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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. |
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