Amina Siječić Selimović
Knowledge Architect for Democracy and Human Rights
Amina is a researcher and communicator with a background in philosophy. She works at the intersection of education, democracy, human rights and youth participation.
Amina’s work
She makes complex societal issues understandable, actionable and inspiring
Amina analyses ethics, knowledge and society, translating her insights into concrete policy proposals, programme and course design, and digital learning tools used in schools, universities and public-sector institutions.
She has extensive experience leading interdisciplinary teams, developing study programmes and building strategies that make complex issues understandable and manageable in everyday life.
Approach
An important part of Amina’s work centres on dialogue. Not dialogue understood as “talking things through at any cost”, but as creating spaces where disagreement can be expressed without relationships breaking down, and where people are given the language to navigate tensions related to identity, experience and power.
Speaking
Talks on value conflicts in the workplace, polarisation and exclusion, genocide and extreme violence, and freedom of religion and cultures of disagreement.
Panel Discussions
Amina participates in panel discussions and open conversations on topics including war, displacement, reconciliation, religion, democratic responsibility, gender and queer identity.
Books
Amina writes textbooks for the subjects Christianity, Religion, Philosophies of Life and Ethics (KRLE), and Religion and Ethics. She is interested in how knowledge is presented to students, which perspectives are emphasised, and which simplifications are often taken for granted when religion, identity and society intersect.
Podcast
Amina thrives in the podcast format, where she can transform research, teaching experience and strategic work into engaging stories that both inform and spark curiosity in listeners.
Amina Siječić Selimović
Amina came to Norway as a refugee from Bosnia in 1992. Her experiences of war, displacement and violations of fundamental rights have taught her that democracy and human rights are not abstract ideals, but fragile practices that depend on knowledge, robust institutions and people who take responsibility.
Today, she combines research, teaching and public engagement. She works to make complex knowledge accessible without oversimplifying it, and to give young people in particular the language and tools to think critically, ask questions and participate.
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Amina Siječić Selimović