Office: SCAN 164
Office Hours: 1-5 Monday, or By Appointment
Phone: (202) 885-2497
E-mail: kadayific@american.edu

Ph.D. American University
M.A. University of Kent at Canterbury

 

 

Biography

Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana is currently Assistant Professor in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution at the School of International Service at American University, Washington D.C. She is also the one of the founding members and the Associate Director of Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, a non-profit organization for research, education, and practice on issues related to conflict resolution, nonviolence, and development with a focus on bridging differences between Muslim and non-Muslim communities. She received her PhD from American University’s School of International Service in Washington DC in 2002 with a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis from University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

 In addition to teaching, lecturing and publishing extensively in the fields of ‘religion and peace building,’ ‘cross-cultural conflict resolution and mediation’, ‘interfaith and intra-faith dialogues’ ‘peacebuilding and development’, ‘Islamic sources of conflict resolution’, ‘Muslim peace building actors in Africa and the Balkans’ and ‘education in the Islamic world’, among others, Dr. Kadayifci-Orellana has facilitated dialogues and conflict resolution workshops between Israelis and Palestinian, conducted Islamic conflict resolution training workshops to imams and Muslim youth leaders in the United States, organized and participated in interfaith and intra-Muslim dialogues,  and organized and participated in the first American-Muslim Delegation to Iran in November 2007.

 

Dr. Kadayifci-Orellana’s has authored “Standing On an Isthmus: Islamic Narratives of War and Peace in the Palestinian Territories” and co-authored the edited the volume, “Anthology on Islam and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice.” She has also written various book chapters and journal articles on mediation and peace building, religion and conflict resolution, Islamic approaches to war and peace, and Islam and nonviolence. She has been invited to lecture at various international institutions, and conferences. She also served as a consultant to nonprofit development agencies: Center for International Environmental Law and CoDevelopment Canada, on various projects.

Recent Courses Taught

• Islamic Peace Paradigms
  
• Peace Paradigms
• Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Culture, PCR: Alternative to Violence

Areas of Interest

• Culture and conflict resolution
• Interfaith dialogue
• Religion and Peacebuilding
• Islam and Conflict resolution
• Middle East
• Environment/ development and Conflict resolution