Driving across the Sanag desert, a disputed region between Somaliland and Puntland, Somalia, 2007.

Currently, I'm serving an international humanitarian aid agency on programs in the Middle East, based in Washington, DC.

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I've served as a humanitarian aid coordinator, researcher, and/or journalist in the African Horn, Eurasia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and in the US.

I recently returned from Sudan where I served as a Senior Associate for Social Impact, evaluating the UN & Partners $800 million annual counter-famine effort for the whole country including Darfur and Southern Sudan, one of the largest collective counter-famine efforts in history.

Write to me if you have any questions and/or would like to discuss anything here,

Daniel J Gerstle, djgerstle@yahoo.com

 Friends' Links

• Center for International Health and Cooperation
• Writer-Consultant, Shane Townsend 
• Marketing Consultant and Blogger, Josh Klein
• Aid Worker-Memoirist, Nate Miller 
• Aid Worker-Memoirists, Stephanie Lazar & Dave Newman 
• And more coming...

What's New?

You can read my latest work here:

• We Somalis are One People: Interview with Mohamed Omer Warsama, Aid Worker, Guardian Weekly, 8/08
• A Visit to the Ossetian Divide: Life in North Ossetia in 2006, Guardian Weekly, London, 8/08
• Caucasian Favours: The Ossetians and their Role in the Russo-Georgian Conflict, Prospect Magazine, London, 8/08
• Enhancing the Food Security and Livelihood Sector for Sudan, Research in Darfur, Southern Sudan, and Southern Kordofan, Co-written with Dr. El-Sayed Zaki, UN & Partners Work Plan for Sudan, OCHA, Khartoum, 7/08
• Iconography of Chechnya and its Region, A photo essay run alongside the art of Terry Castle and Yuki Onodera, Le REVUE internationale des LIVRES et des idees, Paris, 5/08
• Frontline Families in the North Caucasus, A solo photo exhibit and essay now on display at the University of Texas, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 4/08-5/08
• Somalia's Sheikhs, Warlords, and Peacemakers, Islamica Magazine 3/08 [Print version of magazine only]  
• Obama Supporters Bite the Big Apple: Interview with Monica Youn, NY DP Delegate, The Guardian Weekly 2/08
• Russia and the North Caucasus: Winning Over the Peaceful Muslim Majority, The Guardian Weekly 1/08 
• Chechnyans Caught in the Crossfire, The Guardian Weekly 12/07
• Survival in Somalia: Aid Workers under Attack, The Guardian Weekly 10/07
• Azerbaijan: Landmines: Fields of Peril, Transitions Online 10/07
• For more, see my portfolio here. -- Daniel.

Clients, Employers, and Publishers

UN, Aid, and Human Rights Organizations

• UNCT - Sudan Work Plan
• UNDP - Somalia Rule of Law and Security Programme
• UNHCR - Somalia Protection Programme 
• UNICEF - Somalia Child Protection Unit 
• UNOCHA - HQ Early Warning Unit
• Action Against Hunger - USA, Tajikistan
• Catholic Community Services - Seattle, Wash
• Center for International Tolerance Education 
• Chechnya Advocacy Network
• Horn Relief - Somalia 
• International Institute of Boston, Mass
• International Medical Corps - Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and North Ossetia-Alania)  
• International Rescue Committee - Croatia, Azerbaijan, USA
• Social Impact, USA

Publications

• Columbia University Communique News
• Columbia University SIPA News Magazine
• Digihitch Online 
• Eurasianet / Open Society Institute 
• The Green Magazine 
• The Guardian Weekly 
• Hiiraan - Somalia  
• Islamica Magazine
• Journal of International Affairs 
• Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
• Prospect Magazine, UK 
• ReliefWeb Online 
• Le REVUE internationale des LIVRES et des idees
• STORY Magazine
• Transitions Online
• World Surface Online

Other Clients and Employers

• Axion, LLC
• Columbia University Conflict Resolution Program 
• Columbia University Harriman Institute
• Columbia University Humanitarian Affairs Program
• Conversa Language Center
• LaasQoray.Net - Somalia
• Pepsico Foundation
• Psychosocial.org / Idealist.org
• Reality Films
• Trinity Church at Wall Street, NYC
• UNITE-HERE, NYC HQ
• University of Cincinnati Bearcat Newspaper
• University of Texas at Austin, CREEES  
• And more coming...