Insight Fellows 2008 Finalists
2008 Fellows (left to right) Carrie Stefansky, Carl Conradi and Michelle Kissenkötter
2007 Fellow Eve de la Mothe Karoubi worked closely
with several
other organizations in Northern Thailand, from where most Burmese organizations
operate in political exile, and facilitated a 3-day training workshop on conflict
transformation. One of her Burmese students is pictured above, helping to create a 'conflict
web'.
2007 Fellows (left to right) Eve de la Mothe
Karoubi, Rebecca Brubaker and Sesei Tatebe-Goddu
The International Radio for Justice team
Insight Intern Kijana Rose
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Volume 2 Issue 1: Summer 2008
Welcome to Insight Focus, the bi-monthly newsletter of Insight Collaborative, a non-profit organization operating in association with its sister company, Insight
Partners. Insight Collaborative
helps governments, non-government organizations, charities,
non-profits, small companies, individuals and otherwise underserved
populations manage conflict more effectively. With this newsletter we hope to update you on our efforts to reduce conflict around the globe, as well
as the whereabouts and efforts of Insight's Fellows. We welcome your comments.
Insight Collaborative Names 2008 Fellows
The Insight Collaborative hosted its third
annual Finalist Weekend on March 15th and 16th. Fourteen Finalists selected from
over fifty applicants to the Insight Fellowship Program were invited to
Boston for interviews,
a gala dinner, and a half-day Insight Negotiation training session presented by
Insight President David Seibel, and Insight Associate Mike Blank.
This year's Insight Finalists
were Mark Balmforth, Katie Camillus, Julie Carney, Holly Dranginis, Carolyn Hall
McMahon, Keren Hendin, Hafsa Kanjwal, Benjamin Kasten, Rachel Littman, Antonia
Menezes, and Jessica Richman. The 2008 Insight Fellows are Carl Conradi, Michelle Kissenkötter, and Carrie Stefansky.
Congratulations to all!
Insight
Collaborative is also pleased to announce that Holly Dranginis is the first
recipient of the newly established Insight Summer Fellowship. She will spend three months at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, working
in the
Office of the Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
Read more...
2007 Fellows Update
Eve de la Mothe Karoubi
Currently Eve is in West Africa, based in Monrovia,
Liberia, with plans to travel
frequently to Sierra Leone. She
will be working with Youth Action International, an organization established to
promote and protect the rights in children in conflict areas...
Rebecca Brubaker
Rebecca just finished her second placement with the UNHCR in
Istanbul, Turkey. During this time Rebecca
worked as the local NGO Integration Unit liaison, trained in assessing asylum
cases. She also studied intensive Turkish. Rebecca is currently in her last placement at
the International Criminal Court in The
Hague...
Seisei Tatebe-Goddu
Seisei is currently in Amman, Jordan,
where she is working on two different projects.
The first, with Friends of the Earth Middle East, involves designing the
consensus building process for planning workshops on the King Abdullah I Peace
Park. The Park is being proposed as a
model for cross-border collaboration and will be jointly administered by Israel and Jordan. The second project enlists Seisei's
skills as
the primary mediator of a multi-stakeholder dispute over land between a local
NGO and Bedouin herders...
Read more...
Interactive Radio for Justice
Insight Collaborative and the organization Interactive
Radio for Justice Project (IRfJ) are nearing the end of their fruitful year of
collaboration and look forward to securing additional funding and furthering
the relationship.
IRfJ uses radio
programming to encourage dialogue between people in regions where the
International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating war crimes and genocide. IRfJ has been active in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2005 and in the Central African Republic (CAR)
since January 2008. Working with IRfJ,
Insight Collaborative secured $190,000 in 2007-8 funding for IRfJ projects from
the MacArthur Foundation and the Trust Fund for Victims.
Read more...
Girls'
Group
Insight Intern Kijana Rose
co-founded an organization called the
Girls' Group at Boston
Latin High
School, where she is a student. The organization serves as a support network for female students of all ages and is strongly
supported by both students and faculty.
Insight Analyst Rachel Milner
Gillers and Kijana Rose recently conducted a workshop on communicating with peers, significant others, teachers and
parents. Future workshops will focus on non-violent communication, rape
awareness, peer pressure and stress relief.
Update from Insight's First Fellow
Dan Green
It
has been almost two years since I returned home after being the first Insight
Fellow. Sometimes it's hard to believe it has been that long, for I still carry
the memories of my experiences that year with me as I move through each new
part of life. Yet at other times, it feels a lifetime away, given how much has
happened since I came back.
Soon
after the end of my Fellowship year I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I
worked with the alternative dispute resolution firm, Ingouville & Nelson (www.ingouvillenelson.com.ar),
doing training,
content development and executive coaching in negotiation and effective
communication. I was welcomed to South America
for the first time by the I&N partners and good friends of Insight,
Patricio Nelson and Francisco Ingouville (among others), who ensured my
experience there was one I will never forget....
Read more...
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