publications include  "Peace Profile: Kerr Eby" Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, (Summer 2006), co-authored with Donald Myers; and "Faith, Peace, and Politics: Dwelling in Discomfort," in Brian Johnson and Carolyn O'Grady, eds. The Spirit of Service: Exploring Faith, Service, and Social Justice in Higher Education. (Anker Publishing, 2006).  Email: <mgerstba@gac.edu> (7/06)

Larissa Deriglazova is associate professor of international relations at
Tomsk State University in Siberia, where she teaches Conflicts in International Relations, International Humanitarian Law and Its Application in Modern Conflicts, Social Policy of the European Union,  and Introduction to Sociology.  She also coordinates the "Siberian Network of European Union Studies Centers," a Tempus/Tasis Project awarded by the European Commission to Tomsk State University, in which nine universities, five Siberian (Tomsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk) and four European (Free University of Brussels, Belgium; Kent University, UK; Salzburg University, Austria; Giessen University, Germany) are cooperating in development of centers for EU studies in Siberia.  Larissa previously served for four years as deputy director of Civic Education Project-Russia in Tomsk.  A 1999 CEP newsletter featured an interview with Larissa describing her work with CEP to strengthen democracy through education.  Email: <larisad@post.tomica.ru> (1/05)

Larissa Fast is a visiting assistant professor of sociology and fellow of the Kroc Institute, where she joined the faculty in 2004.  She was awarded a Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution at George Mason University in 2002, with the dissertation Context Matters: Identifying Micro- and Macro-Level Factors Contributing to NGO Insecurity.  She received a grant from USIP in 2005 to continue her research on humanitarian security.  E-mail: <lfast@nd.edu> (9/06)

Su Gengxin has returned to China to teach in the English Department of Beijing University. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies from the University of Arizona in 2001, where he wrote a dissertation on The Seduction of Culture: Representation and Self-Fashioning in Anglo-American Popular Culture.  Email: <sugx618@yahoo.com.cn>  (5/04)

Jihad Hamad is professor of sociology at Al Azhar University-Gaza, where his courses include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Knowledge, Democracy and the Democratization Process in the Arab World and Sociological Research Methods. He is also consultant and coordinator for a new academic program in Peace Studies, Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Palestine International, a new private university in Gaza that teaches all courses in English.  He has participated in several international conferences on peacebuilding, conflict resolution and democracy, and is a member of the board of the El Dameer Human Rights Association.  From 2001 to 2004 Jihad was assistant professor of sociology at the Arab American University in Jenin, but in July of 2004 he was not allowed to return to Jenin.  Jihad earned his PhD in sociology from Notre Dame in 2001.  Email: <gahad2010@yahoo.com>  (4/05)

Carmela Lutmar is a post doctoral research associate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.  For two years previously she was assistant professor of international politics in the School of International Service at American University, where her specialities included methodology, conflict behavior, and the political economy of war and peace.  Carmela earned her PhD in international relations from New York University in 2003 with a dissertation titled Winners, Losers, and Puppets: The Politics of Deposed Leaders.  Email: <lutmarc@yahoo.com> (9/05)

Milica Pejovic Milovancevic is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Institute for Mental Health, University of Belgrade.  Email:  <mpejovic@EUnet.yu>  (10/04)

Michelle Parlevliet was a visiting alumni fellow at the Kroc Institute from March-May 2005, where she edited a volume with case studies of national human rights commissions considered from a conflict resolution and peacebuilding perspective, for which she also wrote the introductory conceptual chapter. She also developed a distance learning module on conflict prevention for national institutions for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and wrote a paper on national human rights institutions in peace agreements for the International Council of Human Rights Policy.  For more than five years Michelle was manager of the groundbreaking Human Rights and Conflict Management Programme at the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, from its inception in 1999.  She designed and delivered training programmes in human rights and conflict management, conducted research, and provided technical assistance and facilitation for a wide range of actors from senior policy-making to grassroots levels in various countries in Africa and Europe, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, and Northern Ireland.  She provided mediation training for Sudanese peace negotiators brought together by the Carter Center, did research and provided technical assistance.  Before joining CCR, she worked with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and in the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.   Email: < mbp@icon.co.za > (4/05)

Kim Beng Phar is a 2006-2009 Visiting Scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo.  Email: <pharkb2000@yahoo.com>  (9/06)

Estela Roman Porcayo is director of the International Center for Cultural and Language Studies (CICE) in Moreles, Mexico. In addition to teaching Spanish, CICE is dedicated to the promotion of Mexican culture and protection of the environment.  Email:  <cice@cuer.laneta.apc.org> (5/04)

Senada Selo Sabic is a researcher at the Institute for International Relations in Zagreb.  She earned her PhD in international relations from the European University Institute in 2004, with a dissertation titled, State Building Under Foreign Supervision: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1996-2003.  Email:  <senada.selo-sabic@zg.hinet.hr>  (10/04)

Liz Toohey is chief of staff at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago.

Email: <etoohey@macfound.org> (5/04)

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