Lucia Cebotaru earned an MBA from the University of Chicago in 2004, and is now living in London.  Email:  <lcebotar@alumni.nd.edu>  (12/04)

Catia Confortini is coordinator of the peace and conflict studies minor program at the University of Southern California, lecturer in Italian at the California State University, Long Beach, and PhD candidate in International Relations, University of Southern California, where her dissertation will focus on the historical and gendered evolution of the concept of 'peace' in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, one of the oldest peace organizations in the world.  She also serves as a volunteer counselor with a battered women shelter in Long Beach and is a founding member of the Peace and Justice Ministry of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Long Beach, a chapter of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship.  Email: <conforti@usc.edu> (10/04)

Hal Culbertson is associate director for communication and finance at the Kroc Institute and teaches a graduate course in NGO management for the MA program.   Email: <hal.r.culbertson.1@nd.edu> (12/04)

Rado Dimitrov recently moved to Canada and is assistant professor of international relations at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.  He earned a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Minnesota in 2002, and works as an analyst at international environmental negotiations at the United Nations and other global fora.  His academic research appears in International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Environment and Development, Society and Natural Resources and the International Journal of Global Enviromental Issues. Email: <rdimitro@uwo.ca> (2/05)

Beatrijs Elsen is working as a human rights officer in the Programme Support and Management Services of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Before moving to Geneva in 2005, she worked for the United Nations in Beirut, Kosovo and Suriname. Email: <beatrijs_elsen@hotmail.com>   (4/08)

Rohan Gunaratna is head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  He is also an honorary fellow of the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Israel. He has authored eight books, including Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press, 2002), an international bestseller, and Jane's Counter Terrorism (2003), the leading counter-terrorism handbook. He has served as a consultant to the UK and US law enforcement communities.  Email:  <isrkgunaratna@ntu.edu.sg>  (1/05)

Matt Guynn combines interests in social change, creativity, and spirituality through writing, workshops, and social change organizing. Since 2004 Matt has been coordinator of Peace Witness for On Earth Peace, an agency rooted in the Church of the Brethren, where he supports emerging leaders and long-term networks for peace & justice.  Since 2003 he has been a Training Associate with Training for Change, a social change training center in Philadelphia, providing workshops on facilitation skills and nonviolent social change. He also serves on the staff of Diana’s Grove, a retreat center in Missouri which uses myth and ritual for personal empowerment. He worked previously as co-coordinator of training for Christian Peacemaker Teams, and was part of CPT’s nonviolent accompaniment project in Chiapas, Mexico.  Matt received an M.A. in Theology from Bethany Theological Seminary in 2003 with a thesis titled, “Re-enchantment: Theology, Poetics, and Social Change.”  Publications include poetry, essays on theology & ethics, and a curriculum. His essay, "Theopoetics: That the Dead May Become Gardeners Again” will appear in the Fall 2005 issue of Crosscurrents.   He lives in Richmond, Indiana.  Email:  <mattguynn@earthlink.net>  (6/05)

 

Heba Hage lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where she most recently served as programme officer for Rwanda at War-Torn Societies Project (WSP) International, a Geneva-based peacebuilding NGO.  She continues to serve on the board of Mada, the Lebanese NGO she cofounded in 2001, which does environmental and community development in a poor area of Lebanon.  Email:  <hebahage@hotmail.com>   (6/05)

Patti Lynn is Campaigns Director for Corporate Accountability International in Boston.  She writes, "Corporate Accountability International is a membership organization that wages and wins campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. The NGO started off in the late 1970s under the name Infact with a campaign pressuring Nestle to stop the aggressive marketing of infant formula, particularly in the developing world. I've been here since 1998, and played a lead role in our work toward a global tobacco treaty--the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It is the first global health and corporate accountability treaty, and sets important precedents for challenging actions of other dangerous industries at the global level."  Patti graduated from Green Corps, a field school for environmental organizing, in 1997.  "I learned many of the skills of grassroots organizing through Green Corps, working with communities in New England campaigning to close down and clean up nuclear power reactors in their neighborhoods.  Through my work I get to travel quite a bit--India, Finland, Portugal, Switzerland. I meet and work alongside the most amazing people from NGOs around the world. It is exciting to combine grassroots organizing and corporate campaigning with working on international regulation of transnational corporations."  Email:  <PLynn@stopcorporateabuse.org>  (12/05)

Monica Penuela is a member of the Latin America and the Caribbean Civil Society Team at the World Bank in Washington, DC.  Email:  <mpenuelajaramill@worldbank.org>  (10/04)

Oana-Cristina Popa was appointed ambassador of Romania to Croatia in July 2005. She had served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Romanian Embassy in Zagreb for the previous two years.  She earned a Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in History and International Relations from Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, in May 2001, with a dissertation titled Cooperation and Regional Security in Southeast Europe after 1989.   After serving four years as director of the Bucharest office of the Fulbright Commission, Oana joined the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in February 2002, where she served as Adviser to the Minister on NATO and EU integration, and then as Head of the North America Division.  Email: <oana-cristina.popa@zg.t-com.hr> (7/05)