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FLOR MARIA YANEZ ALVAREZ
MEXICO
Sponsored by: Juarez Integra Rotary Club, District 4110, México.
Country of Citizenship: México
Language proficiency: Spanish, English, French, Japanese
Academic Experience: M.A. Human Rights. Autonomous University of Chihuahua in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission; M.A. Public Safety and Security. Police Training and Professionalization Institute of Chihuahua; Mediation Specialty. IREFAM; B.A. In Law. Autonomous University of Chihuahua.
Rotary GSE Member in Maharashtra, India in 2009; Ambassador of good will in Japan for a year; Ambassador of Good Will in Switzerland for one semester. Political Science studies in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for one year.
Areas of interest: Human Rights, Equality and Gender Perspective , International Development, Conflict Resolution, International and community mediation, Peace building.
Extracurricular: Kendo, Dancing Tango, sports, expressionist painting, playing guitar and organ, reading, yoga,
Background: I am currently working as a Mediator of the Civil, Family and Criminal Public Defense of Chihuahua, I have worked as well in institutions that are fore the Women’s Human Rights Defense, such as Women Institute of Chihuahua (ICHIMU) and Women in Situation of Violence ( MUSIVI); General Consulate of Mexico in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, human rights related. , I am coordinator of a group of women aiming to eradicate violence in the state of Chihuahua; Food bank collaborator in Chihuahua.
What do you plan to do with your RWPF: More than ever, the non violent alternatives resolution of disputes result awarding, which is why, the RWPF will give me the opportunity to get closer to these alternative methods and train me extensively to be able to provide to the local and international community a Culture of Peace as a process by which we must learn to enter and resolve conflicts in a positive way without using coercion in order to all walk hand to hand in a sphere of fraternity, recognizing each other as legitimate equals, culminating the peace process so compelling in the world and experience the achievements of a new International Culture of Peace