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Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): As a woman with many interests and talents, I wear many hats in the world! My husband, Stephen Dinan, and I were recently elected to be the Co-Chairs of the Summer of Peace, a new initiative designed to harness the efforts of dozens of cutting-edge programs to reduce violence and create new models for collaboration that can be replicated in other cities and countries worldwide.

Professionally speaking, I work both as a nonprofit consultant and as an interfaith minister & Spiritual Director. As a nonprofit consultant, I focus on fundraising and strategic planning. Current clients include Conservation Strategy Fund and NoBully, among others. In my spiritual private practice (see www.radiantessence.com), my offerings include individual sessions using either the spiritual direction or the life coaching model. I also officiate private rituals including weddings, funerals, office openings, blessings, and other life passages. I perform sacred music and dance pieces, which can be tailored to the needs of your event. And finally, I run several public workshops focusing on sacred sound and music. Previously, I served as the Director of Member Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). IONS harnesses the unlimited potential of consciousness to cultivate transformation, creativity, and global wisdom. Formerly, I worked as Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, a social venture group based in San Francisco. My work there focused on leadership development, helping individuals interweave the "inner work" and the "outer work" that are both necessary for social change. Previously, I worked as a Management Consultant at Boston Consulting Group where her clients included HP-Agilent and Teledesic, among others. To enhance my training, I also completed coursework at the Coaches Training Institute.

Academically speaking, I am currently a doctoral student at Wisdom University, where I am pursing a degree in Ministry, with a focus on using the arts for leadership development and conflict resolution. I have also been taking classes at the California Institute in Integral Studies in Music Therapy, Dance Therapy, and the Expressive Arts. I also attended Stanford University where I earned both my BA in Anthropology and MA in International Development. As a Fulbright scholar, I spent several years working with indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon. My work concentrated on ethnic art, documenting the cultural, environmental, and economic significance of traditional crafts. Out of my deep appreciation of indigenous art, I birthed a handicraft cooperative, thereby helping tribal peoples of the Gurupi river valley to export their art to museums and collectors in the United States. I also spent time with shamans of the Tembe' tribe exploring and participating in their ancient healing rituals.

In terms of spiritual training, I was ordained an interfaith minister after completing seminary at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries (ChI) in January of 2005. My studies included spiritual psychology, dream work, music ministry, pastoral care, spiritual direction, and major world religions. I am also part of a year-long apprenticeship program in earth-based spirituality with Suzanne Sterling, and a second apprenticeship on the Divine Feminine with Ariel Spilsbury.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: United States
Brazil
Spain
Nepal

What is your current country of residence?: United States

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Summer of Peace (like a cultural Olympics). The first one will be in 2010 in San Francisco and Oakland, USA. a new initiative designed to harness the efforts of dozens of cutting-edge programs to reduce violence and create new models for collaboration that can be replicated in other cities and countries worldwide. The Summer of Peace will start with a kick-off festival, akin to the Summer of Love but with much more substance in addition to music and celebration. Over the course of three months, every sector of the society will have a platform to explore how it can contribute to the creation of a culture of peace. The events will help activate a grassroots volunteer effort to support programs that are applied in each area of crime, violence or disharmony. The SOP will set specific and bold goals for reduction of violence and improvement in community health, which will be studied by scientific methods. Ultimately, we envision the Summer of Peace moving each year to new regions to foster a culture of peace from the grassroots up.

What is your personal or organizational website?: http://www.SummerofPeace.net

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Development, Organizational Development, Psychosocial

Which are your primary skills areas?: Training, Program Design, Fundraising, Program Administration

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Cross-sector collaborations and peacebuilding in the urban areas of Oakland and San Francisco, both in California, USA

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At 3:41am on June 19th, 2008, Arun Khadka said…: Dear Devaa,

I like the concept of summer of peace. I am coordinating the 5 peace and development youth camp in different community of Nepal. Youth from the city and neighbouring community goes to one selexted community to a small developmental activity and have shareing with the youth from that community on social structure, social harmony, discrimination, justice, peace and development. Currently I am working for developming the curruculum for this youth camp.

I tried to visit your website but it is under construction. I hope that you are familier about the conflicting situation and peace building process in Nepal as you already visited Nepal. Can you share me more about the summer of peace?

Arun

At 7:11pm on May 26th, 2008, Rosen Dimov said…: Greetings from Bulgaria! Let me know if we could cooperate.

At 4:14am on May 23rd, 2008, Naeem Ahmad said…: Dear Devaa,
This is great that you have join this networking, really i can share with you and can get good ideas from you in my feilds.peacebuilder.
cheers,
Naeem Ahmad,
Pakistan

At 6:46am on May 21st, 2008, Hari Narayan Khatri said…: Dear Devaa,
This LAL from Nepal just joined in this site. I hope you will be keep on touch.
Best Regards
Lal
Nepal

At 4:24am on May 21st, 2008, Bobichand Rajkumar said…: Dear Devaa,
I am privileged to be able to communicate with you through this network of people who are working towards conflict resolution, peacebuilding, development and other related areas. I see from your profile that you are taking up a very important and new initiative. Thanks and best wishes for your endeavours.
I hope that I could learn from you and may need even help from you as you have direct and significant expertise in many areas. We could also exchange and share information, insights and learning.
I look forward to keeping in touch and hearing from you.

Warm regards,
Bobichand

At 2:36am on May 21st, 2008, Sameer Al-Juboori said…: Hi Devaa,

Nice to see you joining the network. Thank you for coming in.

Sameer

At 12:39am on May 21st, 2008, Prakash Rawat said…: Dear
Devaa,
Welcome to this site for intelectual sharing forume. i hope that your expertise will surely enhance to us for global peace building motivation and development.
Being the person directly engaged in peace process of nepal, I am quite happy that you have direct and significant expertise to Nepal. So, have you ever been in Nepal or You knew something about Nepal through other sources? it will be nice to share other more experiences if you will be in touch in the future.
With Best regards
Prakash
Nepal