Ms. Maria Saifuddin Effendi Assistant Professor February 2009 Ms ...

Ms. Effendi had completed her first degree (M.A. and BA with Honours in 2002)in International Relations from University of Karachi (Pakistan) and attended severalcertificate courses/ diplomas in Conflict Resolution and Transformation from variouscountries such as Pakistan, Russia, India, Nepal, Sweden, Singapore, Italy, Bangladesh,Norway and UK. She was privileged of being trained in Mediation, ‘Transcend NordicMediation, Conflict Resolution, New Perspectives on Peace Work’ by Dr. Johan Galtung,the pioneer theorist of Conflict Transformation, organized by Transcend Peace Universityin Summer 2007, held in Jondal (Norway). She has been an active participant and speakerfor national and international conferences/workshops on Conflict Resolution andTransformation.Prior to beginning her studies at Bradford, Ms. Effendi served as ResearchScholar at Institute of Regional Studies (Islamabad), a leading think-tank of Pakistan,from 2002-09. She also served as Researcher at Pakistan Institute of International Affairs,Karachi from January – August 2002. She was recipient of Kodikara Fellowship 2005-06under a one-year project of Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo-SriLanka and published her first book titled as “Role of a Third Party in Conflict Resolution:A Case study of India and Norway in Sri Lanka”. In 2004, she was nominated asInternational Research Fellow 2004-07 by International Research Forum on SAARC(IRF-SAARC), Tokyo-Japan. Under the project of IRF-SAARC, she contributed chaptersand edited the volumes on South Asian Politics. In summer 2007, Ms. Effendi workedwith Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden as VisitingResearch Fellow as part of the Armed Conflict Project and produced a monograph on“Iran Nuclear Crisis and its Implications for Pakistan”.Ms. Effendi is privileged to serve as a trainer of Negotiations and ConflictResolution in Summer Symposium on “Conflict Resolution, Prevention andReconciliation” at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies,Bologna in 2010 and 2011. Ms. Effendi is author of two books and 18 researchpapers/articles, published in journals of international repute. She has recently publishedher second book “Understanding Ripeness in Kashmir: Insights from and Limitations