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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Tassos Coulaloglou and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP)

Tassos Coulaloglou is a Peace Fellow with AP's partner organization, the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP). Born and raised in New Jersey, Tassos attended the University of Wisconsin (UW) and received his BS in political science in 2001. In his final year at UW, Tassos spent one year studying abroad at Utrecht University in Holland.

After graduating, Tassos moved to Lithuania to become a freelance journalist. While there he also taught high-school history and English as a second language. In 2004, he returned to the States to work as a team leader with the League of Conservation's Envirovictory political campaign in Milwaukee. He returned to Eastern Europe the following year and resumed writing before beginning graduate school.

Tassos is now receiving his master's degree in international relations and diplomacy offered jointly by Leiden University and the Clingendael in Holland.
He will be working as an AP Peace Fellow in Kathmandu and Baglung, where he will use his campaign experience and journalism background to help COCAP members organize for the upcoming summer campaign, as well as build awareness regarding the current progress of peace and democracy in Nepal. His outreach and advocacy efforts will be conducted not only via his weekly AP blog, but through articles, communiqués, and regular reporting to COCAP members, AP and the press.