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Profiles of CONTACT students

• Modupe Adebayo: "When I was offered work in Afghanistan towards the end of that same year [after the CONTACT program],... I had already become a different person and not afraid to take on the challenge." [more...]
• Shelley Anderson: "I make use of the theoretical knowledge that I gained [in CONTACT], and pass this on during my work as a nonviolence trainer with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation's Women Peacemakers Program. But it is the personal stories that stay with me." [more...]
• Nino Bigvava: "I think challenges that surround us give us a new reason for being empowered." [more...]
• Protasia Gathendoh: "After completing the Summer Institute, Protasia returned to Kenya where she helped her organization use USAID funds to start four satellite training centers." [more...]
• An alumna of CONTACT 2002, Marijana Senjak, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. [more...]
• Farrukh Sohail Goindi helped to organize a group of 2500 peace, human rights and women's rights activists, among others to attend the 4th World Social Forum. [more...]
• Faiza Jarrar: "The program opened my eyes, and through it, I understood a lot of what happened, and what is happening in Iraq..." [more...]
• Jesse Merle Harris-Bathrick: "The unfinished business about race in the US is something very real to me. I think it lives in the entire country, but here in the South where I grew up during segregation, the civil rights movement, it seems to openly play out every day in some conflict." [more...]
• Jessica Nkuuhe: "We spent Saturday morning experiencing Gacaca live. We first had a briefing by the Coordinator of the Gacaca activities in the Gikondo district of Kigali." [ more... ]
• Orlen C. Ocleasa: "Yes, in my experience while delivering interventions for economic development, conflict arises in the communities. It can be between people organizations, between people organizations and NGOs, or local government units, NGOs against government and other factions." [more...]
• Gavin Preüss: "CONTACT is a truly life-changing experience and an absolute must for anyone who dares to believe that the World can be a peaceful place" [more...]
• Theo Roncken: In the first week of January 2006, Theo Roncken, a 2005 CONTACT Summer Institute alum, facilitated a training seminar on learning and communication in work groups to 65 educators and mental health workers in Santiago, Chile. [more...]
• Maki Taniguchi: "The other participants’ experiences were my textbook at CONTACT." [more...]
• James Movel Wuye and Muhammed Nurayn Ashafa: Two religious leaders in Kaduna, one of the principal killing fields in Nigeria, made a conversion from militant foes to religious peacemakers. [more...]