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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 OTAZU

leyrebenito at gmail.com

Leyre, 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

DANUTA BERLINSKA
ber at miramex.com.pl
 
BRITT CARTRITE
cartrite at alma.edu
BrittCartrite is a postdoctoral fellow currently in residence at the Solomon Asch Center. Dr. Cartrite earned his doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2003) and a masters from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver (2000). During his time at the Asch Center Britt is working on a number of projects.He is extending his dissertation research on ethnopolitical mobilization in Western Europe to develop a model grounded in a Complex Adaptive Systems framework. He is collaborating with Professor Ian Lustick on "Virtualstan," an agent-based model evaluating the impact of succession crises on three distinct types of authoritarian regimes. Based on fieldwork in Scotland conducted in May 2004, Britt is exploring the impact of local cultural variation on identity formation and subsequent political activism. In addition, Britt is working on a project testing hypotheses of voter behavior in European Parliament elections. Britt also teaches courses for the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
 
JULIE CHALFIN
juliechalfin at yahoo.com
Julie is a postdoctoral fellow currently in residence at the Solomon Asch Center. Dr. Chalfin earned her doctorate from the Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University (2003). During her year at the Center, Julie is supporting the efforts of the Center's Refugee Initiatives Program. This includes developing, implementing, and evaluating psychosocial programs that assist refugees living in refugee camps, and collaborating with local and international organizations that address refugee issues. Julie will also develop articles for publication based on her doctoral dissertation research which addressed the application of models in social psychology to understand the international conflict management process. In addition, Julie will represent the Asch Center at the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution meetings and facilitate collaborative relationships with local organizations in South Africa.
 
ELIZABETH DOERING
e.doering at att.net
 
SANDRA DUNGACIU
sandradungaciu at fastmail.fm
 
DONALD ELLIS
dellis at hartford.edu
Donald Ellis is a Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Hartford. His Ph.D. is from the University of Utah where he began his work on conflict and group processes. He has also been on the faculty of Purdue University and Michigan State University. His research interests are in the area of language and communication theory with particular emphasis on communication practices between ethnic groups in conflict. His work seeks to examine the relationship between micro linguistic and interaction processes and macro social and communicative categories such as culture, ethnicity, and dialogue. He is currently involved in research pertaining to dialogue groups between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. Don is the past editor of the journal Communication Theory and the author of numerous journal articles. His books include Contemporary Issues in Discourse Processes, Small Group Decision Making, From Language to Communication, and Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory. He also works in his home community with dispute resolution organizations.
 
LANDON HANCOCK
lhancock at gmu.edu
Landon Hancock is a recent graduate of George Mason University where he earned his doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He also holds a BA and MA in international relations from San Francisco State University. His research interests center around comparative ethnic conflict causes, processes, intervention strategies and long-term resolution, focusing on the elements of identity that drive these conflicts. He has authored several articles for peer review journals including Civil Wars and International Studies Perspectives and has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels as well as one year teaching high school in Japan. For 2003/04 Landon will be teaching conflict resolution at George Mason and at American University.
 
DANIEL HOLLAND
dcholland at ualr.edu
Daniel Holland graduated from Oberlin College in 1986 with a B.A. in literature, and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1992. Following his residency in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dan was a faculty member at the University of Missouri School of Medicine for three years, where he was the Director of the Brain Injury Program. He left Missouri to spend time traveling through Nepal and Tibet, studying the relationship between disability and spirituality in remote monasteries there. When Dan returned from South Asia, he studied health policy and legislative process in Baltimore and Washington D.C. for a year. Since 1999, he has been a faculty member in the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2001, he received a Masters of Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health, and since 2002 has held a joint appointment in the Dept. of Health Behavior, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dan was a recipient of the Contemplative Practice Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2001, a fellowship that allowed him to develop educational methods that integrate mindfulness meditation into the university curriculum for health promotion purposes. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 2002, teaching at a medical school in the Slovak Republic and conducting research on disability activism and health promotion activities with vulnerable groups in post-Communist Eastern Europe. This Spring 2003, he will be a visiting faculty member at the Karl Franzens Universitat in Graz, Austria, where he will be collaborating on projects involving behavioral health promotion in Central and Eastern Europe. Much of Dan's professional interest involves identifying how Civil Society organizations and grassroots groups can serve as critical providers of community health promotion for vulnerable groups in developing and transitional countries.
 
ELODIE HUGON
soleil107 at hotmail.com
 
EMMANUEL KARAGIANNIS
mkaragiannis at yahoo.com
Emmanuel Karagiannis is a political and security analyst specializing in the Caucasus and Central Asian regions. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research in Almaty. In December 1999, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hull's Department of Politics and International Studies in Great Britain. His field of research was the connection between pipeline development and ethnic conflict in the Caucasus. He received his B.A in European Community Studies from South Bank University in London and an M.A in International Security Studies from the University of Reading. He has written extensively about energy geopolitics in the former Soviet Union and ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Turkey. He is the author of the book Energy and Security in the Caucasus (New York: Routledge, May 2002).
 
ABDUL LAMIN
pangalamin at yahoo.com
 
CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT
leuprech at qsilver.queensu.ca
Christian Leuprecht is a Social Sciences and Humanities of Canadapost-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His current research includes a political demography of liberal-democratic governance, a political demography of federalism, and a political demography of military recruitment, and a comparative investigation of strategies for ethnic-conflict regulation on Mauritius and Fiji. He holds Master's degrees in political science and French from the University of Toronto, a D.E.A. from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques at the Universite Pierre Mendes-France in Grenoble, and read for his Hon. B.A. in political science, French and history at the University of Toronto. His publications have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Innovation: A Journal of Politics, the Canadian Review for Studies in Nationalism, and Public Integrity.  You will find him on the web at www.christianleuprecht.com
 
MEHARI MARU
meharimaru at yahoo.com
 
MALIKA MISTRY
malikamistry at rediffmail.com
 
RICHARD MOLE
r.mole at ssees.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/prospect/mole.htm  
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
 
SHANEE STEPAKOFF
shaneestep at aol.com
Shanee Stepakoff, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist, is currently working with the Center for Victims of Torture's (CVT) mental health program for Liberian refugees in refugee camps in Guinea, West Africa, providing trauma counseling and clinical supervision, as well as training paraprofessional counselors, health care personnel, teachers, and community leaders in war trauma and related issues. Prior to CVT, from 2002-2004 she was the primary clinician for the Sept. 11th Response Project in the Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where she provided psychotherapy for Massachusetts-area families who had lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks. Since 2002, she has also taught annually in the graduate program in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University in Israel. She has completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Child Development at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a postgraduate certificate program in Trauma Studies at the Trauma Center in Boston, a postgraduate fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies. She is a Registered Poetry Therapist, and has a particular interest in the role of poetry and the creative arts in healing from political trauma. Shanee is also a professional member of NTL, an organization that has pioneered the use of small groups as a tool for exploring race relations and social change. 
 
ROBERT STOCKWELL
rfstockwell at cs.com
Robert Stockwell recently completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.  Bob's background is in Comparative Politics and Political Theory.  His dissertation consisted of a comparative analysis of four diverse, developing countries (Mauritius, Trinidad, Guyana, and Fiji), and examined the impact of elite agency, political institutions, and economic development on democracy and ethnic conflict outcomes.  His research interests include democratic/democratization theory, democracy in ethnically diverse countries, elite agency/leadership, political institutions/constitutional engineering, electoral systems, political culture, economic development, and nationalism.  He is currently working on a critical review of Fiji's constitutional review process.  Bob is now living in Santa Cruz and looking for a teaching position in the area. 
 
EPHRAIM TABORY
Ephraim Tabory was born in the United States but moved to Israel where he has been living for over 30 years. He teaches social psychology in the Sociology Department at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and also serves as the deputy director of the university's Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Conflict Management and Resolution. Ephraim's main areas of academic interest relate to intergroup relations in Israeli society, particularly between religious and nonreligious Jews in Israel and other countries; the impact of religious affiliation and religious denominationalism on intergroup tolerance; and the relationship between social and residential segregation and mutual attitudes of divergent groups.
 
HANNA ZAGEFKA
Hanna.Zagefka at rhul.ac.uk

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
Social Psychologist, Counselor and Mediator

Email: catherinebyrnephd@gmail.com
Website: www.CathByrne.com
Phone: (831)419-7292
Mailing address:
117 Quintana Court
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

 

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 

skagee at sun.ac.za    

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 

lyubansk at uiuc.edu

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 

dmalhotra at hbs.edu

 

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 at psych.upenn.edu   

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.<