Mansi Arun Panjwani (Ms) is a peace educator and serves as an international consultant on peacebuilding. She has a Masters in Peace Education from the UN mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica and a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding from Jamia Millia Islamia in India.

She is passionate about using education to create a culture of peace in society. Towards this goal, she works with children, youth and adults both, within the formal system of education and within non-formal systems. With over a decade of experience, Mansi is actively engaged in designing and facilitating programmes that empower people to be change-agents within their communities. Using activity-based learning and by embedding values and skills of 21^stcentury such as empathy, critical thinking and collaboration, she engages her participants in a joyful, yet reflective process.

She is a senior trainer with the Commonwealth Secretariat and is involved with ongoing regional and international projects by engaging with themes such as peace education, human rights education, youth empowerment, non-violent communication, social development and inclusion, safe and caring schools, empathetic leadership, organisational culture, conflict transformation, peacebuilding and violence prevention among others.

Mansi has worked with inter-governmental organisations, international and national organisations and institutions, civil society organisations and educators. She has been actively engaged in designing and delivering international trainings for 250+ peacebuilders from over 50 countries. Some of the trainings she has conducted are with the Asia Europe Foundation on Human Rights and Prevention of Violent Extremism (Sept 2019), the Commonwealth Secretariat and  The Royal Commonwealth Society: Kuala Lumpur (April 2019),  the Commonwealth Secretariat and Council of Europe: London, (Dec 2017), United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India (Oct 2017) on the topics such as Human Rights and the Prevention of Violent Extremism, International Peace and Security & Building Community Resilience, Addressing Hate Speech and Creating Counter Narratives to Peace, and Youth and Peacebuilding.

She has three years of experience at Teach for India, where she worked with the on-ground challenges of a public-school system in India. Using Human Rights Education and Non-Formal Education methodologies, she works with young leaders and social entrepreneurs to create change at the individual and community levels. She has also taken on various projects on designing curricula including a values-based school curriculum spanning 240 hours as well as a child rights school curriculum with Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mr. Kailash Satyarthi’s organisation.  She has also designed and written teachers’ manuals and facilitation guides that are being implemented at a national level.

She believes that when people themselves lead empowered, joyful and sustainable lives, together, they can create a better world for each other and for future generations.

Participant in: December 2019 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes