Rima Salah
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Rima Salah is a Palestinian-Jordanian academic researcher, who holds a number of positions in international advocacy for conflict resolution and the rights of women and children. She is an assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center,[1] and currently[when?] the chair of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC).[2]
She is also a member of the international advisory council of the Academic University College for Nonviolence and Human Rights in Beirut, Lebanon,[3][4] the United Nations High-Level Panel on Peace Operations.,[5][6][7] and sits on the board of directors at Women for Women International,[8] the Global Network for Women Peacebuilders,[9] and Cure Violence Global.
Salah is a national of Jordan and speaks Arabic, English, and French. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from SUNY-Binghamton.[1] During her doctoral program, Salah spent one year in Baqa'a Palestinian Refugee Camp near Amman, Jordan conducting research for her PhD dissertation that examined the changing status of three generations of Palestinian women in refugee camps with regards to education and public/community participation.[10] She also holds master's degrees in education and sociology and cultural anthropology from SUNY-Fredonia, and an undergraduate degree in sociology and social work from Beirut College for Women-Lebanon (now known as the Lebanese American University).[citation needed]
Salah began her career as a teacher in the Jordanian Government Public School System in 1965.[citation needed] Upon leaving the teaching profession, Salah worked for the Catholic Relief Services in Jerusalem as a supervisor of social workers for the organization's Humanitarian Programs for Refugees and Displaced People from 1967 to 1975.[citation needed]
From 1972 to 1987, Salah lectured on topics including social work, sociology, psychology, and Arabic at various institutions and organizations, including the School of Social work at Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi in Jerusalem, the Swedish Organization of Individual Relief in Jerusalem, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and Binghamton Community College in Binghamton, New York.[citation needed]