About Me.
Research Scholar: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University, New York. Executive Editor for International Projects, New City Community Press
Ahmed Abdelhakim Hachelaf is a Peace & Conflict Education Specialist, NGO pracademic, and co-founder of the Twiza Project (twizaproject.org). He focuses on capacity building and education of youth who work to have a social impact. Previously, Hachelaf was consultant and a lecturer at Higher Normal School at Laghouat- Algeria. He previously was Resident Research Fellow at the Moynihan Institute at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He also worked as a project manager for several social enterprises and NGO initiatives nationally and transnationally. The main objective of the projects Ahmed led was widening access to technology and opportunities for youth and marginalized segments of society. He is also a frequent presenter on civic education and democratic schooling in the Middle East and North African region. In 2012, Ahmed was chosen as a Leaders for Democracy fellow and subsequently was chosen to be the delegate of Algeria in a UN event in New York and most recently as a Caux Scholar in Switzerland. His work has appeared in Revolution by Love, where he spoke to issues of social change through education. He is currently working on a single-author book, The Apprenticeship of Leadership in Arab Schools, where he discusses the role of distributed leadership in education. This past year, Hachelaf’s students worked with ENWR/UVA students to publish Equality and Justice: A Troubled Word, An Engaged Generation, available through Parlor Press.
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