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Cassandra Clifford
- 33, Female
- Washington, DC
- United States
- Founder and Executive Director,…
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Rape as a weapon of war
Replied Jun. 3, 2008
Rape as a weapon of war
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- I think I have always been interested in issues related to peace and conflict resolution, but I guess I really became interested after I started traveling and meeting people from around the world. When you begin to see what unites and divides us then you begin to see how we can work together in peaceful and sustainable ways.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Cassandra Clifford is the Founder and Executive Director of Bridge to Freedom Foundation, which works to enhance and improve the services and opportunities available to survivors of modern slavery. The organization is focused on moving “from surviving to thriving”, for which they seek to empower survivors through their Personal, Education and Professional Development Programs.
As a non-profit leader, writer, and activist Cassandra’s main objective is to bring awareness to, and combat modern day slavery in all forms, especially with children. Cassandra has been active in human rights since she was in high school, and has spent the last six years fully dedicating herself to the fight against modern slavery, as both a member of staff and a volunteer. She founded the Bridge to Freedom Foundation out of both passion and need, after years as serving as a non-profit freelancer and writer. Cassandra's main personal objective has been, and is, to bring awareness to, and combat modern day slavery in all forms. It was from her experiences that she developed the foundation and plan to help bridge the gaps in the fight against modern slavery.
Cassandra has done academic research in the areas of; The Use of Rape as a Weapon of War, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Former Soviet Union, Child Soldiers and of course Human Trafficking. Cassandra has previously worked in both the corporate and charity sector for various industries and causes, including; Child Trafficking, Learning Disabilities, Publishing, Marketing, Public Relations and Fashion.
Cassandra, who is originally from the Greater Kansas City, Missouri area, has lived in Birmingham, England; Dublin, Ireland; New York, NY; Providence, Rhode Island and has spent significant amounts of time in Germany and Russia. Traveling is a passion that has led Cassandra to many cities and countries, much of her travels have consisted of Eastern and Central Europe. Cassandra currently resides in the Washington, D.C. metro area, where she also writes for the Examiner, as the DC Human Rights Examiner, and serves as an active leadership member of DC Stop Modern Slavery.
Cassandra holds an M.A., International Relations from Dublin City University in Ireland, as well as a B.A., Marketing and an A.S., Fashion Merchandising from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- The Former Soviet Union, Russia, NIS
The Former Yugoslavia
Ireland
UK
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- United States
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Founder and Executive Director, Bridge to Freedom Foundation
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.bridgetofreedomfoundation.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.stopmodernslavery.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.freetheslaves.net
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Development, Gender, Human Rights, Media
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Advocacy, Capacity Building, Communication, Fundraising, Program Administration, Program Design, Program Implemenation, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Child Trafficking
Sex Tourism
Human Trafficking
Child Soldiers
Children's Rights
Ethnic and Minority Rights
Soviet Studies
Non-Transparent and Closed States
Rape as a Weapon of War
Best Practices for services provided to survivors of modern slavery
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- 'Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Russia and the Soviet Union: The Case of the Russian-Germans'
Foreign Policy Association - Great Decisions Analysis: Child Trafficking
http://www.fpa.org/topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=483334
Rape as a Weapon of War: The Long Term Effects on Victims and Society - Conference paper
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hhv/vcce/vch7/Clifford%20pape...
As the Children's Rights Writer/Blogger for the Foreign Policy Association, I have covered various topics over the last 2 1/2 years, all of which can be seen at: www.children.foreignpolicyblogs.com
I have recently joined the Examiner online team, as DC Human Rights Examiner, for which a number of DC metro topics and organizations are covered, as well as national and international stories and interests. All of which can bee seen at: http://www.examiner.com/x-7661-DC-Human-Rights-Examiner
'Understanding Violence: Contexts and Portrayals', Chapter; Rape as a Weapon of War: The Long Term Effects on Civil Society
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/unders...
Cassandra Clifford's Blog
Board of Director's and volunteer opportunities
Are you looking for a way to give back to the community? Do you watch
the news and wonder what you could do to make a help those in need?
Do you want to make a difference to millions of lives? Well then why
not donate your time to helping launch a new start-up foundation
dedicated to the fight against modern slavery, using a sustainable
approach to support victims and bring them from surviving to thriving.
If you have skills in any of the following, then do not hesitate and
contact us today and… Continue
the news and wonder what you could do to make a help those in need?
Do you want to make a difference to millions of lives? Well then why
not donate your time to helping launch a new start-up foundation
dedicated to the fight against modern slavery, using a sustainable
approach to support victims and bring them from surviving to thriving.
If you have skills in any of the following, then do not hesitate and
contact us today and… Continue
Posted on February 3, 2009 at 1:32pm —
Support the Fight Against Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery in DC, Orlando, Cape Cod, and more…
While Washington D.C. - October 8-13th, 2007, has the greatest number of events, there are amazing events happening all over the United States:
Orlando FL - October 12th, 2007
Cape Cod - October
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Come see my Children's Rights Blog
Hi Everyone!
I hope to see you all come visit my Children's blog for the Foreign Policy Association, www.children.foreignpolicyblogs.com
Hope to hear from you soon! And please don't for get to check out all of my fellow FPA bloggers/writers.
Thanks
Cassandra
I hope to see you all come visit my Children's blog for the Foreign Policy Association, www.children.foreignpolicyblogs.com
Hope to hear from you soon! And please don't for get to check out all of my fellow FPA bloggers/writers.
Thanks
Cassandra
Posted on June 17, 2007 at 2:19am —
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USAID, Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world
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Nonviolence In The Context Of War Or Armed Conflict
June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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June 20, 2010 at 6pm to June 26, 2010 at 7pm – European Youth Center
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Regards, love and peace.
Rashad.
Recently joined in. Am going through the Bridge to Freedom site for the fellowship that you mentioned. My background and location might interest you .
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i am glad to read about your profile.
i am impressed by your motivation to join this network.This is the right time to work for World Peace so that we can give a bright and safe future to the coming generation.
Take care
Waris Ali
Lahore,Pakistan
I am new to this particular network and hoping to connect with others of similar interest. I'm especially interested in reaching out to other women from this group. So, if you'd like another "friend" in this network, count me in.
Best regards,
Kimberly King
Violance,war,conflicts,sufferings my desire to see world in peace and non violance has motivated me to join this network."Vasudev kutukbkam" entire world as a family, this was a teaching of our culture and traditional.we created countries,boundries,religions,cast,race for a genuine reason or a false reasons for any reason.but this the time to realise that we are one and we naturaly interconected with each other ,which we can just realise by watching inhale and exhale of breaths the source is same ,without any descrimanation,religion,bonundries, equaly for all living life of universe .When we understand this simple thing then we must understand how our and other's life is equaly important,valuble ,respectable .we should follow the nature's rule ,non violance .peace ,god has given us a human life not for destruction but for lookafter the wellbeing of all living life.
i shall be happy if you could include me in your circle of friends
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