2011-13 - Duke University / University of North CarolinaMariam Abuhaideri
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Poona Downtown, India
Sponsor District: 3131
Citizenship: India
Languages: English, Persian, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic
Applied Field Experience: Ashoka, Cairo, Egypt.
City: Durham
Country: USA
Summary: She is interested in working as an independent policy consultant in India and parts of the Middle East, assisting in implementing a number of projects and ideas. She is passionate about youth-led socio-economic development. Eventually, she would like to serve as a policy maker in India.
Kozue Araki
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Tokyo Mitaka, Japan
Sponsor District: 2750
Citizenship: Japan
Languages: Japanese, English, Arabic
Applied Field Experience: UNESCO Iraq Office - Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
City: Chapel Hill
Country: USA
Summary: She will pursue her research interest in educational assistance as a tool to promote peace in post-conflict areas. She is particularly interested in working with former child combatants in Africa and/or Arab countries.
Daniel Auguste
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Named/Endowed: Swift Named Rotary Peace Fellowship
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of South Brunswick Islands, NC, USA
Sponsor District: 7730
Citizenship: Haiti
Languages: Creole, English, French, Spanish
Applied Field Experience: Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
City: Durham
Country: USA
Summary: Daniel plans to research the intersection of economic development and peace. He is particularly interested in investigating the intersection of economic opportunity, educational inequality, and peace.
Sophie Brown
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sponsor District: 9800
Citizenship: Australia
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic
Applied Field Experience: GRM International, London, UK.
City: Durham
Country: USA
Summary: Sophie is an economist with experience working in the field most recently in Indonesia and Central Asia on various rural development projects. Sophie's main area of interest is public expenditure and poverty-related policy.
Jessica Butcher
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sponsor District: 9800
Citizenship: Australia
Languages: English, Indonesian, Dutch, Chinese Mandarin
Applied Field Experience: Graduate School of Governance, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands, Maastrict, The Netherlands.
City: Chapel Hill
Country: USA
Summary: Jessica’s area of expertise is multicultural interfaith dialogue, especially between and within Muslim and Christian communities. She is interested in researching and developing methodology to promote understanding of emerging and stigmatised religious groups within mainstream society.
Ana Garcia
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Club Rotario de la Ciudad de México, A.C., Mexico
Sponsor District: 4170
Citizenship: México
Languages: Spanish, English
Applied Field Experience: UNDP - UN Headquarters, New York, NY, USA.
City: Chapel Hill
Country: USA
Summary: Ana Catalina hopes that the World Peace Fellowship will allow her to further develop her unique skill set so that she can better help address the severe social inequality in Mexico and throughout the world.
Carlos Guiza-Ceron
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Sol Naciente de Villavicencio, Colombia
Sponsor District: 5320
Citizenship: Colombia
Languages: Spanish, English
Applied Field Experience: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC, USA.
City: Durham
Country: USA
Summary: Carlos's main research interest is to research sustainable income generation as a path to economic, human, and social development for conflict victims.
Rachel Rafferty
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Named/Endowed: Heinrich Family Foundation Named Rotary Peace Fellowship
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Coleraine, UK
Sponsor District: 1160
Citizenship: UK
Languages: English, Spanish, French
Applied Field Experience: Institute of Historical Justice and Reconciliation, The Hague, The Netherlands.
City: Chapel Hill
Country: USA
Summary: Rachel plans to look at violence reduction through classroom techniques to increase emotional literacy. In the future she would like to play a positive role in reforming education so that it focuses more on developing students into peaceful, pro-active citizens. She is particularly passionate about the opportunities offered by the adoption of informal educational approaches into the mainstream education sector.
Kirandeep Sirah
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Tranent, UK
Sponsor District: 1020
Citizenship: UK
Languages: English, Spanish, Punjabi, British Sign Language
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Applied Field Experience: Partners for Democratic Change, Washington, DC, USA.
City: Chapel Hill
Country: USA
Summary: Kiran is interested in human artistic and creative vernacular expressions, which engage with real life, address real problems, with the ability
to provide powerful answers to how individuals and communities form our societies and deal with the changing moral and ethical landscape within which we live; in particular the role of the arts, and diverse traditions of culture as interventions to peace building communities and developing nations.
Abu Sufian Taj Elassfia
Rotary Center: Duke University / University of North Carolina
Named/Endowed: James Junn-Shueng and Lisa Shiu-Li Chen Rotary Peace Fellowship
Class: 2011-13
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Concord, CA, USA
Sponsor District: 5160
Citizenship: Sudan
Languages: Arabic, English
Applied Field Experience: Development Alternatives Inc., Washington, DC, USA.
City: Durham
Country: USA
Summary: For the last 5 years, Abu Sufian has worked in the region of Darfur to help mobilize community leaders, youth and women's organizations to participate in the peace process through addressing important issues such as land access, the effectiveness of the traditional dispute system, and the role of community leaders in the reconciliation and compensation process. He believes that without social justice there will be no peace in Sudan, and he hopes that the Rotary Peace Fellowship will give him the skills and knowledge to work with others from Sudan (Southern, Western, Northern and Eastern) to bring peace and stability back to the country.
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