Rima Salah

Rima Salah, PhD, is a Jordanian former United Nations and UNICEF official and assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center. She served as UNICEF’s deputy executive director and regional director for West and Central Africa, and as deputy special representative of the UN secretary-general for the mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. She also served on the UN High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations.

Salah co-edited Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families (MIT Press, 2014) with James F. Leckman and Catherine Panter-Brick. The book examines how child-rearing and family environments can influence whether communities develop toward peace or conflict.