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SHAAZKA BEYERLE, Senior Advisor
Shaazka Beyerle is Senior Advisor
of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. She
was previously a writer, with expertise in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Until 2004, she covered the Middle East and
Southern Africa for WorldView Magazine (National Peace
Corps Association). She has published articles/op-eds
on people power, the Middle East, foreign affairs, culture,
literature, nonfiction, and art in Al Hayat/Dar Al Hayat,
European Affairs, Europe Magazine, Foreign Policy, The
Independent, Washington Times, Washington Diplomat, and
WorldView Magazine, and has been cited in Al Ahram, Newsday,
and Reason magazine.
She speaks often about strategic
nonviolent action, including at: Columbia University;
California State University; New Tactics for Human Rights
Symposium, Ankara; State University of New York (Stony
Brook); University of Idaho - Borah Symposium; and the
World Electronic Media Forum/United Nations Summit on
the Information Society, Geneva.
She has been interviewed on BBC World
News about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has
lectured about the Middle East at the World Bank and
the Maryland Women's Leadership Forum; and on journalism
at the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute.
Ms. Beyerle returned to Washington,
DC in August, 2000, after having lived in Jerusalem for
three years. While overseas, she consulted twice with
the Bethlehem 2000 Project through the United Nations
Development Program and the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development. She was also the International Press
Manager for the Jerusalem Film Festival (2000).
Prior to moving to the Middle East,
Ms. Beyerle was the founding Vice President of The European
Institute, a leading Washington-based public-policy organization
devoted to transatlantic affairs. She holds an M.A. in
International Relations from George Washington University,
a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Toronto,
and conducted graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
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