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Marek Garztecki is member #2554 of Peace and Collaborative Development Network. Apr 18

What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: A was a hippie in the 60. You know, once a hippie always a hippie ;) But seriously? Probably living for a while in Africa and seeing first-hand the human cost of 'local' conflicts.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): Writer, researcher, university teacher, former Polish "Solidarity" activist, jazz critic.

some other former jobs (in alphabetical order): bricklayer's assistant at the state farm, car mechanic, chairperson of the Polish Socialist Party, librarian, military analyst, radio dj.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, Ukraine, Poland, UK.

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Currently I work at the Institute for Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Scences in Warsaw, I teach at Collegium Civitas and write for the "Dziennik", Poland's second largest quality daily.

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Effects of NATO membership on the transformation of armed forces of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Institutional choices and political and economic strategies in post-authoritarian countries

If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications: See Yahoo or Google

At 2:28am on June 12th, 2008, Muhamamd Moosa Rind said…: Dear Marek,
I would like to share with you news and views about that,
We are running self financed library for community and also involved in social activities like intelactual getto gathers, lectures, debating society, peacebuildings walks and celebrating differnt days as per mentioned in UNO charter.
If you like then kindly help to updating our library portions and books as well as library building's. however if you like all or one of them you could select as per your desire.
I think it will be a great step from you towords a nobele cause.

Peace,
Muhammad Moosa Rind
Karachi, Sindh.
+92-321-3899049

At 7:26pm on May 4th, 2008, Rosen Dimov said…: Dear Mr Garztecki,

I am honoured to see your profile in this network. Let me know if I could be helpful with information or cooperation. I am a frequent visitor to Poland as I have friends there and believe that the democratization processes in Poland can serve as a sample to countries like Bulgaria (no matter their pros and cons).

Good luck in your work!

Rosen Dimov,
Bulgaria and worldwide