INTERCULTURAL

LEADERS

Shreya Jani

Summer Schools

Shreya Jani is the founder and managing trustee of STEP and the first person to receive a Masters in Peace Education in the country. She has actively been involved in promoting Peace Education at a governmental level and has contributed to NCERT first manual on peace education for teacher- Ways to Peace published in 2010 in English and since then translated into 3 other regional languages by NCERT. Apart from this she has also co-authored two books for teachers on ecology with renounced ecologist Dr Vandana Shiva. As part of the Global Youth Team for Evaluating the Decade of Culture of Peace Shreya was invited to the World Education Forum in Spain in 2011 to present the Asia evaluation report for the decade. In 2012 she was invited by teacher’s platform in Cyprus working towards reconciliation between south and north Cyprus to give the keynote address and conduct a workshop on Peace Education as a way forward for reconciliation. She was also invited by Lincton Global College South Korea to give the keynote address at their conference EuroCenter: Global Development in 2012. She was awarded Rotary Peace Award for contribution towards building a culture of peace and invited to UN Headquarters as emerging leader in 2013 by UNAOC leadership Summer school. She has worked and continues to train on the issues of peacebuilding, youth gender and psycho-social resilience in Afghanistan, Cyprus, Qatar, Thailand and Malaysia.