Szymczak Fellows & Projects

2013

  • David Angel - Themes of Peace: Analysis of Interviews with Transnational Arab-American Muslim Youth
  • Mallory Daily - Crafting Confianza
  • Ciara McHugh - Mná Síochána: Women & Peace In Northern Ireland
  • Sally Nadeau - Peaceful Effects of Music and Dance in Pre- and Post-Genocide Rwanda
  • Bridget Norris - Rwandan Perspectives of Women
  • Marisola Xhelili - The Gandhi of the Balkans: Ibrahim Rugova's Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance
  • Jisun Yoo - Community Peaceamaking through Public Health and Local Government Interaction

2012

  • Nadreen Bagoun and Alexandra Newell - Ka Joog Means Stay Away Project
  • Claire Wild Crea - Peace in Las Delicias Project
  • Sarah Lauer, Anne O'Meara and Daryn Peres - Pine Ridge Restorative Justice Circles Project
  • Ciara McHugh - If Walls Could Talk....: A Photographic Exploration of the Murals of Belfast and Derry
  • Rachel Winegardner - Audio Stories of Reconciliation in Nicaragua
  • Justine Shorter - Roses in Concrete
  • Kelsey Simkins - Growing Peace

2011

  • Katie Hansen - Finding a Means for Peace in the Home
  • Emily Hoffmann - Hitting Home: Addressing the Issue of Domestic Violence through Nonviolence Education
  • Nora Kennelly - Peacemaking in Palestine
  • Sean O'Reilly - Hope for Kakuma
  • Vincent Stevenson - Violence as Felt: An Analysis on the Subjectivity of the Victimizer
  • Leah Todd - Ahimsa: Perspectives on Today's India by a Backpack Journalist

2010

  • Elizabeth Bailey and Kathleen Scott - expanded YCCP in to PACE, a nonviolent conflict resolution program in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Colleen O'Connor - started a library in Kenya

2009

  • Elizabeth Bailey, Elizabeth Benninger, and Kathleen Scott - created the Youth Cultural Connection Program (www.yccp.weebly.com) in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Emma Cotter - nonviolent activism in Israel - Palestine
  • Amanda Griedl - internship with the Social Change Assistance Trust in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Christopher Jeske - produced a documentary on race relations in Kirkwood, Mo
  • Lovette Merchant - internship with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Molly Ryan - photography in New Orleans, LA (www.mollyelizabethryan.com)

2008

  • Stewart L. Cloer, II - research nonviolent solutions to Iran's perceived nuclear threat at the University of Chicago
  • Katie Coldwell - internship with Casa Maria (Milwaukee Catholic Worker)
  • Becky Goossen - internship with the Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center
  • Christina Klose - worked on Center for Peacemaking website
  • Erin Kuecker - internship at the Genocide Intervention Network in Washington D.C.
  • Theresa Lauer - internship with Finca del Nino in Trujillo, Honduras
  • Kerry McGrath - wrote a paper comparing the peace process in Northern Ireland and South Africa
  • Adam Prom - internship with Catholic Relief Services
  • Annie Weiler - internship with the Center for Peacemaking