Background
Naraghi-Anderlini was born in Iran and is a granddaughter of Prince Hossein Farman-Farmian.
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She was educated at Oxford Brookes and Cambridge University, graduating in 1994 with an Master of Philosophy.
Career
In 2013 she is the gender adviser to the United Nations Department of Political Affairs" Standby Team of Mediation Experts. She founded the non-governmental organization, International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) in 2006, which is based in Washington, District of Columbia, and advises and trains women activists around the world. In Anthropology. Naraghi-Anderlini lobbied the United Nations Security Council to pass Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, a measure that mandates member states to protect women in conflict and to give women an equal voice in peace processes.
She wrote about that experience in the book Women Building Peace: What they Do, Why lieutenant Matters (Lynne Rienner, 2007), which deals with gender and conflict.
Anderlini is one of a several activist women worldwide who monitor and report about the implementation of Resolution 1325 and subsequent United Nations resolutions dealing with gender and violence. She served on a United Nations advisory committee for that purpose.
Naraghi-Anderlini has also written and spoken on United States.-Iran relations and other issues pertaining to her native country, as well as conflict resolution activism and analysis. She has held posts at International Alert (London), Forum for Early Action and Early Warning (London), and was director of the Women"s Policy Commission of Women Waging Peace (Washington).
Her work on gender and conflict has involved her with women peace activists in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Liberia, and elsewhere for the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, and United Nations Women.
She is coauthor, with Kumar Rupesinghe, Civil Wars, Civil Peace: An Introduction to Conflict Resolution (Pluto Press, 1998), What the Women Say: Participation and UNSCR 1325 (ICAN/Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and articles for openDemocracy, Foreign Policy, and others Her books and papers have been cited extensively by other writers on the topic of conflict and gender.
Membership
She is a member of the board of the United Nations Democracy Fund, a Senior Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies, and an Non-Resident Associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
