Going international this week, my Featured Peacebuilding Group is the Myanmar Center for Civic Leadership. One of its programs is the Myanmar Peace Makers: designed to give young community leaders the opportunity to: 1) study issues of hate speech and misinformation in Myanmar, 2) build a community of young activists from across the country, and 3) design their own project to reduce hate speech and increase tolerance in their community.
I am conflict resolution educator, peacebuilding trainer and career coach. My professional experience has spanned the legal, think tank, international, quasi-government, and higher and secondary education sectors. I have taught at all higher education levels: community college, 4-year undergraduate (private, public, religious), graduate, and international. In 2003-2004 I was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar teaching at the University of Tartu in Estonia. From 2005 -2012 I was a senior program officer and senior manager at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington where I managed programs for colleges and universities and developed training for faculty and students. I work with all groups and educational institutions to support peacebuilding awareness.
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