Chiara Ayad is a project coordinator at the Norwegian Center for Conflict Resolution. Until July 2019, she was a Researcher and Programme Officer at ARI, in charge of coordinating the project on Decentralization as well as research on Gender dynamics in radicalization and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). She holds a Master’s degree in International Security from Sciences Po Paris, the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and an undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Sciences Po Menton and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.