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MONA KANWAL SHEIKH
University of Copenhagen / UCSB - Orfalea Center

Mona Kanwal Sheikh  is  a doctoral candidate in international relations and security studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denamark, a visiting research scholar at UC Santa Barbara’s Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  She is specialized in radical Islamism and Security Studies. She is a member of several associations and committees involved with ethnic minorities, race, and integration issues. She has served as board member of the Documentation and Advisory Centre on Racial Discrimination (DRC) and vice chair of the INGO European Network Against Racism (ENAR). She has also been board member of the Association of Ethnic Minorities (POEM) and the Integration Council of Copenhagen Municipality. In 2001 she was nominated to the Danish Parliament and elected board member of the central council of the Danish Social-Liberal Party (DRV). She is an experienced debater, freelance writer/commentator and frequently gives lectures on issues related to Danish integration politics, "European Islam", religion and secularism at different educational institutions and religious forums all over Denmark. Mona has edited and produced several articles, especially on questions relating to Islam in European context. published in a diversity of pamphlets, journals and Danish newspapers. She continues her research into religion’s role in the sphere of international relations, specifically dealing with approaches to the question of religion and conflict/peace studies.  Mona Sheikh was born in Denmark and is of Pakistani origin.

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