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Rianne Van Doeveren and the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Rianne Van Doeveren will be working with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) as a 2008 Peace Fellow.
She was born and raised in The Hague, known internationally as the growing European city of Peace and Justice as it is home to the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and organizations such as the OPCW.
After a bachelor's degree in politcal science at Leiden University, she was fortunate enough to win a scholarship enabling her to currently pursue a masters degree in international relations and diplomacy at Leiden University and Clingendael (The Netherlands Institute for International Affairs). Many topics crossed her studies but she has always been drawn most to conflict studies with a focus on civil war resolution and post-conflict peace building processes.
The need to get out of the books and into the real world has been there as long as she can remember, so she jumped at the opportunity to study in South Africa (Stellenbosch University). There, it was a natural step to help the community by teaching at a pre-primary school in the township Kayamandi, although the Xhosa click-language occasionally proved to be a funny obstacle.
The need to see what is really happening and to share this information was another natural lead, this time to The Advocacy Project. After intensely studying the Israeli/Palestinian conflict she feels it is time to go, to see, to listen, and to share and tell those stories that do not normally reach us.
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