2006 Gordon Global Fellows |
 Farouk Shamas Jiwa |
"Halved
by our Horizons? Journeys into the Pluralism of Identity, implications for Canadian Foreign Policy" - Book Review for the Literary
Review of Canada July/August 2007 (Vol. 15, No. 6) – "Minority Views: What Should be the role of Canada's Diaspora be in shaping Foreign Policy?" |
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Bio
Since 2003, Farouk has been working as a Policy Analyst with several federal agencies and departments including the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Department of Finance, Treasury Board Secretariat, and Privy Council Office. His latest position was with CIDA's Democratic Institutions and Conflict Division, Policy Branch. Farouk has also done an internship with AMREF (the African Medical and Research Foundation) in Nairobi/Entasopia, Kenya. In addition, he is currently a mentor with Pierre Elliott Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, UofT, a member of the Board of World Inter-Action Mondiale, Ottawa and is active with the Executive Committee of the Harvard Club of Ottawa. His previous volunteer involvement has included organizations such as Oxfam Canada, Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal and the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi. Farouk has also authored a number of research papers on topics such as the role of NGO's and the state in development.
Farouk has a Bachelor of Science in Anatomy and Cell Biology from McGill University (2000), a Master of Philosophy in International Development from the University of Cambridge (2001), and a Master of Science in Population and International Health from Harvard University (2003). Farouk is trilingual and speaks English, French and Kiswahili with life experience spanning 13 countries.
Issue of Investigation
As a 2006 recipient of the Gordon Global Fellowship, Farouk's issue of focus was a preliminary investigation into Canada's use of multiculturalism in informing foreign policy and whether the pluralism of identity offers more. The title of his research is: "Halved By Our Horizon? Journeys into the Pluralism of Identity: Implications for Canadian Foreign Policy".