Atiaf Alwazir

Head of Peace Programme

 

Atiaf leads the Peace Programme working on developments at the EU, gender, peace education, and climate justice.  

Atiaf’s peacebuilding work intersects across social justice issues. She has previously worked with non-governmental organizations and research/academic institutions in Egypt, France, Germany, Tunisia, United States, and Yemen. She is passionate about rethinking ‘security’, and bridging the divide between the ‘domestic’ and ‘foreign’, as well as exploring the links between cultural heritage, memory, and identity. She engages in academic, policy, and fiction writing as well as advocacy. She has an academic background in International Affairs with a focus on conflict resolution. 

Atiaf is bilingual in English and Arabic and speaks French at an intermediate level.