Sakhi Farishta

Farishta Sakhi is the President of Global Resilience a non-profit organization focused on providing protection support to communities affected by conflict and environmental crisis, and an Adjunct Professor at the Carter School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and the University of Colorado Boulder. She has over two decades of experience in post-conflict peacebuilding, political transition, democracy and good governance in Afghanistan. Dr. Sakhi served for three years at Freedom House, where she led efforts to promote the protection and safety of human rights defenders in Afghanistan, and previously held senior leadership roles at Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director General and Senior Advisor for Peace and Security Affairs. She also taught at the Political Department of American University of Afghanistan. She remained a fellow at the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Rumsfeld Foundation.