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Sahana Dharmapuri is an independent gender advisor with over a decade of experience providing policy advice and training on gender, peace, and security issues to USAID, NATO, The Swedish Armed Forces, The United States Institute for Peace, international development consulting firms, and NGOs. Ms. Dharmapuri is the creator of the Carr Center's Gender and Security Seminar series, which she has led since 2011. She has lectured on gender and security issues at a wide variety of institutions including, USAID, Harvard University, the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, the Swedish Armed Forces International Training Center, NATO, and at three of the major U.S. combat and command centers. Her field experience includes Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, India, Uzbekistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Ms. Dharmapuri served as the gender advisor on conflict and complex emergency situations for the Office of Women in Development at USAID from 2003 to 2006. She was an Investing in Women in Development Fellow at USAID from 2003-2005. Prior to her work at USAID, she worked in Washington, DC at The Ashoka Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, The Fair Labor Association, and the Center for Middle East Peace. Ms. Dharmapuri was selected to be a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders in 1999. She received both of her Masters Degrees (a Masters in Middle East Studies and a Masters in Public Policy) from the University of Chicago in 1997. Sahana is a member of the US Civil Society Working Group on the US National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. She is currently a board member of Made by Survivors, an anti-trafficking organization dedicated to caring for survivors of trafficking. | ||
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Guila Clara Kessous leads the Carr Center's Initiative in
Theater and Human Rights. She is the recipient of the State Diploma of Performing Arts among other
awards, Kessous acted, directed and produced in major theatres in the US and Europe. She conceives
drama as a socially conscious reflection pervading multiple aspects of society and culture. Her approach
to theater as a cultural marker is multifaceted. She received a PhD in ethics and aesthetics under the
mentorship of E. Wiesel, an MBA in cultural business, and a cross-disciplinary MA in comparative
dramaturgy, cinema, and pedagogy. She has taught at Harvard, Boston University, the Sorbonne, and the
Wiesel Institute. Her sponsors include UNESCO (director, "Hilda"), the UN (director, "Tribute to Human
Rights"), and the CNRS among others. She has collaborated with artists including John Malkovich,
James Taylor, Marissa Berenson, Daniel Mesguich, and Theodore Bikel. In 2010, she partnered with the United Nations on the theme "Theater and Human Rights" and was awarded the "Chevalier Arts et Lettres" from the French Minister of Culture. In 2011, UNESCO named her an "Artist for Peace" giving her the opportunity to collaborate directly with francophone countries spanning three different continents on the Mediterranean project. |
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Carolina Larriera has a decade of experience working at the United Nations, at the headquarters in New York, and on UN missions to East Timor and Iraq. In East Timor, she was engaged in the development and transformation of small government divisions into fully-fledged ministries, her mission ending with the declaration of the independence of Timor-Leste in 2002. Carolina's next UN political mission in Baghdad was during the US war in Iraq, developing programs on the employability and economic rights of widows as part of the mission's human rights component, as well as coordinating preparations for the first international donor conference. Since surviving the the terrorist attack to the UN office in Baghdad, in 2003, she has started a regional office in South America for a Swiss NGO, focusing on advocacy issues, helping expand the work of the Brazilian Agency for Cooperation's policy on international assistance, and taught at the university level at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, and the IBMEC Institute in Brazil. She holds a graduate degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and has just completed her Mid-Career MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School. Carolina's research focus, during her fellowship, is the security environment of international agencies in the 21st century, and the new sources of insecurity facing organizations active in conflict areas. | ||
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Paul Fishstein was a Fellow with the State Building and Human Rights in Afghanistan & Pakistan program from 2009-2011. Mr. Fishstein (MS, Agricultural and Resource Economics; BA, English Literature) served as Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), a Kabul-based, policy research institution, from 2005 to 2008. Before joining AREU as Deputy Director in 2004, Paul worked in Kabul and at provincial levels on USAID-funded initiatives to strengthen the management of health care delivery, and from 1989-93 managed refugee assistance and “cross-border” reconstruction activities in Quetta and Islamabad, Pakistan. Paul first worked in Afghanistan during 1977-79 as a teacher trainer in Kabul and northern Afghanistan. Paul has also worked as a Researcher at the World Bank in Washington, focusing on agricultural policies and food security in India and Africa, and provided assistance on financial analysis, organizational development, and sustainability planning to health organizations in developing countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Romania, and Tanzania. Paul is currently involved in a research project looking at the relationship between aid and stabilization in Afghanistan. | ||
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Dr. Shoubo Rasheed Jalal was a Gebran G. Tueni Fellow during the 2010-2011
academic year. Dr. Shoubo Rasheed Jalal is an Iraqi medical doctor who has worked for 25 years
in the field of child and maternal health and rights. She has worked for more than 8 years with UNICEF in
Iraq, as well as at the Ministry of Health in Iraq in the capacity of Deputy Health Education Manager, assuming
different clinical and managerial positions at various levels. Dr. Rasheed has also served
as a member of the Executive Committee, and as HIV focal point for Iraq's Reproductive Health &
Family Planning Association for more than four years. During her professional career, Dr. Rasheed supported both the Ministry of Health and UNICEF to develop and execute several national communication-social mobilization programs for Iraq in the areas of immunization, infant and young child feeding, HIV prevention, hygiene promotion among young people, girls education, and pandemic influenza. For the last four years, she was the assigned deputy for the United Nation's Gender taskforce in Iraq, through which she led the coordination between the UN, the Government of Iraq, and international NGOs. On behalf of UNICEF, Dr. Rasheed chaired the thematic working group for the Iraq's Common Country Assessment and the outcome working group for the UN Development Assistance Framework for Iraq on the Essential Services for the years 2011-2014. Dr. Rasheed has been actively engaged in the development of assessment tools and report writing for several national and personal studies in communication. Furthermore, Dr. Rasheed was the driving force behind the design, execution and dissemination of the first ever nationwide survey of Iraqi youth's knowledge, attitudes and practices. Dr. Rasheed is an accomplished facilitator and trainer. In addition to developing training manuals and quality educational material, she has published several personal studies on behavioral change including: Nutrition in Elderly, Effect of Maternal Malnutrition and Anemia on Child Health, Breastfeeding Practices Among Urban Communities, Female Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Breast Self Examination, and Congenital Malformations in Children.
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David Mansfield was a fellow during the 2010-11 academic year. David has been doing fieldwork in rural
Afghanistan since June 1997. The evidence base he has produced has been at the forefront
of policy development in drugs and development in Afghanistan and represents an important
source of primary data for many policy analysts and academics. By examining the different
factors that influence opium poppy cultivation, David's work has also documented the
diversity in socioeconomic, political and environmental conditions across rural
Afghanistan. David has worked for a variety of different organizations in Afghanistan including the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, the Aga Khan Development Network and the United Kingdom's Afghan Drugs Inter Departmental Unit and Department for International Development. He has also supported the World Bank, Asia Development Bank and the European Commission in integrating the drugs issue into their rural development programmers in Afghanistan, including their support to National Priority Programmes. Prior to his work in Afghanistan David worked in overseas drugs and development issues, working in each of the major drug producing regions of South and South East Asia, and Latin America. His published work has sought to contextualise drugs as a development issue, and in particular has focused on developing pro-poor approaches to development in drug producing areas. Copies of his reports can be found at www.davidmansfield.org. |
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Nigel Pont was a Fellow with the Sate Building & Human Rights in Afghanistan & Pakistan program from 2009-2011. Mr. Pont has recently completed two and a half years as Mercy Corps' Afghanistan Country Director, focusing primarily on rural agricultural development in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, natural resource management in the north east of the country and microfinance in Kabul and Jalalabad. He has extensive Afghanistan experience having managed a wide range of relief and development programs during the civil war, the Taliban era and post 9/11. Born in Iran and growing up in Pakistan he has in-depth knowledge of the region and speaks good Dari and Urdu. Between 1997 and 2008 Nigel played a leadership role for Mercy Corps in many of the major humanitarian crises of the past decade including Kosovo, Iraq, Pakistan and post Tsunami Aceh. | ||
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Gerard Russell was a Fellow with the Sate Building & Human Rights in Afghanistan &
Pakistan program in 2010-2011. Russell was a diplomat with the British Foreign
Office for 14 years, heading one of its diplomatic missions and two of its largest political
teams in Embassies overseas. He worked in Jerusalem, Baghdad and Saudi Arabia. Between 2001
and 2003 he designed and headed up the UK effort to reach out to opinion in the Arab and broader
Islamic world, giving 200 interviews in Arabic to the Middle East satellite media. In 2005 he
was adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister. From 2007 to 2009 he worked in Afghanistan, latterly
as a senior political adviser at the United Nations political mission there. He speaks Arabic
and Dari. Mr. Russell's particular focus at the Carr Center will be on the future of humanitarian intervention, and religious beliefs in the Middle East and South Asia. He is keeping a blog: www.gerardrussellcom. A more detailed biography, and links to recent published articles, is available here. |
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Zeena Zakharia was a Gebran G. Tueini Fellow during the 2010-11 academic year. Her scholarly interests converge at the intersection of human rights and educational policy within
conflict/post-war and development contexts, particularly in the Middle East. She has over 15 years of experience
in educational development practice and research among elite and minoritized populations in the Middle East,
including ten years in educational leadership, institution-building, and teacher training in post-war Lebanon. She
comes to the Carr Center from Columbia University, where she served as Lecturer at Teachers College. Her most
recent publications focus on the interplay of language policy, collective identity, and human security in schools,
during and after violent political conflict in Lebanon. She is currently investigating how non-state armed actors
engage in anti-oppression, peace, and human rights education, as part of a larger interest in how to develop
learning institutions whose policies, curriculum, and structure are conceptualized holistically around furthering
human rights. At the Carr Center, she will extend a large-scale study of schooling to understand how varying
conceptualizations of human rights are being implemented across different religious, socioeconomic and geographic
contexts in Lebanon. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University's Teachers College, an Ed.M. from the Harvard
Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. from Yale.
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Abdulrazzaq al-Saiedi was an Associate Fellow in 2010-11. Mr. al-Saiedi is Middle East Policy analyst and human rights consultant. He spent four years covering the war and the political transition in Iraq for the New York Times. He covered the Saddam Hussein trial as a reporter and international observer for the international human rights organizations. As a consultant, al-Saiedi has helped formulate transitional justice policies in the Iraqi legal and political system. He has also helped to draw up policies for the Iraqi government and the civil society on issues such as reparations, accountability and verification standards, and truth-seeking processes. Originally trained as engineer, Al-Saiedi holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Mason Fellow. He was a Nieman Foundation for Journalism Fellow in 2008. | ||
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Ali A. Allawi was a Gebran G. Tueni Fellow during the 2009-10 academic year and an associate fellow throughout the following year. Dr Allawi served as the Interim Minister of Trade in the
new Government of Iraq from 2003-2004 until he was appointed the first Interim Minister of Defense
of Iraq. In April 2005 Mr. Allawi was appointed Minister of Finance in the Transitional Iraqi
Government. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Mr. Allawi graduated from MIT with a BSc in Civil Engineering
and continued his postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics. In 1971 he received
his MBA from Harvard University. He has just published The Crisis in Islamic Civilization (Yale
University Press) and is working on another book that will be a comprehensive political biography
of Faisal I of Iraq, set against the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the modern
state system in the Middle East and Iraq.
• More about Dr. Allawi's work as a Fellow
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Jasteena Dhillon was an Associate Fellow during the 2009-10 acdemic year. Jasteena is an international lawyer who has worked in international development and conflict environments since 1994. Over her years working in places like South Africa in the mid 90s, through the Balkans, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Iraq and Sudan, she has been confronted with the reality of how justice is done on the ground and who the local actors in this system really are, many times contrary to what the international community develops it’s policy around. Her work in Afghanistan, as it has been in Iraq and Sudan, is aimed at cultivating local systems of customary justice and building a state system that gives due regard to local values and conceptions of justice. Her nuanced and pragmatic perspective is rare to find in a field dominated by those more comfortable working with formal systems in the image of western institutions. Before joining Harvard, she was at NATO working as an advisor on justice & reconciliation and civil-military interaction in Afghanistan and Sudan as a way to facilitate civil-military interaction. Jasteena Dhillon discusses her experiences managing legal aid programs for returnees and people who have experienced human rights violations in Afghanistan. Three short videos. |
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Gerald Knaus is founding chairman of
the European Stability Initiative (ESI) since
1999. ESI, with 24 staff based in 10 cities from London to Baku, is
today the largest think tank focusing on the Balkans, Turkey and the South Caucasus. Gerald
studied in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna. He taught economics at the University of
Chernivtsi (Ukraine) and worked for five years in Bulgaria and Bosnia for NGOs and
international organizations, including the OHR in Sarajevo and as analyst for ICG. He was
director of the Lessons Learned Unit of the EU Pillar of the UN Mission in Kosovo (from
2001 to 2004). Some of Gerald’s articles have triggered wide public
debates, including "Travails of the European Raj" on Bosnia (2003)
and "Member State Building and the Helsinki Moment" (2004). He
co-authored more than 60 ESI reports as well as scripts for
award-winning TV
documentaries on South East Europe. He is a founding member of
the European Council on Foreign Relations and a
2007/2008 Open Society Fellow. In 2004 he moved to Istanbul. He regularly writes for
the Rumeli Observer.
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