Biografi
Yayah Khisbiyah is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, and Founding-Director of the Center for the Studies of Culture and Social Change. She serves as Advisory Committee for Interreligious Climate and Ecology (ICE); Steering Committee for the International Network for Peace Psychology (INPP); Secretary for the Department of International Relation and Cooperation of Muhammadiyah Central Board in Jakarta; expert associate for Maarif Institute for Culture and Humanity, and Institut Leimena.
Ms. Khisbiyah received Fulbright Scholarship for her Master’s at the University of Massachusetts, and Summer Institute in Boston College. She pursued conflict resolution and peace studies at Uppsala University in Sweden, European Peace University in Austria, and studied Peace Psychology at the University of Melbourne.
Her background in environmental studies gained from 2-year training of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Previously she served on the Board of Directors for Center for Peace and Conflict Studies based in Cambodia, national senior expert at Presidential Working Unit for Pancasila, and Program Director at the Centre for Dialogue and Cooperation Among Civilisations.
She engages as consultant and partner for various UN’s organizations; governmental agencies; local and international Faith-Based Organizations. She also teaches as a guest lecturer at universities in Indonesia and abroad, and actively participates in various academic and practitioners’ fora, as well as publish her works internationally.
She is committed to integrating her scholarship and activism in three main interests: social psychology of peacebuilding, religions for just peace, and ecological holistic wellbeing.