{"id":1244,"date":"2011-02-11T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?post_type=cjp_alumni&#038;p=1244"},"modified":"2014-03-22T21:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T01:47:43","slug":"brian-gilchrest","status":"publish","type":"cjp_alumni","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/cjp-alumni\/brian-gilchrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Gilchrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deputy Chief in the Democracy and Governance Office (DGO) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/locations\/sub-saharan_africa\/countries\/ethiopia\/\" target=\"_blank\">USAID-Ethiopia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since August 2007 I have been serving as Deputy Chief in the Democracy and Governance Office (DGO) of the USAID-Ethiopia Mission.\u00a0I provide\u00a0office and program management as well as technical expertise to the DGO within the full scope of its democracy and governance portfolio with a specific focus on conflict mitigation and reconciliation programming in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004:<\/strong> I am based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and work from the\u00a0<strong>National Headquarters of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY)<\/strong>. I was sent under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.&#8217;s Worldwide Ministries Division.<\/p>\n<p>The EECMY Peace Office is striving towards the eventual attainment of a just political and social order where the recognition and respect for human rights and sanctity of all life in God&#8217;s creation are paramount.<\/p>\n<p>My role as advisor is one where I wear a number of hats, but in a sentence, I am assisting this office to develop its capacity to make sustainable contributions to the peace and justice work of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>I am also learning a lot as the days, weeks and now months pass by, and language acquisition takes a significant portion of my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3510,"template":"","regions":[1383],"fields-of-practice":[773],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1158],"class_list":["post-1244","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-ethiopia","fields-of-practice-strategic-peacebuilding","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1158"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}