Directory 549

Youth, Economics & Violence: Implications for Future Conflict

April 26 to May 1, 2015 Schloss Leopoldskron | Salzburg | Austria Session 549 | Youth, Economics & Violence: Implications for Future Conflict

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Salzburg Global Seminar would like to thank all participants for donating their time and expertise to this Session.

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Assem Abu Hatab, Sweden Assem Abu Hatab is a researcher in the Department of Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Uppsala, Sweden. He is also researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies at Lund University and an assistant professor at Suez Canal University in Egypt (currently on leave). Prior to holding these roles, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, USA, as an assistant lecturer at Northwest A&F University, China, and as a visiting scholar at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Corvinus University of Budapest. Dr. Abu Hatab’s research interests include agri-food production, consumption and trade, and their linkage with food security in the Middle East. Exploring the impacts of China’s involvement in developing countries is a strong dimension in his research agenda. Moreover, his work in recent years has focused on the impacts of food price volatility on the emergence of political unrest in the MENA region. Dr. Abu Hatab holds a B.A. in agricultural sciences and an M.A. in agricultural economics from Suez Canal University in Egypt, and a Ph.D. economics and management from Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University (NWAFU), China.

Katherine Aquirre-Tobón, Colombia Katherine Aguirre-Tobón is an associate researcher at Igarapé, where she focuses on issues of citizen security, monitoring drug policy, and violence diagnostics. Her research emphasizes empirical methods to establish factual foundations to guide effective policy-making in the fields of violence reduction and development. In addition, she coordinates a project that centralizes and disseminates economic research in Colombia. Previously, Ms. Aguirre-Tobón worked with think-tanks in Colombia, such as the Conflict Analysis Resource Center and CERAC, and with Small Arms Survey in Switzerland. She has extensive experience working with violence data, monitoring violence prevention and reduction initiatives, studying post-conflict violence, data visualization (GIS), and online mapping. She also has experience in quantitative research (including database management, statistics, econometrics, and geo-statistics) as well as qualitative methods. Ms. Aguirre-Tobón holds an M.A. in development studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland.

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Leena AL Olaimy, Bahrain Leena Al Olaimy is a co-founder and managing director of Triple Bottom Line Associates (3BL), a Bahrain-based strategy consultancy and think-do-tank, which addresses a multitude of interconnected sustainable development issues spanning youth empowerment, social inclusion, peace, climate change, and health, and recognizing that in a world of complexity cross-cutting issues cannot be solved in silo. Ms. Al Olaimy’s research interests and practical methods for engaging marginalized youth through innovative and constructive ways, particularly through social entrepreneurship, are the factors that contribute to Islamic fundamentalism, particularly alienation, humiliation, conflicted identities, and a perception of moral injustice. Ms. Al Olaimy started her career as a communications consultant for a leading global PR firm developing strategies for blue chip companies and Fortune 500s. She also managed high-profile events convening dignitaries like Middle Eastern Heads of State, G8 Foreign Secretaries and the World Bank President, and worked for the Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is on the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain Foundation for Reconciliation and Civil Discourse (BFRCD). Ms. Al Olaimy holds a B.Sc. in culture and interpersonal communications from New York University, USA, and an M.A. in globalization studies from Dartmouth College. Additionally, she has studied at Harvard Business School, and at the THNK School for Creative Leadership in Amsterdam.

Ahmad Alhendawi, USA Session Co-Chair Ahmed Alhendawi is the first-ever United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth since February 2013. In this role, he addresses the development needs and rights of young people, and brings their voices to the United Nations System. Mr. Alhendawi works with different UN Agencies, governments, civil society, academia and media stakeholders towards enhancing, empowering and strengthening the position of young people within and outside of the United Nations System. He is a youth advocate at the national, regional and international levels, having co-founded the Youth for Democracy Network at the Jordanian Commission for Democratic Culture and the International Youth Council, based in New York. Mr. Alhendawi was previously a team leader for the World Bank funded program to the League of Arab States on institutional development to strengthen Arab policy and participation. Prior to this, he served as the youth policy advisor in the League of Arab States in Cairo and as an officer in the Technical Secretariat of the Arab Youth and Sports Ministers Council. Past experience also includes serving as a team leader for the National Youth Policy Project in Iraq, a youth programme associate at the Iraq office of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and as an emergency programme officer at the non-governmental organization Save the Children. As a regional consultant, Mr. Alhendawi has also supported the Danish Youth Council’s projects in the Middle East and North Africa. Mr. Alhendawi holds a B.A. in computer information systems from the Al-Balga Applied University in Jordan, and an M.A. in advanced European and international relations from Institut Européen in Nice, France. 5 Session 549 | Youth, Economics & Violence: Implications for Future Conflict

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Wagdy M. Al-Kadasi, Yemen Wagdy M. Al-Kadasi is a co-founder and vice-president of the Yemeni Youth Development Centre, Social Democratic Forum in Sana’a. He is also a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at Sana’a University and a neurosurgical resident in King Hussein Hospital in Amman, Jordan. He is responsible for preparation of projects and papers pertaining to Yemeni youth development, youth and the fight against corruption, youth economics and social realities, and the involvement of Yemeni youth in political issues. Interested in community issues, Mr. Al-Kadasi has worked with the student union at the Sana’a University, served as secretary general of the medical society and as media supervisor at the university, organized workshops and symposiums aimed at enhancing medical education, health education, and community participation of students, and served as an editor for the medical journal published by his faculty. Prior to co-founding the Yemeni Youth Development Center in 2006, he was involved in organizing regional and local workshops concerning human rights and youth development issues.

Motahar Amiri, Austria Motahar Amiri is a photographer at the Fotohof Art Gallery in Salzburg, Austria. His main field of research is the anthropological approach on religion, politics, and social policy, which had mostly found its subjects among marginal groups, minorities, and human rights. Since 2009, Mr. Amiri works for Aftab News Agency and several newspaper in Tehran as a reporter, translator, and columnist. For the past three years, he has been traveling the world, at the same time running an NGO called Untold Stories. He has organized more than 40 workshops and produced movies in eight countries, one of which is still in production. Mr. Amiri holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Allame Tabatabaii, and an M.A. in cultural studies from the University of Science and Culture in Tehran.

Erum Aziz, Pakistan Aziz is a program associate at Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE), a platform for policy makers, donors, and development experts to align their synergies towards bridging the gender gap in education. Her work focuses on linking financial and human resources in a way that can promote effective enforcement of education policies and formulate innovative approaches to boost female literacy. Ms. Aziz is currently pursuing an M.A. in development studies. She is interested in examining youth vulnerabilities and looks to find ways that can help youth in becoming successful leaders of tomorrow, as politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, thinkers, and change agents. She is also interested helping to empower women by providing them the necessary entrepreneurial skills and access to capital to make them dignified partners in amplifying economic growth. Previously, Ms. Aziz had an internship at the American Refugee Committee, where she developed the initial concept for “Noah’s Ark “, a contingency model designed for school children.

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Kiran Bali, United Kingdom Kiran Bali is the chair of the world’s largest interfaith organization, United Religions Initiative, which operates in 94 countries. She has addressed the UN General Assembly on women’s empowerment and community challenges through impactful actions, and has shown international leadership and activism to promote equity and understanding, whilst addressing community challenges through interfaith action and social justice at the grassroots level as a Magistrate. She does so by organizing talks and forums, national and international conferences, cultural exchange programs, and community projects across the globe. Ms. Bali is also bringing together universities and educational institutions to work in partnership using both eastern and western ideologies. She was recently awarded the Financial Times non-executive director diploma and is now pursuing a Global Executive MBA.

Alfred Blumstein, USA Session Co-CHAIR Alfred Blumstein is J. Erik Jonsson University professor of urban systems and operations research. His research over the past twenty years has covered many aspects of criminal justice phenomena and policy, including demographic trends, juvenile violence and drug-enforcement policy. He was also director of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at the Heinz College. Before joining the Heinz School, Dr. Blumstein directed the Office of Urban Research at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Prior to that, he was director of the Science and Technology Task Force for the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice in Washington, D.C. Dr. Blumstein was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. He served as chairman of that committee and also has chaired the committee’s panels on Research on Deterrent and Incapacitative Effects, Sentencing Research, and Research on Criminal Careers. He was a member of the Academy’s Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and also served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the state’s criminal justice planning agency, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. Dr.Blumstein holds a B.A. in engineering physics and a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University, NY.

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Srinjoy Bose, Australia Srinjoy Bose is Prime Minister’s endeavor & Ph.D. scholar at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at Australian National University. His research includes governance, development and political economy issues in South West and South Central Asia. He works with public sector experts, government officials, diplomats, UN and INGO representatives, activists, and even armed groups. In recent years, Mr. Bose has contributed to numerous publications examining youth demographics, youth economics, and youth violence, in particular the relationship between inequalities of opportunity and violence, and their causes and policy solutions in fragile post-conflict contexts. Currently, Mr. Bose is co- editing a manuscript that analyses the ongoing political and military transitions in Afghanistan. He is conducting a long-term study of legitimacy and institutions in Afghanistan, co-editing a special journal issue on Afghanistan’s elections, and participating as research and drafting consultant with The Liaison Office in Kabul on several youth-related projects. Some of Mr. Bose’s recent peer-reviewed publications include “The Limits of Hybrid Governance in Afghanistan”, “Afghanistan: ‘Spoilers’ in the Regional Security Context”, and “An Election Observer’s View & Appraisal of the 2014 Afghan Elections”. Mr. Bose holds a B.A. in political studies and history from Otago University in New Zealand, and an M.A. in social and political science from National University of Singapore.

Patrice Brodeur, Austria Patrice Brodeur is a director of research at King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for interreligious and intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) in Vienna, Austria. With over thirty years of experience in the area of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, primarily as an academic researcher and educator. Highlights of Dr. Brodeur’s career include the development of an interdisciplinary research team on Islam, pluralism and globalization at the University of Montreal, focusing on past and present intra- and interreligious, as well as inter-civilizational and inter- worldview forms of dialogue. An esteemed author and multi-linguist, Dr. Brodeur has received numerous awards, including fellowships, scholarships, research grants, and prizes during his career. He won 1st Prize for the Social entrepreneurship venture plan competition at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza Business School and received an “Interfaith Visionary Award” from the Temple of Understanding.

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Nicholas Carlisle, USA Nicholas Carlisle is a founder and CEO of No Bully, an international anti-bullying NGO based in the USA. Having experienced first-hand the reality of bullying in his teenage years at school, he is committed to creating schools where every student belongs. Prior to this, Mr. Carlisle practiced as a barrister in London and was chairman of the non-profit section of Amnesty International in Britain. He is licensed as a child and adult psychotherapist in California and a published researcher on the effects of school bullying. Mr. Carlisle is a seasoned conference speaker, expert witness, and commentator on school bullying for radio and television. He graduated from Oxford University, UK.

Karen Colvard, USA Karen Colvard is a program director at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a private foundation which funds scholarly research on problems of violence and aggression in all disciplines on these concerns, from studies of single cells in an enraged brain to the entire geo-political system and everything in between. Her own special interests are in intergroup conflict, religion, globalization, and feminist issues. At the foundation, Ms. Colvard’s responsibilities include reviewing research grant applications, conducting a methods workshop, providing editorial help for the Young African Scholars program, and initiating an outreach program for young scholars from North Africa. In the past twenty years, she has also devoted some special attention to attracting proposals from African social scientists to study problems of violence on that continent. Ms. Colvard is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

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Mark C. Edberg, USA Mark C. Edberg is an associate professor in the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (SPH), Department of Prevention and Community Health, with secondary appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs. Currently, he is director of the Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health, and principal investigator for a health disparities intervention grant for the Avance Center, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Edberg also directs the global-oriented Center for Social Well-Being and Development, with current projects on youth development and social development in partnership with UNICEF. Prior to this, Dr. Edberg has been principal investigator, project director and co-investigator on numerous projects with CDC, UNICEF, the Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), among others, addressing at-risk youth, violence prevention, substance abuse prevention, HIV risk populations, social and health inequities, and global health risk populations. He has also provided consulting and support for the Organization of American States, USAID, Urban Institute, and local governments. He has written several books and multiple journal articles and is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Edberg holds a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in political science and international relations from University of California, an M.S. in applied anthropology from American University, and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia.

Daniel Egel, USA Daniel Egel is an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand the effectiveness of development and stability programs, and the institutions that mediate their success in fragile and instability-prone countries. His work at RAND has focused on programs implemented by the military, particularly the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Dr. Egel deployed with the Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan (SOJTF-A) and Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command–Afghanistan (CFSOCC-A). He was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, a consultant for the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and has worked with the Yemeni Social Fund for Development since 2009. Dr. Egel’s most recent article called “Tribal Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Publicly Provided Goods: Evidence from Yemen” was published in Journal of Development Economics. He is co-author of several other articles that appeared in Review of Economic Studies and Middle East Development Journal, among other publications. Dr. Egel holds a B.A. in biology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Aml El-Houderi, United Kingdom Aml El-Houderi is an international advocacy programme coordinator at Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), an organization she joined three years ago. LFJL is an independent NGO dedicated to promoting human rights in Libya through defending justice and promoting the rule of law. In her role, Ms. El-Houderi focuses on coordinating and implementing advocacy objectives and strategies on a wide range of human rights issues and mechanisms in relation to Libya, as well as coordinating joint advocacy efforts with Libyan and international organizations. She regularly attends the UN Human Rights Council sessions engaging on resolutions on Libya and briefing key stakeholders on human rights violations. Additionally, Ms. El-Houderi works closely with other Libyan NGOs in building their capacity to engage with international advocacy mechanisms. She currently serves as coordinator of the Coalition of Libyan Human Rights NGOs, formed by LFJL in April 2014, which includes six Libyan human rights organisations working around Libya’s Universal Periodic Review, which is scheduled to take place in May 2015. Ms. El-Houderi’s research at LFJL focuses on a range of human rights issues including freedom of expression, minorities, internally displaces persons, women’s rights, and torture and ill treatment in the Libyan context. Her research has been used to draft urgent appeals to UN special reporters, as well as various letters, briefings, reports and press statements. Most recently, Ms. El-Houderi assisted in drafting a publication called “Destoori Report and Recommendations” and is an author of report “An Eye on Human Rights in Libya.” She holds a degree in international relations from Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Teresita Escotto-Quesada, Mexico Teresita Escotto-Quesada is an independent consultant. Prior to that, she was program specialist in charge of social and human sciences at the UNESCO office in San Jose, Costa Rica. Dr. Escotto-Quesada’s research focuses on poverty reduction, social inclusion of youth within the context of increasing insecurity and violence in Central America, human rights issues, prevention of violence, gender, social development, and migration. She is an author of the recently published “Desarrollo juvenil y prevención de la violence en América Latina” published in Violencia, infancia y juventud en América Latina. Dr. Escotto-Quesada holds a B.A. in comparative development studies and political science from Trent University, Ontario, an M.A. in international development from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and a Ph.D. in social sciences from El Colegio de México.

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Abdul Raziq Fahim, Pakistan Abdul Raziq Fahim has extensive experience in the field of youth, peace and development, ranging from grassroots initiatives and activism to policy level engagements, academic research and regional and international exposure. He has implemented diverse innovative development programs and launched various capacity building programs at regional and national levels, improving capacity of young professionals to address the issues of extremism, violence against women, social exclusion, and poverty. Dr. Fahim founded South Asian Network, significantly contributed to the creation of the Institute for Development Studies and Practices at the University of Community Development and the College of Youth Activism Development. He is the lead faculty member of a SANAM Fellowship program titled “Understanding Masculinities, Culture, Religion and Social Change”, and coordinated multi-country programs of Global Citizens Corps, extensively working and collaborating with Mercy Corps at country, regional, and global levels. Dr. Fahim worked with a range of multilateral aid agencies, including the World Bank, UN agencies and bilateral donors like the USAID, DANIDA, and DFID, and INGOs including Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children, Concern Worldwide, Right to Play, Plan International, USIP, NED and British Council. He holds an M.A. in development support communication and a Ph.D. in governance from the University Birmingham, UK.

Alexander Golberg, United Kingdom Alexander Goldberg is a barrister, chaplain, and human rights activist. He works as an international consultant on a number of international and UK-based community relations and community development projects. He is the Jewish chaplain to the University of Surrey. Mr. Goldberg regularly co-hosts a BBC radio show and was a member of the BBC’s Religion and Ethics Conference. He chairs the English Football Association’s Faith Task force and was the inaugural co-chair of the Faiths Forum for London. He served as an advisor and then Chaplain to the Paralympic and Olympic Games and was recognized by the US State Department and International Olympic Peace Truce body for his work on bringing together communities during the Games. Recently the UK Prime Minister involved him in his football and racism summit. Mr. Goldberg also worked with the Mayor of London to develop the Mayor’s Faith Conference. Previously, he had the lead on counter-extremism at the Government’s Commission for Racial Equality.

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Markus Gottsbacher, Canada Markus Gottsbacher is a senior program specialist at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. In his role, he develops and manages research projects to support peacebuilding, citizen security, and access to justice efforts mainly in Central and South American countries. Several of his research projects look at how to promote opportunities and security of youth. Prior to joining the Governance, Security and Justice Program, Mr. Gottsbacher worked on an IDRC project in Honduras that focused on dealing with conflict over natural resources. He has almost a decade’s experience with UN agencies, working on drug-and-crime-related matters, indigenous peoples’ rights, women’s rights, and HIV/AIDS, mostly in Latin America. He served as professor at several universities in Mexico, focusing on human security, international development and cooperation, and conflict transformation and prevention. He also worked for several NGOs, including the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, where he developed a training program for peace-builders in conflict areas. Mr. Gottsbacher holds an M.A. in political science from the University of Vienna and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the same discipline.

Prince Karakire Guma, Germany Prince Karakire Guma is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School for Urban Studies (URBANgrad) at the Darmstadt Technical University, Germany. He is an urban imaginer, rural optimist, scholar, activist, and social movement critic. His current research interests include urban and institutional change, social and technical infrastructure and public planning, informality and policy, and social movements. Mr. Guma’s prior work focused on how urban, rural, post- colonial forces affect and are affected by social status, identity, and community in African context. He recently completed a project called “Reimagining Rural in Mobile Money Times”, which was made possible through a grant from Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) at the University of California, Irvine, and is expecting its results to be published soon. Mr. Guma is a member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Senegal and Center for Basic Research (CBR) in Uganda. He is a research fellow of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s “Young African Scholars” program. Mr. Guma holds a B.A in social sciences and political science and an M.A. in public administration and management from the Makerere University, Uganda.

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Akile Gürsoy, Turkey Akile Gürsoy is a founding chair of the Anthroplogy Department of Yeditepe University in İstanbul. Prior to her current role, she was a rector of a newly founded university in İstanbul, worked with UNICEF, and has served as visiting professor and Rockefeller Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. In addition, Dr. Gürsoy was founding president of the Turkish Association of Social Sciences in Health. She is a member of the executive committee of the European Society for Population Economics, the secretary general of the International Forum for Social Sciences and Health, and the national delegate for Turkey at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. She is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Dr. Gürsoy’s research and publications are mostly on health anthropology, population issues, migration, and ideology in science. She represented ESF at the strategic conference on “Evidence- Based Prevention of Bullying and Youth Violence - European Innovations and Experiences”, which took place in the Møller Centre of Churchill College, Cambridge. Dr. Gürsoy holds a B.A. from Durham University, UK, and a Ph.D. from Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

Ahmed Hadji, Uganda Ahmed Hadji is a co-founder of Uganda Muslim Youth Development Forum (UMYDF), an organization he established after being a victim of the Kyadondo Rugby grounds Bomb Blast that claimed 74 lives and injured 75 on July 11th 2010 in Kampala, Uganda. He started creating dialogue and building capacity for the young Muslims and Imams, to avoid youth becoming targets for radicalization, and establish mosques as centers for development, where youth can learn personal growth and social media skills. To fight violent extremism and radicalization, Mr. Hadji has been analyzing various factors that lead to such actions in East Africa as well as best practices to minimize violence in the region. Mr. Hadji holds a B.A. in social sciences from Makerere University, and an M.A. in democracy and human rights from Uganda Martyrs University.

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Hany Hanna, Egypt Hany Hanna is a general director at the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. He is also a professor at the Higher Institute for Conflict Studies and a writer, contributing to Egyptian as well as international newspapers. He writes extensively about human rights and was named “preacher of Egyptian Revolution” in 2011. Dr. Hanna is a founding member of Council of Trustees of the 25th, Jan., as well as of the Union of Youth of Revolution in Egypt. He is a member of the Peer and Editing Commission of the Egyptian Revolution on the Preparation of its Decisions, has established and is chair of The Popular Committee of Citizenship and National Unity, and a member of the Egyptian Popular Parliament. Dr. Hanna participates and speaks at various conferences and appears on international TV channels, radio, and websites. He holds a Ph.D. in conservation and antiquities from Cairo University, Egypt. Dr. Hanna is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

Burkhard Hasenpusch, Germany Burkhard Hasenpusch joined the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony (CPC) in Hanover in 2009 to develop inter alia, a database on promising crime-prevention programs for a “Communities that Care” project and to analyse the data from the student survey conducted as part of that project. He also worked in the CPC’s Beccaria project for enhancing quality in crime prevention. Since his retirement in 2012, he serves the CPC on a voluntary basis. Prior to joining CPS, Dr. Hasenpusch worked in Montréal on the evaluation of crime prevention programmes (Ècole de Criminologie), in New York on capital punishment (UN Secretariat) and designed an interdepartmental crime-prevention policy for the Lower Saxony Department of Justice in Hannover, Germany, before joining the prison division there. His responsibilities included research and statistics in the prison service, the treatment of sexual offenders, academic and vocational training of prisoners, prison labour, and chaplaincy services. Dr. Hasenpusch studied psychology in Kiel, Germany, and criminology in Ottawa and Montréal, Canada.

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Tsz Hin (Shirry) Heung, Hong Kong, China Shirry Heung is a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), as well as the honorary project officer in the Public Opinion Program at HKU. She has been working closely with Prof. Benny Tai, the convener of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) movement in Hong Kong. She assisted OCLP with the Deliberation Series and also the Civil Referendum in Hong Kong before the Occupy Central took place. The idea of the OCLP Deliberation Series and the Civil Referendum is to introduce the concept of “deliberative democracy” to the community in solving public disputes in Hong Kong. During the Umbrella Movement, Ms. Heung served as member of the Arrest Support Team, which worked together with the pro-bono lawyers group to provide legal support to the protestors of the Umbrella Movement. Ms. Heung holds M.A. in law from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Vienna, Austria.

Janet Jobson, South Africa Janet Jobson is a director of programs at the DG Murray Trust, where she drives the organization’s overall grant-making and proactive programmatic work. She leads the “Activate! Leadership for Public Innovation” program, which aims to build a network of 5000 young leaders drawn together to reshape South African society. Ms. Jobson also works on a range of policy issues affecting young people, including mobile communications, youth access to employment, and education. She has a long history working on youth issues on a local and global level. Amongst other roles, she has previously been the national youth coordinator for Amnesty International in South Africa, chairperson of the CIVICUS Youth Steering Committee, and a leader within the South African Girl Child Association. She has also spent a year as a Sauvé Scholar in Montreal, Canada, where she worked on youth participation. Ms. Jobson is the author of a few learning and strategy briefs, including Evaluating Youth Leadership for Policy Impact; Youth Leadership Development in SA – Are We Stuck? and Interrogating Youth Leadership Development in South Africa. Ms. Jobson holds a B.A. in history, and an M.Phil. in development studies from the University of Oxford.

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Mohammed Khier Al-Tinawi, Syria Mohammed Khier Al-Tinawi is coordinator of youth initiatives and trainer in community development at Mobaderoon Network, an active citizen’s network in Syria, where he facilitates youth development groups under FADA project, aimed at empowering youth to become positive change makers in their communities. Prior to this, he was executive director of the Syrian Society for Culture and Knowledge, and worked in the fields of management and real estate licenses in and around Damascus. Over the years, Mr. Khier Al-Tinawi has volunteered in several associations, youth initiatives, and as team coordinator with the Syrian Peace Network. He believes in the importance of civil society, is interested in community and individual development, and in supporting sustainable peaceful coexistence in Syria. Mr. Khier Al-Tinawi holds a law degree from Damascus University, Syria.

Siyka Kovacheva, Bulgaria Siyka Kovacheva is an associate professor in sociology at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She started her career at this University in 1983 teaching courses in general sociology, social research methods, social policy and youth studies. Her current research focuses on youth transitions from education to employment, social protection, and civic participation. Dr. Kovacheva took part in many national and international research projects, including “The Student Movement in Post-communist Bulgaria” funded by MacArthur Foundation, “Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe” and “Youth – Actor of Social Change” funded by the European Commission (EC), and the current “Empowering the Young Generation: Towards a New Social Contract in South and East Mediterranean countries”, also funded by the EC. Dr. Kovacheva served as visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, USA, at the University of Liverpool, UK, and at Thomas Coram Research Unit Institute of Education at the University of London, UK. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology from Sofia University, Bulgaria.

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Samah Krichah, Tunisia Samah Krichah is an activist in the public sphere after the Tunisian Revolution and a board member of a Tunisian think-tank The Democratic Lab. She carried out many projects on collective memory, youth empowerment, and transitional justice. Her research interests focus on youth, security, and women issues. Ms. Krichah is a member of many youth initiatives such as the Regional Youth Advisory Panel, the consultative panel of UNFPA on youth for ICPD beyond 2014 agenda, as well as the Arab Youth Coalition for ICPD beyond 2014, which drafted youth calls for actions and recommendations for the ICPD post 2014 agenda. She is a former member of the youth led NGO “SAWTY”. Ms. Krichah is author of various articles, some recent ones are “Youth and Terrorism” and “Educational Reform”. Ms. Krichah is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

Jonathan Kuttab, Palestine Jonathan Kuttab is an attorney and human rights activist. He founded a human rights organization Al-Haq and is a member of Bar in Israel and New York, chairman of the board of Holy Land Trust, and treasurer of Nonviolence International. Mr. Kuttab is active on many peace and justice issues.

Carol Langstaff, USA Carol Langstaff is a founder and artistic director of Flock Dance Troupe, where she works with a mix of communities and professionals to bring performances with an urgent concern for social and environmental problems to a wide range of audiences. She is interested in interweaving arts to inspire change. By this approach, Ms. Langstaff’s students are brought to paths of visualization and leadership, to a respect for the human spirit, and the environment which nurtures it. Ms. Langstaff is a member of the boards of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the White River Partnership. She is currently involved in Promoting a National Youth Service Program, and serves as Initiation of Community Nurse in two Vermont towns. Prior to this, Ms. Langstaff co- founded, together with her professional concert singer father, Revels Inc., founded Strafford Creative Pre-School, and directed the Connecticut RiverFest. She published a book on children’s street games called “Shimmy, Shimmy, Coke a Pop”. Ms. Langstaff studied composition with Nicholas Van Slyke at the Longy School of Music. She played many instruments, including piano, mountain dulcimer, guitar, recorder, oboe, and flute.

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Beatrice Lamwaka, Uganda Beatrice Lamwaka is a founder and director of Arts Therapy Foundation, a non- profit organization that provides psychological and emotional support through creative arts therapies. She writes research articles, short stories, poetry, and is working on her first adult novel, “Sunflowers”. Ms. Lamwaka was shortlisted for the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing and was a finalist for the South African PEN/Studzinski Literary Award 2009. She won First Prize in Makerere University’s MA Peace and Conflict essay competition for her article “Acoli Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution”. She contributes to Open Global Rights and wrote for Global Press Institute and Daily Monitor, and her stories have been published in the USA, UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana, and Zambia. Ms. Lamwaka was selected as one of the Harry Franks Guggenheim’s Young African Scholars for research on land displacement in post conflict Northern Uganda and was a participant at Young Researcher’s Training in Nairobi, Kenya, at Institute of the Organization of Social Science in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Emma F. LeBlanc, United Kingdom Emma Findlen LeBlanc is a Rhodes Scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology at Oxford University, UK. She is currently doing two years of fieldwork among economically and politically marginalized forest workers in rural New Brunswick, Canada, examining how they are constructing alternative moralities and ontologies to those associated with the hegemonic capitalist structures and discourses under which they live, and how these oppositional cultures are producing very different visions and styles of democracy and resource management. Ms. LeBlanc’s thesis, which looked at wartime Shari’a courts in rebel-controlled Syria as spaces of radical democracy, earned the highest marks in the department. Her M.F.A. thesis, a novel about a Syrian teenager whose journey into the dark labyrinths of Damascus leads him to a series of absurd, tragic characters that promise his long-sought independence but demand, in return, his self-destruction, won the Robert J. Begiebing Award for literary excellence. Ms. LeBlanc lived in Syria from 2007 through 2012, studying Arabic, recording oral histories at a public mental institution, and working as a photographer and writer. Her work from Syria and Iraq has been published in The New York Times, GQ, Le Monde, Slate, JO, and The National, as well as other leading international publications, and she has exhibited her photographs in the US, UK, and Middle East.

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Sarah Meyer, Uganda Sarah Meyer is an assistant professor of clinical population and family health in Columbia University’s program on Forced Migration and Health. She is based in Uganda, as associate director of research and knowledge development for The AfriChild Centre, jointly established by Columbia University, Makerere University, UNICEF Uganda, and the Government and non-governmental agencies in Uganda. In that capacity, she is managing a large-scale national survey of violence against children, and developing a research program focused on prevention of violence against children. She has led training and data collection for qualitative and quantitative studies focused on migration, mental health and violence against children in Thailand, Cambodia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. Dr. Meyer is currently co-investigator for a United Nations Refugee Agency study focused on development of an index to assess strength of child protection in humanitarian settings, with field-testing of instruments in Rwanda and Uganda. Her academic research focus has been mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in humanitarian settings. She has also published a review of the UNHCR’s MHPSS activities, and led a review of the IASC MHPSS Guidelines, the leading international standard for serving mental health needs in humanitarian settings. Dr. Meyer holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D.

Eduardo Moncada, USA Eduardo Moncada is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University, Newark, USA. His research interests include urban violence, crime, political economy of development, state-business relations, subnational politics, and democracy. Dr. Moncada’s publications appeared in Comparative Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Studies in Comparative International Development. He recently completed his first book, “Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America” (forthcoming from Stanford University Press). This book examines the ways in which urban political economies and patterns of armed territorial control shape the nature and trajectory of the political projects that cities launch in response to violence and, in turn, how these projects can reshape urban governance. Dr. Moncada’s upcoming research examines understandings and practices of citizenship in settings of urban violence across the Global South and North. Dr. Moncada has received support for his research from the Social Science Research Council, Open Society Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays program. Dr. Moncada holds a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on human rights from the Global College of Long Island University, an M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Miami, and a Ph.D. in political science from Brown University, USA.

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Edward P. Mulvey, USA Edward P. Mulvey is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Mulvey has conducted numerous research studies on violence and mental illness, prediction of future violence and crime, juvenile offenders, service provision in the juvenile justice system, and criminal justice policy. His research has investigated how clinicians make judgments about the risk posed by adults with mental illness and juvenile offenders, and what treatments are appropriate in these types of cases. Mr. Mulvey has recently served as the principal investigator on a longitudinal study of serious adolescent offenders, the Pathways to Desistance study, and as a member of a National Academy of Sciences panel assessing juvenile justice reform. He is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and the Science Advisory Board for the Office of Justice Programs of the U. S. Department of Justice. Dr. Mulvey holds a B.A. in psychology from Yale University, a Ph.D. in community/clinical psychology from the University of Virginia, and post- doctoral training in quantitative methods in criminal justice at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Warren Nebe, South Africa Warren Nebe is the founder and director of Drama for Life, a division of postgraduate studies in Applied Drama, Drama Education and Drama Therapy at University of the Witwatersrand. South Africa. He is a theatre director, senior lecturer, and a registered drama therapist. Mr. Nebe is currently leading a social change project called “Build a Democracy” and education project called “Build a President”. Prior to this, he was the managing director of Themba Interactive – Initiatives for Life – a youth for development organization. His creative research focuses on youth, identity construction, representation and memory in South Africa through an auto-ethnographic theatre-making approach. Notions of identity are explored in his theatre productions, ID Pending, Hayani, Through Positive Eyes and Morwa, under his direction. Mr. Nebe is also a research member of the Apartheid Archives Research Project. His primary research focus is on the development of a counter-hegemonic pedagogy, a critical reflexive praxis that can address the urgent need of transforming education for youth; to build an education that speaks back to the socio-political, cultural, and environmental challenges that confront new generations of youth; to enhance the chance of peace and democracy building through a creative, reflective, and group-centered education. In the nearest future, Mr. Nebe will be directing a ground breaking 7 nation human rights and social justice project for youth in Africa from 2015 to 2017. Mr. Nebe is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

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Patricia Moore Nicholas, USA Patricia Moore Nicholas is a program officer in Carnegie Corporation’s International Program, where she focuses on grantmaking concerning a range of peace and security issues. She developed and implemented the Corporation’s grantmaking program on biological weapons nonproliferation, including a partnership of grantees and funding organizations that produced scientifically competent experts versed in policy formation regarding biosecurity. Ms. Nicholas remains involved in the Corporation’s nuclear weapons grantmaking and can call on years of experience with those in the nonproliferation field. She has longstanding familiarity and interest in the nonprofit sector and has served as co-chair of the Peace and Security Funders Group, an international affinity association of foundations, charitable trusts and philanthropists who fund in the field. In addition, she contributes regularly to the group Women in International Security and helped establish the International Grantmakers Network of Philanthropy New York, a regional association of Center for Nonprofit Success, as well as takes part in the annual mentoring activities of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group to promote the global engagement and participation of women in international affairs. Ms. Nicholas studies at the Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. She holds a B.A. from Fordham University’s College at Lincoln Center in New York and an M.A. in public administration from Marist College, New York.

Krijn Peters, United Kingdom Krijn Peters is an associate professor in armed conflict and post-war reconstruction at the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at the Swansea University in the UK. Prior to his current post, he was visiting research fellow at Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra; visiting fellow at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam; and assistant professor at the Center for Development Studies at Swansea University. Dr. Peters is a rural development sociologist specialized in armed conflict and post-war reconstruction. His expertise lies in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, child soldiers, transitional justice, youth marginalization and exclusion, rural and agrarian development, corporate social responsibility, and drug trafficking in West Africa. Dr. Peters is author of a few recent publications, among which are a piece on “Youth, Wars and Violence in West Africa” published in History Compass, and “The Boys are coming to Town. Youth, Armed Conflict and Urban Violence in Developing Countries” in International Journal of Conflict and Violence. Dr. Peters holds a Ph.D. from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

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Ekraj Sabur, Thailand Ekraj Sabur is a director of the International Institute of Peace Studies cohosted by the Asian Resource Foundation and the Asian Muslim Action Network. These platforms have allowed him to travel extensively to facilitate dialogue among people of diverse backgrounds in an effort to bridge gaps, coordinate strategies, and foster cooperation so as to achieve the common goals of sustainable peace and development. Prior to this, Mr. Sabur was engaged in development work and peace building efforts through capacity building and grassroots outreach programs in Asia and the Middle East. He is a founder and was the first coordinator of the Youth Coordination Centre International and served as the first regional coordinator of the Asian Interfaith Network on AIDS. Mr. Sabur has written a number of articles on peace and development topics. He holds a B.A. in Asia Pacific studies from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan, and an M.Phil. in international peace, conflict, and development studies from the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

Magaly Sanchez, USA Magaly Sanchez is a senior researcher and visiting scholar at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, USA. Previously, she was a professor of urban sociology at the Institute of Urbanism at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Her resume includes research and professorial positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Instituto de Nuevas Tecnologias at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Dr. Sanchez’s most recent research focused on international migration to the USA, with special interest in the construction of Latino identities. Dr. Sanchez’s other research in Latin America has documented urban poverty, problems in the barrios as well as the social exclusion of poor urban youth and street children, and traced the consequences in terms of a growing radicalization of youth gangs and their increasing acceptance of extreme violence. She continues to work in topics related to the urban violence, and the power of the perverse criminal economy in Latin American countries, as well as the consequences of structural adjustments in recent decades. Dr. Sanchez is the co-author of books “Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times” and “Malandros, Bandas, y niños de la calle”, and collaborated in editing the book “Chronicle of a Myth Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin-America”, which was published in 2007. Dr. Sanchez is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

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Sana Sbouai, Tunisia Sana Sbouai is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the French version of Inkyfada. com, a “slow journalism” website. She is also a co-founder and board member of the Tunisian NGO for innovative media, Al Khatt. Al Khatt trains young citizen journalists, students, and professional journalists with a belief that journalism in Tunisia can be improved by the ability of the young generation to think and speak freely. Ms. Sbouai is also a member of the North African Network for media literacy, launched by UNESCO. Prior to this, she was writing about social issues and migration, additionally giving training on media coverage of migration challenges, which are linked to socio-economic rights and violence. Youth have the primary concern with these issues in Tunisia. Before coming to Tunis, Ms. Sbouai worked as a freelance video editor for an NGO in London, UK, which focused on teaching children film/video-making skills. Ms. Sbouai studied law and journalism in France.

Aaron Schachter, USA Aaron Schachter is an assignments editor with Public Radio International’s (PRI) The World, a program heard on approximately 350 radio stations across the United States. In his role, Mr. Schachter works with reporters around the world to develop ideas and craft stories for broadcast. He also develops safety and security plans for every deployment to places like Libya, Iraq, and Mali. Prior to joining PRI, he spent eight years as a correspondent in the Middle East, first in Jerusalem and then in Beirut. From Israel, he covered the second Palestinian Intifada, the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and Israel’s pull-out from the Gaza Strip, among other major stories. Mr. Schachter reported from Iraq and Afghanistan in the aftermath of the US invasions, and from more than half a dozen other countries in the broader region, including Syria, Pakistan, and Iran. His stories with The World have won awards from the duPont-Columbia School of Journalism and the Scripps-Howard Institute. Mr. Schachter holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Massachusetts.

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Khaled Abdelrahman Shamaa, Austria Khaled Abdelrahman Shamaa is an Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Republic of Austria, and permanent representative to the international organizations in Vienna. He has worked in the areas of disarmament, non- proliferation, international security, humanitarian affairs, transnational threats, as well as the non-aligned movement. Prior to his current post, Ambassador Shamaa served as assistant deputy foreign minister for Disarmament Affairs at the Egyptian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and worked at Egyptian Embassies and with permanent missions in Brazil, Pretoria, and New York. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors and has participated in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conferences and their Preparatory Committees, as well as the preparatory process of the 2015 NPT Review Conference. Ambassador Shamaa holds a B.A. in engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and an M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University, USA.

Manish Sharma, India Manish Sharma is a chairperson and professor of Gandhian and peace studies on post-graduate level, as well as researcher at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He is interested in non-violence, peace research, Gandhian thought, research methodology, Buddhist studies, rural development, and Panchayati Raj in India. Dr. Sharma was a visiting scholar in the USA, Australia, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey. Among his publications is a prominent book on non-violence in the 21st century, “Application and Efficacy”, which was praised by a great scholar and diplomat the late Shri. L. M. Singhvi. Dr. Sharma is also among the leading contributors of many research journals including Gandhi Marg, Indian Journal of Gandhian Studies and various edited books. He was on a panel of reviewers of significant Indian as well as international research journals and worked with national and international academic organizations, including the International Peace Research Association, and Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association, a regional affiliate of the International Peace Research Association. Dr. Sharma holds an M.A. in Gandhian and peace studies and a Ph.D. from Panjab University in Chandigarh, India.

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António Silva-Mendes, Belgium António Silva Mendes is a director for Youth and Sport at the Directorate-General Education and Culture in the European Commission, Belgium. In this role, he is responsible for maximizing the potential and well-being of young people and to develop the European dimension in sport. Dr. Silva-Mendes began his career at the European Commission at the Directorate-General Enterprise, where he took part in international negotiations. Prior to that, he served as director at the Ministry of Industry in Lisbon. Dr. Silva-Mendes studied mechanical engineering at the University of Lisbon and was professor at the same University for ten years afterwards.

Paolo Singer, USA Paolo Singer is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University pursuing an M.Phil in politics. His primary interests are in the politics of economic development, especially among youth and marginalized groups. While at Harvard, he was a teacher and chair of the Harvard Civics Program (for fifth-graders in Boston Public Schools) and organized a mentorship program for low-income high school students. Mr. Singer has conducted research with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in Cape Town, South Africa and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in Cambridge, MA, on strategies to engage and support youth affected by unemployment or violence. Previously, he worked at the White House’s National Economic Council on health insurance, affordable housing and unemployment policy, and was consultant for McKinsey & Co.’s U.S. Healthcare Systems Reform Group. Mr. Singer holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University, USA.

Simranpreet Singh Oberoi, India Simranpreet Singh Oberoi is a chief project officer at the Shoshit Samadhan Kendra (SSK), a completely free English residential school in Bihar, one of the least developed states of India, where the most marginalized community, Musahars (literal meaning: rat eaters) live. Musahars are at the bottom of the social hierarchy and are one of the poorest communities. The structural violence they face since ages resulted in helplessness, poverty, and little belief in education. SSK School is trying to tackle this problem by providing quality education. Students reside in a hostel as conditions at home are not suitable for studies, and are provided with meals, clothes, books, medical care, and other basic necessities free of charge. By creating role models among Musahars, the school tries to restore the belief in education thus breaking the cycle of poverty in the community. For this purpose, SSK started the process of establishing separate funds to support their students in pursuing higher education. Mr. Singh Oberoi is especially interested in community transformation through education, bridging opportunity gaps, and non-profit organization development. He holds a B.E. from the University of Pune and an M.A. from Ashoka University, India.

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Katindi Sivi Njonjo, Kenya Katindi Sivi Njonjo is a lead consultant with LongView Consult, a socio-economic research and policy analysis firm that works with individuals, companies, and governments to understand possible futures that may occur in order to strategically help prepare for an uncertain and rapidly changing world. Prior to that, she served as the program director at the Society for International Development, and before that, she was head of futures at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Ms. Njonjo pioneered research in various policy areas including youth demographics and inequality. She spearheaded a ground-breaking research on Kenya’s inequality which was disaggregated by age, gender and region. She also conducted research on youth in Kenya with the aim of finding out possible outcomes for Kenya given the projected youth bulge and what the policy options for the country would be. Additionally, she conducted 10 countrywide workshops with about 200 young people. Ms. Njonjo coordinated a group of 50 young Kenyans to write a proposed vision for Kenya, dabbed “the Kenya we want”. As a result she was coopted by the Kenya Government to join the country’s Vision 2030 team to write the youth, gender and vulnerable group chapter of the vision and the first Medium Term Plan. Ms. Njonjo served on various boards including Yes Youth Can, Emerging Leaders Foundation, Youth Agenda, and Tumaini Clinics. She authored publications on youth inequality in Kenya, such as “Youth Situation Analysis 2014”, “Exploring Kenya’s Inequality: Pulling Apart or Pooling Together?”, and “Vigilante Violence: Kenya’s Unholy Alliances”. Ms. Njonjo holds a B.A. in international relations and an M.Sc. in organizational development from United States International University, Kenya.

Paul Sixpence, Zimbabwe Paul Sixpence is a coordinator of youth and conflict projects at the Centre Stage Media Arts Foundation. His current work focuses on research, advocacy, policy development, and reform in addressing pressing challenges affecting young people in Zimbabwe and the southern Africa region, namely unemployment, marginalisation, conflict, HIV, and Aids. Mr. Sixpence began his career as a youth advocate and has done work around youth issues in Madagascar, South Africa, and Zimbabwe over the years. Mr. Sixpence holds a B.A. media studies from the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe and an M.A. in human rights from the Central European University in Hungary.

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Sarah Sladen, USA Sarah Sladen is a director of the Alliance for International Youth Development (AIYD), a community of practice and advocacy platform of 24 leading U.S. based youth and community development organizations. AIYD is a forum for youth practitioners, donors and policy makers to share and discuss effective practise, and to advocate for and inform policies that support and impact youth worldwide. To support and advance its mission, AIYD has formed a strategic partnership with InterAction. Prior to joining InterAction, Ms. Sladen supported the Educational Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP3) at the Education Development Center (EDC) and served as the International Program Coordinator for the Skills Training for Afghan Youth (STAY) project under EQUIP3. Ms. Sladen has also worked as a youth counsellor and program director at Seeds of Peace, a leadership and conflict resolution program for youth from the Middle East and South Asia, as well as youth from immigrant communities in the USA. She also has worked with youth programs in South Africa including Grassroots Soccer and Ikamva Youth, on sport and development, HIV/AIDS, and education. Ms. Sladen has a special interest in the Middle East and North Africa and studies Arabic. She holds a B.A. in politics and history from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. in international development from the School of International Service at American University, USA.

Svetlana Stephenson, United Kingdom Svetlana Stephenson is a reader in sociology at London Metropolitan University, UK. She had worked as a research fellow at the Russian Centre for Public Opinion Research (Levada centre), and was a Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Essex. Her current research interests are in the field of youth violence studies, with a specific focus on the evolution of violent youth organizations in Russia in response to large-scale societal change. Dr. Stephenson is the author of “Gangs of Russia” (forthcoming in July 2015) and “Crossing the Line. Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia.” She co- edited a book on “Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.” Her other publications include “The Violent Practices of Youth Territorial Groups in Moscow”, published in Europe-Asia Studies, and “The Kazan Leviathan. Russian Street Gangs as Agents of Social Order” published in The Sociological Review. Dr. Stephenson holds a degree in sociology from the Institute of Sociology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an M.A. in history from the Russian State Pedagogical University in Moscow.

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Nilgün Ulu, Turkey Nilgün Ulu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Yeditepe University, focusing on social anthropology issues. Prior to this, she worked as a psychology consultant guiding and consulting students and parents on psycho-social matters. Ms. Ulu was awarded for her studies on violence and youth. Her seminar called “Reflections from the Mirror” was highly recognized and attended. She holds a B.A. in education-science creation and development from Yildiz Technical University and an M.A. in education management and control from Yeditepe University, both in Turkey.

Jana Vobecká, Austria Jana Vobecká is a researcher in social demography at the KAICIID Dialogue Centre in Vienna and at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses inter alia on spatial population dynamics and its effects on social inequalities, local governance, and historical demography. Recently, she has been focusing on applied research in the field of population policy and authored a research report commissioned by UNFPA’s Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Currently, Dr. Vobecká is conducting research on the interreligious dialogue and global vulnerabilities. She has published in journals such as Population, Space and Place, Czech Sociological Review and Central European Journal of Public Policy. Her first book “Demographic Avant- Garde, Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah” has been published in 2013. Dr. Vobecká holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Burgundy in Dijon and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Joel Wallman, USA Joel Wallman is a senior program officer at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Before joining the foundation, he taught at Rutgers University, Hunter College, and Columbia University. He is the author of “Aping Language” (1992) and has published in Computer Applications in the Biosciences, Current Anthropology, and Criminology and Public Policy. Dr. Wallman co-edited “The Crime Drop in America” with Alfred Blumstein, “Illicit Markets and Violence” with Peter Andreas in Crime, Law and Social Change, and “Understanding Mexico’s Drug Violence” with David Shirk in Journal of Conflict Resolution (forthcoming). Dr. Wallman holds a B.A. from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, USA.

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Urbain Thierry Yogo, France Urbain Thierry Yogo is a research fellow at the Center for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI) at the University of Auvergne in France. He is former consultant at the African Development Bank and visiting scholar at the Economics Center of Sorbonne, University of Paris 1. Dr. Yogo’s area of research includes development economics, conflicts, and labour market. His recent works include “Youth Unemployment and Political Instability”, “Foreign Aid and Health Outcomes in Post Conflict States”, and “Education and Entrepreneurship in Post Conflict Countries.” Dr. Yogo holds a Ph.D from the University of Yaoundé 2, Cameroon.

Muhammad Zaman, Pakistan Muhammad Zaman is a head of the Department of Sociology at the Quaid-i- Azam University Islamabad. His research interests include youth violence, penal culture, youth politics, family marriage and children. He also teaches courses on youth and penal culture at the Bielefeld University in Germany. Dr. Zaman is author of an article on “Youth Violence in Pakistan: The Social Structure and Culture of Violence”, published in the PRACE IPSiR, as well as 20 other research articles published or soon to be published in various international peer reviewed journals. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in Germany, and held an Erasmus Mundus Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Free University Brussels, Belgium.

Nemanja Zekić, Bosnia and Herzegovina Nemanja Zekić is a president of the Srebrenica Youth Council. He currently holds an internship with Care International, where he works on a development project Birač Svoju Budućnost. He is interested in youth activism and economic development spurred by youth, and is a recognized peace-building activist in his post-conflict community of Srebrenica. Mr. Zekić is a co-author of “Osmače and Brežani, Carlo Scarpa prize 2014.” He holds a degree in economics from the University of East Sarajevo.

30 Participants Guests

Chris Cummins, Journalist and Presenter, FM4, Austria Dolores Blumstein, (guest of Alfred Blumstein), USA Haykham Ekasone, (guest of Mark C. Edberg), USA Alexa L. Wesner, United States Ambassador to Austria, Austria

Rapporteur Genevieve Sandberg-Diment, Writer, MED-EL/Vibrant, Austria

Photographer Michaela Grieshaber, Austria

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Participants by Business Country

Australia India Uganda Srinjoy Bose Manish Sharma Ahmed Hadji Simranpreet Singh Oberoi Beatrice Lamwaka Austria Motahar Amiri Kenya United Kingdom Patrice Brodeur Teresia Katindi Sivi Njonjo Kiran Bali Khaled Abdel Rahman Svetlana Stephenson Shaama Mexico Aml El-Houderi Jana Vobecká Teresita Escotto-Quesada Alexander Goldberg Emma F. LeBlanc Bahrain Pakistan Krijn Peters Leena Al Olaimy Erum Aziz Paolo Singer Abdul Raziq Fahim Belgium Muhammad Zaman USA António Silva-Mendes Ahmad Alhendawi Palestine Alfred Blumstein Bosnia & Herzegovina Jonathan Kuttab Nicholas Carlisle Nemanja Zekić Karen Colvard South Africa Mark C. Edberg Bulgaria Janet Jobson Daniel Egel Siyka Kovacheva Warren Nebe Carol Langstaff Sarah Meyer Canada Sweden Eduardo Moncada Markus Gottsbacher Assem Abu Hatab Edward Mulvey Patricia Moore Nicholas China Syria Magaly Sanchez Tsz Hin (Sherry) Heung Mohammad Khier Al-Tinawi Aaron Schachter Sarah Sladen Colombia Thailand Joel Wallman Katherine Aguirre-Tobón Ekraj Sabur Yemen Egypt Tunisia Wagdy Al-Kadasi Hany Hanna Samah Krichah Sana Sbouai Zimbabwe France Paul Sixpence Thierry Urbain Yogo Turkey Akile Gürsoy Germany Nilgün Ulu Prince Guma Burkhard Hasenpusch

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Thomas Biebl, Director of Marketing and Communications Thomas Biebl is the director for marketing and communications at Salzburg Global Seminar, where he is responsible for leading the implementation of a new communications strategy to raise the profile of Salzburg Global Seminar, its brand, programs, original reports and publications, as well as reinvigorating Salzburg Global’s network of more than 25,000 Fellows in 160 countries. Prior to joining the organization in August 2011, Thomas had worked in communications, marketing and business development roles for organizations including the Waldzell Institute, HILL International, the World Summit Awards, and Red Bull. Thomas holds a M.A. in Communication Studies and Psychology from the University of Salzburg and the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, Netherlands, and a M.B.A. from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, for which he wrote his thesis on “A Critical Assessment of the Marketing Strategy of the Salzburg Global Seminar.”

Diasmer P. Bloe, Program Director Diasmer Panna Bloe is a program director at Salzburg Global Seminar, with particular responsibility for programs within the ‘Sustainability’ cluster. She manages research, planning and participatory dialogue to identify and drive innovations. A policy and systems specialist with a concentration in international trade and development, her experience includes executive and research positions in the public sector, philanthropy, academia, and business. She has completed work on topics such as special economic zones, public-private partnerships, concessions and local content integration, national accounts, MDGs, healthcare workforce and systems improvements, and venture capital for business development. She is a native of Liberia, spent her formative years in the USA and now resides in Austria. She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Session Staff

Charles E. Ehrlich, Program Director Charles E. Ehrlich is a program director at Salzburg Global Seminar. He has particular responsibility for designing, developing, and implementing programs on justice, democracy, economics, and rule of law. He has practical experience in legal development working in over a dozen countries, including in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Russian Federation, advising governments and public institutions on strategic planning, drafting legislation, and implementing comprehensive reforms in the justice sector, public administration, property rights, freedom of the media, and constitutional law. Charles has also worked as legal counsel for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo, in Georgia, and at its Secretariat in Vienna. At the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Switzerland, he adjudicated claims to Nazi-era bank accounts. He remains affiliated with Wolfson College, Oxford, and has published a book, “Lliga Regionalista - Lliga Catalana, 1901-1936” (in Catalan), and numerous academic articles on constitutional law, justice, and political history. Charles holds an A.B. in history and classics (Latin) from Harvard University, a J.D. from the College of William and Mary, an M.Sc.Econs. in European studies from the London School of Economics, and a D.Phil. on contemporary Spanish history from the University of Oxford.

Benjamin W. Glahn, European Development Director Benjamin W. Glahn is the European development director at Salzburg Global Seminar, based in Salzburg, Austria where he is responsible for resource mobilization and partnership development in Europe, as well as long range planning and business development in support of Salzburg Global’s programs. Prior to rejoining the organization in September 2013, he served as senior program officer for the Aga Khan Foundation based in London, where he was responsible for business development, program development, and resource mobilization for the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) working with European governments, development finance institutions, and multilateral development banks. Within AKDN his portfolio focused on development in conflict and post-conflict areas, particularly Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as strategic AKDN investments in higher education in Central Asia and East Africa, cross-border economic and social development, health, education, civil society, and rural development. Before joining AKDN, he also served as a deputy chief program officer and program director at Salzburg Global Seminar, and is the co-editor of Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground. He holds a B.A. in religion from Middlebury College and an M.A. in East European history, communications, and Slavic languages from the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at University of Washington.

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Jan Heinecke, Fellowship Manager Jan Heinecke is the fellowship manager at Salzburg Global Seminar. In this role, he is in charge of fostering and expanding the exceptional international network of more than 30,000 Salzburg Global Fellows from over 160 countries, who have shared in the Salzburg Global experience. By meeting participants on-site during sessions as well as via Fellowship events and social media outreach, he helps maintain the Salzburg Global Fellows’ engagement both with Salzburg Global and each other, long after they leave Schloss Leopoldskron. Prior to rejoining Salzburg Global in April 2014, Jan was a freelance event manager in Germany for several years, as well as working on a scholarship program for the Berlin-based Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations and with Dutch NGO SPARK in South East Europe. Jan holds a MA in social sciences from the University of Oldenburg, specializing in international relations and conflict resolution. During his studies he completed an internship with Salzburg Global Seminar in 2007.

Kevin Kolesnikoff, Program Intern Kevin Kolesnikoff is a program intern for the Salzburg Global Seminar. He grew up in Northern Virginia, near Washington DC, and attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He graduated in 2012 with a bachelor of arts degree in English. After graduation he worked as a lifeguard and for a non-profit environmental organization. Most recently he was on the staff of the American International School in Salzburg, Austria. Since his return to the United States he has been living and working on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He enjoys skiing and traveling.

Stuart Milne, Communications Intern Stuart Milne is a communications intern at Salzburg Global Seminar, and joined the organization in February 2015. His duties include updating the official social media accounts, interviewing Salzburg Global Fellows during sessions and writing articles for the website. After completing his Bachelor’s degree he worked for International House as an English teacher in Ukraine and Portugal, before returning to his native Scotland to pursue his Master’s. While living in Glasgow, Stuart interned at communications firm Wire Media and was a flash quote reporter for the Games News Service during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He is a specialist pipe band correspondent for Piping Today, the magazine of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of St Andrews with a year abroad at the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. in Multimedia Journalism from Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Session Staff

Stephen L. Salyer, President & CEO Stephen L. Salyer became the eighth president of Salzburg Global Seminar in September 2005. Under his leadership, Salzburg Global’s program has become more policy-oriented, including long-term initiatives to strengthen independent media and their impact on development objectives, to promote the rule of law across diverse societies, to increase North-South cooperation on sustainability efforts, and to encourage new forms of global philanthropy. Stephen was President of Public Radio International from 1988 - 2005, and under his leadership the U.S. network’s affiliate structure expanded from 200 to more than 800 stations and became a major supplier of international and financial news programming. He co-founded in 1999 and chaired until 2005 a nationwide web service company for public television and radio stations-Public Interactive, LLC. He was senior vice-president of WNET/Thirteen, the PBS flagship program producer, and associate-in-charge of Public Issues at The Population Council in New York City. His career began as a speech writer for the philanthropist, John D. Rockefeller 3rd, for whom he managed grant-making in women’s health, family planning and sex education. Stephen is a graduate of Davidson College and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He spent a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship year investigating population and development policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was a Root-Tilden Scholar at New York University School of Law. He serves on the boards of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Guidestar USA and Davidson College, from which he received an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in 2003.

Sarah Sexton, Development Intern Sarah Sexton lived in Germany for 11 years before moving to Maryland, where she attended the University of Maryland, College Park. She participated in the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change in 2012 and is very excited to have returned to Schloss Leopoldskron. After graduating with a B.A. in journalism and germanic studies minor in 2014, Sarah traveled around the United States as an advance associate with the White House Office of Scheduling and Advance. She recently was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany for the 2015-16 academic year. Sarah enjoys singing, painting, and hiking.

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Clare Shine, Vice-President & Chief Program Officer Clare Shine was appointed vice president and chief program officer of Salzburg Global Seminar in 2012, after a career spanning law, business and the arts. She is a UK-qualified barrister with 20 years’ experience as environmental policy analyst for inter-governmental organizations, national governments, the private sector and NGOs. A bilingual French and English speaker and professional facilitator, she is an associate of the Institute for European Environmental Policy and member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. Her work and publications have focused on biodiversity, international trade, governance, transboundary cooperation and conflict prevention, with in-region capacity- building across four continents and the Mediterranean Basin. She has played an influential role in biosecurity policy development, working as legal advisor to the World Bank, European Commission and Council of Europe. She co-authored the European Strategy on Invasive Alien Species endorsed by 43 countries and recently advised the EC on implementing the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources. She has been a regular freelance contributor to the Financial Times arts section since 2003. She began her career in industry after studying literature at Oxford University and holds post-graduate degrees from London University and the Sorbonne University, Paris.

Gintė Stankevičiūtė, Program Associate Gintė Stankevičiūtė is a program associate at Salzburg Global Seminar. In her role, which she has held since June 2012, she assists program directors with the development, administration, and logistics of several sessions per year, with a particular focus on Salzburg Global’s Justice Cluster programs and the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. She is responsible for directly liaising with participants and faculty, preparing session directories, lecture schedules and other related materials, coordinating programs with the conference center and admissions office, as well as providing support to and supervising session interns. Previously, Gintė was an administrative assistant at Baltic Property Trust Asset Management in Vilnius, Lithuania, as well as a temporary administration associate at Philip Morris Baltic and IBM. She has interned at various international companies in Lithuania, Czech Republic and Austria, including at Salzburg Global in 2009. Gintė holds a B.A. in communications and mass media from the University of New York in Prague, Czech Republic, and an M.Sc. in communications from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Salzburg Global Seminar Staff

Stephen L. SALYER, President & Chief Executive Officer Patricia BENTON, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Clare SHINE, Vice President & Chief Program Officer George ZARUBIN, Vice President & Chief Development Officer

Program and Administrative Staff Hotel Schloss Leopoldskron Chanel Bell, Program Associate – Mellon-GCP Richard Aigner, Hotel Operations Manager Thomas Biebl, Director, Marketing and Communications Felix Bacher, Receptionist Diasmer Panna Bloe, Program Director Andre Bobes, Night Porter Chai Lu Bohannan, Davidson Impact Fellow Niklaus Geelhaar, Receptionist Jemma Clerkin, Program Associate Ernst Kiesling, Executive Chef Charles E. Ehrlich, Program Director Margit Krenn, Night Porter Jochen Fried, Director of Education Kristina Laugus, Receptionist Marty Gecek, Chair - Salzburg Global Seminar Studies Elisabeth Lenz, Receptionist American Association (SSASA) Viktoria Liebl, Service Supervisor Rachelle Giard, Individual Giving Manager Julia Lienbacher, Receptionist Benjamin W. Glahn, European Development Director Karin Maurer, Reservations and Revenue Supervisor Michaela Goldman, Intern Program Manager Matthias Rinnerthaler, Maintenance Supervisor Barbara Grodecka-Poprawska, Program Development Karin Schiller, Sales and Marketing Manager Assistant Daniel Szelényi, General Manager Louise Hallman, Editor Marisa Todorovic, Housekeeping Supervisor Jan Heinecke, Fellowship Manager Manfred Soraruf, Night Porter Lisa Karl, Finance Assistant Nadine Vorderleitner, Event Sales Coordinator Astrid Koblmüller, Program Manager Natascha Weissenbäck, Event Sales Coordinator Jackie Koney, US Development Director Veronika Zuber, Event Sales Coordinator Brigitte Kraibacher, Assistant, Admissions Office Tatsiana Lintouskaya, Program Director (on leave) Andrea Lopez Portillo, GCP Outreach and Communications John Lotherington, Program Director Sharon Marcoux, Financial Manager, US Seminar Interns Paul Mihailidis, Program Director, Salzburg Media Academy Stephanie Demetry, Development Edward Mortimer, Senior Program Advisor Kevin Kolesnikoff, Program Daniel O’Donnell, Development Associate Stuart Milne, Communications Beth Pertiller, Director of Administration Sarah Sexton, Development Bernadette Prasser, Program and Admissions Officer Ursula Reichl, Assistant Director Finance, Salzburg Manuela Resch-Trampitsch, Director Finance, Salzburg Marie-Louise Ryback, Program Consultant, Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Initiative Director Astrid Schröder, Program Director, Global Citizenship Program Katharina Schwarz, Special Assistant to the President Susanna Seidl-Fox, Program Director, Culture and the Arts Ginte Stankeviciute, Program Associate Julia Stepan, Program Associate

38 39 Why Salzburg

The mission of Salzburg Global Seminar is to challenge current and future leaders to solve issues of global concern. To do this we design, facilitate and host international strategic convening and multi-year programs to tackle systems challenges critical for the next generation.

Originally founded in 1947 to encourage the revival of intellectual dialogue in post-war Europe, we are now a game-changing catalyst for global engagement on critical issues in education, health, environment, economics, governance, peace-building and more. From the start, Salzburg Global Seminar has broken down barriers separating people and ideas. We challenge countries at all stages of development and institutions across all sectors to rethink their relationships and identify shared interests and goals.

Today, our program framework has three cross-cutting clusters and addresses the underlying questions that hold keys to human progress: Imagination, Sustainability and Justice.

Our exclusive setting at Schloss Leopoldskron enables our participants to detach from their working lives, immerse themselves in the issues at hand and form new networks and connections. Participants come together on equal terms, regardless of age, affiliation, region or sector.

We maintain this energy and engagement through the Salzburg Global Fellowship, which connects our Fellows across the world. It provides a vibrant hub to crowd-source new ideas, exchange best practice, and nurture emerging leaders through mentoring and support.

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