Current Staff
Dr. D. Michael Shafer , Director of the Rutgers Center for Global Security and Democracy (CGSD) (BA Yale, PhD Harvard, Council on Foreign Relations, 21st Century Trust Fellow), is an award-winning teacher who lectures globally, has published widely, and consults across the US and abroad. With funds from foundations, the European Union, USAID, and the US State Department, Dr. Shafer has established civic education programs to transform universities throughout the newly democratic world. For a decade (1994-2004), Dr. Shafer directed the Rutgers Citizenship and Service Education (CASE) Program, among the most international service-learning programs in the US. At CASE, he created www.njserves.org, Internet portal to the New Jersey civic sector and test bed for the development of Internet tools for citizens. As Director of CGSD, Dr. Shafer has developed online resource tools for students of international relations and comparative politics worldwide and is developing an online library of civic education materials in many languages for administrators and professors at universities in countries in transition. In addition to FACE Human Rights.org, he and his staff have created www.art-without-borders.org, an online, interactive, global art gallery, and www.worldvoicesonline.org, home to World Voices, CGSD’s weekly podcasts of global youth interviews (also posted on iTunes). He is deeply involved in international efforts to engage young people as active citizens through his training organization, Global Partnerships for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training (Global PACT). With funding from the Open Society Institute, Prudential Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and others, Global PACT offers a variety of summer training institutes at Rutgers and overseas (for example, the all-Balkans trainings in Zagreb, Croatia and the poverty reduction trainings in Grahamstown, South Africa. Dr. Shafer is fluent in French and conversant in North African Arabic.
Catherine Barachkova, Associate Director
Catherine Barachkova received her B.A. in linguistics and intercultural communication, and J.D. from Ulyanovsk State University (Russia), and Master of International Studies from North Carolina State University. While still in Russia, she interned at a local court and in the office of the District Attorney, specializing in civil law and contracts, and worked as a legal adviser in a non-profit research organization. Ms. Barachkova's other interest, foreign languages, led her to pursue a career in publishing. She translated several books, and in 2001, together with her co-author, received a St. Petersburg Union of Writers Award for the best translation in the field of popular science. Ms. Barachkova is a member of Eta Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho, the International Studies Honorary Society of North Carolina State University. Her interests include international and comparative law, human rights, language use and its legal regulation. Ms. Barachkova is fluent in Russian and conversant in Spanish.
Branka Rajner, FACE Bosnia
Branka Rajner is Executive Director of the Human Rights Office of Tuzla and has long been engaged in NGO and especially human rights NGO organizing not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but in the Balkans as a whole. In addition to running HROT and coordinating its activities with its Republika Srpska partner, Ms. Rajner serves on the steering committees of or is otherwise directly engaged with such local initiatives as, for example, the Peace Studies Center (Miramida, Zagreb), the Women Voters League, the Handicapped Persons Social Integration Centre, the Balkan Human Rights Network, and the Mostar Centre for Civil Initiatives. Ms. Rajner works, too, with many international NGOs (for example, Helsinki Watch), international organizations (for example, UNDP) and representatives of foreign governments (the Embassy of the United States and USAID).
Antoaneta Ivanova, FACE Macedonia
Antoaneta Ivanova is President of the Macedonian chapter of the Federation of European Student Journalists and Program Coordinator at the Macedonian Institute for Media. She has just returned from the US where she was a United States Department of State-American Councils for International Education Junior Faculty Fellow at the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. She holds a BA in Journalism from Ss. Cyril and Methody University-Skopje, Macedonia (2002) and is completing now completing a Master of Communication Sciences degree at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research of Ss. Cyril and Methody University. Ms. Ivanova writes for the SAFAX News Agency, Media Online and Observer (Medien Hilfe). For three years prior to her fellowship in the US, Ms. Ivanova worked for the Macedonian Institute for Media where she was responsible for assessment, preparation and implementation of media trainings, training programs for journalists, PR trainings, seminars, press-conferences, media related publications, media monitoring, and research. Since 2002, Ms. Ivanova has also taught Introduction to Communications and Sociology of Communications at the Faculty of Journalism, Ss. Cyril and Methody University. Ms. Ivanova is currently project director for the European Youth Foundation-Macedonian Agency for Youth-American Council co-funded FACE Human Rights.org “Balkans Human Rights News Service” project. Besides Macedonian, she is fluent in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English and Serbian.
Nadwa Al-Dawsari, FACE Yemen
Nadwa Al-Dawsari is a Senior Program Officer at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), Yemen’s Office. At NDI she manages the tribal program where she works with a local NGO founded by tribal leaders from different governorates in Yemen. Her responsibilities include organizing capacity building programs for tribal leaders and members of the NGO to address the twin problems of revenge killing and underdevelopment in the tribal areas in Yemen. Prior to assuming responsibility for the tribal program, Ms. Al-Dawsari managed NDI’s domestic monitoring program for parliamentary elections and the women’s program. Still earlier she was a national project manager for the Post Beijing Project in Yemen. The project was designed to mainstream gender and build the capacity of gender units in line ministries to be involved in the decision making process. During the project she worked to involve local NGOs and line ministries in discussions on gender mainstreaming. Ms. Al-Dawsari holds an MA in Development Studies from the University of Leeds. She was a 2004/2005 Humphrey fellow at Rutgers University in New Jersey. During her Humphrey year she received training and did research on governance and public policy issues. She also did a series of presentations in the US in which she introduced issues such as democracy in the Middle East, women’s rights in Islam and tribes in Yemen to American audiences.
Tawakkol Karman, FACE Yemen
Tawakkol Karman is the head of Women Journalists Without Constraints, a Yemeni NGO founded in 2004. She holds degrees in both Education and Business Management from Sanna University (1999). Ms. Karman is a professional journalist and political editor at several of the major opposition and independent newspapers in Yemen (e.g. Asahwah, Al-Thawri, Al-Wasat, A-Nass, and Al-Wahdawi). Ms. Karman is active in many regional and international democratic, human rights and journalism organizations: Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, Arab Journalists Union, World Journalists Union. Yemeni Human Rights Watch, Arab Female Journalists, Yemeni Women’s Union, World, Women’s Islamic Union, Amnesty International, Yemeni Students’ Union. She is also a founding member of the Women’s Committee to Fight for Female Students’ Rights. |
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