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From Research to Policy Recommendations: Julia VanRooyen & PHR Visit the Hill

HHI Fellow, Dr. Julia VanRooyen briefed members of Congress on conditions in Darfur refugee camps. The brief followed the recent release of the Obama Administration's Sudan Policy Review. HHI and the Physicians for Human Rights released a report earlier this year on the subject titled: "Nowhere To Turn: Failure to Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women."

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Characterizing Violence in the DRC 

Read our latest report on violence's implications for the protection of women in the DRC.  

2009 Humanitarian Action Summit Report Released  

The report presents challenges to humanitarian response and policy recommendations.

 
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Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation: Routes Through Empowerment

Join HHI Monday, November 16th from 7-9PM in the Tsai Auditorium for this Inter-communal Violence and Reconciliation Project event.

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Justyna Zander

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Justyna Zander, PhD

Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Dr. Justyna Zander is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems in Germany. She holds a Doctorate of Engineering Science and Master of Science, both in the fields of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Technical University Berlin in Germany, and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Protection and Management from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland.  She was a visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego, in 2007, and a visiting researcher at The Math Works in Natick, MA in 2008.

For her scientific efforts Dr. Zander received grants and scholarships from the Polish Prime Ministry (1999-2000), Polish Ministry of Education and Sport (2001–2004), German Academic Exchange Service (2002), European Union (2003-2004), Hertie Foundation (2004-2005), IFIP TC6 (2005), IEEE (2006), Siemens (2007), Metodos y Tecnologia (2008), Singularity University (2009), or Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (2009-2010). Her doctoral thesis on model-based testing was supported by the German National Academic Foundation (2005-2008). She is certified by the International Software Quality Institute. Dr. Zander is a researcher, designer, computer programmer, and author of a number of books and articles.