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Susan Shepler
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- United States
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Latest Activity
E4 Engendering Empowerment: Education and Equality conference at Dakar, Senegal
May 17, 2010 to May 20, 2010
The E4 Engendering Empowerment: Education and Equality conferences, scheduled to take place between 12th April – 20th May 2010, speak to the goal of strengthening and expanding partnerships for girls’ education around the most pressing obstacles man…
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- Name
- Susan Shepler
- Please share a short bio for yourself. This should be no more than 3-4 short paragraphs.
- Susan Shepler is an Assistant Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution in the School of International Service at American University in Washington DC. Her dissertation work was on the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, the social construction of childhood and youth, and on struggles over the localization of global child rights discourse.
She has since gone on to research youth and political identity in West Africa, focusing on popular music as a site of resistance and an alternate moral universe. She has consulted for UNICEF (on fosterage of Ivoirian children in Guinea), Search for Common Ground carrying out evaluations of their radio peacebuilding work in Sierra Leone and Liberia), and the IRC (conducting a multi-country tracer study on the long-term impact of teacher training for refugees in Guinea after their return to Sierra Leone and Liberia).
Her next project is an volume co-edited with Aisha Fofana Ibrahim, a Sierra Leonean gender scholar, entitled "Everyday Life in Postwar Sierra Leone"
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Assistant Professor, American University
- What are your main skills/expertise?
- Qualitative research, research project management, teaching
- What are Your expertise areas/sectors when it comes to youth
- DDR, Education, Gender, Protection, Psychosocia
- What are Your primary Skills, to compliment Your areas/sectors
- Evaluation, Research
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Kick the Butt Campaign
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Forgotten Diaries
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Changing Education Paradigms
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Latest Activity
- YouthEngage.com: how can young people better prevent abuse and violence against children and youth?
- Echoing Green Fellowship: Start-up grants and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity
- Youth Challenge International Scholarships for winter projects in Ghana and Guatemala
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