Welcome, Annamária!
The ERGO Network Secretariat team is growing! Last week our new European Solidarity Corps volunteer Annamária Pšenková from Slovakia joined us in Brussels.
She will stay one year with us to learn more about how we work and support all our work areas.
Here is more about Annamária in her own words:
My name is Annamária Pšenková. I am from a small country which is situated in the middle of Europe called Slovakia. I am 23 years old. I finished my bachelor’s studies in political sciences in May and I decided to take a gap year.
Firstly I would like to introduce my interests within the academic sphere. My undergraduate studies at BISLA gave me the opportunity to explore various fields of politics, economics, international relations, philosophy and most importantly human rights.
While studying all these fields, my primary interest was rooted in focusing on peace and conflict resolution within different social conflicts either on national or international dimensions. During my studies, I notably centralized my papers on dealing with injustice and breaches of human rights. The course – Peace and conflict resolution, in which I have been enrolled taught me how cultural and collective trauma from past traumatic experiences is created.
Furthermore, the most significant and relevant part of that course was that it has given me sufficient knowledge about various means to reconcile the past and bring the conflict between two different parties into mutual understanding.
While analysing numerous genocides as the Armenian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the Romani Genocide, Congolese genocide, I have developed the ability to understand the impacts of political decisions (my main concern was the implementation of the policy of securitization), moreover, it led me to realize the importance of reconciliation process of such horrendous atrocities within our society. Lastly, my BA thesis focused on the whole process of the creation of cultural trauma and how collective trauma from past traumatic experiences can be effectively misused for current political goals.
In my personal life, I’ve been dancing since I was a child. I started with the Latino style but slowly and gradually I was changing the dancing styles. Mainly I am focused on afro, dancehall, fusion and street Latino right now. I have three brothers, who are the most important men in my life, so leaving them was a bit harder for me. I do love books a lot, mainly those philosophical ones now – I am captivated by Plato’s ideas the most. I am an outgoing person, I love to party a lot or just spend time with friends in bars with beers.
