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News - Spring 2002
 Noah
Salameh (Ghnaim) ('93), from Palestine, was
recently appointed director of the Bandar Ben
Sultan Center for Peace and Regional Studies at
Hebron University. After spending 15 years as
a political prisoner, Salameh initiated a number
of peacebuilding activities upon his release in
1985, including founding a children's library
in the Dheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, where
he was born and raised. Salameh also continues
as director of the Center for Conflict Resolution
and Reconciliation in Palestine (CCRR), an organization
he founded.
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| Lawrence Juma ('00), from
Kenya, recently published "Regional Initiatives
for Peace: Lessons From IGAD and ECOWAS/ECOMOG"
in Africa Quarterly 40, no. 3 (2000): 85-107.
Juma is currently completing a J.S.D. at the Center
for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.
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 Lynne
Woehrle ('88), from the United States, is
co-editor with Patrick Coy of Social
Conflicts and Collective Identities (Rowman
and Littlefield, 2000), a collection of case studies
exploring the role of collective identity in a
wide range of conflicts. Woerhle is Assistant
Professor of Sociology at Wilson College, Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, and is Coordinator of it Peace and
Conflict Studies Program. Amongst other contributions,
the book includes a chapter on church conflicts
by Celia
Cook-Huffman ('88) from the United States,
who is Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at
Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
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 S.P.
Udayakumar (Kumar) ('90), from India,
and his family have returned to Tamil Nadu,
India, where he is pursing longstanding plans
to bring Indian and Pakistani youth together
for peacebuilding workshops. Kumar has been
a researcher at the Institute
on Race and Poverty at the University of
Minnesota, and recently published Handcuffed
to History: Narratives, Pathologies, and Violence
in South Asia (Praeger: 2001).
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| Larissa Deriglazova ('95),
from Russia, is deptuty director of CEP-Russia
in Siberia. A recent CEP newsletter featured an
interview
with Deriglazova.
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 Joseph
Kennedy ('90), from the United States, has
published The
Art of Natural Building (New
Society 2001). He recently accepted the position
of director of Builders
without Borders, a new organization formed
in December of 1999 which works in partnership
with local communities to solve the problems
of inadequate housing and infrastructure using
local skills and materials.
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| Karsonya Wise ('93), from
the United States, was nominated for an Emmy award
for Best Health and Science Programming for a
documentary she produced about an eight-month
old's brain operation entitled "Little Miracle:
The Kayci Campbell Story."
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| Estella Roman ('95) from
Mexico and Elizabeth Buckley ('00) from
the United States facilitated a "Mexico
Seminar" for Notre Dame undergraduates
in collaboration with the Notre Dame's Center
for Social Concerns.
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| Anna Busa (’98), from Latvia,
has been appointed a Duty Officer at the Conflict
Prevention Centre of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe.
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| Valerie Hickey (’00), from
Ireland, recently began work with the Wildlife
Conservation Society in Washington DC, where
she will focus on conservation finance, including
the policies promulgated by bi- and multi-lateral
donors, as well as oversight of projects such
as the Mamiraua ecological reserve in Brazil.
She previously worked for the World Wildlife
Fund on a program that supported both bio- and
cultural diversity around the world by increasing
capacity-building among indigenous peoples.
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| Martin Ewi (’01), from Cameroon,
received Kroc funding for a six-month internship
with the Organization of African Unity (OAU)
Mission to the United Nations in New York City.
As political affairs coordinator dealing with
matters of African conflicts and regional integration,
he attended meetings of the UN Security Council
and served as the OAU representative to the Sixth
Committee of Legal Experts of the General Assembly,
where terrorism was the primary focus.
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| Regina Saffa (’01), from
Sierra Leone, served a four-month internship
with the United Nations International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania under
Kroc Institute funding. In November 2001 she
returned to Sierra Leone to begin work with the
Humanitarian Accountability Project. More Alumni
News is available on our webpage.
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