This collection of youth perspectives would not have been possible without the generous volunteers of our International Selection Committee, who volunteered their time to read and rate articles in the competition.
Selection Committee members were nominated by GYAN staff and partner organizations and make up a global group of academics and experts in economics, the political and social sciences, and international relations. In the spirit of developing inter-generational partnerships, four youths were invited to join professors on the ten-member International Selection Committee.
Professors
Professor Ladislav Cabada is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of West Bohemia , Pilsen , Czech Republic , and Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Philosophy, UWB in Pilzen. He studied Political Science at the Charles University in Prague and at the University in Ljubljana , Slovenia . Since 2002, he has served as Secretary-General of the Czech Political Science Association, and since 2003, as the Czech representative in the Executive Committee of the Central European Political Science Association. Mr. Cabada has specialized in comparative politics, political anthropology, and development studies. His publications include The Political System of Slovenia (SLON, 2005), Mixed Electoral Systems (Ales Cenek, Dobra Voda, 2003), The Political System of the Czech Republic (Portal, Prague , 2003), and Contemporary Questions of Central European Politics (Ales Cenek, Dobra Voda, 2002). Professor Cabada speaks Czech and Slovak as his native languages, and also speaks English, German, Russian, and Slovenian.
Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke III received his PhD in Russian and Soviet History from the University of Maryland in 1989. He is now a Professor of History at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville , Florida . Twice President of the Florida Conference of Historians, he has written extensively on diplomacy in the 1930s, especially focusing on the relations among the Soviet Union, Italy , Ethiopia , and Japan . In addition to a monograph, Russia and Italy Against Hitler: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapprochement of the 1930s (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), Dr. Clarke has published chapters in two books. These are: “The Politics of Arms Not Given: Japan, Ethiopia, and Italy in the 1930s” and “Italo-Soviet Cooperation in the 1930s,” in Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 135-53 and 177-99; and “ Yamato o meguru Bei-kaigun no Joho Katsudo” [U.S. Navy's Intelligence Activities Regarding the Yamato ] in Senkan Yamato [Battleship Yamato ] (Tokyo: Kondan-sha, 2003), 162-96. He has published extensively in the Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians as well as in the proceedings of the XVIII th and XV th International Conferences of Ethiopian Studies.
Professor Robert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University . Specializing in international politics in general, and security policy, decision-making, and theories of conflict and cooperation in particular, his most recent book is System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life . (Princeton University Press, 1997). Among his previous books are The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1989), Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 1976), and The Logic of Images in International Relations (Columbia University Press, 1989). Professor Jervis holds a BA from Oberlin College (1962). He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was appointed an Assistant (1968-1972) and Associate (1972-1974) Professor of Government at Harvard University . From 1974 to 1980 he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California , Los Angeles . Dr. Jervis is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as the President of the American Political Science Association.
Anne-Marie Lizin is Speaker of the Belgian Senate and has had a long career in national, European, and international politics, having served as a member of the European Parliament, as a delegate to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe , and in various other capacities. In her involvement with the United Nations, she has served as an independent expert of the UN Commission on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty since 1998; she has served other roles within the organization as well. She is an economist for the University of Liège , where she also served as visiting professor for international relations. She is currently a professor of International Organizations at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po Paris ), where she has taught since 2004.
Professor Steven D. MacIsaac received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington . His interests include international political economy, Southeast Asian politics, and the political economy of development. He lived and worked for six years in Southeast Asia, and has written extensively about the Philippines . His articles have been published in Philippine Studies and the Southeast Review of Asian Studies . Professor MacIsaac has taught at the University of California, Irvine , Whittier College , and the Institute of International Relations in Ha Noi, Viet Nam . He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Jacksonville University .
Joseph Sayegh earned his Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University , New Brunswick , NJ, and his MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University , where he was a Stern Scholar. He has served as Vice President of major multinational banks, including ABN Amro, Citigroup, and ICAP in financial services, and has over fifteen years of experience in risk management, global strategic planning, fixed income and equity sales, foreign exchange, derivatives, and business management. He has developed global markets expertise from having worked throughout North America, Europe and Asia . He is currently an adjunct Professor in finance at Rutgers University and at William Paterson University . He speaks English and Arabic.
Student Committee Members
Abdourahmane Diallo was born in Senegal to Guinean parents. He completed his Master of Arts in Sociology and obtained a Graduate Diploma in Journalism at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar. Having served as a journalist with a radio station in Dakar , he is currently working towards a Master of Arts in International Affairs with a specialty in Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution and Security at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in France . He speaks English and French, and is fluent in two African languages, his mother tongue, Fulah, and Wolof.
Dr. Joubine Eslahpazire , of Iranian origin, has lived in Cote d'Ivoire, where he completed his medical studies at l'Université nationale d'Abidjan , from the age of fifteen. He later began his studies in biology in France , where he researched molecular and parasitic genetics. He is currently completing his thesis in immunology at l'Université Paris 6 . He is a graduate of l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and is pursuing a research masters at l'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (The School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) on the subject of the persecution of the Baha'i faith in Iran .
Maria Masiar studied Management and Economics at the University of Toronto, Canada, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce. Most recently, Maria worked in Paris with UNESCO in the Human Rights Division, spearheading efforts to re-design the human rights website and build the internet forum for UNESCO chairs. She was also involved in numerous youth organizations and has spoken as a panelist at the World Summit on Information Society, addressing the shift of Internet Technology resources to third world countries, as well as on issues regarding Young Women and Technology. For six years, Maria also ran Aoulous Inc., a successful internet start-up with numerous Fortune 500 clients such as Volvo, General Electric, and the Royal Bank, and has won four international awards for design. She is of Slovakian and Canadian nationality and is trilingual, speaking English, French, and Slovak. Maria is currently pursing a Masters in Economics.
Giselle Elena Weybrecht , a national of the Dominican Republic and Canada , has lived and worked around the world with nongovernmental organizations, governments, and the United Nations since a very young age on water issues. She, along with twenty other young Canadian environmental leaders, was chosen to be part of the Canadian Youth Summit team with the Canadian UN delegation to participate in the preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, where she was an active member of the Youth Caucus. She has been working for the United Nations for four years, serving as coordinator for the 2003 International Year of Freshwater. She is currently writing a book for the United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. Giselle is preparing to start an MBA at London Business School to work in sustainability issues in business. She currently lives in Paris, France.
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