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What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: The motivation to involve myself in peace and conflict resolution was to learn more about contemporary alternative dispute resolution techniques and their applicabilities to the unending violent conflict in various part of Africa.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: I have an extensive knowledge of issues and trends in East and the horn or Africa.

What is your current country of residence?: I live in United States

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: I work for Close Up foundation as a Program Instructor for high school student

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box): http://http://www.transcend.org/
http://conflict.colorado.edu/
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Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Youth, Education, Conflict Mainstreaming, Oragnizational Development

Which are your primary skills areas?: Training, Program Design, Advocacy

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Democratization
Human Rights
Ethinc conflicts in Ethiopia
The war in Somalia
Political conflict in Ethiopia

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At 7:44pm on December 26th, 2007, John Wilmerding said…: Sorry I left out some of your questions:

"... why I did not learn about you and the John Woolman College while I was living in Brattleboro, VT."

As an institution it is only about three years old, descending from a large network that preceded it, from my days with the UN Working Party. It's really just being born -- we Quakers do things slowly, but deliberately.

"... how come you did not get their attention since the work you do is similar to the very mission of SIT?"

They have known about me over the years, but Woolman College is just going public this year. I never made myself irresistable to them before now. Maybe that is changing -- did you read about 'Remembering Peacemaking' at SIT January 9?

"... how many students are attending the John Woolman College?"

We do not have 'faculty' or 'students', we are a vision for a completely non-hierarchical college, very alternative and non-traditional approach. We have only 'Scholars' arranged in three concentric circles, the largest about 300 people, and the inner one about 30. We are a bit based on a former institution called Friends World College, where I worked for awhile in the 1980s.

"... is the college accredited by the state of vermont?"

We don't think accreditation is necessary, nor registration in any jurisdiction, at least not any western or developed country jurisdiction. We are consciously trying to steer clear of the western dollar hegemony because it regularly snuffs out promising new efforts like ours.

At 7:35pm on December 26th, 2007, John Wilmerding said…: Hiya Teferi! Locally I have been somewhat of a recluse, and my activities at SIT have been only occasional over the years. But I have pulled together a handful of events there, such as AVP training, a forum on the middle east, a guest speaker or two, etc., and have known several faculty members. I have been networking globally since I started a UN position in 1996 or so, prior to that I did a lot locally (1991-1997). This year I toured in Bolivia with fellow Quakers and with a fair trade initiative based in Brattleboro. Since this is my town much of my organizing historically has been locally-based, as in running for select board, etc., yet I am sure we know some of the same people. But yeah, I am introspective and somewhat reclusive. Still I recognize your face and your name, and I think we have met somewhere, probably here.

At 8:40am on November 26th, 2007, James said…: You may already know about it, but just in case it’s something that would benefit you…

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At 4:29pm on September 24th, 2007, Eyal Raviv said…: Teferi,
I like your profile! I'd like you to join me on mepeace.org,
a platform for peacemakers advancing Middle East peace.
Eyal :-)

At 1:53am on July 15th, 2007, Mark Davidheiser said…: Hi Teferi, Nice to see your page here. You may be interested in joining the African Working Group on Peace and Conflict. See www.africaworkinggroup.org and feel free to join the email listserv and to contribute relevant posts or queries. Best, Mark Davidheiser

At 10:29am on July 12th, 2007, Zahra Ismail said…: Hi Teferi,

Good to hear from you! Sorry for taking so long to respond. NP's overall objective is to develop a large scale, trained international civilian nonviolent peaceforce that could at a moments notice be sent to a conflict zoneto prevent death and destruction and protect human rights, thus creating the space for local groups to struggle nonviolently, enter into dialogue, and seek peaceful resolution. This year they are working hard to build up this capacity starting to train reserves who can be deployed very quickly when needed. You should check out their new website: www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org or www.npeurope.org and also feel free to contact me with more questions!

Also I would love to know more about your own work with youth and your own experiences in peacebuilding.

Zahra

At 9:17am on June 18th, 2007, Teferi Fantahun said…: I don't really consider myself a conflict transformation practitioner since I have not spend enough time at a given conflict in a given place or what practitioner called conflict Zone. I have primarily work with young people in the US. I have been however trying to figure it out how one can assuage violent conflict in the this conflict-ridden world. I have been looking at Frienship as one possible answer and I been researching about the nature of friendship and why friends feel close to each other and what are the motivating factors for people to be friend to one another. How friends deal with conflict? Do they go for gun or talk when they have incompatible needs or goals?

At 3:23pm on June 17th, 2007, dorit cypis said…: I have to admit that I don't understand how this site works...seems to have too many tentacles and possible ways of interacting...too much interaction without a clear form can be chaos. So...I myself don't know how to trace the comment that I left...or how to engage meaningfulling ina group discussion on this site.

My work often questions how to use "intimacy" as a strategy of engagement...how the political always has a psychological shadow and that one cannot be overlooked for the other. I developed Foreign Exchanges as a platform for inquiry, training and consultation on how "foreignness" is between people and also within people. Foreign Exchanges developes forms of engagement which accounts for both.

I've strayed...but I'm not sure from what. Tell me more about how you practice?
xdorit

At 12:25pm on June 17th, 2007, FANNY FANOU-AKO said…: hi TEFERI

At 4:27pm on June 16th, 2007, dorit cypis said…: Teferi,
I get what you are saying..."tell the truth"..read my comment to Linda Johnson.

Perhaps I am missing something in the use of this dialogue format?
xdorit cypis

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