2011-13 - University of QueenslandPaul Conroy
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Monticello, MN, USA
Sponsor District: 5950
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Swahili, French
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Paul’s interests lie in helping refugees survive conflict and rebuild lives of health, security and self-sufficiency. He aims to develop bridges of understanding and cooperation between refugee and host communities that empower refugees to establish lives of dignity while becoming integral members of their host communities. He plans to achieve his professional goals by applying his training in Peace and Conflict Resolution in a career with an international refugee agency.
Casey Crocket
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Traverse City, MI, USA
Sponsor District: 6290
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish, Japanese
City: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Summary: Casey's interests include utilizing cultural education as a part of conflict resolution. She is working to broaden her focus into resource management and the role it plays in conflicts.
Chantelle Doerksen
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Las Vegas, NV, USA
Sponsor District: 5300
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish, Guarani
City: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Summary: Chantelle worked for a local non-profit with youth to develop projects and leadership skills prior to beginning the fellowship. Her interests include how NGOs support change on a community level, conflict resolution between governments, immigration and immigrations effects within communities.
Erica Jeffrey
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Menlo Park, CA, USA
Sponsor District: 5150
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, French
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Erica believes in the power of movement connected to positive social change. She works as a performer, choreographer, educator, and arts leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. She created the dance and conflict resolution education program, Moving Toward Peace in an effort to explore and expand a more embodied understanding and practice of peace and conflict. During her fellowship, she plans to focus on the neurological and physiological connections of movement and empathy and how this information can be applied to current conflict resolution practices.
Naing Ko Ko
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, New Zealand
Sponsor District: 9920
Citizenship: Myanmar
Languages: Burmese, English, Thai
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: He has worked on the Thai-Burma border in the areas of democracy, human rights, national reconciliation, and economic development. His advocacy work with exiled Burmese political coalitions has taken him all around the world to meet with key global decision makers. He was an intern of the European Parliament and has been promoting democracy and national reconciliation for Burma on the global stage. One of his career goals is to be able to achieve peace, democracy, and human rights in Burma and in Southeast Asia.
Nissa Rhee
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Seoul, South Korea
Sponsor District: 3650
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Korean, French
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Nissa is interested in how communities rebuild after conflicts. As a journalist, she has spent the last five years covering human rights and security issues in the U.S. and Asia.
Richard Roeder
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Rosenheim-Innstadt, Germany
Sponsor District: 1840
Citizenship: Germany
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Russian
City: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Summary: Richard is interested in using his legal skills to foster peace and development.
Ana Maria Rodriguez Contreras
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Bogotá Chapinero, Colombia
Sponsor District: 4290
Citizenship: Colombia
Languages: Spanish, English
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Ana Maria has experience working on issues such as community development, humanitarian aid, human rights, and conflict resolution. She is the founder, president of Arte Para la Paz; Esencia Viva, a youth group dedicated to humanitarian aid and social photography with a goal of finding and teaching mechanisms of conflict resolution and peace building strategies through education in order to transform vulnerable and marginal communities into sustainable once.
Rabi Shah
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Kathmandu North East, Nepal
Sponsor District: 3292
Citizenship: Nepal
Languages: Nepali, English, Hindi
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Rabi’s expertise includes social inclusion and upholding the rights of women and marginalized groups. He is particularly interested in community mediation and role of national and international actors in resolution of conflict.
Mohsen Solhdoost
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Named/Endowed: Jason and Betty Hsu Named Rotary Peace Fellowship
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Pudu, Malaysia
Sponsor District: 3300
Citizenship: Iran
Languages: Persian, English, French, Dari
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: He will focus on prevention of the escalation of violent conflicts in strategic locations and regions like the Middle East where the exploitation of natural resources by external powers has resulted in nurturing autocratic dictatorships.
Solveig Sveinbjornsdottir
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Borgir, Iceland
Sponsor District: 1360
Citizenship: Iceland
Languages: Icelandic, English, Danish, French
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Solveig has been working in the humanitarian and development field with a focus on governments capacity building within the sector of social services. Her main interest and focus will be to develop skills and knowledge to contribute into building global justice, strengthening good governance, and anti-corruption in favour of survivors, the indigent, and vulnerable people.
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