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Fellows | July – September
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Fellows | January – March
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Fellows | July - September 2007
Fellows | January - March 2007
Fellows | 2006-2007 Program Year (Session I)
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Name: Cecile Diatta-Senghor
(Senegal)
Mrs.Cecile is currently a teacher of English as foreign language and has served in this capacity since 1998.She also coordinates the Civil Society Coalition for Elections in Ziguinchor and has recently been appointed Program Manager of the Southern Senegambia Women's Network for Peace and Sustainable Development. Mrs.Cecile received her B.A and her M.A in African Literature, Civilization and Applied Linguistics from Gaston Berger University, St. Louis, Senegal. She also received a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. Part of her interest is conflict prevention, conflict management and good governance, with experience in working with vulnerable groups such as women and landmine victims. She has also been deployed as an election observer in African countries emerging from violent conflict such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has received training in a wide variety of conflict resolution techniques including negotiation in situation of stress, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of ex- combatants and Democracy building in post conflict society. She is a founding member of Women in Peace building Network (WIPNET / Senegal) and a Human rights activist with RADDHO, a Senegalese Human Rights NGO. Cecile is second in a family of eight. She is married and likes reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles.
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Name: Russell Vandenbroucke
(USA)
Vandenbroucke became Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts at the University of Louisville in 2001 after 20 years running and helping to run professional theatres in Chicago, St. Louis, and Los Angeles. He holds degrees from the Yale School of Drama, University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and the University of Illinois. He is the author of Truths the Hand Can Touch: The Theatre of Athol Fugard, Contemporary Australian Plays (editor), and The Theatre Quotation Book: A Treasury of Insights and Insults. His plays include Eleanor: In Her Own Words, adapted from the writings of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Atomic Bombers, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima on radio and opened Northlight Theatre's first permanent theatre just outside Chicago. School Play, inspired by the 50th anniversary of school desegregation, premiered in 2004 and was performed in Russia in 2006, which became the catalyst for the piece he is currently developing on young people and the military. In addition to theatre, he teaches courses such as "War and Conscience," "War and Peace on Stage and Screen," and works at the University of Louisville with both its Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice and the Anne Braden Center for Social Justice Research. Hobbies include hiking and playing basketball.
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Pushpika Weerakoon (Sri Lanka)
Weerakoon presently holds the position of Programme Manager - Legal at the International Development Law Organization. Ms Weerakoon holds an LLB and LLM (International & Commercial law) degree from the University of Buckingham UK. She has provided her services as a Victim Support Consultant at the Brent Victim Support Scheme U. At the same time she was engaged in postgraduate studies and working as a trainee consultant & the Millennium Volunteer at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Buckinghamshire UK. For this work she was awarded the "Certificate of Excellence" by the Education & Skills Minister UK in 2001. After returning to Sri Lanka, she took up the position as the Director / Registrar at the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute (ADRI). As a trained Mediator and a Mediator trainer at ADRI, she coordinated and actively participated in promoting Mediation Island wide from the grassroots level. In 2005, Ms Weerakoon represented Sri Lanka at the "Leadership Training for Women" Program conducted by the United States of America- State Department. She has received trainings in Banking & Insurance Law, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution from such prestigious institutions as the Sri Lankan College of Law, The Institute of Human Rights and the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies affiliated to the UN University of Peace. |
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Name: Pamela Broussard (USA)
Pamela Broussard has spent most of her adult life working in cross cultural environments. For the last sixteen years she has been teaching and working with immigrants in the United States and abroad. She has taught students from five years old to eighty three years old coming from many different cultural, racial and socio economical backgrounds. Her focus has been teaching English, as well as, helping immigrants acclimate to their new environment. With experience in over twenty countries, she is often a bridge between the nationals and the immigrant community as they strive to better understand each other. Ms. Broussard is currently a New Arrival Center teacher in Houston, Texas for Cy-Fair Independent School District. She spends her summers volunteering in Afghanistan providing professional development courses for educators which incorporate gender equality, peace education and conflict resolution lessons. She has authored four English as a Foreign Language books and is in the research stage of writing a cultural reference book for educators. Ms. Broussard received her B.S. in Education from Stephen F. Austin State University and holds certifications in ESL, Special Education, and Elementary Education. She is a member of the TESOL-Teacher of English for Speakers of Other Languages. She enjoys traveling, learning about new cultures, and singing. Pamela and her family reside in Texas.
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Name: Christine Wright (United Kingdom)
Christine is currently Refugee Monitoring Consultant for UNHCR Iraq Programme, where she has been based in Kuwait / Amman since January 2007. She received her MSc International Politics of Middle East - School of Oriental & African Studies (S.O.A.S) and her LLB Hons Law from London School of Economics. She enjoys climbing & trekking, marathon running and cycling. Christine also has experience as a freelance journalist in Israel / Palestine. Her MSc research relates to gender studies and resistance politics in Palestine. She has recently started her international career with UNHCR and hopes to continue working in the UN towards conflict resolution solutions in Iraq.
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Name: Nosisa Ncube (Zimbabwe)
Nosisa is currently the Regional Coordinator for HelpAge Zimbabwe, for the Southern region of Zimbabwe. She is based in Bulawayo. Ms Ncube has been holding this post since 2002. Nosisa received a Diploma in Agriculture in 1992. In 1997, she received a Post Agriculture Diploma in Education. In 2000, she received a Diploma in Business Bookkeeping and Accounts after she had been asked to run the finance and administration department. In 2006, she received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Nosisa first worked as a field officer, then as agriculture at secondary school level, next as a senior training officer, and finally as a finance and administration manager before joining HelpAge Zimbabwe. Whilst Nosisa has not received deep training in conflict management, she has some experience on handling conflict amongst school children and communities she is working amongst. Nosisa is married to Kennedy Choto and the couple is blessed with 3 children, a boy and 2 girls.
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Name: Nhek Sarin (Cambodia)
Since August 1997, Mr. Nhek Sarin has been the Executive Director of STAR Kampuchea, a Cambodian not-for-profit non-governmental organization. STAR Kampuchea aims to promote democracy by strengthening civil society in Cambodia. Mr. Nhek Sarin received his Master's Degree in Public Administration from Century University, Mexico, USA. Furthermore, he has attended many training courses, workshops and conferences related to his work in Cambodia and overseas. In his free time, he loves reading books, doing exercises, and visiting the beach and remote provinces. Mr. Nhek Sarin works to support poor and vulnerable communities whose rights of access to land and other natural resources have been violated. He aids these communities in securing their rights and improving their livelihoods. His main strategies are advocacy and networking, public education, peaceful conflict resolution and partnership building with local and national governments. Mr. Nhek Sarin has described his experience in Khmer language in the handbook "Does Advocacy Oppose?" published in 2006. Mr. Nhek Sarin represents STAR Kampuchea in different international networks such as the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC), based in the Philippines, and the International Land Coalition (ILC), based in Rome and the Southeast- Asia Committee for Advocacy (SEACA), based in the Philippines. Mr. Nhek Sarin is divorced and has six children.
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Sumit Mullick (India)
Sumit Mullick graduated in history from Calcutta University, standing first in the University. Thereafter he did his masters in economics from the University of Wales, U.K. Subsequently he did an MBA from IIM Bangalore. Sumit Mullick got into the Indian Administrative Service in 1982. In his long career he has worked in such diverse sectors as rural development, poverty alleviation, urban development, environment and wildlife, public health, education, law and order, Social Justice. He is currently is Secretary of Social development Co-ordination, Government of Maharashtra. Sumit Mullick has a number of publications in his name including a book on primary education published by UNICEF and his novel, 'Seducing Pain' is due for publication shortly. His hobbies include reading, writing and spending as much time as possible in the forests.
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Cheryl Hebert (Canada)
Cheryl is currently working with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission managing the Race Relations and Affirmative Action Division (in an acting capacity) and Mediation Services. She has a Masters Degree in Social Work from Dalhousie University and extensive experience in planning, development, implementation and evaluation of programs and services, policy development, alternative dispute resolution and teaching. She began working with the Commission in May 2003 as Project Manager to implement the results of an organizational review that included design and implementation of mediation delivery and practice models. Prior to coming to the Commission she worked for five years with the Department of Justice, Court Services Division, on the development of the new family court system, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (Family Division) which included developing mediation services. Cheryl was an Assistant Professor with Memorial University School of Social Work in St. John's, Newfoundland. While living in St. John's she also worked in front line social work and did consulting work on a range of issues including family violence, gender analysis, mental health and conflict resolution. She is an active community volunteer and serves on the Board of the Canadian Cancer Society and mediates victim and young offender sessions with the Community Justice Program. She is a past board member of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Newfoundland and Labrador Division. Cheryl has two adult daughters. She enjoys cooking, hiking and reading.
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Simon Milward
(United Kingdom)
Mr. Milward's professional experience includes economics, politics, science, law and institutions of international development with over 6 years' work overseas in project management, development and analysis in progressively more responsible and advanced positions in non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and governmental and intergovernmental agencies including: supervising, preparing and negotiating World Bank poverty alleviation projects in Latin America; organising and carrying out small-scale environment and development projects in Peru, Chile and Guyana; analysing ways to improve the monitoring and evaluation of World Bank projects and programmes; and managing the final six months of a three-year European Commission-funded agriculture project. Mr. Milward has experience working in challenging environments including organising the logistics of a three month development project in Peru, working constructively and effectively with Guyanese government officials for hisMaster's thesis and working with governments supervising, preparing and negotiating World Bank projects. He has also mountaineered at an advanced level throughout the world including in the Himalayas and Andes. Through these experiences he has become focused, disciplined and resourceful in overcoming challenges and finding solutions in physically and politically difficult environments and his belief in taking ultimate responsibility for his actions has been reinforced. Mr. Milward has always wanted to work in the field. This desire, particularly to work in a humanitarian context, has successively grown during his studies and my work, particularly as he wishes to be able to justify that his work is providing tangible, effective solutions to the many humanitarian problems he sees. He also feels he now has sufficient institutional, political and technical expertise to be able to work effectively in the field and he is confident he would be able to perform humanitarian fieldwork very well. Mr. Milward's mother tongue is English, but speaks and writes very good French, Portuguese, Spanish and German. He currently works in Portuguese and Spanish for the World Bank and has worked in French with Huglo Lepage and the European Commission.
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Harold Hall (USA)
Harold is the Director of the nonprofit Pacific Institute for the Study of Conflict and Aggression, founded in 1993 with training and consultation in violence-related topics and challenges (see www.violenceprediction.com). He is also the Director and neuropsychologist for Psychological Consultants, based in Hawaii, with a focus on criminal-forensic and civil-forensic legal matters. He has testified over 200 times as an expert witness for the Courts. Dr. Hall has a B.A. and M.S. in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, as well as a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology from University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital in New York. He has 35 years professional experience and has authored or edited 13 books and over 50 peer-reviewed articles. He is a mental health disaster worker for the American Red Cross. He taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology. Dr. Hall taught on the psychology of terrorism as a Fulbright Scholar in Poland, and has edited a book on terrorism intervention . He is keenly interested in cross-cultural training and consultation, particularly in Asia. His greatest joy is to empower others--peers, students, referral sources--in the application of behavioral science to real-life situations. He has two dogs and two cats whom he adores.
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Gyan Prakash (India)
Mr. Prakash completed his Postgraduate degree in Political Science from Patna University. During college days he used to participate in Quiz Programme of the All India Radio. Mr. Prakash is currently associated with the leading English newspaper of India, The Times of India, as Senior Staff Correspondent. He has been extensively covering police beats, ultra left activities, political parties, proceedings of legislative assembly besides matters on finance for the newspaper. The Government of India nominated him as director on the Board of a Nationalised Bank, Bank of Maharashtra. As a director of the Bank he chaired a Sub-Committee on Financial Irregularities, the final report of which was lauded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Currently he is on the Advisory Board of Life Insurance Corporation of India, the largest Public Sector Undertaking in the country. Mr. Prakash did his War Correspondence Course conducted by Indian Army and Certificate Course in Spanish from Central Institute of English and Foreign Language (CIEFL), Hyderabad. He was one of the members of the GSE Team of Rotary International which visited Argentina in 1986. An ardent lover of sports, he played cricket for school and College levels. He also led Times of India Cricket Team, which won Inter-Media Tournament. Reading novels, playing cricket and watching football matches are his hobbies.
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Ratchanee Phataisit (Thailand)
Ms. Ratchanee Phataisit is an environmentalist, working at the Environmental Dispute Prevention and Resolution Center which is under the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion. She is responsible for conducting environmental dispute prevention and resolution. She graduated Master of Science in Environmental Health. She has received training in professional field in several programs including Solid Waste Management, Urban Environment Management.
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Anslem Agbonyeme (Nigeria)
Anslem Agbonyeme is a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and he is currently the Area Crime Office of the Area 'E' Command Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Police Command. He has served in this capacity since April 2006. Prior to this time, he was the Operation Officer of the Nigeria Police, Apapa Divisional Headquarters, Apapa Lagos. He held this position for about 4 years before he was transferred to Area 'H', Oguda as one of the Officers in charge of the Anti-Robbery unit. He received a B.A. (Hons) degree in Philosophy from the Edo State University in Ekpoma Edo State of Nigeria and a Master's degree in Public and International Affairs (MPIA) from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria. He is an operational Police Officer who has been involved in the management of several crises like; riots, trade union disputes, inter-tribal and inter-communal clashes, and several others. His hobbies include adventures, meeting people, and reading novels. Mr. Anslem loves watching movies and he is married.
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Naganan Edirisinghe (Sri Lanka)
Naganan Ananth Edirisinghe has Diploma in Management Studies. After completing his higher studies he joined the state sector as a Program Officer of the Gramodaya Centre, an institution attached to the Ministry of Housing. It was a key institution implementing the million houses program setting up model villages throughout the country. He left the state sector in 1994 and since then has been in the non-governmental sector serving the communities in different fields. Most of the programs he has involved in are carried out in border villages with the participation of different communities. Since the signing of the ceasefire agreement in year 2002 many peace building programs were designed to integrate the communities through workshops conducted to allay fear and suspicion. Be it resettlement of conflict affected persons or the Tsunami affected families considering the different backgrounds of the communities many conflicts had to be resolved along the way. One of the main peace building programs he has engaged in is the establishment of the Resource Centre in Thiriyaya, bordering Anuradhapura and Trincomalee Districts, where we conduct residential vocational training programs involving youth from all three communities from the conflict affected areas. His personal interest is to assist the deprived people in whatever way he could. His hobbies are watching comedies and listening to music.
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Abdujabbor Kayumov (Tajikistan)
Abdujabbor is currently the Program Manager of the NGO "Fariza". During past few years Mr. Kayumov has been working in organization whose mission was development of the civil society and prevention or resolution of conflicts at the territory covering three states of Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Abdujabbor received his B.A and M.A. in International Economic Relations from State University of Khujand. Personal interests are interethnic and religious conflicts and its resolution methods. Abdujabbor is working on resolving and prevention of conflicts and tensions between different ethnic groups in Fergana Valley already about 4 last years, he facilitated the process of community negotiations on water and land issues in frontier areas of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and reached consensus on them. Also he has participated in several seminars, trainings and conferences in deferent countries including Poland, Japan, Bosnia & Herzegovina and USA. Few years ago he has made a field research on Religious radicalization: compeering the cases of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and also wrote a short paper on Identity issue in Central Asia.
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Rithy Bun (Cambodia)
Mr. Rithy Bun, Executive Director of Democracy resource center for National Development (DND) and the Provincial Coordinator of Kampong Cham NGOs Advocacy Network (K-NAN) in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia.
In 1990, he has finished bachelor degree on Khmer literature at the University Phnom Pehn, in Phnom Penh city, Cambodia. Since 2005 up to now he's studying Master degree on Public Administration at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh city, Cambodia.
From 1990 to 1996 he has taught Khmer Literature and Primary English language at Regional Teacher Training Center in Kampong Cham province. From 1996 to 2001 he has conducted training and coordinated workshops and forums for Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law Projects the hold country. 2001 to 2005 he has disseminated information on Civic Education, Decentralization and Good governance programs. 2005 to present he was intervening and negotiating of Community Land dispute with Conflict resolution by Advocacy activity through Active Non-Violence for Kampong Cham rural aria.
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Dennis Mcmahon (USA - CURRENTLY LIVING IN CAMBODIA)
Dennis is an adviser to Community Forestry International (CFI) in Cambodia, where he has been working to address issues related to land and natural resource conflicts in rural communities. In his work with CFI and its many local NGO partners, Dennis has worked to identify the root causes of community land conflicts and to develop training tools which help communities resolve disputes and more effectively manage their resources. Since arriving in Cambodia in July 2006, he has been offering trainings and workshops in communication skills related to conflict resolution for a variety of other local organizations. Much of his work is based on the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) model, which he has been actively working to translate into the Khmer language. Dennis also leads a weekly NVC practice group for people in the Phnom Penh community who are dedicated to finding ways of integrating those skills into their lives. Dennis is a native of Rhode Island, but has lived in San Francisco for 6 years prior to moving to Cambodia. He holds an MS in Geology and enjoys outdoor sports, like kayaking, rock climbing and triathlon.
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Jennifer Hutchinson (Jamaica)
JENNIFER is the parish coordinator of the victim Support Unit in Manchester Jamaica. She has been serving in this capacity since January 2000. Previously she worked as a classroom and contact teacher at various primary schools in Jamaica.
Ms. Hutchinson has a Teachers' Certificate and a Teachers' Diploma in Primary Education, which she received from the Moneague Teachers' College. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Studies
and Sociology from the University of the West Indies Mona Jamaica and a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology from the Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville, Jamaica. She also has training in mediation and conflict resolution from the Dispute Resolution Foundation of Jamaica and has been actively engaged in hosting seminars with the ministries of Justice and National Security and other governmental and non-Governmental organizations on various social issues.
Jen, as she is affectionately referred to, is an executive member of the Manchester Branch of the Jamaica Red Cross Society. She has special responsibility for fundraising, public relations and the recruitment of volunteers. Ms. Hutchinson is also a founding member of the Community Counseling and Restorative Justice Centre and the Manchester Association of Mediators.
An avid traveler; she traveled to the United Kingdom the United States of America and Central America on many occasions, her hobbies include farming, gardening and rearing of tropical fish. She is the eight of eleven children born to Blanch and Eric Hutchinson.
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Milen Peychev (BULGARIA)
Milen is currently Church Monitoring Consultant ( Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Denominations and Alternative Religions ) for State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, where he has been based in Bulgaria / Sofia since March 2007. He received his MTh Orthodox Theology ( Christian Sociology, Philosophy and Ethics ) - Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Theology and his MNIS National and International Security ( New Religious Movements and Alternative Religions ) from New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Milen also working on for his PhD - Veliko Tarnovo University "St. St. Kiril and Methodii", Faculty of Philosophy - is on the subject: 'Geopolitical Aspects of Alternative Religions', including in itself the next actual elaborations: 'Secularization of Religion in a Post-Modern World', 'Modernity like a Era of Impenetrable Dark', 'Geopolitical Expansion of Deviationism', 'Post-Modern Simulacrum and The Reign of Quantity', 'Nirvana of Decadence like an Infernal Invasion in The Sphere of Mind', 'The Laical Sacrilege and Monstrous Building of The Secular Shrine' and others. He has three publications in the Philosophy Magazine - issues 4 and 6 from 2003 and issue 5 from 2004, Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University 'St Kliment Ohridski' on the following subjects /available only in Bulgarian so far/: 1. 'Tradition, Modernity and Post-Modernity'; 2. 'The Secularism of Contemporary World against The Sacred Tradition' and 3. 'Post-Modern World and Its Outcasts - Chandalization of the Sacral Space'. Part of his interest is theology, philosophy, national and international security, peace and conflict studies - especially interfaith dialogue and intra-faith dialogue, traditional gongfu, inner styles and other ancient martial arts, new religious movements, alternative religions, Freemasonry, Knighthood and Orders of Chivalry. He is a member of National Security Association (Senior Instructor - Crime Prevention and Communication in Conflict Situations ) and he also teaching in his Private School in Inner Styles and Traditional Gongfu as a Sifu. He is particularly proud of the fact that, for the past five years, over 20 young Rotaractors have become his Students of Traditional Gongfu and Inner Styles and have actively participated in the work along National Security Association Programs: Destructive Cults - Religious and Secular, Youth Drug and Crime Prevention, Street Work - Outreach Youth Work, Youth Team Building, Spiritual Development and Traditional East Philosophy, parts of which have assumed priority in their Clubs. He can claim that it was not until the Rotaractors began to study Martial Arts that they were able to understand what, in fact, the Rotary slogan means - Service Above Self.
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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS |
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The Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
at Chulalongkorn University is now
accepting applications
for its three-month certificate Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies
Program.
Session V: July to September 2008
Full and part funding for the participants
are provided by Rotary International. The deadline for application is December 1, 2007.
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CONTACT US |
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Rotary Headquarters in USA
The Rotary Foundation
One Rotary Center
1560 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60201-3698 USA
Tel: 847 866 3374
Fax: 847 866 0934
E-mail: rotarycenters@rotary.org
Rotary Peace and Conflict
Studies Center in Bangkok
Chulalongkorn University
254 Prachatipok-Rampaipannee
Bldg. 3F Pathumwan, 10330,
Bangkok, Thailand
Tel: +66 2 652 5088
Fax: +66 2 652 5089
E-mail: peace@rotarychula.org
Website: www.rotarychula.org
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