Kheira was Project Officer (2015-2018) at the Cordoba Peace Institute – Geneva, coordinating projects in Morocco and Tunisia.
Kheira Tarif is Research Assistant in the Climate Change and Risk Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), where her research focuses on the ways in which climate change affects the root causes and dynamics of violent conflict. She previously worked as Dialogue Coordinator (2019-2020) at the International Crisis Group in Brussels, on a new initiative for convening conflict parties and stakeholders across the organisation’s regional programs. Kheira was Project Officer (2015-2018) at the Cordoba Peace Institute – Geneva, where she worked in partnership with the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs in coordinating projects for alleviating tensions between secular and religious political parties and other groups in Morocco and Tunisia.
Kheira holds a MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St. Andrews, and BA in Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She speaks English, French, Arabic and Spanish.
