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RACHEL YORDY
CANADA
Sponsored by: The Rotary Club of Waterloo, District 7080, Canada
Country of Citizenship: Canada
Language proficiency: English, French, basic Egyptian Arabic, very basic Twi
Undergraduate degree: BA in International Development (with a Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies), Trent University, Ontario.
Areas of interest: Child Protection, Human Rights, Peace Education, Conflict Prevention, Traditional Approaches to Conflict Resolution, Transitional Justice, Participatory Development and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.
Background: I have been working in Egypt since September 2007 as a Child Rights Research Associate with a project that promotes and protects the interests of working children, and more recently as a Psychosocial Officer with a refugee organization. Before this I spent a year in British Columbia serving as a Project Leader for a Canadian youth service organization. As part of my undergraduate studies I spent a year in sub-Saharan Africa, studying and interning with a peace-building NGO in Ghana and later volunteering with a literacy NGO in Uganda.
What are you going to do with your RWPF?: I am excited to pursue a Masters in African Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. I anticipate that the program will provide me with the analytic and practical skills to work for the reintegration of child soldiers, with displaced populations, and on broader issues of transitional justice, conflict resolution and peace education in sub-Saharan Africa. I am so grateful to have Rotary’s support to continue on this path!
Rachel's very interesting blog is at http://nilenavigations.blogspot.com/