Khalid Awad is program associate at the Council for a Parliment of World's Religions in Chicago, coordinating the "World in Our Backyard" Program.  Email: <khalidawad2000@hotmail.com> (5/04)


Anna Busa is programme management officer in the Technical Cooperation Department of the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. She is responsible for technical cooperation with three countries in the Europe Region: Albania, Georgia and Greece.  Before joining the Agency, Anna worked for the OSCE in Vienna, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, the Permanent Delegation of Latvia to UNESCO in Paris, and the US Embassy in Riga.
Email: <Anna_Busa@excite.com> (11/06)

Shiva Hari Dahal began a PhD program at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 2005.  He writes that after graduating from ND, "I returned home [to Nepal] to realize that a violent conflict was waiting for an intervention by peace activists.  In consultation with like-minded colleagues, we founded the National Peace Campaign, based in Kathmandu, in 2000, and began our work for peace and conflict resolution in the country. Through this institution, we have engaged senior politicial leaders, representing major political parties of the country, into a cross-party approach to conflict resolution and democracy building. In addition, we have imparted training and workshops on conflict resolution and peace-building to members of civil society organizations in Nepal. Our organization has been highly regarded as one solely devoted to peacebuilding works. I have been in the forefront to lead this institution.  Gradually, we hope our works will have impact in policy-making and we believe that we will be able to contribute in the process of turning violence into politics."  Email: <shivaharidahal@gmail.com>  (12/05)

Sophie Gelashvili joined the OSCE Mission to Georgia in April 2003, where she works in the political/military section.  She spent the previous four years working with Oxfam, which she loved, but is looking forward to focusing on conflict issues.  She continues to teach at the Georgian Technical University.  She writes, “With recent events in Georgia, we did not have much time to work on any other issues but elections and democratization. Things have been developing quite fast during past couple of months.  I gained some experience in non-violent resistance, so if anybody wants to do a case study on Georgia, I know good primary sources for that.  But, seriously, nobody expected such a peaceful outcome!”  Email: <sophikog@gol.ge> (5/04)

Rainer Hindsberg is public information officer for the Parliament of Finland. He is currently working on a public outreach project, seeking to increase public access to the parliament and the MPs, both physically and in the broader sense.  "I've had a very exciting year at work. We just opened a visitor's centre that I was in charge of planning. And now we're taking parliament to different fairs, where people have access to the MPs and where we civil servants provide information on the organisation. Also, we're hard at work planning the centennial of Finland being the first country in the world to extend full political rights to everyone! All this is particularly exciting as we have lots of people from the 10 new EU countries coming here to learn from our efforts to make government transparent."  Email: <rainerhindsberg@hotmail.com> (2/05)

Reham Lashin is completing an MS in political science at the University of Oregon, with a thesis titled, The Role of Government in Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of the United States. Email:  <rehamq@excite.com>  (7/05)

Wendy Lehman is a grant writer for the Logan Square Neighborhood Association in Chicago, an award winning community-based organization with work ranging from after school programming to organizing around housing issues.  She is responsible for all prospect research and proposal writing for the organization, and also manages and updates their development plan.  "Logan Square is the neighborhood I live in, so it's an unique opportunity to affect my community."  Email: <wendyslehman@yahoo.com>   (5/04)

Sarah Mathis is a doctoral student in anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, doing research on issues of political economy in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa.  "More specifically, I am interested in the discourse around development, as well as the negotiation of gender and traditional institutions in the current land reform program."  Email:  <smathis@emory.edu>    (8/04)

Tove Norlen is a visiting graduate fellow in the department of political science and the Center for Morality and Ethics at the University of California, Irvine, and completing her Ph.D. at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
Email: <tova@jhu.edu>  (10/04)  

David Ortiz is a PhD student in the department of sociology, University of Notre Dame.  Email: <David.G.Ortiz.16@nd.edu> (5/04)

Dana Potockova is a dispute resolution consultant and trainer with Conflict Management International in Prague, Czech Republic, where she provides conflict management, negotiation and intercultural trainings for national and international organisations, focusing on dispute resolution systems design. She is an adjunct professor at Charles University and Anglo-American University in Prague and regularly teaches at the Central European University Summer University in Budapest. Dana has recently been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic to design a training program for court-connected mediators. In 2000 she earned a masters degree in dispute resolution (MDR) from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. Email: <Danapoto@yahoo.com>  (6/05)
 

Adriana Quinones Giraldo works in the Sustainable Development Department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.  She completed her MA from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2002.  Email:  <aquinone@mailcity.com>  (10/04)

Martine Songa Songa is working at the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights in Chicago, where she is a mental health counselor and caseworker in the International FACES Program, which provides mental health services for refugee children, adults and families suffering from trauma-related distress or serious emotional disorders. 

Email: <nonosonga@hotmail.com> (5/04)