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Summer Institute Fellows 2005 ADEDAYO
ADEYEMI
dayo_bunmi at yahoo.com
Adedayo is a
public health physician and the projects director of Healthmatch, a research
and outreach organization based in Lagos Nigeria. He is involved in HIV/AIDS
control, prevention, conflicts management and developing health information
systems in Nigeria. His current interests are peace building, infectious
disease epidemiology, research ethics and public health informatics.
LEYRE BENITO OTAZUleyrebenito at gmail.comLeyre, originally from the Basque Country in Spain, has a background in political science and international relations specializing in South East Asia. She is primarily focused on Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma and Thailand. Leyre is interested in forced population movements, the role of ethnicity in the construction of political identities, in the ways in which the state and society influence one another during political transitions, and definitely the impact of all this on human rights. She has worked for UNHCR in the following positions and countries: as an Eligibility Officer in Cambodia, interviewing and assessing the claims to refugee status of Montagnard asylum-seekers (coming from the Vietnamese Central Highlands); as a Field/Protection Officer in Thailand, working at the Mae La Oon and Mae Ra Ma Luang refugee camps for Myanmarese refugees; and as a Refugee Status Determination Officer in Ngozi, Burundi, interviewing and assessing the claims of Rwandese asylum-seekers together with the Burundese authorities. She has carried out research and contributed to other research projects related to Cambodia. She received her MA in South East Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She currently lives in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and can be contacted at leyrebenito@gmail.com.
JOHANNES
BOTES
jbotes at ubalt.edu
MICHAEL BOYLE
boylem1 at gmail.com
Michael, a
native of Philadelphia, is currently a Fulbright Postgraduate Fellow at the
Australian National University in Canberra. His principal areas of research
are international security and American foreign policy. His doctoral
dissertation focuses on the strategic use of 'revenge' attacks in
post-conflict states, with case studies on Kosovo and East Timor. Michael is
particularly interested in policy-oriented research, specifically on methods
international authorities use to establish public order in deeply divided
states. A graduate of La Salle University, Michael holds an MA in Public
Policy from Harvard University, and an MA and Ph.D. in International
Relations from Cambridge University. He served as a predoctoral fellow at the
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford
University in 2003-2004.
SERENA
CHAUDHRY
serenasmc at yahoo.com
GABOR EROSS
egabor at socio.mta.hu
Gabor is a
Researcher at the Institute of Sociology in Budapest (Hungarian Academy of
Sciences). Three main research areas: comparative cultural sociology of
historical films (PhD in 2003 at the EHESS, Paris, and at the Eotvos
University, Budapest); sociology of education: school policies and
inequalities (projects financed by the European Commission); ethnic studies
(Roma, Chinese in Hungary and ethnic Hungarians living in the neighboring countries).
Lessons given in Sociology (BA) and in Sociology of Culture (MA).
Publications mainly in French or Hungarian and some in English. Coeditor of a
book in ethnic studies (to be published in 2005, in Hungarian).
MIRIAM
CORONEL FERRER
miriam.ferrer at up.edu.ph
AGNIESZKA
GOLEC
agnieszka at psychpan.waw.pl
DAVID GOODWIN
goodwind at einstein.edu
David is a doctoral
level clinical psychologist who coordinates pre-doctoral psychology
internship training at Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment in
Philadelphia. He is also in private practice in Rosemont,
Pennsylvania. His doctoral degree is in Clinical and Health Psychology
from the University of Florida (1991). David also completed the three year
advanced training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Philadelphia
Association for Psychoanalysis. He has experience treating refugees and is
interested in making ethnopolitical issues a part of mainstream psychiatry
residency training and core curriculum for clinical psychology programs. His
interests include mental health treatment of refugees and the role of
narcissism in the perpetuation of conflict.
THOMAS HILL
tehill3 at aol.com
Thomas is
Director of the Iraq Program at Columbia University's Center for
International Conflict Resolution (CICR). He oversees the design,
development, and implementation of CICR's program that seeks to contribute to
the growth of sustainable peace in Iraq. Through March 2005, Thomas had made
seven field visits to Iraq to work on projects that included development of
university curriculum in conflict resolution, training of potential mediators
to handle property disputes in Kirkuk, and conflict resolution capacity
building for community leaders. Before joining CICR, he worked for 12 years
as a reporter at the New York Daily News and other daily newspapers.
Thomas earned his MA from the School of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University with a concentration in International Conflict Resolution
and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
REBECCA HORN
rebecca_r_horn at yahoo.co.uk
Rebecca is a
forensic psychologist from the UK currently working in Kakuma Refugee Camp
for the Jesuit Refugee Service in northwest Kenya. She is responsible for the
counseling services in the camp, managing a group of 45 refugee community
counselors, maintaining a refuge for women and children at risk of violence
and abduction, and running a program for single teenage mothers. Previously
she worked as a university lecturer in Liverpool, carrying out research
primarily in the area of gender and the criminal justice system. Rebecca has
experience working with life-sentenced prisoners in high-security prisons,
helping them identify personal deficits and developing reform and improvement
programs.
MOLLY INMAN
minman at abaceeli.org
Molly is an
Associate Country Director at the American Bar Association Central European
and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI). She manages technical legal
assistance programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and she
coordinates ABA/CEELI's conflict mitigation and human rights program. Because
of her regional and functional foci, much of her work addresses war crimes
accountability. Molly holds an MA in Democracy and Human Rights from the
University of Bologna and the University of Sarajevo. Her thesis evaluates
factors influencing minority return in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She received
her BA from the University of Virginia in Foreign Affairs and German Literature.
Her main interests with regard to ethnopolitical conflict are in IDP and
refugee issues.
TINA KEMPIN
tkempin at sas.upenn.edu
MARIA KOINOVA
mkoinova at hotmail.com
NGUN CUNG
"ANDREW" LIAN
nclian at indiana.edu
HOLLY
MELANSON
h_melanson at yahoo.ca
TINA NEBE
tina.nebe at iue.it
Tina Nebe
specialises in the fields of racism, gender equality and ethnoreligious
conflict, especially in Europe and in the Middle East. She holds a Ph.D. in
Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and
currently works as a Consultant at the United Nations Research Institute for
Social Development in Geneva and as chargée de recherche at the Centre
de recherches politiques de Sciences Po in Paris.
IAN O'FLYNN
i.j.o'flynn at ncl.ac.uk
Ian is
Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a former
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Government, University of
Essex, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard
University. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from Queen's University in
Belfast and his MA in Philosophy from University College in Cork. Ian's
current research explores the implications of deliberative democratic theory
for questions of institutional choice in divided societies. He is the
co-editor of New Challenges of Power-Sharing: Institutional and Social
Reform in Divided Societies (forthcoming 2005) and author of Deliberative
Democracy and Divided Societies (forthcoming 2006).
INMACULADA
SERRANO SANGUILINDA
iserrano at ceacs.march.es
Inmaculada is
a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the Juan March Institute, in Madrid, and
the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Her dissertation project deals with
violent conflict, displacement, andreturn. She received her undergraduate
degree in sociology at the University of Salamanca and an MA in the social
sciences from the Juan March Institute. Inmaculada currently volunteers for
organizations which work with refugees, displaced persons, and immigrants in
Spain and the Balkans. In 2003 she was a participant in the Summer Course on
Refugee Issues at York University in Toronto.
EUGENE K.B.
TAN
eugene at smu.edu.sg
2003 Lecturer in the Politics of Central Europe School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel. 020 7679 8809 Fax 020 7679 8777 Updated 5/08 Hanna completed her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Kent in 2004; her thesis focused on perceived relative deprivation and conditions leading to collective action in ethnic minority members in the UK and Germany. After a brief interval at the University of Sussex, she started a Lectureship in the Psychology Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. Broadly speaking, her research interests concern psychological processes related to intergroup relations (e.g. social identity, ethnicity, acculturation, relative deprivation, intergroup contact, prejudice, discrimination, conflict resolution). She has investigated these issues among samples of ethnic minority and majority members in several European countries, as well as in Chile. 2001 CATHERINE BYRNE Dr Catherine C. Byrne
ALEJANDRO
CASTILLEJO alecastillejo
at hotmail.com
ANA
CORETCHI acoretchi
at soros.md
JONATHAN
DRUMMOND jonathan.drummond
at brooks.af.mil Jon
is presently a doctoral student in social psychology at Princeton University
and holds a M.S. in industrial/organizational psychology from Kansas State
University. Prior to beginning his doctoral work, Jon taught at the United
States Air Force (USAF) Academy in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and
Leadership as a major in the USAF. His research interests include
psychological construction and attributions of legitimacy and illegitimacy
about political and judicial institutions in the U.S. and south Asia (Sri
Lanka and the Kashmir), retaliatory violence/counterforce, white separatism,
divergent Aryan identity narratives (present and historical) in the U.S. and
south Asia (Indian Hindutva, Sinhalese Buddhism, and Euro-American Wotanism),
and cognitive hardiness as a stress resiliency resource.
ADINA
FRIEDMAN adina66
at hotmail.com
JEREMY
GINGES jeremyginges
at hotmail.com
B.
M. JAIN jainmanju
at id.eth.net
ASHRAF
KAGEE Ashraf
received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Ball State University
(Indiana). He is currently completing an Asch Center postdoctoral fellowship
in South Africa where he is also on the faculty in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch. Among Ashraf's research
interests is the applicability of Euro-American systems of psychiatric
nosology in developing countries that have been affected by political
turbulence. He is also interested in the psychological reactions of former
political detainees who have survived torture, and in developing
evidence-based interventions aimed at ameliorating psychological disturbance
in this population. SUMANASIRI
LIYANAGE sumane_l
at sltnet.lk
NEOPHYTOS
LOIZIDES loizides
at chass.utoronto.ca
MIKHAIL
LYUBANSKY Mikhail
is currently a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of
Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania
and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University. His
research interests focus on understanding how various aspects of race and
ethnicity (e.g., identity development, contact with a different culture)
affect psychological adjustment, as well as on how these aspects are impacted
by different intervention programs (e.g., diversity workshops). His
dissertation examined how acculturation strategies and cultural involvement
affected the psychological adjustment of elderly immigrants from the former
Soviet Union.
DEEPAK
MALHOTRA
CYNTHIA
STEVENS cynthiaastevens
at hotmail.com Cynthia
Stevens took a leave of absence from her job at IBM to participate in the Summer
Institute, which provided a way to reconnect with her graduate work at
Columbia University 30 years ago and her first career as a foreign
correspondent in Bangladesh and South Africa. She has a Masters degree in
International Affairs. With the academic foundation provided by the Asch
Center,she now intends to further her knowledge of ethnopolitical conflict
through ongoing reading and research. Her particular interest is in
constitutional frameworks that address minority demands, as in Spain and Moldova.
She plans to contribute to the field through consulting.
EUN-JUNG
SUH ejs161
at columbia.edu Eun-Jung
is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the
Columbia University School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her primary
research interests involve the psychosocial and mental health consequences of
ethnopolitical violence and atrocities. More specifically, Eun-Jung's is
developing a research program that includes (a) culturally sensitive and
contextually relevant assessments of traumatic events and their psychological
sequelae given a unique set of sociocultural and political conditions, (b)
development, training, and evaluation of psychosocial interventions and
treatment programs for survivors of political torture, war violence, and
human rights violations, and (c) investigations of the individual and social
risk factors as well as protective factors that moderate the expression of
psychopathology and impact functioning in those exposed to adverse events.
GEORGIOS
TERZIS Georgios.Terzis
at vub.ac.be Georgios
Terzis is the Media Programs Director at Search for Common Ground/ European
Centre for Common Ground and an adjunct assistant professor at Vrije
Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He received his Ph.D. in Communication
Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel and he also studied
Journalism and Mass Communication in Greece, U.K., USA and the Netherlands.
He has organized media and conflict resolution programs and trainings for
journalists from Angola, BiH, Cyprus, Greece, the Middle East, Sri Lanka,
Turkey and Roma.
MYRIA
VASSILIADOU myriav
at cytanet.com.cy Mryia
is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at
Intercollege, Cyprus and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the
Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in
Scotland, UK. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kent
at Canterbury, UK. The title of her thesis was "A Struggle for
Independence: Women's Attitudes and Practices in Cyprus." Myria has been
involved for several years in conflict resolution in Cyprus, Ireland, and
Israel with particular emphasis on gender and ethnic identities. She has also
worked on domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and gender awareness issues in
Cyprus. Her primary research interests include the interrelationship of
national identities, ethnicity, and gender.
1999
JILL
CARTY jacarty
at worldnet.att.net Jill
holds M.S. degrees in Public Health and a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology. Her
dissertation, conducted through the Australian Public Health System, examines
the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on depression. Prior
to the Asch Center Summer Institute, Jill was PTSD Program Coordinator for
the Rutgers Anxiety Disorder Clinic. Following a one-year internship
specializing in refugee mental health at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center, Jill is currently a postdoctoral fellow in primary health
care at Michigan State University. Jill has previously served as a
Volunteer, and Associate and Country Director for the Peace Corps. She worked
in Sierra Leone, the Central African Republic, and Guatemala. Her areas of
special interest are the integration of refugee mental health in primary
health care and also program design and evaluation.
ADAM
COHEN adamcohen
at asu.edu Adam
received the Ph.D. in social and cultural psychology from the University of
Pennsylvania, where he worked with Asch Center directors Paul Rozin and Clark
McCauley. He has held postdoctoral positions at the Asch Center, the Duke
University Medical Center, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has
held faculty positions at Dickinson College and at Philadelphia University.
He is currently Assistant Professor of psychology at the Arizona State
University. His primary research interests include the effects of religion on
moral judgment and forgiveness processes.
DINKA
CORKALO dinka.corkalo
at ffzg.hr Dinka
received her Ph. D. in psychology in 1997 from University of Zagreb, Croatia,
where she currently holds a teaching position. She has conducted research
investigating several psychosocial assistance programs for refugees in Croatia,
and she led a project entitled "Encouragement of interethnic tolerance
and reconciliation" which was implemented in local communities in
Croatia. Dinka's areas of interest include prejudice, national identity and
interethnic tolerance, and factors, contributing to reconciliation processes.
ROY
EIDELSON royeidel
at psych.upenn.edu Roy
Eidelson is Executive Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of
Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his
A.B. in Psychology from Princeton University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in
Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. He
is a licensed psychologist in the state of Pennsylvania. In addition to his
work at the Asch Center he also maintains a clinical and consulting practice.
His primary research interests focus on how five core beliefs or
"dangerous ideas" about vulnerability, injustice, distrust,
superiority, and helplessness influence not only the thinking and perceptions
of individuals in their personal lives, but also the collective worldviews of
groups as small as a family or as large as a nation.
TRESA LYN (Teri) ELLIOTT tle at tlelliott.com Teri L. Elliott, Ph.D. a licensed
clinical psychologist, specializes in Disaster Mental Health and teaches, and
consults nationally and internationally on topics such as Children and
Trauma, Crisis Intervention, Psychological Support, and Disaster Response and
Preparedness. Dr. Elliott is on the American Red Cross National Disaster
team, and also works with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies and is a member of the response roster for providing
psychological support program training to countries throughout the world.
She responds to and helps develop emergency response plans for natural
and manmade disasters such as floods, school crisis and terrorist attacks.
Dr. Elliott's expertise has brought her under contract to write one of the
only books on Psychological First Aid and her booklet entitled "Handling
the Aftermath of Armed Conflict and Displacement" has been translated
into Albanian and Serbian. She also has a new chapter out "Children and
Trauma: An Overview of Reactions, Mediating Factors, and Practical
Interventions" in The Psychology of Terrorism: Clinical Aspects and
Responses, C. E. Stout (ed.). Praeger Press. Dr. Elliott is active
in research and is working on topics such as: the impact of training and
trauma work on helpers, media representations of conflict and their
implications, cross cultural views of bullying and bystander behavior, the
psychological impact of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the development
and evaluation of psychosocial programming for disaster-impacted populations.
ARACELI GARCIA DEL SOTO Araceli holds a B.D. in Social
Psychology, a M.A. in Social Sciences from the Complutense University and the
Juan March Foundation in Madrid, and a Ph.D. in Sociology. She is currently
the Director of Refugee Initiatives at the Solomon Asch Center. Previously,
she taught at the University of Salamanca in Spain (1996-2000), and currently
she teaches in the Masters for International Development Program at the
University Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid. Araceli is a member of the Board
of the International Rescue Committee in Spain (IRC). Since 1993 she has also
been actively involved in providing psychosocial assistance to refugees in
Slovenia (with the Slovenska Fondacija), Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and
Albania, and in the formulation of proposals for different funding agencies
(primarily from the European Union), working also with the OSCE as a
supervisor in the Balkans' elections since 1996. She is engaged in
collaborative research at various academic centers, including the Latin
American Institute of the University of Salamanca. She has published on
mental health and psychosocial assistance to refugees in English and Spanish,
and her 1999 book "Representaciones Sociales y fundamentos de Cultura
Politica" received the Spanish Center for Constitutional
Studies Award. Among her research interests are Third Sector Strategies and
NGO management, generational differences in conflicts, and evaluation of
overseas projects for psychosocial assistance. FRANCISCO GIL-WHITE fjgil at psych.upenn.edu
Francisco received his M.A. degree
in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in
cultural/biological anthropology from the University of California at Los
Angeles. Francisco has completed a year as a Fellow at the Solomon Asch
Center and he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychology of the University of Pennsylvania. He has done extensive field
work in Mongolia. Francisco's research interests lie at the intersection of
psychology and anthropology and focus on cognition, evolution, ethnicity, and
prestige. ALAN GROSS AlanEGross at aol.com Alan
has been actively involved in conflict resolution since retiring from
academia in 1986. He has volunteered as a mediator, arbitrator, and trainer
at many venues in New York City where he has served as Acting Senior Director
and 9/11 Family Mediation Coordinator for the Safe Horizon Mediation Program.
He has also worked as ombudsman for the American Psychological Association, the
New York Mayor's Action Center, and the NYC Office of the Public Advocate.
Alan's other involvements include consulting (he holds a Stanford MBA),
organizing national and international businesses, hosting a talk radio show
and driving a night taxi. He was formerly Psychology Professor and Department
Chair at the University of Maryland. BEATRICE JAUREGUI bea at uchicago.edu Beatrice is a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. In addition
to her participation as a Summer Institute Fellow, Bea assisted with the
administration of the 1999 Asch Center Summer Institute. Her undergraduate
research focused on cultural psychology, deviance and social control,
ethnopolitical conflict, and the comparative justice systems and political
movements. On a research grant from Penn, Beatrice spent summer 2000 in
India, studying identity negotiation in urban mixed-marriage
(inter-religious, inter-caste, inter-linguistic) families. She is currently a
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Chicago, where she is pursuing research relating to her interests in identity
formation/negotiation, barriers to conflict resolution, transmutation of
communal rhetoric into mobilized violence and potential for aggravation and
assuaging of ethno-ideological divides through transnational flows of
political and economic capital. ALAN KEENAN akeenan23 at earthlink.net
Alan was trained as a political
theorist, with a particular interest in the role of language and rhetoric in
the formation and maintenance of political identities. He has been a lecturer
on Social Studies at Harvard University and a lecturer in the Department of
Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. His first book,
"The Democratic Question: Rethinking Democratic Openness in a Time of
Political Closure" is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. As an
Asch Center Fellow, Alan is currently conducting research on how those
working for human rights and an end to the civil war in Sri Lanka negotiate
the strategic and ethical dilemmas basic to their work. A central focus is
the way in which efforts to establish political and legal accountability for
abuses of power and violations of human rights are necessary to any lasting
settlement of Sri Lanka's civil war (and its other, overlapping conflicts),
even as such efforts make a negotiated settlement harder to achieve in the
first place. His fieldwork aims to test the usefulness of the dominant
paradigms of conflict resolution against this and other difficult realities
of Sri Lanka's long-running conflict. Are there, perhaps, languages of
accountability -- perhaps still to be invented -- that can help loosen,
rather than entrench, the cycles of insecurity, anger, and recrimination that
lock people into established patterns of violence and suffering? Some of his
thoughts on the difficulties of conflict resolution attempts in Sri Lankan
are available at: http://www.ctrlaltesc.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/10/057232&mode=thread SALVATORE LIBRETTO slibretto at aol.com Sal received his Ph.D. in clinical
psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1999. His
clinical works has focused on PTSD and anxiety disorders, couples therapy,
addictions, and psychological testing. Sal has conducted research one
parenting styles in urban minorities, treatment outcome comparisons of
cognitive vs. behavioral therapy, and cognitive late effects of radiation and
chemotherapy in pediatric oncology patients. As an Asch Center Fellow, Sal
worked overseas at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme. His areas of
interest include trust-building/conflict-resolution, policy
interventions/media issues, refugee mental-health issues, and program
evaluation. LORRAINE MAJKA Lorraine holds an MA and a Ph.D. in
Sociology and is currently on the faculty at the University of Chicago. Her
research has focused on ethnic relations, social inequalities (gender, race,
and class), blocked opportunity structures, refugee resettlement, and
humanitarian intervention for Southeast Asians, Africans, Middle Easterners,
Latin Americans, and Eastern Europeans in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and
New Zealand. Lorraine has been a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow at the
University of Oxford Refugee Studies Program, she has worked at the United
Nations, and she is a founding member of the International Association for the
Study of Forced Migration. CHARLES MALCOLM Charles is a clinical psychologist
with a Ph.D. from Rhodes University in South Africa. He is currently on the
faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Western Cape
in South Africa. Additionally, Charles serves as a consultant to a
variety of anti-violence projects, including the Amy Biehl Anti-Violence
Trust; the Cape Town Trauma Centre; and the Institute for Justice and
Reconciliation in Cape Town. His research interests focus on reconciliation
and forgiveness within community/aggrieved group contexts. Charles is an
Executive Committee Member of both the Psychological Society of South Africa
(PsySSA) and the Professional Board for Psychology of South Africa. ALAN MCCOOL Alan received his Ph.D. in Social
Psychology (with a minor in Organizational Behavior) from Indiana University
in 1999. His dissertation is entitled "Evidence that Minimal Group
Favoritism Is Normative." Prior to his graduate training, Alan served as
a U.S. Naval Officer on two deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. As an Asch
Center Fellow he completed two years of research in South Africa. He is
currently holds a lecturer position at Queen's University in Belfast. Alan's
primary research interests include the nature of social identification and
ethnopolitical conflict; contributing and mitigating factors; and the
characterization of conflicts of varying intensity. S.K. MENON S.K. is currently on sabbatical from
his position with the Indian Administrative Service where he has worked for
30 years. He holds a Master's Degree in Economics from Patna University in
India and studied Development Finance at Birmingham University in the United
Kingdom. His federal governmental duties have included work in the Defense
Ministry, the Commerce Ministry and the Department of Culture. In the state
government of Orissa he has worked as a regional administrator, implementing
development programs, maintaining law and order, and performing judicial and
quasi-judicial duties including issues of refugees and ethnic conflict. At
the State Secretariat, S.K. worked in the Finance Department and the
Department of Community Development. His experience also includes heading two
government corporations--the State Warehousing Corporation and the State
Electronics Development Corporation--as CEO. In these positions S.K. was
closely associated with labor negotiations and the reconciliation of
disputes. During his sabbatical S.K. is working on public policy issues
relating to civic society and governance. His research interests also include
various dimensions of ethnopolitical conflict and forgiveness as it occurs in
India and the United States. ULRIKE NIENS ucp.niens at ulst.ac.uk Ulrike received her Ph.D. in Psychology
from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland where she currently holds a
research officer position for a project about Forgiveness and the Reduction
of Intergroup Conflict, funded by the Templeton Foundation. She has done
fieldwork relating to ethnopolitical conflict in both Northern Ireland and
South Africa and she was involved in evaluative work of cross-community
projects. Her research interests revolve around broad social science
perspectives on social change and social identity. DIANE PERLMAN ninedots at aol.com Diane holds a Ph.D. in clinical
psychology, and currently practices family and Jungian analytical
psychotherapy in the suburban Philadelphia area. She has a variety of active
involvements in the political and peace psychology arenas. Diane's areas of
research interest include the image of the enemy, gender and violence,
"Political Intelligence" and conscious politics, political
development of the person, psychoneuroimmunology, the Holocaust, and PTSD. CAROLYN RISTAU car31 at columbia.edu Carolyn
was a 1999 Asch Center Summer Fellow
in the first summer program. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the
University of Pennsylvania. She is presently also affiliated with the Dept.
of Psychology at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City and
works with the NGO Pro-Natura International-Nigeria (PNI-N). Her
background has been as a cognitive ethologist conducting experimental field
studies of animal cognition and behavior. Presently she focuses on human conflict
and risk analysis in Nigeria's strife-torn Niger Delta and beyond. She
is also involved in community development efforts through PNI-N's programs in
Nigeria. Her field work has included sites in mainland USA, the Arctic, and
Africa. STEVEN RUBENSTEIN steven.rubenstein at
liverpool.ac.uk Steve is currently Reader, Institute
of Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool.He received his
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology in 1995 from Columbia University in New York
City. His dissertation research was based on three years of fieldwork among
the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Steve examined the changing forms of
conflict among the Shuar in the context of their incorporation into the
Ecuadorian state and capitalist economy, focusing primarily on witchcraft
accusations and conflicts within their political federation. He is now
undertaking a related project in which he will investigate the ethnic
boundary between Shuar and Euro-Ecuadorian settlers. In 2002 the University
of Nebraska Press published his book Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Shaman in
the Margins of History. CHAMPIKA ("K") SOYSA
K_Soysa at hotmail.com Champika recently received her Ph.D. in clinical
psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is on study
leave from a teaching position at the Department of Philosophy and
Psychology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, which has the only
university-based undergraduate program in psychology in the country. For her
dissertation she is studying the psychological impact of ethnic violence on
children in Sri Lanka from cognitive-behavioral and cultural psychology
perspectives. In consultation with NGOs in Sri Lanka, Champika has worked
with both internally displaced refugees and with peace movements in regard to
the ethnic war and the women and children who have survived political
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