Dr. Nir Eisikovitz teaches legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University, where he directs the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy. His research focuses on the moral and political dilemmas arising in post-conflict settings. His recent book is titled Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Martinus Nijhoff and RoL) and was the subject of a special symposium in the Review of International Affairs (http://www.suffolk.edu/files/College_Communications/RIA_No._1138-1139.pdf). Nir is currently working on a new book on truces tentatively titled: Kill Me Tomorrow but Let Me Live Today: Truces, Ceasefires and the Decline of Peace. He has also written numerous op-ed pieces on the Middle East conflict for the print media, such as, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, The Providence Journal, The Boston Herald, The Forward and In These Times.
Dagmar Kusa
Dr. Dagmar (Dasha) Kusa currently teaches at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. This semester, Dasha teaches Human Rights and Globalization and Conflict of Identities. She has started research for a book on the narratives of historical trauma in Central Europe, which will study the topic of trauma narratives in political use (and misuse) comparatively. Dasha is also engaged in organization of the second Muslim Jewish Conference, which will take place in Geneva from July 3rd through 9th, where she will lead a committee on sustained community dialogue.
Jina Moore
Jina Moore works as a freelance journalist and is currently finishing a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in Rwanda. As part of the fellowship, Jina is visiting Rwandan genocide memorial sites, documenting in sound how the landscapes, and the people in them, are changing as the sites become professionalized and official. Recently, she published an essay in the Columbia Journalism Review, the profession’s top publication, on the ethics of trauma reporting, arguing that journalists covering tragedies and traumas need to rethink the relationship they build, through writing, with their readers. (http://www.jinamoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/moore.pdf)
David Ramsey
In addition to the private practice of law, David Ramsey actively volunteers as a community mediator in New York City. He mediates cases referred by state courts and government agencies to a local community dispute resolution center. In addition to dealing with the legal and business issues of people in conflict, David builds understanding and acknowledgment about the shared realities that they face. He has mediated over 200 business, legal, and interpersonal disputes in this way, and recently served on an anti-hate crimes task force. David’s engagement with conflict resolution in New York — in some ways a microcosm of the world’s conflicts more broadly – has been providing him ongoing feedback and ideas for ICfC’s global work.
Adam Saltsman
Adam Saltsman is currently living in Mae Sot, Thailand, on the border with Burma where he is conducting fieldwork for his PhD in Sociology at Boston College. His work focuses on participatory approaches to migrant advocacy for labor rights and refugee rights. As a baseline for his dissertation research, Adam is coordinating a mixed methods study for the Feinstein International Center and the International Rescue Committee on livelihoods, vulnerability, and access to justice for Burmese asylum seekers and Thai residents of this city. In recent years, Adam has also done work in the Middle East on the issue of Iraqi displacement, publishing an article in the Forced Migration Review on Iraqi refugees’ right to information.
Shanti Sattler
Shanti Sattler is currently pursing her M.A. in international studies and diplomacy at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Inspired by her time working for ICfC in Cambodia, she is focusing her dissertation on the role of victims in international war crimes tribunals. Shanti continues to actively assist ICfC’s office in Phnom Penh as well as efforts to promote the “We Want (u) to Know” film (www.we-want-u-to-know.com) that was made in one of the villages ICfC works with in Cambodia’s Takeo province. She is also engaged with other organizations doing post-conflict reconciliation work in several African countries.
David Steele
This past year, Dr. David Steele has been serving as adjunct faculty in the Masters Program in Coexistence at Brandeis University. In addition, he developed a manual for use in discussion of Muslim/Christian reconciliation in Nigeria and inter-ethnic conflict in Kenya, sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace. He also recently helped facilitate a workshop on sensitivity to the religious context for USAID personnel. David was a keynote speaker for the start of a peace studies minor at Gordon College and he recently made a presentation on conflict transformation and peace-building in Kenya at the UN Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action.
