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What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: To be posted later

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): I am a nonviolence trainer, "activist" (whatever that means), mediator, struggling to be pacifist, feminist, animal lover with anarchist leanings and believer in acting "as if" the world was as I want it to be.

Perhpas that is why I am such a believer in peace teams - because I believe that by creating and serving on peace teams we are creating the alternatives to war and to violent conflict intervention by living them.

A former early childhood educator I now work part time as a receptionist at a pediatrition's office in order to afford to volunteer full time - mostly with Nonviolent Peaceforce and with Michigan Peace Team.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: ACK - what is "significant expertise" - I'm not sure I'm ever comfortable setting myself up as an expert. That said, I have served on numerous "domestic peace teams" (within the United States) as well as on 2 Michigan Peace Team (MPT) teams in Palestine and Israel. I have done support for MPT teams within the US, Canada, Mexico, Palestine/Israel and along the US Mexico border.

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: My current "job" is part time as a receptionist at a pediatrition's office, but my work is as a nonviolence trainer, consultant,and curriculum designer.

What is your personal or organizational website?: http://playfulspirit.wordpress.com (personal) http://www.michiganp...

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution, Gender, Education, Organizational Development

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: I havnet' really started yet - but I'm wanting to look more at gender in TPNI, and how the gender (perceived gender) of the third party plays into things.

At 5:27am on May 23rd, 2008, Bobichand Rajkumar said…: Dear Sheri,
Nice to meet you through this network of people who are working towards conflict resolution, peacebuilding, development and related fields. I hope that we could exchhange and share information, insights and learning to help each other.
I look forward to keeping in touch and hearing from you.

Warm regards,
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