Rima Salah is a Palestinian-Jordanian academic researcher, who holds a number of positions in international advocacy for conflict resolution and the rights of women and children.
[citation needed] Upon leaving the teaching profession, Salah worked for the Catholic Relief Services in Jerusalem as a supervisor of social workers for the organization's Humanitarian Programs for Refugees and Displaced People from 1967 to 1975.
She was deputy special representative of the Secretary-General at the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad from 2008 to 2010.
[5] In May 2016, the panel presented the results of their six-month evaluation at the 70th General Assembly on Peace and Security at the United Nations.
[15] Salah, along with ECPC member James F. Leckman, and Yale University professor Catherine Panter-Brick, co-edited the book Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families,[16][17] investigating "the way that children are raised as a critical factor that can inform a community's tendency toward peace versus conflict".