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Antigona Kukaj and Survivor Corps in Bosnia

Antigona is an AP Peace Fellow with Survivor Corps (formerly the Landmine Survivors Network) in Tuzla, Bosnia. She will be working to advance the rights of disabled war survivors who need long-term care, rehabilitation, and social and economic support.

As a Peace Fellow at Survivor Corps, she hopes to address and bring awareness to the great healthcare challenges facing landmine-threatened nations like Bosnia, as well as other nations that contain a large presence of cluster bomb submunitions, unexploded artillery shells, and other explosive remnants of war.

Antigona immigrated to the US from Peja, Kosova as a child and grew up in New York. Her course of study is influenced by her personal background, political advocacy, and broad intellectual interests.

She received her Master's degree in human rights studies from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her area of concentration was in transitional justice and genocide studies. Antigona also holds a certificate in international human rights law from Oxford University and a BA in international criminal justice from John Jay College (CUNY).

She has served as a research assistant and webmaster in various academic forums and professional organizations, including the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College and the American Political Science Association. Antigona has also worked on nuclear proliferation and arms control issues in the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs Office of the Under-Secretary-General.

She is a strong advocate of human rights pedagogy and developing innovative teaching strategies to educate others about human rights abuses. As part of her work with Survivor Corps this summer, Antigona looks forward to using her ICT skills as a tool for empowering and engaging the disability rights movement in Bosnia. In addition, she seeks to play an active role in Survivor Corps's victim assistance initiatives.

Antigona's AP fellowship gives her an extraordinary opportunity to fulfill her commitment to alleviate the suffering and social stigma experienced by disabled war survivors. She will be attending law school in the fall in order to pursue her deep interest in international and comparative law.

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