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Shaazka Beyerle is member #2685 of Peace and Collaborative Development Network. May 9

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What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: Having witnessed poverty and injustice in many parts of the world and having lived in the midst of a violent conflict, I made the decision to work in the realm of civic empowerment and nonviolent action. My professional orientation at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is devoted to education about the history, strategies and methods of civic engagement and nonviolent action to achieve social change, rights, justice, equality, and accountability of institutions and governments – which constitute some of the core elements for just and lasting peace.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): Shaazka Beyerle is an educator and researcher on people power and civic action, and a Senior Advisor with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. She has published articles/op-eds on nonviolent strategies and methods, the Middle East, foreign affairs, culture, literature, nonfiction, and art in: Al Hayat/Dar Al Hayat; CommonDreams.org; EthicsWorld.org; European Affairs; Europe Magazine; Foreign Policy; The Independent; International Herald Tribune; openDemocracy.net; TruthOut.org; and the Washington Times. An article on the Iranian women’s movement is forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She was previously a writer, with expertise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Until 2004, she covered the Middle East and Southern Africa for WorldView Magazine (National Peace Corps Association). She teaches and speaks about civic empowerment and strategic nonviolent action at international workshops, seminars and conferences around the world.

Ms. Beyerle lived in Jerusalem from 1997-2000. While overseas, she consulted twice with the Bethlehem 2000 Project. She was also the International Press Manager for the Jerusalem Film Festival (2000). Prior to moving to the Middle East, Ms. Beyerle was the founding Vice President of The European Institute in Washington, DC. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from George Washington University, a B.A. in Psychology and Women’s Studies from the University of Toronto.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: Palestine/Israel
Middle East
Southern Africa

What is your current country of residence?: USA

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Senior Advisor, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Realms of interest include: civic action to fight corruption; nonviolent struggle in the Arab and Muslim worlds, the roles of youth and women for movements/campaigns for human rights and justice

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Democratization, Gender, Youth, Civil Society

Which are your primary skills areas?: Training, Research

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Civic action to fight corruption
Iranian women's rights moveme

If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications: Beyerle, Shaazka and Cynthia Boaz. "The Power of Nonviolent Action." International Herald Tribune, October 18, 2007.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/18/opinion/edbeyerle.php

Beyerle, Shaazka. “Turkey to Pakistan: Civic Action for Change.” openDemocracy.net, April 3, 2007.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-india_pakistan/turkey_pakistan_4494.jsp

Beyerle, Shaazka and Stephen Zunes. “Mobilizing Civic Action to End Corruption.” Paper for 12th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Guatemala City, November 2006.
http://www.12iacc.org/archivos/WS_8.1_SHAASKA_BEYERLE.PDF

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At 9:23am on May 14th, 2008, Yadab Prasad Bastola said…: Hi Shaazka
this is Yadab from Nepal.It is nice to see you on this Network.it would be nice to share our experience each others .
Yadab
Nepal

At 6:19pm on May 13th, 2008, Rosen Dimov said…: Thanks! I will sure do...I hope we will keep in touch.

At 10:58am on May 11th, 2008, Bobichand Rajkumar said…: Dear Shaazka,
Thank you very much indeed for your prompt and positive response. As you said I have visited www.nonviolent-conflict.org for educational materials on people power, civic empowerment, non-violent action. I am very much interested in the empowerment of people, non-violent actions and people power. I also presented a paper in the first Asian Peacebuilders' Forum in 2006 about the Empowerment of People and Active Non-violence. Still I would like to continue action research in this area with some supports from donors/funding agencies or possibly collaborating with your group if there is opportunity.
Let's keep in touch and I look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,
Bobichand
E-mail: bocha_nm@yahoo.com

At 4:19pm on May 10th, 2008, Rosen Dimov said…: Hello, Shaazka! I am very delighted to see you here. Let me know if we could cooperate or even just communicate...

Good luck in all endeavours!

Greetings from Bulgaria and around the world,
Rosen

At 3:15am on May 9th, 2008, Bobichand Rajkumar said…: Dear Shaazka,
Welcome to this network of people who are working for conflict resolution, peacebuilding and development!
I am privileged to be able to communicate with you through this network. You are doing important works. I hope that I could learn a lot from you. And we could help each other by exchanging and sharing information, insights and learning.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,
Bobichand