ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN Switzerland
THE AUTHOR
Saira Bano Orakzai is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation
and Social Justice, University of Free States , South Africa. She earned her
Ph.D in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of New England, Australia.
She won Australian Award Scholarship for Ph.D. studies 2009-2013 . She is also a
Higher Education Commission Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute of Peace
and Conflict studies, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. In 2015, she has been selected
as the Centre for Strategic and International Studies International fellow, Washington
D.C. She has been Charles Wallace Trust fellow at the Human Rights Consortium
2013-2014 , University of London and Visiting scholar at the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. In 2010 , she
was the Caux Scholar, Peacebuilder forum, Initiative of Faith, Switzerland. She has
11 journal publications and working on two edited volumes on peace and conflict
studies. Her latest publication includes ‘Islamophobia and the Making of Discourses’,
Islamophobia Yearbook 2015, Cultural Resources of Peacebuilding for the Conflict in
FATA: The Philosophy of Abdul Ghaffar Khan and KhudaiKhidmatgar Movement”,
Journal of Conflict Engagement and Negotiations, 2015, The Post 2011 Insurgency in
Libya and Neo- Liberal Peacebuilding: Sketching the Path to Reconciliation, John Idriss
Lahai and Tanya Lyons (ed) African Frontiers: Insurgency, Governance and Peacebuilding
in Post-Colonial States, Ashgate publishers, 2015. orakzai.saira@gmail.com
Disclaimer: Statements of fact and opinion in the national reports of the European
Islamophobia Report are those of the respective authors. They are not the expression of
the editors or the funding institutions. No representation, either expressed or implied,
is made of the accuracy of the material in the national reports. The editors of the European
Islamophobia Report cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any
errors or omissions that may have been made. The reader must make his or her own
evaluation of the accuracy and appropriateness of the material.
To cite this report: Saira Bano Orakzai (2016): Islamophobia in Switzerland: National Report 2015, in:
Enes Bayraklı & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2015, Istanbul, SETA, 2016.
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