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Current Staff
Dr. D. Michael Shafer , Director of the Rutgers Center for Global Security and Democracy (CGSD) (BA Yale, PhD Harvard, Council on Foreign Relations, 21st Century Trust Fellow), is an award-winning teacher who lectures globally, has published widely, and consults across the US and abroad. With funds from foundations, the European Union, USAID, and the US State Department, Dr. Shafer has established civic education programs to transform universities throughout the newly democratic world. For a decade (1994-2004), Dr. Shafer directed the Rutgers Citizenship and Service Education (CASE) Program, among the most international service-learning programs in the US. At CASE, he created www.njserves.org, Internet portal to the New Jersey civic sector and test bed for the development of Internet tools for citizens. As Director of CGSD, Dr. Shafer has developed online resource tools for students of international relations and comparative politics worldwide and is developing an online library of civic education materials in many languages for administrators and professors at universities in countries in transition. In addition to FACE Human Rights.org, he and his staff have created www.art-without-borders.org, an online, interactive, global art gallery, and www.worldvoicesonline.org, home to World Voices, CGSD’s weekly podcasts of global youth interviews (also posted on iTunes). He is deeply involved in international efforts to engage young people as active citizens through his training organization, Global Partnerships for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training (Global PACT). With funding from the Open Society Institute, Prudential Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and others, Global PACT offers a variety of summer training institutes at Rutgers and overseas (for example, the all-Balkans trainings in Zagreb, Croatia and the poverty reduction trainings in Grahamstown, South Africa. Dr. Shafer is fluent in French and conversant in North African Arabic. |
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