Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić, a 2003-04 Cornell University Humphrey Fellow Alumni spent the 2022-23 academic year at Cornell as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow, where she focused on teaching a course on Global Citizenship Education and worked on her research project Teachers as Agents of Change: Education for Peace and Social Responsibility.  

For the past 25 years, Larisa has been actively involved in peaceful actions, community youth development programs, the philosophy of nonviolence, teacher development, and intercultural pedagogy in language education. She holds an MPS in International Development and Education from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in English Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Education from Sarajevo University.

She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo. Her research interests are in the fields of intercultural education, peace pedagogy, language education, teacher training, reflective pedagogies and action research in teacher development. She is also the founder and a president of the Peace Education Hub which was established at the University of Sarajevo in early 2020. Her latest publication Peace Pedagogies in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Theory and Practice in Formal Education (Springer, 2023) focuses on the importance of institutionalizing peace pedagogy in formal education and teacher training in Bosnia and Herzegovina.