Shaazka Beyerle is a researcher, writer and educator in people power and civil resistance. She is presently a Senior Advisor with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. She is conducting a research/book project on citizen empowerment and grass-roots campaigns and movements to curb corruption and gain accountability and rights. The initiative is documenting, analyzing and distilling general lessons learned from cases around the world. Corruption may be the sole focus, or it may be linked to other concerns, such as poverty, violence, authoritarian rule, budgets/spending, state service provision, organized crime, human rights, environmental destruction, or other issues.

Ms. Beyerle has co-authored two chapters – on corruption and women’s rights - in the book, “Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization and Governance in the Middle East” (edited by Maria Stephan, Palgrave, 2010). She has published on people power, corruption, women’s rights, and international issues in Al Hayat/Dar Al Hayat; Commondreams.org; Daily Star (Lebanon); European Affairs; Europe Magazine; Foreign Policy; Georgetown Journal of International Affairs; Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare; International Herald Tribune; openDemocracy.net; The Independent; Reason.com; TruthOut.org; WorldView Magazine; and the Washington Times.

She teaches and speaks about citizen empowerment and strategic nonviolent action - online and at workshops, seminars, universities, and conferences, such as: 14th, 13th, and 12th International Anti-Corruption Conferences (IACC); Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace; CIVICUS World Assembly (Glasgow); Columbia University; Council of Europe Summer University for Democracy (Strasbourg); Fletcher Summer Institute on the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict, Tufts University; Harvard University; Macquarie University; New Tactics for Human Rights online dialogue on “Empowering citizens to fight corruption”; Third Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) (Doha); United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East (Vienna); Satyagraha Centenary (Durban); University of Sydney.
 
Ms. Beyerle is a member of the UNCAC Civil Society Coalition, and a Friend of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) - Kings College London, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the University of Hull. From 1997-2000 she lived in Jerusalem, consulted with the Bethlehem 2000 Project, and was also the International Press Manager for the Jerusalem Film Festival (2000). Previously, Ms. Beyerle was Vice President of The European Institute in Washington, DC. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Psychology and Women’s Studies from the University of Toronto.

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