People

Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi

Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi has worked in the field of peacebuilding through education for over 20 years as a practitioner, researcher, curriculum developer, trainer, and policy advisor. She earned a PhD (2017) in Education at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and Fellow of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Sara led the original pilot program of Education for Peace in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 2000s. She is the author of four substantive educational manuals in this field, as well as several scientific articles, chapters and technical reports. In addition to the Western Balkans, Sara has supported peacebuilding projects and practitioners in another 12 countries across Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, in collaboration with universities, the UN, governmental and non-governmental organisations. She is based in Switzerland and currently works for the United Nations.

Dr. Roshan Danesh KC

Dr. Roshan Danesh is an internationally renowned lawyer and educator who has worked and taught around the globe on issues of peace-building and conflict resolution, and in Canada on advancing reconciliation and community building.

Educated at Harvard Law School, he has written or co-authored over twenty articles and books, including Dimensions of Baha’i Law, Reconciling History: A Story of Canada, and The Inbetween Leader: Cultivating Courage and Unity in a Complex World. He lives in Nanaimo, BC.

Tim Mock

Tim has been involved with EFP since 2009 and a member of the Board of Directors for well over a decade. After nine yearsin public service communication and extension roles, he founded a technical communications and eLearning company that operated for 27 years. Clients included the World Bank Institute and World Resources Institute. Today, in retirement, Tim operates an organic farm on Vancouver Island.

Narcedalia Lozano

Narcedalia Lozano is Founder and Director of Peace Begins with Children Foundation/ La Paz comienza con los Niños, Pax Humana, and the Iberoamerican Ambassador of the International Education for Peace Institute. Since 2000, working through the Foundation, her peace building and education work has directly benefited more than seventeen thousand children, youth and adolescents with the support of three thousand volunteers. Additionally, 21 International Certifications on Education for Peace have been developed and delivered to multiple institutions from primary schools up to Universities, governments, civil society, and organizations among others.

Lex Musta

Lex Musta is a Human Amity Worker whose work centers on honoring the other and advancing mutual understanding as a pathway from otherness toward oneness. He carries this work forward through collaboration with the History, Arts, Science, and Action Network (HASAN), Education for Peace International (EFP), and Other2One, where he develops encounter‑based approaches such as lecturing, experiential history tours, and uplifting role models. These efforts help communities engage shared memory and lived experience in ways that strengthen relationship and deepen the meaning of oneness. His current focus is honoring Coralie Franklin Cook through writing her biography, restoring her mausoleum, and helping unite her family and community around her legacy.

Dr. Azin Nasseri

Dr. Azin Nasseri is an international psychologist, licensed clinician, author, and educator whose work focuses on moral injury, marriage and family relationships, and spiritual intelligence. With more than two decades of clinical and cross-cultural experience, his work explores the conditions that foster healing, human development, unity, and peaceful relationships.

Dr. Nasseri takes an integrative approach, drawing upon evidence-based scientific findings and spiritual insights from the world’s religious traditions. His approach promotes unity-based relationships, healing from psychological and moral injury, constructive resilience, and the development of spiritual capacities that contribute to individual and collective well-being.

Dr. Nasseri is the author and co-author of several books, including The Unity-Based Family (2017), Moral Trauma (2013), and Spiritual Intelligence: A New Frontier (2026). His forthcoming book on Moral Injury explores spiritual pathways to healing and post-traumatic growth.

Naghmeh Sobhani

Naghmeh Sobhani is a senior peacebuilding and collaborative diplomacy practitioner and trainer with over 25 years of international experience, translating field experience and locally grounded practice into global strategic frameworks, guidance and capacity development in fragile contexts. For 12 years as Director of the Education for Peace Institute of the Balkans, she led country-wide, multi-faceted programmes across 60 localities in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, convening all 13 Ministries of Education, 9 Pedagogical Institutes and, for the first time since the war, senior education advisors and inspectors from the country’s divided communities in joint planning and collaboration. For more than a decade, she worked as a senior peacebuilding consultant to UNICEF Headquarters, co-authoring its global approach to conflict-sensitive and peacebuilding programming and facilitating its roll-out worldwide; more recently, she led the review and update of UNDP Crisis Bureau’s Nexus Academy curriculum, including developing a preliminary framework grounded in field insights for operationalising the Peace dimension of the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus. Across her work, she brings insights and learning from grassroots peacebuilding into institutional programming, collaborative processes and global policy, while ensuring that global frameworks remain grounded in the realities of practice.

Sharon Welsh

Sharon spent most of her adult life working in social services and with non-profit organizations in Victoria and abroad. After her retirement, Sharon was inspired by Dr. Mary-Wynne Ashford and Dr. Hossain Danesh to explore peace and peace education. This has led to an ongoing desire to better understand and support humanity’s complex pathway towards a peaceful, just and a stable world and a very busy retirement.