Sanam Naraghi Anderlini Biography

Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is a Senior Fellow at the MIT Institute for International Studies and the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) co-founder. She joined the UN's Mediation Standby Team in 2011 as the organization's first Senior Expert on Women and Inclusion. She has been a renowned international trainer, researcher, advocate, and writer on conflict resolution and peacemaking for about 20 years. She participated in the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security's civil society drafters in 2000. In addition, Ms. Anderlini conducted ground-breaking field research on women's contributions to conflict prevention, safety, and peacemaking in 12 countries between 2002 and 2005 while serving as the director of the Women Waging Peace Policy Commission. In addition, since 2005, she has led a UNFPA/UNDP needs assessment of Maoist cantonment camps in Nepal. She has also provided strategic advice and training to important UN agencies, the UK government, and NGOs globally. Ms. Anderlini served as the lead consultant for a 10-country UNDP global effort on "Women, Community Security, and Social Cohesion" from 2008 to 2010, focusing on the experiences of males in times of crisis. She was named to the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) on Resolution 1325, led by Mary Robinson, in 2010 and has served on the advisory board of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF). She was named in 2013 to the Sustainable Development Network's Working Group on Women and Inclusion for the post-2015 agenda. Women creating peace: What they do, why it matters is one of several books by Ms. Anderlini on gender, peace, and security concerns (Lynne Rienner, 2007). She is a Cambridge University M.Phil. in Social Anthropology graduate. She was born in Iran but now resides in the UK and has twin kids.

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