Seeking Feedback on Impact/Benefits of Being a Member of the Network

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Permalink Reply by Thon Paul Agok on July 24, 2009 at 12:06pm

Hi! Zelzer,
This network is so nice that I lack words to express it. The amazing thing about this network is that its bring people of difference background and a globe at large together nearer to share not only on peace and conflict but also to make those who are particularly affected by the existence of conflict and many sorts of inhumans be able to solve problems.

I am proud to be part of this initiative and would aspects daily update on this network

I am currently attending my MBChB degree at Kampala International University in Uganda, AFRICA

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Permalink Reply by Craig Zelizer on July 24, 2009 at 12:16pm

HI Everyone
Thanks for the comments so far, much appreciated. I will be putting together a separate page on the site with some of the feedback from user´s that I will updated periodically. Please feel free to continue to add comments here as it will be very useful to know how individuals and organizations are benefiting from the network.
Regarding the digest version, this site runs on the ning.com platform and right now they do not have a digest option. I know that some days there are quite a few e-mails and we are trying to limit to maybe 2-3 a day and Ling Cui is working on putting together a bi-weekly update of key things. The challenge is there is a lot of information on the site and if we do not sent out e-mails many people would miss important opportunities. You can adjust your e-mail settings at anytime by clicking on my settings.
Thanks for your contributions and helping the network grow and develop. Keep the ideas and feedback coming.

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Permalink Reply by Falade Olutoyin on July 24, 2009 at 3:11pm

Hi Craig, our network has been very educating and informative for me and our NGO - Innovative Strategy For Human Development in Lagos Nigeria, as well as a network and its members that I lead the womens's wing. I have raised several proposals for our organization through info on peace and Collaborative Development N/work, though we are yet to get any fund. I have also benefitted from the training manuals as well as the tips on the kind s of trainings I should embark on to improve me professionally. I have also made new friends and contacts. Toyin

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Permalink Reply by Luis Antonio Ordonez on July 24, 2009 at 7:28pm

Craig,

I only want to say that I find the information posted very useful, for what I would like to encourage you to keep doing such a great job with this professional networking. Thanks, Luis.

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Permalink Reply by Rotarian gbemi tijani on July 25, 2009 at 5:33am

This website is incredibly resourceful .It will be of immense benefit for all development workers and peace activists.Surely it will GARNER COLLECTIVE IMPAXTTHROUGH INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVES WHICH THE FORUM PERMIT TO BE DISCUSSED.RTN GBEMI

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Permalink Reply by OLATUNJI AGBOOLA OLATEJU on July 25, 2009 at 11:13am

If there is any network that brings scholars from various continents together on topical issues and at a fast speed, it is the Peace and Collaborative Development Network. Meeting and sharing knowledge and ideas with scholars across the globe is one benefit I will for ever remain a committed member of the Network. It is the desire of every scholar to add his/her voice to issues that bring happiness to mankind, the Network has on several occassions provided opportunities/platforms for people to come together for the sake of world peace. Though I am yet to benefit from the scholarship opportunities but I am sure some other financially weak and lucky members are benefiting, which is a great advantage over any other Network. Craig Zelizer, I slaute your courage and foresight.

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Permalink Reply by Pamela G Poon on July 25, 2009 at 4:31pm

Dear Craig: You have permission to use my response in your postings.

I am a mediator, attorney and mediation trainer in Bozeman, Montana, who maintains an interest in international community level peacemaking. Your site has been helpful to me as a source of diverse information on international peacemaking, scholarships and grants, and job opportunities. I am now able to provide your Network as a source of helpful informiation to my students. I was also pleased to make two contacts in the South Asia region which is my area of interest.

Great effort, Craig.

Pam

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Permalink Reply by s. Zia Madani on July 26, 2009 at 4:25am

Hello there Craig,
The network IS useful indeed both as educational-academic as well as industrial means. My own purpose of joining the network is attending relevant training programs, obtaining scholarship, research and information.
It really worked for me and for some of my friends and still does.
So Good Luck,

Zia Madani
member of the Iranian Bar Association,
PhD candidate,
Research Assistant in Chair For Human Rights, Peace and Democracy of UNESCO (IRAN)
madani.zia@gmail.com

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Permalink Reply by Diwakar Sharma on July 26, 2009 at 5:03am

Dear Craig,
Thanks for opening a new dimension in my life. This network has not only empowered me to apply for different scholarship but filled me with A sense of security that I will get the right direction in getting recognition in the social sector field.
I am working in one of the backward district of my state where there is a limited facility of accessing internet. Even the basic amenities of life are very tough to get here. I come to the town only to be in touch with this amazing networking site. Hope your friendship and guidance of this networking site will show me right path to find the strategy of development in the last village of the state. I hope I will be ale to capacitate myself through your different blogposts, and idea sharing with my friends internationally.
thank you Craig for a number of informations, I hope soon I wil be able to get a felowship or scholarship with the help of this site.
Go ahead. A number of people are waiting to be the member of this network.
Diwakar Sharma
District Program Coordinator
PRAYAS,
Hazaribagh, INDIA.

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Permalink Reply by CPRS on July 26, 2009 at 7:23am

Hi

Just a brief note to say how useful the site has been in attracting interest in the scholarships available through our Peace Studies Centre. We look forward to using the site further in the future.

Kind regards
Madeleine Mosse (CPRS)

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Permalink Reply by (Mrs) Padma D. Jayaweera on July 26, 2009 at 12:14pm

Dear Craig,
Thanks so much for providing very very useful information which is immensely beneficial. Every day as a habbit I read your messages which opens the whole world for us.If you can organise a forum for an interaction among scholars of similar disciplines it will help quite a lot.
God Bless you for a Healthy Long life. Good Luck,
From,
(Ms)Padma Jayaweera,
Sri Lanka
e-mail:padmadj@yahoo.com

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Permalink Reply by James S. Oppenheim on July 26, 2009 at 4:56pm

The PCDN experience has helped enrich and focus both my blog and the reading program, loosely speaking, related to it. It has also inspired in me several research and publications design and services concepts apart from what I may do from my much loved "second row seat to history"--the "Netizen" view.

It has been working for me too in terms both of simpatico contacts as well as adverse and challenging personalities. It has also spurred some insight into the time management aspect of an intellectual existence. I'm no stranger to that, but this is the first time in my life that I've really had to confront that whatever I may read, learn, reformulate, or articulate, the producing window and content bandwidth are likely to be both very short (even 15 year or 20 years isn't much for time) and narrow, but that may be in a radiating sense: the crystal may be very small, but the signal widely applicable and dispersed.

In market terms and given that I've saddled myself with my own library, the question of whether one may integrate into institutional life or distributed economic life something like pure mind forms a question. Creative writers and perhaps reclusive scholars may do that, but there are many shades of practicality and utility along those paths. Whether "work on this" needs to be said by someone three feet away across a conference table or whether the same may be said by a contracting agent 12,000 miles away supported with vetting by proxy may be of interest to many. We certainly have had a "shuttle diplomacy" and global leadership class flying around the world for some time. PCDN strikes me as a platform for another tier of globalized talent development.

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