Sahar Vardi is a member of World BEYOND War’s Board and an anti-militarism and anti-occupation activist from Jerusalem. She is a conscientious objector, and has been part of the Issraeli refusal movement for over a decade. In recent years she led the Israel program for the American Friends Service Committee, where she helped establish the Database on Israeli Military and Security Export, and developed research and campaigns against Israeli arms exports and the human rights violations associated with that industry. She is currently a Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in the UK, and chairs the board of the Human Rights Defenders Fund in Israel.
