Shamsia Ramadhan

Global Coordinator, FoRB

Nairobi

Shamsia has over 15 years of experience and has extensive field operations in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and Africa’s security issues. She worked in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Nigeria, Niger, and Somalia and has experience in conducting peace and security assessments. Her expertise and interests include mediation, community peacebuilding, inter-religious peacebuilding, action, conflict–sensitive programming, and preventing/countering, and violent extremism.

Shamsia has authored and co-authored several publications, articles, and resource packs on peacebuilding and preventing and countering violent extremism, including:

• Connector Project Guide Sustained Interactions for Strengthened Relationships and Collective Wellbeing
• Towards Muslim-Christian Understanding and Cooperation A Guide for Facilitators
• Following the Narrative: Using Qualitative Evidence to Inform Policy to Prevent Violent Extremism
• Building Capacities for Peace Across Africa, Inter-Religious Action for Peace
• Religious Presence in Kenya Politics, Culture and Civil Society: Peacebuilders of Partisans
• The Concepts and Practice of Peace, Peacebuilding and Religious Peacebuilding: Lessons from Kenya
• Peace Building Gaining or Losing? Religion: A Source of Conflict or Road to Peace?
• Peace Journalism in Post Election Kenya

She holds a Master of Arts degree in International Peace Studies from the Joan B. Kroc Institute For International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.