Dr. Amineh Ahmed Hoti is the Executive Director of Markaz-e-Ilm, the Centre for Dialogue & Action (CD&A) based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She is the founder of a number of peace study centers and also founded the Society for Dialogue and Action at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, where she continues as an associate at the College. She obtained her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, and besides Pakistan has promoted peace education in Europe, the Middle East, and in the US. She is Associate Producer and Script Consultant for the film Journey Into Europe and was the female lead researcher for the project from 2013 to 2016. She has published a number of books on promoting peace education and deeper understanding between people of different faiths, genders, and ethnicities: Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women (Cambridge University Press, 2006): such as Sorrow and Joy