Dr. Anika Ahmed has 18 years of training and facilitation experience on conflict sensitive journalism, journalists’ safety mechanisms, gender inclusive journalism, peace-building, countering violent extremism, civic education. As a trainer, using participatory training techniques, she has engaged diverse sets of audiences including youth media practitioners, women, police personnel, teachers, students, local government officials, and civil society members in Pakistan and United States of America primarily training for national civil society organizations in Pakistan and State Department, National Endowment for Democracy and University of Maryland in USA. During her 18 years of experience, Anika Haseeb has developed training modules, training framework and also delivered training on drivers of extremism, targeting various demographics with a special emphasis on peace building/countering violent extremism, gender inclusive police reforms, capacity-building in governance, community mobilization and development tools. She has remained involved mapping exercises regarding proscribed militant groups, assisted in development of database of proscribed militant outfits, and analyzed the communication tools used by these organizations while planning and executing Counter communication campaigns.