Davis Projects for Peace Initiative Grant for 2008

I House UC Berkeley has submitted project proposals to the Davis 100 Projects for Peace Initiative Project funded by the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation. These 100 $10,000.00 fellowships are part of her Davis 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. Ms. Davis turned 100 this year and decided to celebrate by creating 100 peace projects fellowships, which she wanted to be grassroots and implementable anywhere in the world.

In late January, the UC Berkeley International House's jury of seven members completed the judging of Davis Projects for Peace Initiative. The judges were the following:

• Martin Brennan: Executive Director I-House
• Liliane C. Koziol: Director of Program I-House
• Aditya Rametra: Rotary Peace Fellow class of 2007-2009
• Marion Ross: I-House Board Member
• Amy Slater: I-House Board Member
• Allan Solomonow: Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies UC Berkeley
• Michael Watts: Professor, Geography, Director of Rotary Peace Center at UC Berkeley

Submissions and Grantees

There were a total of 8 submissions covering a wide range of impressive perspectives. The jury sent its recommendations to New York and we have recently received the decisions from the Davis Projects for Peace. We are extremely pleased that of the following submissions the four italics entries have been funded by the Davis Projects for Peace Initiative grant for 2008.

• Creation of Sustainable Livelihoods through Development of New Writers Writing Workshop in Cambodia - Aaron Sorenson
• Project Sastimasa: Education for Liberation (project for the Roma in Kosovo) - Sina Akhavan
• Safe Water for a Safe World: A Health Initiative in Asia’s Largest Slum - Ayse Ercumen
• Africa vision: because every place has its own wisdom
• Fair trade in Salta, Argentina
• Building a classroom in Nicaragua
• The Peace Camp: Building Community Among Vietnamese and Cambodian Children - Ana Teresa Villarreal Montemayor
• Peace through language education