S.P. Udayakumar (Kumar) (’90), from India, and his family have returned to Tamil Nadu, India, where he is pursing longstanding plans to bring Indian and Pakistani youth together for peacebuilding workshops. Kumar has been a researcher at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota, and recently published Handcuffed to History: Narratives, Pathologies, and Violence in South Asia (Praeger: 2001).

Noah Salameh (Ghnaim) (’93), from Palestine, was recently appointed director of the Bandar Ben Sultan Center for Peace and Regional Studies at Hebron University.

Anna Busa (’98), from Latvia, has been appointed a Duty Officer at the Conflict Prevention Centre of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Valerie Hickey (’00), from Ireland, recently began work with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Washington DC, where she will focus on conservation finance, including the policies promulgated by bi- and multi-lateral donors, as well as oversight of projects such as the Mamiraua ecological reserve in Brazil. She previously worked for the World Wildlife Fund on a program that supported both bio- and cultural diversity around the world by increasing capacity-building among indigenous peoples.

Martin Ewi (’01), from Cameroon, received Kroc funding for a six-month internship with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Mission to the United Nations in New York City. As political affairs coordinator dealing with matters of African conflicts and regional integration, he attended meetings of the UN Security Council and served as the OAU representative to the Sixth Committee of Legal Experts of the General Assembly, where terrorism was the primary focus.

Regina Saffa (’01), from Sierra Leone, served a four-month internship with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania under Kroc Institute funding. In November 2001 she returned to Sierra Leone to begin work with the Humanitarian Accountability Project. More Alumni News is available on our webpage.

 

 

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