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Sheherazade Jafari

Sheherazade Jafari
Director, Point of View International Retreat and Research Center

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), International Relations, American University
Master of Arts (MA), International Development and Conflict Resolution, The George Washington University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography

Sheherazade Jafari is the director of the Point of View International Research and Retreat Center at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Working with students, faculty and partners within the international peacebuilding community, she is developing programming that facilitates conflict resolution and reconciliation processes, trains a new generation of students and practitioners, and advances research to support the development of theory and practice in the field. 

A scholar and practitioner, Sheherazade’s own research and applied background and interests include gender, religion and human rights in conflict and peacebuilding, as well as fostering a more diverse and inclusive conflict resolution field.  Her PhD research examined how women’s rights activists in Muslim-majority societies are engaging religion and working across religious-secular divides in response to rising politicized religion and extremism. 

Sheherazade has worked in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia with both large and small civil society organizations, and has taught and facilitated dialogues and trainings regarding gender, religion and conflict resolution.  In 2016, she oversaw an interfaith youth peace initiative with the U.S. Institute of Peace and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  Previously she led the Religion and Conflict Resolution Program at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, where she worked with religious peacemakers from armed conflict zones around the world.  She serves on the board of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, where she chairs the gender & sexuality committee, and



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August 10, 2015
At the “Sprit of Struggle” gathering in April 2015, The Kairos Center interviewed Dr. Sheherazade Jafari, whose research focuses on how women’s rights activists in Muslim-majority societies are engaging religion and working across religious-...
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November 10, 2011
As Islamophobia rises within the West, intra- and interreligious conflicts persist in the East, and a supposed clash of civilizations between the Western and Islamic worlds continues to dominate the headlines, a serious study of Islam and peacemaking is imperative...
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The opening scene of Egypt as a Woman describes the official unveiling of the sculpture Nahdat Misr, or "The Awakening of Egypt," inspired by the 1919 revolution in which diverse groups mobilized to protest the British and call for independence. The...
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August 10, 2007
Sectarian violence in the Middle East; religious nationalism in South Asia; threats of religious extremism in the West; interreligious battles in Africa; religious suppression in East Asia. These realities suggest that religion plays a significant role in the...
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Kuala Lumpur - Muslim women’s rights. These three words— whether uttered by religious fundamentalists,
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Two days before the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan war, I sat in the U.S. Capitol anticipating the screening of
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Join us for an evening of networking, open house tours of Point of View, and keynote remarks from Tom Davis, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 - 2008 for Virginia's 11th District and Jim Moran, member of theU.S. House of Representatives from 1991 - 2015 for Virginia's
April 30, 2017
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