Dr. Arshi Saleem 

Dr. Arshi Saleem Hashmi specializes in religion and violent conflicts. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and focal person for the Centre of Excellence on Counter Extremism at National Defense University (NDU) Islamabad. She has worked with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Institute of Regional Studies, and University of Karachi before joining the NDU in Islamabad. Dr. Hashmi is a member of Women without Borders (WwB) Vienna and its project Sisters Against Violent Extremism (SAVE). She has been a speaker at TedxWomen 2012 in New York and Omega Women Conference in New York in 2012. She has been Kodikara Fellow, Rotary International Peace Fellow, and Yale World Fellow at Yale University and has studied Counter-Terrorism at Harvard University under South Asia Leadership Program.