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Hola Ricardo!! Mary Hope

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Welcome Ivan!! Mary Hope

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Hi Anara: I am in D.C. all summer. I am at USIP. You can write me or call me there anytime. mschwoebel@usip.org or 202-429-3837. Mary Hope

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Hi Mary, I am now in DC by the end of summer. Would be happy to see you when you have time. Best, Anara

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Hellow Mary I am pleased to study your profile which is very sound.I appreciate your work and hope that you will keep in touch with me to share some ideas for the Betterment of Mankind. In Peace Waris Ali Chairman global Foundation,Lahore,Pakis...

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What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: Somalia!! I worked in Somalia before the war doing development and after the war doing humanitarian assistance. I became involved in the national reconciliation process, which led to my interest in peace and conflict. My theoretical interest in the field is due to its multi-disciplinary nature and the necessity and challenge of integrating all of the social sciences to understand peace and conflict.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): I began my international career as a Latin Americanist. I lived in Paraguay for years starting as a Peace Corps volunteer. I did my Master thesis on training women in agriculture in Ecuador and planned to do my PhD on training women in agriculture in Brazil. Instead was offered a position training women in agriculture in Somalia. I spent the next six years living in the Horn of Africa and working for UN, NGOs, and USAID. I then moved to DC to pursue a PhD at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. For the past ten years I have worked as a consultant all over the world, in a wide variety of domains, and for numerous and international and national organizations. I have taught as an Adjunct Faculty at universities in the DC area. I have developed and conducted numerous training programs. I am currently working on turning my dissertation into a book. The tentative title is "Nation-building in the Lands of the Somalis".

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: South America, East Africa, West Africa, South Asia, SE Asia, Caribbean, Pacific

What is your current country of residence?: Washington, DC, USA

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box): http://my favorites change too frequently

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Democratization, Development, Humanitarian Relief, Gender, Youth, Education, Civil Society, Organizational Development, Psychosocial

Which are your primary skills areas?: Training, Evaluation, Program Design, Advocacy, Intervention

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: The intersection between natural disasters and peace and conflict.
The role of the performing arts in peacebuilding.

If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications: "Towards a Theory, Method, and Practice of Appreciative Inquiry: For use in Complex Peacebuilding and Development Contexts:. With Erin McCandless. In Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding: A Resource for Innovators. Abu Nimer, Mohamed, Sampson, Cynthia, Liebler, Claudia, Whitney, Diana. (Eds.) Washington, D.C.: PACT Publications. 2002.

"Peacekeeping, Peacemaking, Peacebuilding". With Erin McCandless. In World at Risk: A Global Issues Source Book. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press. 2002.
(Book won Choice Magazine Best Academic Book Award 2002.)

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At 8:44pm on July 3, 2009, Anara Tabyshalieva said…: Hi Mary,
I am now in DC by the end of summer. Would be happy to see you when you have time.
Best, Anara

At 3:38am on May 13, 2009, WARIS ALI said…: Hellow Mary

I am pleased to study your profile which is very sound.I appreciate your work and hope that you will keep in touch with me to share some ideas for the Betterment of Mankind.

In Peace

Waris Ali
Chairman global Foundation,Lahore,Pakistan.
Member International Peace Bureau,Geneva,Switzerland.

At 5:20am on April 20, 2009, mary hope schwoebel said…: Hi Mary Hope,
Hope you have reached home. How was the journey? My Salaams to your husband and love to your children.
Raouf

At 8:35pm on April 18, 2009, Wanda Wigfall-Williams said…: Hi Mary Hope,
I have lost your e-mail, so when you get this please contact me at wwigfallwilliams@columbiasc.edu

Talk later,

Wanda

At 12:53pm on April 15, 2009, shyam tosawad said…: Dear friend
thanks for accepting me as a friend wish you all the best

At 2:50am on April 10, 2009, mohamed hirsi said…: Hello prof mary , I am mohamed hirsi your student at university for peace, I am very happy to find your artical from somaliland, and I am using it for one of my curruculum development, i hope you will admit it for me, it is for teaching purpose.

nice to meet you prof. I realy appreciated your work in the field,

yours faithfully
mohamed hirsi
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At 7:58am on February 4, 2009, shyam tosawad said…: Dear friend
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

At 10:42pm on January 15, 2009, LALIT said…: Hi Mary,

I would appreciate the work you are doing ! The 2 areas like linking disaster with peace and performing art with peace look to me very creative and new areas of work. you look lovely too in the picture. I wish you all success. welcome anytime to India and see our work. take care.
lalit

At 5:15pm on December 17, 2008, Teferi Fantahun said…: Selam Mary,

Thank you for inviting me to be your friend. I would like to learn more about your experience in the Horn. Although this is a good forum to network with individuals, but I am not really sure how effective would it be to have a lively discussion about your experience in the Horn and the war in Somalia.

Are you interested in sharing what you have experienced in the Horn with other? Please let me know.

At 8:21pm on October 26, 2008, Waheed Ahmad said…: EASY . DIFFICULT

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