WISCONSIN PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER AWARDS

Each year, the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies organizes a conference inviting students from Wisconsin and other states to conduct research and present their papers. Each year, St. Norbert College sends a number of students to present their research, and throughout the years the following students received awards for their papers:   

2009
Adi Redzic, Nation Above Nations: Serbian Nationalism and the Role of Language and Religion in the Disintegration of the Former Yugoslavia 
Major: International Studies and Political Science
Class: INTL 400, Prof. Gratzia Villarroel

2008
Maria Van Hoorn, A Comprehensive Analysis of the Nongovernmental Organizations in the Kaukuma Refugee Camp Advocating for Human Rights
Major: International Studies
Class: INTL 400, Prof. Victoria Tashjian

Anthony Shimek, Strategic Differences in Counter Child Labor Programs: SCREAM, PROGRESSA, and UNICEF Corporate Partnership: IKEA
Major: International Studies
Class: INTL 400, Prof. Victoria Tashjian

2007
Elizabeth Weigel , Mexican Maquiladoras and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Has CEDAW Been Successfully Implemented?   
Major: International Studies
Class: INTL 400, Prof. Gratzia Villarroel

2006
Geoffrey Bromaghim, Petroleum and Indigenous Peoples: Marginalization and Value Differences
Major: International Studies
Class: INTL 400, Prof. Gratzia Villarroel

1998
Jill Drzewiecki, The Role of NGO's on Street Children in Colombia  
Major: International Studies
Class: POLI 350, Prof. Gratzia Villarroel

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