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Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is an associate professor of practice in organization and leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College; Executive Director at the International Interfaith Research Lab; and a faculty member at Columbia’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies and Middle East Institute. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess has published on a range of issues, including educational displacement, violence prevention, and radicalization. She has delivered 100+ invited lectures in more than 15 countries. She is a recipient of research grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships; Smith Richardson Foundation; the U.S. State Department; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; International Research and Exchange Board; and Women’s World Banking. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess was awarded a 2021 Finalist Medal for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction by the American Library Association and Best Book recognition by School Library Journal, Malala Fund, Capitol Choices, and Children’s Center for Literature for her memoir, The Cat I Never Named (Bloomsbury, 2020) — a defining text on resilience to hate and empowerment through education. Her next nonfiction contribution, Three Summers (Macmillan Publishers-FSG, 2024), is a story of resilience, belonging, and sisterhood in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide.
SESSIONS
Building Belonging and Resilience to Hate in Schools Using Project-Based Leadership
Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess–author, Columbia University professor, and survivor of the Bosnian Genocide–and her team have developed an immersive, multimodal, and project-based training program, called Project Belonging. Supported by Innovation Grants awarded by the Department of Homeland Security, Project Belonging strengthens local community resilience through student-led initiatives.Participants will engage with Project Belonging training materials, learning about the roots of violence and hatred, as well as protective factors.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to explain the root causes of hatred and targeted violence.
- Participants will be able to identify protective factors that can keep communities safe.
- Participants will develop concrete plans for building students’ sense of belonging in schools.
Participant Outcomes
- Explain Educational Displacement and the underlying process, including invisibility of voice and representation in the classroom.
- Define key terms such as othering, stereotyping, peer rejection, cultural violence, structural violence, and direct violence.