Fellowships

Practitioner Fellows

RCPI brings regional practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines to Harvard on fellowships that support their peacebuilding work. Our fellows engage with each other in a weekly seminar, work on their own creative projects, present their work in classes and programs throughout the university, and serve to build bridges between the academy and civic life in the region and in the U.S.

Topol Fellows

The Topol Fellowship on Just Peacemaking and Nonviolent Activism enriches and strengthens the Initiative's work with students and peace and justice practitioners to prepare future leaders in the practice of nonviolence and just peace building. Topol Fellows can be practitioners, student internship fellows or student research fellows in any given year.
 

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Fellows 2023-24

Mikhael Manekin, Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace 2023-34

Mikhael Manekin

Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Mikhael Manekin is the director of the Alliance Fellowship program, an Arab-Jewish political network in Israel. He  is  the former...

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atalia omer

Atalia Omer

T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding
Senior Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Atalia Omer is a Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough School of Global...

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Salma Waheedi, RCPI Fellow 2023-24

Salma Waheedi

Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace
RCPI Affiliate

Salma Waheedi is a Lecturer on Law and Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (PLSMW) at Harvard Law School. The Program...

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Former Religion, Conflict, and Peace Fellows

2020–22

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Oriel Eisner

2021–⁠22 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace
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Fady Khoury

2021–⁠22 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace
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Brant Rosen

2021–⁠22 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace

2019–2020

Amira hass

Amira Hass

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20
gregory khalil

Gregory Khalil

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Non-Resident Fellow 2019–⁠20
Tom mehager

Tom Mehager

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20
rebecca pierce

Rebecca Pierce

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Non-Resident Fellow 2019–⁠20
Hilary Rantisi

Hilary Rantisi

Associate Director of the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative
Noam shouster

Noam Shouster

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20
Rami younis

Rami Younis

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20

2022–⁠23

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Rabea Eghbariah

2022–⁠23 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace
Rabea Eghbariah is a human rights attorney completing his doctoral studies at Harvard Law School. He worked as an appellate public defender before joining the... Read more about Rabea Eghbariah
Raef Zreik

Raef Zreik

Religion and Public Life Visiting Scholar in Conflict and Peace
Raef Zreik holds an LLB and LLM from Hebrew University, an LLM from Columbia University, and an SJD from Harvard Law School. His dissertation deals with... Read more about Raef Zreik