Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian Editor

Dr. Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian is the Founder of Collaborative Structural Change, a Founding Partner of Mediated Solutions, and Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. As a scholar-practitioner, Saghar’s work focuses on context-sensitive, survivor-centered problem analysis for strategy development in transitional justice and atrocity prevention, with publications in Genocide Studies and Prevention and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

Dr. Sarah Snyder is a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, a lecturer at Goodwin University, and a founding member of Collaborative Structural Change. She published Trauma Beyond Time: Temporal Constructs in Holocaust Testimonies, examining intergenerational trauma and memory in Holocaust survivors and their descendants.