Author: Travis Rejman

Dear Friends: Warm greetings from Manila! I am thrilled to announce that on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL). The BOL will address Muslim Filipinos’ decades-long struggle for self-determination, and is the result of a long peace-building process in which we are very proud to have played a role. The… Continue reading Global Associate Helps Craft Bangsamoro Organic Law

The Goldin Institute is proud to introduce the inaugural class of Goldin Global Fellows. The 2018 cohort is comprised of 20 caring, capable, and impassioned individuals across 16 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America who came together to learn and work collaboratively over 16 weeks as a community of… Continue reading Meet the 2018 Goldin Global Fellows

The Goldin Institute was pleased to participate in the Conference on Community Writing hosted at the University of Colorado at Boulder from October 18 – 21, 2017. In a presentation on the theme of Building Global Networks that Support Local Action, Executive Director Travis Rejman previewed the Gather Platform alongside partners Lisa Dush and Delasha… Continue reading Gather Platform Previewed at Community Writing Conference

I am proud to welcome a new colleague to the Goldin Institute, Ethan Michaeli, as a Senior Advisor for Communications and Development. Ethan is an award-winning investigative journalist, educator and former executive director of a not-for-profit organization in Chicago that focused on citizen journalism. Most recently, Ethan is the author of “The Defender: How the… Continue reading Author Ethan Michaeli Joins Team as Senior Advisor

August 27th Update: I am pleased to announce that YOLRED, the first platform for Child soldier reintegration and rehabilitation in Africa that is owned and run by the former combatants themselves, is officially launched and up and running. Our work with the YOLRED team in Uganda ended with a public gathering to celebrate the official… Continue reading Follow Along as Former Child Soldiers Launch Reintegration Organization

The Goldin Institute is making great progress in building GATHER, the tablet-based distance learning course to promote grassroots leadership for community driven social change. As the Director of App Development and User Experience, I have been building the interactive capacity of the Gather platform which now includes real time chat built into the educational platform.… Continue reading Gather Update: Building a Platform for Grassroots Leadership

Learning Lessons from the Rwanda to Prevent Future Genocides The Goldin Institute is proud to annouce that Achille Tenkiang of Princeton University has been selected for our Global Fellowship program for 2016.  Achille will spend his summer internship in Rwanda with our local partners at the Kigali Genocide Museum focused on uncovering and documenting stories… Continue reading Stories of Resistance from Rwanda to Inspire Anti-Violence efforts

Executive Summary of the Project Since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, women and girls living in the internally displaced persons camps face alarming rates of rape and other forms of gender-based violence. In many camps, the rate of gender-based violence has exploded to three times pre-earthquake levels. In the year since the earthquake,… Continue reading Rape Accountability and Prevention in Haiti

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