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S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana

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Known For: Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University; Founding member & Associate Director, Salam Institute for Peace and Justice
Country: United States

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Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s MA Program in Conflict Resolution. Similarly, she has served as Assistant Professor in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution at the School of International Service at American University in Washington DC. Dr. Kadayifci-Orellana has worked at the United States Institute of Peace on Projects related to Iraq. She is also one of the founding members and the Associate Director of Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, a non-profit organization for research, education, and practice on issues related to conflict resolution, nonviolence, and development. She received her PhD from American University’s School of International Service and her Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

Dr. Kadayifci-Orellana’s has taught, lectured, and published extensively in the fields of gender and peace, theories of peace, religion and peace building, crosscultural conflict resolution and mediation, interfaith and intra-faith dialogues, peace building and development, Islamic sources of conflict resolution, and Muslim peace building actors in Africa and the Balkans. She has also facilitated dialogues and conflict resolution workshops between Israelis and Palestinians, worked with indigenous community leaders from North and Latin America, conducted Islamic conflict resolution training workshops to imams and Muslim youth leaders in the United States, organized and participated in interfaith and intra-Muslim dialogues, and organized and participated in the first American-Muslim Delegation to Iran in November 2007.

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