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There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet~Brooke Medicine Eagle
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To contact Marian Douglas-Ungaro click the "contact author" link. Message board posts will be delivered and are private. Marian Douglas-Ungaro is a Washington, DC native whose professional experience ranges from ethnicity, gender and diversity to broadcast journalism, social media and mass communication, and post-conflict reconstruction.
In 2008 Marian's profile was added to Siyanda.org's Gender Experts and Consultants Database. Siyanda is a part of the International Development Studies Centre at University of Sussex, UK.
Ms. Douglas-Ungaro has lived and worked in Africa and Europe as well as the Americas. Her language skills include French, Spanish and Italian, as well as a respectable lingua franca of the south Slav languages: Bosnian (bosanski), Croatian (hrvatski), Serbian (srpski), and Macedonian (makedonski).
She is a mother and grandmother, and is married to retired Italian diplomat Carlo Ungaro.
In July 2007 she was interviewed on the current, ongoing displacement of Washington DC's Black American majority population. This interview appeared in the European daily Nederlands Dagblad, published in the Netherlands (Holland). In 2006 as a blogger and Afrodescendant of the Americas, Ms. Douglas was featured with Jill Lepore of Harvard University and Simon Schama of the BBC in the Open Source Radio (public) broadcast titled The Hidden Histories of Slavery. At the 2004 European Social Forum in London UK she spoke on the plenary "Alliances We Need to Fight Racism." ln late 2004 she took part in the international conference sponsored by UNIFEM, International Alert and the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 to increase women's participation in conflict prevention and conflict resolution.
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Birth Place
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Washington, DC United States of America
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Memberships: Washington Association of Black Journalists; Black Professionals in International Affairs; Chatham House (formerly British Royal Institute of International Affairs); Wilton Park Fellow; Participant, Irish Centre for Human Rights Minority Human Rights Law seminar; Salzburg Seminar (Austria). Blogher 2005. 2002 International Women's Day speaker, Hargeisa, Somaliland. Moderator, "Gender and NEPAD," African Forum for Envisioning Africa's Future (Nairobi, Kenya). NAGAAD Women's Coalition office dedication, 8 March 2002, Hargeisa, Somaliland; dedication of UNIFEM Rural Women's Empowerment Center, Arabsiyo, Somaliland; opening of the Edna Adan Teaching Maternity Hospital, Hargeisa.
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Look up Marian's profile in the Siyanda.org Database of Gender Experts and Consultants.
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Contact Information
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Marian Douglas-Ungaro
PO Box 76533
Washington DC 20013
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Contact Author: Marian Douglas
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Favorite Links
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Food: from fuel to riots as Reuters covers
The current global food crisis makes me remember being in Jamaica in the last quarter of 1977. Michael Manley was prime minister. For some reason, the U.S. government did not consider Mr. Manley a friend. Somehow I sensed that perhaps it was more than coincidence that the same tense political period between Washington and Kingston witnessed empty shelves in all of Kingston's local food shops... (contd)
International Trafficking in Black Women: 'La Mulata' and 'la Africana' Out in the World, Marian Douglas
At the dawn of the 21st century why are housecleaning and prostitution still primary "work options" for millions of Black women, even in the "new" Europe?
Ending Conflict in Macedonia, by Marian Douglas
International Herald Tribune, 21 March 2001. For the time being, Macedonia seems to have found a path away from war and further social disintegration in the Balkans. Much work remains in order to maintain peace. How does the situation in Macedonia and the rest of former Yugoslavia compare to political and armed conflict in other regions such as African regions and countries? Why have more funds and media attention gone to addressing conflict in Europe rather than Africa? What are the routes as well as the barriers to two populations experiencing recent conflict - Africans and southeastern Europeans, and women in particular - assisting one another?
U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 passed unanimously, 31 October 2000. Resolution 1325 (S/RES/1325) is the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council specifically addressing impact of war on women, and women's contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace.
(Full resolution on the website.)
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