In October 2019, the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime announced the launch of the Resilience Fellowship, an initiative aimed at building a platform for cross-sectoral, global and interdisciplinary collaboration to counter the effects of organized crime.
Each year, the Fellowship will have a chosen theme focusing on a global issue around which fellows collaborate to find new perspectives and responses, drawn from their diverse but shared experiences.
We are now delighted to present our Fellows, after the successful completion of the selection process:
2020 Fellows
Disappearances Related to Organized Crime
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Rubaya, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Benoit Kikwaya
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State of Bolivar, Venezuela
Clavel Rangel
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Bucharest, Romania
Ioana Bauer
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Ituango, Colombia
Isabel Zuleta
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Meru, Kenya
Judie Kaberia
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Manila, Philippines
Mae Paner
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Culiacan, Mexico
Maria Isabel Cruz
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Manila, Philippines
Rafael Lerma
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sok Phay Sean
Focusing on the 2020 Resilience Fellowship’s theme: “Disappearances Related to Organized Crime”, each of the 10 Fellows will be supported in their work with communities, be encouraged to pursue collaborative projects, and provided with mentorship, training opportunities and different international platforms for the dissemination of their work.
2021 Reslience Fellowship's theme
Extortion and organized crime