Amaia Elorza Arregi

Amaia worked with the WPF while she was a MALD student at Fletcher, focusing on conflict resolution, gender and human security, with a particular focus on the Middle East. She was a Teaching Assistant and Coordinator at the Tufts University Prison Initiative, and co-organized the Decolonizing International Relations Conference. Amaia lived in the West Bank from 2012 to 2018, working as a legal researcher on international law and human rights violations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During the summer of 2020 she was a Topol Fellow in Nonviolent Resistance and analyzed the impact of external actors on nonviolent resistance movements in the West Bank.  Amaia holds a Law Degree (J.D.) from the Complutense University of Madrid and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics.