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Kelsey Bristow and BOSFAM
Georgetown University
Kelsey Bristow will be working with BOSFAM as a 2009 Peace Fellow in Tuzla, Bosnia during the summer. BOSFAM is an organization that provides a place for women to weave various products to generate income. Many of the women, like many other Bosnians, were displaced from their homes after the war in the 1990’s. The women make items such as carpets and clothing to sell and support their families. Kelsey will tell their story through frequent blogging and advocate on their behalf once she returns to the United States.
While abroad, Kelsey will work to tell these women’s stories so that others will recognize the hardships they have endured and the struggles over which they have prevailed to support their families and begin to rebuild their lives. Kelsey will also be involved in developing a Women’s Center in Serbenica so that women who have returned to their hometowns can develop skills to provide for their families.
Kelsey is a rising senior at Georgetown University majoring in English and Justice and Peace Studies. In college and high school, she spent time in Appalachia doing development work and teaching at-risk children in Washington, D.C. peaceful alternatives to violence. Her future career aspirations are to work in the field of conflict resolution. Encouraging dialogue between post-conflict parties and peace-building in communities at risk of becoming involved in violent conflict are of particular interest to Kelsey.
As one of the first two undergraduate students to become an Advocacy Project Peace Fellow, Kelsey will work closely with an advisor at Georgetown University to develop her research and experiences in Bosnia into a thesis and paper to present at a conference. Once she returns to Georgetown from Bosnia and Herzegovina, she will help develop an Advocacy Project Chapter at Georgetown and continue to advocate for the women she will meet during the summer.
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