KEFALONIA, Greece - Western Washington University professor Nicholas Zaferatos chaired the fourth and final international workshop on sustainable community development in Kefalonia, Greece, May 28-31.
The workshops, funded by the Euro-Med Anna Lindh Foundation, focused on the development of a fair trade olive-oil economy linking rural communities of the Mediterranean region to the global marketplace. Prior conferences were held in Athens, Greece; Bellagio, Italy; and Tunis, Tunisia.
The project established a network for Euro-Med partnerships among communities in Jordan, Palestine, Greece, Tunisia and Italy. Keynote participants included Tom Rocco, provost, Hellenic American University (Athens); Ibtesam Al-Atiyat, acting director, United Nations University (Amman, Jordan) and the principals from partnering Mediterranean nongovernmental organizations.
Participants in the conference also included students from WWU and other universities who are currently enrolled in the Kefalonia Program in Sustainable Community Development, which is sponsored by WWU's Huxley College of the Environment, the Northwest Council for Study Abroad and AHA.
For more information contact, Nicholas Zaferatos at (360) 650-7660 or e-mail nicholas.zaferatos@wwu.edu.
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