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- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- She is a junior professional who just came back from an international volunteer project in Tanzania with a local NGO called Uvikiuta.
From November 2007 to February 2008, she completed an internship with International Crisis Group as Publications Assistant. This position gave her first-hand insight into the work of international NGOs. She then did training with International Alert – Peacewokers UK on the question of working in the field of conflict resolution.
She holds an MSc in African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London, UK, November 2007) and a four-year degree from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium, September 2006) in Political Sciences with a concentration in Sociopolitics.She speaks French, English, and Greek and is currently studying Spanish.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- Africa: Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Europe: Belgium.
- What is your current country of residence?
- Belgium
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Volunteering
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.ndi.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.crisisgroup.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Democratization, Development, Civil Society
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Evaluation, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- She has researched on and analysed the issues of democratisation and decentralisation of power in Ethiopia, the root causes of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, the instrumentalisation of ethnic divisions by African governments, the causes of state collapse in DRC and Somalia as well as the Sub-Saharan Politics of France and Great Britain in relation to the Millennium Development Goals.
Vaya Sigmas's Videos
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Living convictions - Part III Added by Vaya Sigmas
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Living convictions - Part II Added by Vaya Sigmas
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Living convictions - Part I Added by Vaya Sigmas
Events
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17th International Youth Leadership Conference
January 4, 2009 at 12am to January 9, 2009 at 12am – Olympik Tristar Hotel -
International Conference on Adult Peace Education
January 10, 2009 at 9am – Sri Lanka -
Belfast, First European Conference on Politics and Gender
January 21, 2009 at 9pm – "Queen's University" -
World Conference of Humanitarian Studies
February 4, 2009 at 6pm to February 8, 2009 at 6pm – Groningen, The Netherlands
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How r u? I am writer and social activist. However, I would like to learn more from any where in wrold like writting and social managment skills becuase i am SINDHI and writting also in SINDHI becuase this is my mother tounge.
my vision to promote secular and sfui asim in world to become world soil rest full to all nations and person asap.
What is your life vision?
Peace,
Muhammad Moosa Rind
Karachi.
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I hope to open a line of communication with you. It seems we share some common interests so I wanted to make my introduction. I'm Chris from New Orleans. I'm studying Comparative legal systems at Tulane Law School and am very interested in Human Rights and ADR, Mediation & Negotiation. Given our common interests this might be a good to start to communication so we can refer to each other in the future. Please take a minute to view my page and leave a message if you like.
peace
P.S. I am currently working on a legal paper about the responsibility of the UN to third parties harmed in the Rwandan Genocide. If you have any insight or can suggest any research materials it would be greatly appreciated. I am currently knee deep in Moeshe Hirche's book on the subject.
Rosen
I see from your profile that you are doing important works in different capacities towards conflict resolution and peace building.
I hope that sharing our ideas and experience will help each other.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Warm regards,
Bobichand
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