2003-05 - University of QueenslandBrian Adams
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Named/Endowed: Joseph and Muriel Alexandrowski Named Rotary Peace Fellowship
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of East Lansing, MI, USA
Sponsor District: 6360
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Bamana, French and Swahili
Applied Field Experience: Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Brisbane, Australia
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: Brian is the director of the Multi-Faith Centre at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He is also a PhD student at University of Queensland in Brisbane.
Yoshio Chikamatsu
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Tokyo Seihoku, Japan
Sponsor District: 2580
Citizenship: Japan
Languages: Japanese and English
Applied Field Experience: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Country: Japan
Summary: He is a project consultant for Shin Nihon & Co, working on international development projects in Japan.
Noëlle DePape
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Winnipeg-Charleswood, MB, Canada
Sponsor District: 5550
Citizenship: Canada
Languages: English, French, Spanish and Arabic
Applied Field Experience: Seeds of Peace, Mumbai, India & Lahore, Pakistan
City: Winnipeg
Country: Canada
Summary: She is the director of training and development at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba. IRCOM provides transitional housing as well as social services (i.e.: recreation, literacy and family programming) to newly arrived refugees in the City of Winnipeg. She also teaches at the University of Winnipeg in the Human Rights Department.
Mariano Griva
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Villa Gobernador Galvez, Argentina
Sponsor District: 4940
Citizenship: Argentina
Languages: Spanish, English, German and French
Applied Field Experience: UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Summary: He has been working with the Australian Red Cross Family Reunification Programme and its Community Detention Programme for asylum seekers. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland.
Sanjana Hattotuwa
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Colombo East, Sri Lanka
Sponsor District: 3220
Citizenship: Sri Lanka
Languages: English and Sinhalese
Applied Field Experience: Appeal of the Nobel Laureates Foundation & Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS), Boston, USA & Vancouver, Canada
City: Colombo
Country: Sri Lanka
Summary: Sanjana is a special advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland, working on crisis information management with the United Nations in New York. He created, managed, and edited Groundviews, a well-established alternative news and opinion source in Sri Lanka. He is also a columnist for the Sunday Leader, a newspaper well known in Sri Lanka for its independent journalism.
Josephine Manuel-Bahul
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Baguio North, Philippines
Sponsor District: 3790
Citizenship: Philippines
Languages: English and Tagalog
Applied Field Experience: Phillippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), Manila, Philippines
City: Baguio
Country: Philippines
Summary: She is director for media affairs and publications at the University of Baguio, Philippines.
Colin Spurway
Rotary Center: University of Queensland
Class: 2003-05
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Sponsor District: 1010
Citizenship: UK
Languages: English, Spanish, French and Russian
Applied Field Experience: International Alert/Friends for Peace, Kathmandu, Nepal
City: Phnom Penh
Country: Cambodia
Summary: Colin is a project director with the BBC World Service Trust on a UNDP-funded civic engagement project aimed at people between the ages of 15 and 24 in Cambodia.
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