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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- I belong to Pakistan where internal situation is very critical regarding Peace and Development; I am working as Change maker and Development Specialist. I am very inspired about the activities of Peace and Collaborative Development Network throughout the world. In this regards if accepted my membership I will play effective role through this network.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- I took my pen name as Ramzan Rahi due to my interest in literature as writer, poet and columnist. I graduate from University of Sindh, Jamshoro Pakistan in 1988, and later on I graduated in Education (B.Ed) from Alama Iqbal Open University Islamabad Pakistan. I had also done my Master degree in International Relation in 1994. Due to the keen interest of social work and community development, I have appeared in Sociology Department, University of Sindh in 2003 and done my Master degree in Sociology in 2004 in second division. Since 1994, I have been continually working with different social and Educational institutions. During this period, in appreciation of my excellent services in Development Sector I was selected for graduation in Resource Development Programme (RDP) by South Asia Partnership (SAP PK) Lahore in 1998. After completion of RDP in 2000, I served as Field Officer in Democratic Rights and Citizen Education Programme (DRCEP) Devolution of Power Programme Pakistan, a project of Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) Karachi. Following that, I was selected for “PRA” Master training from The Aga Khan University Karachi. Just after the above training, I worked as a “PPA” field worker (Research Assistant) in Pakistan Participatory Poverty Assessment throughout the Sindh Province.
Beside that, I was trained in HIV/AIDs, Safe Motherhood, Reproductive Health/Rights and population, Child Rights/Women Rights, Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene Education, Skill Development, Project Management, NGO Management, Financial management and budgeting, and Gender issues from UNICEF, WHO, OXFAM, SPO, SAP-PK, SUNGI, NGORC, RH-Aid, LDM/IIE, PILER, Save The Children, The Aga Khan University, Sindh Aids control Programme, Aurat foundation, Aahung etc. Likewise, I have been conducting training workshops, Seminars and Forums on different topics at local and provincial level. I have also developed and published a number of Books, articles on social issues in newspapers, magazines, periodicals, bulletins etc. Due to the previous experience about Pakistan Participatory Poverty Assessment in Sindh, I was selected as Programme Officer in Shirkat Gah (Women Resource Center) Karachi, “Pakistan Participatory Poverty Assessment Follow up Programme”. This programme is implemented with the cooperation of Local Community, Nazism’s and Concerned Government Departments.
During the LDM fellowship when I have completed In-country course, I have submitted Project Proposal to LDM Pakistan in the title of “Reproductive Health Education in Schools in District Sanghar”. In this assignment I have edited/compiled and published Health Education Manual. It is great pleasure for me that my project was accepted by LDM. I have complied and Edit Reproductive Health Education Manual. It is great achievement that I have organized Orientations about manual and conducted Advocacy forums about Reproductive Health, RH Rights and Population smoothly with Teachers, Students, Parents, Health and Education professionals, and civil society organizations. In this year I am select as Member of International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) with the support of UNFPA. Due to big experiences in the field of Reproductive health and Rights I was selected as District Coordinator in Pakistan Initiative for Mother and Newborns (PAIMAN) in 2008-2009. At present I am Senior Advisor in “Village Health Awareness Programme” a project of Sindh Health and Education Development Organization (SHEDO) Sanghar, Supported by South Asia Partnership (SAP-PK) Lahore, and also an honorary. Associate and regular member of Global Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS, The Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan, Society for International Development, Action without Border, Global Development Network, Global Volunteer Network, People in Action International, Save the Children Action Network, South Asia Foundation (Regional Cooperation through Education and Sustainable Development), International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Pakistan. South Asia
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Pakistan
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Leadership Development Moblization for reproductive Health Fellow, from Institute of International Education San Francisco
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.iie.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.iussp.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Culture, Democratization, Development, Education, Facilitation, Gender, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Relief, Media, Organizational Development, Peacekeeping, Social Entreprenuership
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Advocacy, Capacity Building, Communication, Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Monitoring, Program Design, Program Implemenation, Research, Qualitative Skills, Quantitative Skills, Training
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Webinar, Nonviolent Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
March 25, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – Online
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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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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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3rd POST-YUGOSLAV PEACE ACADEMY
July 18, 2010 to July 27, 2010 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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It is just very recent I created this account,I m law student in Ro,and I m intersted in Middle East politics,conflict resolution and gender issues.what about u?
Sorry to reply late, I was traveling...It is my pleasure too to be your friend on this field,
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Pleased to receive your follow-up in building our network for international friendship with through mutual interest and goals. Logic dictates you also work in the field of medical and educational research, like myself. Rather fond of the old adage of 'without your health there is no wealth.'
Noticed you seem to be state side for research and development - perhaps during your stay our paths may be able to cross in like efforts. Yes, today Augsut 2nd, is a lovely moment to take a break for international friendship day. Combining efforts with those whom like ourselves share the backbone in our simple attempt to make a difference in taking care of business is always a pleasure and gift.
Sending best prayers for you, your family, friends, and associates for efforts to succeed in bringing to all one moment for peace. How may we have more, when we have shared none?
Sincerely,
Donna J. Bennett
aka General Mother Goose (it's an old nickname)
Director for
A Partnership for Peace (p4p)
Current events in Iran have focused world attention on the issue of fair elections and the role of international election monitors. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has taken a lead among intergovernmenmental organizations in training and providing international election monitors. The United Nations has done so only on an
ad hoc basis.
It would be useful for the United Nations to have an election-monitoring agency drawing upon the experience of the OSCE. With the attention on the Iranian experience, it should be possible to get a UN General Assembly resolution to create a study group to analyse the possibility of such an election-monitoring agency.
The first step is to contact national Foreign Ministries and national missions to the UN in New York with the proposal of such a study. During the summer months, preperations are being made by diplomats for the start of the UN General Assembly in September. As many of the ideas for such a UN agency are in my article, you could copy it with a short letter to national officials asking for such a study.
Thank you for your cooperation, Rene Wadlow
International Election Monitors:
Agents of Free Elections
Rene Wadlow*
The post-election demonstrations in Iran which have led to deaths and arrests indicate that a large number of Iranians believe that the election count has been the result of fraud. The regime had hoped to prevent a massive show of democratic stirring by a show of force and by cutting off means of communication — web sites and cellphones. However, the fact that hundreds of thousands came out on the avenues of Tehran and in less numbers in other cities indicates a failure of the repressive policies. Even if large protests do not continue, a ‘wind of change’ has blown over Iran.
The Iranian government had declined the offers of international monitoring of the elections, and thus the world community is left with only the word of the Iranian government that the election process was free and fair. The wide victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — 62.6 percent against some 34 percent for his main challenger, Mir Hussein Moussavi, goes against earlier opinion polls and an increasing popularity of Moussavi in the late stages of the election campaign. Mir Hussein Moussavi had been Prime Minister during the long and costly-in-life war with Iraq (1980-1988).
After four years of President Ahmadinejad’s weak economic policies as well as his confrontation with many other countries, many Iranians were looking for a change. For the elections, President Ahmadinejad tried to build his support in the rural areas with last moment rural development efforts which his opponents saw as transparent ‘bribes’. He had lost much support among educated Middle Class urban voters who wanted a better standard of living, employment opportunities for the young, and greater personal freedoms.
Thus, the election could have been close even if Ahmadinejad had won fairly, having the resources of the State at his control. Now, there is great scepticism concerning the outcome both in Iran and in the world community. The scepticism is so great that a promise by the Guide of the Iranian regime, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been made concerning a recount in certain contested areas. However, electoral fraud is rarely at the counting stage. One can recount a stuffed ballot box and come up with the same number of votes. This is why the whole electoral process needs to be monitored by independent election agents.
Citizens of the World have often called for international, basically UN supervision, of elections. The organization of elections remains a prerogative of the national – administrative sub-divisions of the State, and local governments. However, in cases where the election campaign can be tense and prone to violence as was the presidential election of Zimbabwe, or when there has been a past history of fraud, international, independent monitors are important agents of fair elections and help to protect human rights, to strengthen the rule of law and to ensure pluralistic democracy.
Election observation work is an important activity for the 56 member States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights housed in Warsaw, Poland. The Office for Democratic Institutions, originally called the Office for Free Elections, first played an important role in the democratic transition in post-communist countries. While its observation of elections is its most visible task, the Office also conducts a number of other useful election-related activities: reviewing electoral legislation, training observers, and publishing guidelines and handbooks about electoral issues.
The Office for Democratic Institutions is concerned with a wholistic approach to election monitoring including the following:
- Respect for basic fundamental freedoms such as the freedom of assembly, of association, and expression;
- Respect for the civil and political rights of the candidates and voters;
- Compilation of accurate voter lists;
- Equal opportunities to campaign in a free environment;
- Equitable access to the media;
- Impartial election administrative bodies;
- Unhindered access for international and domestic election observers;
- Effective representation and participation of women:
- Effective representation of national minorities;
- Access for disabled voters;
- Honest and transparent counting and tabulation of the votes;
- Effective complaints and appeals process with an independent judiciary.
The United Nations has no comparable permanent election monitoring office, but on an ad hoc basis the UN played an important monitoring role in the first multi-racial elections in South Africa, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has provided election aid and monitoring in countries such as Nepal as that country was coming out of a decade of armed violence.
The Iranian government would have been wise to request international monitoring for its presidential elections. Now it is too late. It is unlikely that a new election will be held to replace the contested one. The Iranian elections have indicated a wide current of support for change. The hesitations of the ruling circle concerning post-election manifestations have highlighted division of views within this ruling circle. The demonstrations have also indicated to the world community as a whole the need for independent election monitoring. Steps should be taken quickly for the UN to provide such services drawing on the rich experience of the OSCE.
*Rene Wadlow, Representative to the UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens