Sedi Minachi completed her PhD in Education at UBC and her dissertation
on peace education in a conflict zone was published in 2011, including
as the book ‘The Telling of Peace Education: Narratives of Peace
Educators in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’. For this
research, Sedi traveled to Israel and Palestine to conduct her
fieldwork.
Her BA and MA are from UBC’s Women’s Studies and
Gender Relations, and her work experience with several women’s
organizations focused on social justice and human rights for women,
particularly in the Diasporas Communities.
Sedi was the Project
Coordinator for a 2008 study at the UBC Centre for Community and Child
Health Research and conducted qualitative research among New Immigrant
families from Iran. She was the lead researcher for the CUSO-VSO
sponsored project in Nigeria ‘Diaspora Volunteering Strategy and Action
Plan’ and came back from her field trip in November, 2012.
As a woman
who experienced the emergence of political Islam in Iran (in her
teenage years), she wrote numerous articles and shared her experiences
through classroom lectures and conference presentations. The title of
her latest published paper is ‘Political Islam in Modern Iran: Ulama,
Islamic Militancy, and Elimination of Alleged Apostates’ (Roshandel, J.
Lean, N. (Eds) ‘The Moral Psychology of Terrorism: Implications for
Security’.
Sedi considers herself a global citizen and is
extensively involved in peace and human rights activism through her
academic and community work.
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