Aala Ali is a Social Cohesion & Community Mobilization Specialist for UNDP Iraq and Coordinator of the UNDP-funded project “Education for Peace in the Iraqi Higher Education System”. Since completing her MA in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University she has spent 15 years working in peace and conflict resolution and was considered one of Public Radio International’s ‘Seven women peacemakers who should be on your radar’ in 2015.