Kiran BAINS (United States) holds a BA in international relations from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas (2006). As a rural development intern in Bangladesh, she documented the stories of women who resist early marriages, dismiss dowries, and choose to pursue their educations. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar at Notre Dame, Kiran researched the impact of globalization on international human rights law, specifically women’s economic rights. She also has worked with the American India Foundation, initiating all-women projects to improve the lives of waste collectors and domestic workers in India. Email: <kbains@nd.edu>
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Martin COSTANZO (Argentina) is attending the Kroc Institute as a Fulbright Fellow. He earned a BA in political science from Universidad de Buenos Aires (2003). After finishing high school as an exchange student in Ohio, he worked in the mayor’s office of Vermilion, Ohio. After college, he worked as a legislative advisor to Senator Ricardo Gómez Diez of Argentina. He then interned in the American Embassy in Buenos Aires. Since 2001, he has been a teaching assistant at Universidad de Buenos Aires, teaching political science, research methods, and theory of international politics. Most recently, he has worked as a coordinator of studies at the School of Negotiation at Universidad de San Andrés. Email: <mcostan1@nd.edu>
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Eric EGGLESTON (United States) earned a BA in Sociology and Religious Studies at Nazareth College of Rochester, New York (2003), where he co-founded the Social Justice Group and studied the Holocaust in preparation for visiting concentration camps in Poland. As a Fulbright Fellow, Eric studied Islamic education movements in north India. Following his return to the US, he interned with Citizen Action of New York, registering voters and coordinating volunteers. In 2005, Eric worked with the Healthcare Education Project on healthcare education and mobilization efforts in New York State.  He recently studied Arabic at American University in Cairo. Email: <eeggles1@nd.edu>
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Christi Faith FREEMAN (United States) graduated from Wake Forest University with BA in political science and minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies (2006). At Wake Forest, she researched Guatemala’s transition to democracy, the quality of democracy and neoliberal reform in Argentina, and the roles of several Truth and Reconciliation Commission mandates and reports. Faith was active in advocacy for employee healthcare reform at her university. She studied Chilean literature and Spanish in Valparaiso, Chile. Most recently, she taught mathematics for a year at a bilingual school in Juticalpa, Honduras. Email: <cfreema2@nd.edu>
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Kristian HERBOLZHEIMER (Spain) holds a BA in agricultural engineering from the University of Lleida (1994) and a Diploma in Culture of Peace from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2001). In 2000, he spent five months in Central America and five months in Colombia. After that he headed the Colombia Program at the School for a Culture of Peace at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and became deputy director of the Program on Peace Processes, focusing on the Philippines, Western Sahara, and the Basque Country. He has organized international seminars on issues such as transitional justice and peace negotiation. Email: <kherbolz@nd.edu>
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Dareen KHATTAB (Palestine) earned a BA in governmental studies from the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia (2005). She was an advisor to parliament head MK Shimon Peres, working to connect him with Israeli-Palestinian young people, and served as a member of an Israeli-Palestinian initiative called the One Voice movement. In 2004, Dareen interned in France at the Assembly of European Regions, researching developments related to the European Union constitution. She recently worked at the HAMOKED-Center for the Defense of the Individual, which protects the rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Email: <dkhattab@nd.edu>
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Viktor KOTSEV (Bulgaria) graduated from Duke University with a BA in International Comparative Studies and English and a minor in history (2007). He has studied in New York City, Australia, the Mediterranean, and Lebanon, where he was briefly stranded during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of 2006. Viktor has participated in conferences on peacebuilding and conflict resolution and presented a paper Notre Dame’s Student Peace Conference in 2006. He has conducted research in Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia, focusing on identity dynamics and conflict. Email: <vkotsev@nd.edu>
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Aleksandra KUZNETSOVA (Russia) earned a BA in international relations (2004) and is pursuing an MA in international public law from Kazan State University. She interned at the Agency for International Cooperation and Development in Kazan and at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a student, she received the Morosov scholarship, given each year to the best student in international relations, as well as the best student medal. In 2005, she volunteered in Berlin on a project titled, “Central Aspects of the EU Constitution: HIV/AIDS & Human Rights.” Sasha has worked as a teaching assistant at Kazan State University and has published articles on the role of the United Nations in law-making. Email: <akuznets@nd.edu>
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Hyun Jin (Deborah) KWAK (Korea) holds a BA in political science and French from Calvin College (2006). She lived most of her life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Deborah worked as a research assistant for the Paul Henry Institute and as a McGregor research fellow. She conducted research on the role of religion in fostering civic responsibility. Deborah worked as a faith relations intern at Habitat for Humanity, launching an advocacy plan for affordable housing, and as a translator who assisted immigrants and refugees through the naturalization process. Email: <hkwak@nd.edu>
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NGUYEN VO, Dan Sinh (Vietnam) holds a BA in international relations from the Institute for International Relations in Hanoi (2003). He worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Home Affairs at the Institute for International Relations under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2006, Sinh has worked at the Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City as a teaching assistant and tenure-track lecturer in international relations. He has taught courses in international relations and has contributed to course syllabi in international relations theory, security, and conflict resolution. Email: <dnguyenv@nd.edu>
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Ketevan NOZADZE (Georgia) holds a BA in law and diplomacy from American University for Humanities, Tbilisi College (2007). As a junior, Keti organized student volunteer visits along the Georgian-Chechnian border to help distribute medicine and humanitarian aid to Chechnian refugee camps. She also was involved in advocacy and policymaking to improve the rights of refugees and migrants as part of her internship with the United Nations Association of Georgia. Keti was a summer intern with the International Crisis Group. She later worked for World Vision and Oxfam GB in Georgia on sustainable development projects, the protection of vulnerable populations, and the campaign to meet Millennium Development Goals for Georgia. Email: <knozadze@nd.edu>
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Stephen OKELLO (Uganda) graduated from Nkumba University with a BA in international relations and diplomacy (2006). He worked for the Parliament of Uganda, USAID-Legislative Support Activity/Development Associates, USAID- Northern Uganda Peace Initiative, and the Center for Conflict Resolution in Kampala. Stephen helped found the Uganda Conflict Action Network (Uganda CAN), an organization of Ugandan and US citizens focused on the crisis in northern Uganda. In 2006, he collaborated with five international Catholic religious orders as part of a team working to establish a Justice and Peace Center in Kampala. Stephen has worked for the Small Arms Survey as a field research assistant in Uganda. Email: <sokello@nd.edu>
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Young Sun PARK (Korea) earned a BA in economics and political science from Seoul National University (2007). Young was an exchange student in Japan in 2004-2005. As a college student, she studied North Korea and feminism and did volunteer work with former sexual slaves known as “comfort women.” During her senior year, she researched Korea-China trade issues with a grant from the Korea International Trade Association. She has received awards from the Dooeul Scholarship Foundation for Women Leaders and the Japan Student Service Organization and has has worked as a teaching assistant at the Graduate School of International Studies of Seoul National University. Email: <ypark1@nd.edu>

Mihaela RACOVITA (Romania) holds a BA in political science and European studies from the American University in Bulgaria (2007), where she served as vice-president of student government and as a student representative on university committees. As a research and academic assistant, Mihaela collected data for a project on “Determinants of Support of EU Accession in Romania and Bulgaria.” She has attended numerous international conferences, including a World Bank Institute conference on “Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development” and the Eurosim Simulation of the European Union in Prague. Email: <mracovit@nd.edu>
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Ayesha SAEED (Pakistan) earned a degree in computer science with a minor in social sciences from Lahore University of Management Sciences (2006). She worked as a research fellow on global terrorism at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad, studying the impact of the War on Terror (especially the emergence of suicide terrorism) on the socio-political fabric of Pakistan. She is interested in the role of religion and local culture in the perpetuation of conflict. She grew up in a military family and experienced a near-war situation during Pakistan’s 2001 standoff with India. Ayesha has published articles in the Pakistani press and is involved in political activism. Email: <asaeed@nd.edu>
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Christina SHAHEEN (United States)  holds a BA in human biology from Stanford University and an MA in medical anthropology from Oxford University (2005). At Stanford, Christina conducted ethnographic fieldwork on local women’s participation in an ecotourism lodge in the Peruvian Amazon. She interned in the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch in New York, worked on a community-based organic farm in Italy, and helped develop a disaster preparation book in response to the global threat of Avian influenza. Recently, Christina was a project manager for A World Without Armies, a research assistant to former State and Defense Department official Daniel Ellsberg, and an interim producer at a National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco. Email: <cshaheen@nd.edu>

Sophat SOEUNG (Cambodia) graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (2004) and the Royal University of Law and Economics (2007). Since 2004, he has worked as a lecturer of English at the Royal University. He has conducted research on television broadcasting in Cambodia funded by the Thuringian-Cambodian Association. He also has volunteered for the Living Documents Project of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, distributing documents in rural areas and interviewing survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime. Most recently, he’s worked for the School for International Training in Cambodia and has been involved with the Initiatives of Change Association Cambodia, which focuses on peacebuilding. Email: <ssoeung@nd.edu>

Senait Woldu TESFAMICHAEL (Eritrea) earned a BA in political science from the University of Asmara, Eritrea (2000) and an MA in African studies from the University of California at Los Angeles (2002). After graduation, Senait joined the political science department of the University of Asmara as assistant lecturer. She taught introduction to political science, African politics, political dynamics of the horn of Africa, theories of development, and human rights, and was head of the department from August 2004 to January 2007. She has written education manuals, supervised research, and chaired presentations for the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students.
Email: <stesfami@nd.edu>
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Samuel Gbehgbah TOE (Liberia) holds a BA in business administration from Don Bosco Polytechnic (2005). He was a fellow with the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa (2006). Samuel has represented civil society in negotiations with political parties on the Accra Comprehensive Peace Accord in Monrovia. He served as secretary on the selection panel for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and has worked with the Liberian TRC on organizing public hearings regarding human rights violations during Liberia's civil war. Samuel is co-author of "Impunity Under Attack: The Evolution and Imperatives of the Liberian TRC.” Email: <stoe@nd.edu>
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Delgerjargal UVSH (Mongolia) earned a degree in political science, international relations, and European studies from American University in Bulgaria on Soros Foundation scholarship (2007). She interned in the Bulgarian parliament and participated in a number of international political simulations. Her interests include the spread of democracy, international law, and social construction and conceptualization of security. Degi completed her senior thesis research on “Application of Securitization Theory in the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.” She has debated and adjudicated in several national and international debate tournaments. Email: <duvsh@nd.edu>
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